Are we to keep Sabbaths and Feasts of Yahuah in pagan lands?

Preface

This note explores the question of whether the Sabbaths and Feasts of Yahuah, as outlined in Leviticus 23, should be observed by those living outside the land of YasharEL, referred to here as "pagan lands." It presents a detailed scriptural and historical analysis, arguing that these observances are intrinsically tied to the land of YasharEL, specifically Yerushalayim, where Yahuah chose to place His name. Drawing from Torah, prophetic writings, and Renewed Testament texts, the note contends that the dispersion of YasharEL and Yahudah into foreign lands, coupled with the spiritual transition ushered in by Yahusha the Messiah, renders the physical observance of these appointed times obsolete outside the designated land. The note emphasizes a shift from a physical to a spiritual understanding of these practices, rooted in the redemptive work of Yahusha. 

Lev23:2 Speak to the sons of YasharEL and say to them, the appointed times of Yahuah which you shall proclaim them as holy convocations; My appointed times/moeday 𐤌𐤅𐤏𐤃𐤉 H4150, they are these:

Lev23:3 For six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a Shabbat of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a Shabbat to Yahuah in all your dwellings. 

Yahuah puts the weekly Shabbat as a moed 𐤌𐤅𐤏𐤃/appointed time. Here is why? 

1.   Weekly Shabbath (7), stated as moeday 𐤌𐤅𐤏𐤃𐤉 (My appointed times in Lev 23, along with the 7 feasts stated after this in the same chapter.

2.  In a 365-day calendar there were exactly 52 Sabbaths (52 x 7). These are excluding the High Sabbaths of the feasts. Adding them would be total 59 Sabbaths in an annual year. 

The high Sabbaths total to 7 (2 high Sabbaths of Unleavened bread + Shavout + Feast of Trumpets + Yom Kippur + 2 Sabbaths of Sukkot). The Shavout 7 x 7 is the first count of the annual Sabbath from first fruits which falls morrow after the weekly Sabbath of Unleavened bread. 

These 7 High Sabbaths occur annually, including in a Jubilee year, as the Jubilee (Lev 25:10)

Lev 25:8 You shall count to yourself seven Shabbats of years, seven times seven years, so that the days of the seven Shabbats of years shall be to you forty-nine years.

Lev 25:9 You shall then cause the sound a horn abroad in the seventh month; on the tenth day of month; on the day of atonement, you shall cause a horn all through your land.

Lev25:10 You shall thus consecrate the year, the fiftieth year, and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 

1. Covenantal Observance and Divine Order

• Appointed Times (Moedim): Leviticus 23:2-3 designates the weekly Sabbath and the feasts (with their High Sabbaths) as Yahuah’s “appointed times,” set-apart moments for communion with Him. The 59 Sabbaths collectively represent a rhythm of rest, worship, and holiness woven into the annual cycle, reflecting Yahuah’s divine order for YasharEL’s life in the land (Ex 13:5, Deut 12:5).
• Sign of the Covenant: The Sabbath is a perpetual sign of the covenant between Yahuah and YasharEL (Ex 31:16-17). 

Exo 31:16  ‘And the children of Yisra’ěl shall guard the Sabbath, to perform the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant. 

Exo 31:17  ‘Between Me and the children of Yisra’ěl it is a sign/auth 𐤀𐤅𐤕 H226 forever/olam 𐤏𐤅𐤋𐤌 H5769 . For in six days יהוה made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ” 

Olam 𐤏𐤅𐤋𐤌 H5769: is a vanishing point and in English renders as forever. But it doesn't mean in the sense of forever but in a Hebraic mindset of a past into the future searching for a goal. For example: Elohim made the lights and set them for signs and appointed times and it finds it fulfillment in its eternal purpose in Mashiyach when the actual 6,000 years designated for mankind comes to a completion. Hence, Olam is a vanishing point from the past to its eternal perspective.

Gen 1:14  And Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs/auth 𐤀𐤅𐤕  and appointed times/moedim 𐤌𐤅𐤏𐤃𐤉𐤌, and for days and years, 

Heb 4:8  For if Yehoshua had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after that. 

Heb 4:9  So there remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of Elohim. 

Heb 4:10  For the one, having entered into His rest, has himself also rested from his works, as Elohim rested from His own. 

The 59 Sabbaths, encompassing both weekly rest and festal high days, underscore YasharEL’s unique relationship with Yahuah, marked by obedience to His commands and dependence on His provision, especially in the land where His name dwells (1 Kings 14:21).

2. Connection to the Land and Shemitah

• Land-Specific Worship: The emphasis of scriptures is that the Sabbaths and feasts are tied to the land of YasharEL, particularly Yerushalayim (Deut 16:16, 2 Chr 6:6). 

2Ch 6:6  But I have chosen Yerushalayim, for My Name to be there. And I have chosen Dawiḏ to be over My people Yisra’ěl.’ 

The 59 Sabbaths are significant as they are fully realized only in the context of the promised land, where agricultural cycles (e.g., leaving the land fallow, Lev 26:34-35) and pilgrimage feasts align with Yahuah’s commands.

• Shemitah and Jubilee Foreshadowing: The scriptural perspective connects the Sabbaths to the Shemitah (7-year cycle) and Jubilee (50th year, Lev 25:8-10). The 59 Sabbaths in a year mirror the broader pattern of sevens (e.g., 7 x 7 years = 49, plus 1 for Jubilee), symbolizing rest, release, and restoration. In a Jubilee year, the 59 Sabbaths reinforce the theme of liberation—returning land and people to their original state (Lev 25:10).

3. Spiritual and Eschatological Symbolism

• Cycle of Sevens: The number 59 (52 + 7) fits into the scriptural pattern of sevens, which is pervasive in this presentation (e.g., 7 High Sabbaths, 7-year cycles, 70 years of captivity). Seven signifies completeness and divine perfection (e.g., creation in 7 days, Gen 2:2-3; 7 seals in Revelation). The 59 Sabbaths reflect a near-complete cycle of rest within a year, pointing to the ultimate rest in Yahuah’s redemptive plan.

• Transition to Spiritual Rest: The physical Sabbaths transition to a spiritual reality in Yahusha the Messiah (1 Cor 5:7, Gal 4:25). The 59 Sabbaths, tied to the physical land, foreshadow the eternal Sabbath rest fulfilled in Yahusha’s sacrifice (Heb 4:9-10). The note’s reference to Yahusha’s crucifixion on a High Sabbath (John 19:31) suggests that the 59 Sabbaths find their ultimate significance in His role as the Passover Lamb, completing the covenantal cycle.

4. Historical and Prophetic Context

• Dispersion and Cessation: In Hosea 2:11, where Yahuah declares an end to YasharEL’s Sabbaths and feasts in dispersion, and 2 Chronicles 36:21, where the land “enjoyed its Sabbaths” during the 70-year Babylonian captivity, the 59 Sabbaths, when neglected (as in the 70 Shemitah cycles), led to judgment, highlighting their significance as a measure of YasharEl’s faithfulness or disobedience.

• Prophetic Signs: This presentation interprets calendar disputes among Hebrew camps as evidence of spiritual darkness (Joel’s prophecy of the sun and moon darkening). The 59 Sabbaths, when misaligned due to competing calendars, signify YasharEL’s fractured state, awaiting restoration through Yahusha’s return.

5. Numerological and Typological Patterns

• Number 59 in Context: While 59 is not explicitly highlighted in scripture, it derives from the sum of 52 (weekly) and 7 (High Sabbaths), aligning with the note’s emphasis on sevens. The number 7 is central to scriptural numerology (e.g., 7 feasts, 7 trumpets in Revelation), and 59 as a composite reflects the fullness of Yahuah’s appointed times in a year.

• Typology of Release: This presentation connects the Jubilee (50th year) to the pentecontad calendar’s 50-day cycles (7 x 7 + 1). The 59 Sabbaths, occurring in a Jubilee year, symbolize the culmination of rest and release, prefiguring the ultimate liberation from sin and bondage through Yahusha (Matt 1:17, Gal 3:16).

6. Practical and Theological Implications

• Obedience in the Land: For ancient YasharEL, observing all 59 Sabbaths was a tangible act of trust in Yahuah’s provision, as ceasing work (especially during High Sabbaths and Jubilee) required reliance on His sustenance (Lev 25:20-22).

• Call to Spiritual Discernment: The presentation urges readers to see the 59 Sabbaths as part of a physical system fulfilled in Yahusha, who transitions believers from carnal observances to spiritual worship (Heb 13:13-14). Their significance lies in pointing to the greater reality of rest in the renewed Creation.

Heb 13:12  And so יהושע also suffered outside the gate, to set apart the people with His own blood. 

Heb 13:13  Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. 

Heb 13:14  For we have no lasting city here, but we seek the one coming. 

Post Babylonian captivity, some of the Yahudites because of the 70 years of captivity, for not observing the 70 Shemitah cycles when in the land, were careful and broke down their Sabbaths to 7 x 7 + 1 = 50 days and named their 50^th day as azteret (In Hebrew, azteret (עֲצֶרֶת) means a solemn assembly or concluding festival). They started following the pentecontad calendar, (from πεντηκοντάς pentēkontás) which is an agricultural calendar system thought to be of Amorite origin in which the year is broken down into seven periods of fifty days (a total of 350 days), with an annual supplement of fifteen or sixteen days. In Akkadian, the pentecontad calendar was known as hamšâtum and the period of fifteen days at the end of the year was known to Babylonians as shappatum. The liturgical calendar of the Essenes at Qumran was a pentecontad calendar, marked by festivals on the last day of each fifty-day period such as the Feast of New Wine, the Feast of Oil, and the Feast of New Wheat. 

Now you analyze brethren, there are so many calendars floating today and each camp says they are following the true calendar, some of them off the top of my head are:

 

1.    Solar calendar

2.    Lunar calendar

3.    Luni solar calendar

4.    Pentecontad calendar (followed by esennes in Qumran)

 

Pentecontad: The Dead Sea Scrolls, such as 4Q325, 4Q326, 4Q327, and 4Q394, contain a variety of calendar systems, some of which may represent a transition from the more ancient lunar phase week toward the modern fixed week. Among these various calendars can be found the fixed seven-day week, in a calendar of fifty-two weeks, which includes seven-week cycles just like the ancient lunar phase calendars. Now how they broke up the annual year into 50 x 7 is a mystery to me. For me when I see so much division in the Hebrew camps with each one stating my calendar is true is evidence as stated by the nabi Yoel that in the last days the sun will turn dark, the moon into blood and the stars will fall before the great day of Yahuah. The sign is clearly visible and understood spiritually as stated earlier that the sun, moon and stars stood figuratively for YasharEL. 

If Lev 23 puts Sabbath as a moeaday 𐤌𐤅𐤏𐤃𐤉 (My appointed time) then it has to be in the land. Let me show you how. 

Ex 13:5 It shall be when Yahuah brings you to the land of the Kanaanite, the Chittite, the Emorite, the Chiuite and the Yebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall observe this service in this month.
Ex 13:6 For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to Yahuah.
Ex 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders. 

There we go, it says in the land. This is further clarified as ‘the place where Yahuah your Elohim causes His name to be called.’ 

Deut 12:5 But you shall seek to the place which Yahuah your El shall choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come. 

Deut 16:2 You shall sacrifice the Passover to Yahuah your El from the flock and the herd, in the place where Yahuah chooses to establish His name there. 

Deu 26:2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that Yahuah your El gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where Yahuah your Elohim chooses to establish His name. 

1 Kings 14: 21 Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Yerushalayim, the city which Yahuah had chosen from all the tribes of YasharEL to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 

2Ki 21:4 And he built altars in the house of Yahuah, of which Yahuah had said, In Yerushalayim I shall put My name.

 

2Chr 6:6 but I have chosen Yerushalayim that My name to be there, and I have chosen Dawid to be over My people Yisra’El. 

3 times a year it was compulsory that every male, whichever part of the world he was in had to come to Yerushalayim for the 3 pilgrim feasts 1. Unleavened bread 2. Shavout/Pentecost & 3. Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles. 

Ex 23:14 Three times in a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me. 
Ex 23:15 You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month Abib, for in it you came from Mitsrayim. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed. 
Ex 23:16 And the Feast of the Harvest of the first fruits of your labors which you sow in the field; And the Feast of the Ingathering at the end of the year when you gather your labors from the field. 
Ex 23:17 Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the face of the Adon (the Master) Yahuah. 

Deut 16:16 Three times in a year all your males shall appear before Yahuah your El in the place which He chooses it, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Shabbuot and at the Feast of Sukkot, and they shall not appear before Yahuah empty-handed. 

What we have covered so far: 

1.    Sabbath is listed with the moead/feast in Lev 23.

2.    There are so many calendars floating with each camp saying they are right with their calendar. The evidence is there of the sun, moon and stars darkening. New addition comment: Yahuah has sent the lying spirit in the mouth of his nebim who are teaching lies, putting fear of Torahlessness for not observing the feasts and Sabbaths.

3.    The moead 𐤌𐤅𐤏𐤃/feast had to be in the place where Yahuah chooses His name to be called.

4.    Yerushalayim was the place Yahuah chose to call His name upon.

5.    3 times a year every male had to appear before Yahuah not without a gift, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Shavout and at the Feast of Sukkot.

6.    New added comment: Shaul the emissary likens the present Yerushalayim (his time Yerushalayim) with Hagar the bondwoman and her children. 

Gal 4:25 For Sinay is a mountain in Arab 𐤏𐤓𐤁 and it corresponds to the present of Yerushalayim, for she is in slavery with her children. 

Which of the above commands are you following knowing that we are in dispersion i.e., not in the land? 

Jam 1:1 Ya’aqob (James), a servant of Elohim and of our Adon (Master) `Yahusha the Mashiyach, ask for peace to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion. 

1Pe 1:1 Petros (Kepha), an apostle of Yahusha the Mashiyach, to the inhabitants scattered throughout Pantos, Galatya, Qapodeqia, Asya, and Bithinyia, 

Historical evidence of YasharEL & Yahudah’s dispersion: 

Ps 137:1 By the rivers of Babel, there we sat down and also we wept, when we remembered Tsion.
Ps 137:2 Upon the willows in the midst of it we hung our harps.
Ps 137:3 For there our captors asked us the words of a song, and our tormentor's mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Tsion.
Ps 137:4 How can we sing the song of Yahuah in a foreign land? 

Hos2:9 Therefore, I shall return and take My grain at harvest time and My new wine in its season. I shall take away My wool and My flax to cover her nakedness.

Hos2:10 And then I shall uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and a man shall no deliver her out of My hand.

Hos2:11 I shall also put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her Chadashim (new months), and her Shabbats and all her solemn feasts/moead. 

In Hoshea Yahuah says He will return to take His grain at harvest time and His new wine in its season, but will YasharEL or Yahudah be able to offer it? No, they won’t as they will be in captivity/dispersion of nations. He puts an end to all her joy, her new months, her Sabbaths and all her moead/feasts. Hence, the recovery of the grain and new wine in their seasons refer to elect who will be gathered by Yahusha.

2Chr 36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword he carried away to Babel; and they were servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Paras/Persia,

2Chr36:21 to fulfill the word of Yahuah by the mouth of YiremYahu, until the land had enjoyed its Shabbats. All the days of its desolation it kept its Shabbat, to fulfill seventy years. 

The 7^th day Sabbath is tied to the land and the Shemitah. How does the counting of omer take place? 7 x 7 Sabbaths +1 i.e., the 50^th day is Shavout/Pentecost. One cannot take bits and pieces of Shemitah and show a false observance to Yahuah in foreign lands. You have to go up to Yerushalayim, the place Yahuah chose to place His name. Now as we read Shaul the emissary likened physical Yerushalayim to Hagar who is in bondage with her children. Abraham believed in the promise and looked for the city whose foundations and builder is Elohim. Hence, there is a waiting time to enter into a perpetual (olam) rest in Renewed Yerushalayim and that's why we have Yahusha ha Mashiyach saying He is going to prepare a place for us. We who believe in Him are invited to the Marriage supper of the Lamb.

Luk 22:14  And when the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve emissaries with Him. 
Luk 22:15  And He said to them, “With desire I have desired to eat this Pěsaḥ with you before My suffering, 
Luk 22:16  for I say to you, I shall certainly not eat of it again until it is filled in the reign of Elohim.” 
Luk 22:17  And taking the cup, giving thanks, He said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves, 
Luk 22:18  for I say to you, I shall certainly not drink of the fruit of the vine until the reign of Elohim comes.” 

Ask yourself why did Yahusha say He will not eat of the Pesach again or drink of the vine until the reign of Elohim comes? Did not Shaul the emissary bring discipline in the Corinthian assembly as they were having the bread and the cup (as celebrating Pesach) every Sabbath, and that's why he said some of you are judged and are dead.

The institution of Pesach found its fulfillment in Yahusha, yet we see that the Corinthian assembly as often as they gathered (as do assemblies today as well) partook of the break and the cup.

1Co 11:23  For I received from the Master that which I also delivered to you: that the Master יהושע in the night in which He was delivered up took bread, 

1Co 11:24  and having given thanks, He broke it and said, “Take, eat, this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” 

1Co 11:25  In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the renewed covenant in My blood. As often as you drink it, do this in remembrance of Me.” 

1Co 11:26  For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Master until He comes. 

1Co 11:27  So that whoever should eat this bread or drink this cup of the Master unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Master.

 The emissaries initially in the transitional phase broke bread house to house as people had to be taught the fulfillment doctrines in Messiah and they abided in the apostles doctrine it says they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries, and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers. We have now passed the transitional phase unless you are still as a babe drinking milk and not eating solid meat.

Act 2:42  And they were continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries, and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers. 

Coming back to the Shemitah...

Genesis records that Yahuah had not caused it to rain on the earth and a mist went up from the ground and watered the earth for there was no man to till the ground. In a Shemitah year, no sowing and reaping, here Eden was dressed by Yahuah Himself as there was no rain and no man to till the ground.

Gen 2:4 These are the births of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that יהוה  Elohim made earth and heavens.
5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for יהוה  Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground, 
6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the entire surface of the ground. 

During Shemitah, the land is left to lie fallow and all agricultural activity, including plowing, planting, pruning and harvesting, is forbidden. Speaking of YasharEL's dispersion into the nation's, Yahuah foretold them when giving them the promised land. 

Lev 26:33 ‘And I shall scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you. And your land shall be desert and your cities ruins, 
34 and the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste and you are in your enemies land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. 
35 ‘As long as it lies waste it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it.

The infinite Elohim made the entire creation by entering into it in 6 days & the 7^th day He rested from all His works. The cycle of 7 shows that each day is reckoned as a 1000 years as stated in 2Pet3:8

2Pe 3:8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with YAHUAH as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Man is finite and within the perimeter of these 7,000 years in a Shemitah cycle of judgement and release from the judgement.

Here are some examples: 

Qayin if killed will be avenged 7 fold and Lamech 70 and 7 fold Gen 4:15,24

Ark rested in the 7th month Gen 8:4

Noach tarried another 7 days in the ark Gen 8:10,12

7 years of plentiful and 7 years of famine in Mitsrayim Gen 41:2-3

Exo 1:5 All those who came from the loins of Yaaqob including Yahusaph were 70 who entered Mitsrayim

There are 7 high Shabbaths in the feasts

Shemitah cycle of 7 years, 6 years ploughing and 7th to eat what grows of itself 50th year jubilee where 7 x 7 +1 shows the release of lands, slaves etc.

Release of Hebrew slaves every 7 years,  70 elders chosen from Yasharal Num 11:16

Sins of ignorance required kohen to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifice 7 times before the sanctuary

Altar and sanctuary sanctification required kohen to sprinkle blood 7 times Lev 8:11

Lepers cleansing also required sprinkling of blood 7 times Lev 14:7

The census of Yasharal by Daud caused 70,000 to die due to pestilence

Days of our life 70 years Ps 90:10

Yahusha appointed 70 men and sent them out before His face Luke 10:1

Forgiveness 70 times 7 Matt 18:22

Feeding of 5000 with 2 fish and 5 loaves = 7 (Matt 14:17)

Lamb among 7 lampstands Rev 1:12-13

Mystery of 7 stars in his hand Rev 1:20

Lamb having 7 eyes, 7 horns, 7 ruachoth of Alahym Rev 5:6

In the book of Revelation there are seven assemblies, seven angels to the seven assemblies, seven seals, seven trumpet plagues, seven thunders and the seven last plagues. The first resurrection of the dead takes place at the 7th trumpet, completing salvation for the assembly 7 moeadim/feasts completed in the 7th month.

7 days make a week and the counting of omer is in 7's i.e. 7 x 7 to Shavout 

Alaysha asked Naaman to wash in Yarden by immersing 7 times so that his flesh would be clean 2Kings 5:10

Exo 22:30 the kid of the calf was to be with its mother for 7 days and 8th day it belonged to Yahuah

Yasharal was asked to march around Yericho for six days and on 7th day they were to march 7 times

The rainbow has 7 colors and Yahuah gave it as a covenant Gen 9:12-16

The rainbow imagery is seen in Revelation 4:3 where the one seated on the throne's appearance was as Jasper and Ruby which are the stones in the High priests chest breastplate as the last and the first stone Exo 28:17-20

Yaaqob served 7 years for Rachel and when cheated by Laban when he gave her Leah, he served another 7 years for her

When the Yasharalites entered captivity, they resided in Babylon for 70 years (7 x 10, YarmeYahu 25:8-12).

Every seven years was supposed to be a year of rest (the year of Jubilee had other items in addition to this).

Yasharalites failed to observe 70 Sabbath years, hence the 70 years in captivity. Lev 25, 2Chr36:21

We find seven pairs of each clean animal on the ark (Genesis 7:2); seven branches on the tabernacles lampstand

(Exodus 25:37); seven things Yahuah hates in Proverbs 6:16

Multiples of 7 also figure into scriptural narrative: the “seventy weeks” prophecy in Daniel 9:24 concerns 490 years (7 times 7 times 10).

Heb 9:22 says almost all things according to Torah are purified by blood and without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins

Yahuah put everything under the Shemitah cycle of favor and judgement to transition creation into freedom from slavery to the completeness of Mashiyach. A transition from physical Shemitah to spiritual Shemitah in Mashiyach, in the Renewed Creation Order.

All generations from Abraham to Mashiyach were 42 (14+14+14) (7 x 2 + 7 x 2 + 7 x 2) generations. Yahuah told Abraham that his seed would be afflicted, Gen 15:13

Shaul emissary says the promise was not to seeds as of many but Seed who is Mashiyach. Gal 3:16 

Matt 1:17 So all the generations from Abraham to Dawid were fourteen generations, and from Dawid until the exile to Babel were fourteen generations, and from the exile to Babel until the Messiah were fourteen generations. 

This number 42 is significant to the 1260 days/time, times & dividing of time/3.5 days or years as stated in Daniel's 70th week which is the Renewed Covenant week split into 2. This period is termed in Rev 11 as the Gentiles trampling the outer court. The 42 generations from Abraham to Messiah saw Abraham's seed struggling in the pains of sojourning as strangers in the land of promise, brought into the land but David's physical seed who were heirs to his throne were not faithful to Yahuah and hence were taken into captivity until the coming of the Promised seed i.e. Yahusha ha Mashiyach.

Hos 11:1 “When Yasharal was a child, I loved him, and out of Mitsrayim I called My son. 

Matt 2:15 and remained there until the death of Herodes,to fill what was spoken by יהוה through the prophet, saying,“Out of Mitsrayim I have called My Son. 

Yahusha came as the YasharEL of Elohim.

We all fall into the sonship inheritance being delivered from the bondage of slavery and this was only possible when Yahusha ha Mashiyach took a finite position in creation coming as the Son and being part of the Shemittah cycle to deliver us from bondage of slavery.

When Yahuah rested on the 7th day, He ceased from all His work as His work of Salvation was finished from the foundation of this world and completed in time when He subjected Himself to be part of creation in humility i.e.. By transforming Himself and journeying us in Himself as the Renewed Creation.

Some recommended video’s/reading

 

Transition to Pre Torah age - YouTube 

 

Tents of Shem: Why did Yahusha mikveh in the wilderness? (dsouzashodan72.blogspot.com)

 Yahuchanan/John the Baptist was a Zadok priest lineage, his father ZecharYah served in the haykal as a priest. Why did John not serve as a priest in the temple and came with a message of repentance in the wilderness? This note covers it. I have also touch based on the yonah/dove significance in this note.

The Sabbath and Pesach in the wilderness:

Num 9:1 Thus Yahuah spoke to Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Num 9:2 Now, let the sons of Yisra’El prepare the Passover at its appointed time.
Num 9:5 They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that Yahuah had commanded Mosheh, so the sons of Yisra’El did.

Num 15:32 Now while the sons of Yisra’El were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Shabbat day.
Num 15:33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Mosheh and to Aharon and to all the congregation.
Num15:34 and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
Num15:35 Then Yahuah said to Mosheh, the man shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp.
Num15:36 So all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, just as Yahuah had commanded Mosheh.

Jos 5:5 For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
Jos 5:6 For the sons of Yisra’El walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished because they did not listen to the voice of Yahuah, to whom Yahuah had sworn that He would not show them the land which Yahuah had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jos 5:7 Their sons whom He raised up in their place, Yahushua circumcised them; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them along the way.
Jos 5:8 And it came to pass, when all the nation had finished being circumcised, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Jos 5:9 Then Yahuah said to Yahushua, this day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. So, the name of that place is called Gilgal/galgal גלגל to this day.
Jos 5:10 While the sons of Yisra’El camped at Gilgal they prepared the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Yericho.

Where was Yahusha impaled? At Galgaltha. This was the place where actually the reproach of Mitsrayim/Egypt was laid off. The physical circumcision and the physical entry into Promised land shadowed the heart circumcision and entry into Renewed Yerushalayim just as Abraham and our fathers never considered Kennan to be the promised land but looked towards the Heavenly country.

There are many who teach that YasharEL observed the Sabbbath and the feasts in the wilderness of Sinai i.e., before they entered the land, hence we must observe it even though we are outside the land.

Firstly, we must remember the perimeter of the land & the historical setting of YasharEL before making such assumptions. There as no Sabbath or any feasts observed in Mitsrayim/Egpyt before the Torah came (Except for Pesach which had a lifesaving significance of all firstborn of YasharEL). The scripture doesn’t record any of the father’s before written Torah came, observing any of the appointed times or Shabbaths in their sojourning. The first Pesach was observed in Mitsrayim/Egypt when the actual killing of the firstborn took place. This would be the only time (first and the last time) any Pesach would be done on foreign soil as this was to save them from the destroyer.

These are spiritual things, and we need to discern spiritually.

The context of observing this festival literally was related to the land: lets re-read verse 25 “And it shall be, when you come to the land which Yahuah gives you as He promised you will guard this service.

Exo 12:25 “And it shall be, when you come to the land which יהוה gives you, as He promised, that you shall guard this service.
Exo 12:26 “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
Exo 12:27 then you shall say, ‘It is the Pěsaḥ slaughtering of יהוה, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra’ěl in Mitsrayim when He smote the Mitsrites and delivered our households.’” And the people bowed their heads and did obeisance.

Then why was there an interim Pesach in the wilderness?

There were 3 Pesach’s YasharEL observed before it became a norm for YasharEL to guard/shamar the Pesach while in the land.

The one Yahushua did was the third Passover in Yasharal’s history. The first two were kept under Moses— (1) in Mitsrayim/Egypt, when Yahuah delivered them; (2) the second at Sinai, when He had “brought them unto Himself.” (3) The third is on the other side of the Yarden under Yahushua. Two belong to the Exodus, or going out; one to the entrance, or coming into the land. There were no year-on-year Passover’s observed in the wilderness for 40 years as some assume. The simple reason being when you read Joshua 5, we see the entire nation of YasharEL who were circumcised were wiped out in the wilderness because of their hardness of their hearts and rebellion against Yahuah. Their children were raised up in their place which was a new generation and were uncircumcised, and once they crossed the Yarden, Yahushua/Joshua had them circumcised at the command of Yahuah and named the place Gilgal so as to take away their reproach.

Ex 12:48 But if a stranger H1616/gar גר 𐤂𐤓 sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to Yahuah, let every male be circumcised to him, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But anyone uncircumcised shall not eat of it.

Kindly observe the connection between the Passover and circumcision. The law in Exodus 12:48 is, “no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.” Hence, while they wandered in the wilderness, this uncircumcised generation could not keep the Pesach. We need to be consistent in interpreting scripture by comparing the texts in determining the conditions of observance. Joshua 5:5 records all those who came out of Mitsrayim were circumcised but the generation born in the wilderness were not circumcised.

Hence, we see only one Pesach observed at Sinai in the first month of the 2^nd year from their Exodus from Mitsrayim.

Num 9:1 Thus Yahuah spoke to Mosheh in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Num 9:2 Now, let the sons of Yisra’El prepare the Passover at its appointed time.

Mosheh/Masha records that the journey from Mt Sinai/Choreb (same mountain) was just 11 days to Qadesh Barnea by the way of Mount Seir but they wandered 40 years in the wilderness back and forth Mount Horeb/Sinai. Out of the 40 years of wilderness journey 38 years they were near Mt Choreb/Sinai and 2 years they crossed the Yarden to be in the land of Moab which was part of the promised land. Now this Moab was allotted to the Reubenites. Here is the proof. Kindly read the scriptures.

Nu 21:26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.

Ruth was a Reubenite by birth, Moabitess by geographical location, married to Machlon who died and left her childless, she was now an Ephrathite having married Machlon and being a widow and without any inheritance as her in laws had sold everything and moved to sojourn in the land of Moab where Naomi lost her husband and her two sons.

Jos 13:8 With them the other half tribe the Re’uḇĕnites and the Gaḏites received their inheritance, which Mosheh had given them, beyond the Yardĕn eastward, as Mosheh the servant of יהוה had given them: 
Jos 13:9 from Aroʽĕr which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the wadi, and all the plain of Mĕyḏeḇa as far as Diḇon; 
Jos 13:10 and all the cities of Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who reigned in Ḥeshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon;  

Num 32:37 And the children of Re’uḇĕn built Ḥeshbon and Elʽalĕh and Qiryathayim,  

Rut 1:1 Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beyth lechem in Yahudah went to sojourn in the field of Moab, he, and his wife and his two sons. 

Deut 1:1 These are the words which Mosheh spoke to all Yisra’El across the Yarden in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Chazeroth and Dizahab.
Deut 1:2 It is eleven days journey from Choreb by the way of Mount Seir to Qadesh-Barnea.
Deut 1:3 And it came to pass, in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month on the first day of the month, Mosheh spoke to the sons of Yisra’El, according to all that Yahuah had commanded him concerning them.
Deut 1:4 after he had defeated Sichon the king of the Emorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
Deut 1:5 Across the Yarden in the land of Moab, Mosheh undertook to expound this law, saying,

Deut 2:14 Now the days in which we came from Qadesh-barnea until that we crossed over the brook Zared was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as Yahuah had sworn to them.
Deut 2:15 And the hand of Yahuah was also against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they were consumed.

Mt Choreb/Sinai was within the perimeter of the promised land and that’s why Stephen calls Yasharal as assembly in the wilderness.

Acts 7:38 “This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinay, and with our fathers, who received the living words to give to us,”

Shaul the emissary also likens this to the present unbelieving & uncircumcised in heart Yerushalayim (of his time) as Hagar in slavery with her children. Like Stephen he puts Mt Sinai within the promised land perspective as well.

Gal 4:25 For this Hagar is Mt Sinay in Arab and it corresponds to the present of Yerushalam, for she is in slavery with her children.

The name Hagar הגר : The name Hagar means ‘flight/the stranger. Remember we saw the word stranger H1616/gar גר in Exo 12:48. And Hagar was an Egyptian. 

Ex 12:48 But if a stranger H1616/gar גר sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to Yahuah, let every male be circumcised to him, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But anyone uncircumcised shall not eat of it. 

The Tabernacle in the wilderness:

We also need to understand that there was no Sabbath or feast until the Tabernacle of Witness was set up. And a literal command to build a physical Tabernacle with all its elements were all part of the Torah of sin and death for Yahuah said explicitly that he doesn’t dwell in Tabernacles made by man. His original plan and always was to pitch His Tent with us, to dwell within us just as Shaul says we are temple of the Ruach Ha Qodesh.

Acts 7:44 The tabernacle of witness was with our fathers in the wilderness, as He commanded who spoke with Moshe in which he make it according to the pattern which he had seen,
Acts 7:45 which also our fathers having received it in turn, also brought with Yahushua (Joshua) with them into the land possessed by the gentiles whom Elohim drove out them before the presence of our fathers, unto the days of Dawid.
Acts 7:46 Who (David) found favour in the sight of Elohim, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the El of Yaaqob,
Acts 7:47 but Solomon built a house for Him.

We have Numbers 9 recording that the children of YasharEL journeyed when the cloud was lifted up from the Tabernacle whether by day or by night at the command of Yahuah.

Num 9:21 And so when the cloud remained from evening until morning, when the cloud was lifted in the morning, they journeyed; whether by day or by night, when the cloud was lifted, they journeyed.
Num 9:22 Whether it was two days or a month or days that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, staying above it, the sons of Yisra’El encamped and did not journey; but when it was lifted, they did journey.
Num 9:23 At the command of Yahuah they camped, and at the command of Yahuah they journeyed; they kept/shamaru the charge/mishmereth משמרת  of Yahuah, according to the command of Yahuah by the hand of Mosheh.

משמרת  mishmereth H4931 is from משמר H4929 which means guard/charge/keep/safeguard/custodian and also has the root word shamarשמר  which also means to keep/guard. 

The mishmar משמר  was Yahuah, a guardian to them in the wilderness journey where the place He Himself was, and the place which falls within the perimeter of the promised land. 

We also saw the word galgal גלגל/Gilgal which means ‘wheels rolling’ where Yahuah says He took away the reproach of Yasharal when He commanded them to be circumcised before eating the Passover when they had crossed over the Yarden. This same word is root word in Galgaltha which also means ‘skull’, the place Yahusha was impaled was called ‘Galgatha’.

Eze 10:13 As for the wheels it was cried to them in my hearing, Whirling wheel/galgal גלגל!

The cherubims were heading in a direction and it was cried out to them to head to galgal. That’s where the Master is. That’s where the reproach is removed.

Heb13:11 For the bodies of beasts, whose blood were brought in the sanctuary to the atonement of sin by the hand of the high priest, are burned outside the camp.
Heb13:12 For this, Yahusha also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
Heb13:13 Let us therefore go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
Heb13:14 For we do not have a lasting city here, but we seek the city which is to come.

I showed evidence that the feasts and Sabbath were to be observed in the land, the place where Yahuah would call His name on. And the place was Yerushalayim which Shaul the emissary shows that the earthly Yerushalayim is like a STRANGER/Hagar in bondage with her children. So, the transition has happened where we are out of the promised land into pagan lands, and I showed evidence that we can’t do the Sabbaths and feasts/moeadim in foreign lands and also showed you YasharEL’s & Yahudah’s perspective when in captivity.

The uncleanliness of YasharEL today:

We must not forget all of Yahusha's disciples were at the Pesach the night before with the Master himself, while the Yahudites had yet to kill their Pesach sacrifice on the evening of Yahusha's death.

John 19:31 Then the Jews, because it was the ereb Shabbat (translated as Preparation), so that the bodies would not remain on the stake on the Shabbat (for that Shabbat was a high day), asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

The Abary word 'ereb ערב 𐤏𐤓𐤁' H6153 means 'evening' and also means 'meddle/mingle/barter/mix'. The Yahudites in John 18:28 wouldn't enter in the Praetorium to not defile themselves but might eat the Passover. 

John 18:28 And it came to pass as early in the morning, they led Yahusha from the house of Qayapha to the house of the justice. But they did not enter there so that they would not become impure but could eat the Passover.

Shaul uses the same word in Gal 4:25 showing they didn't transition to the Ruach.

Gal 4:25 For this Hagar is Mt Sinay in EREB ערב 𐤏𐤓𐤁 and it corresponds to the present of Yerushalayim, for she is in slavery with her children.

This is also tied to wayahiy ereb wayahiy boqer (This is what happened next evening, this is what happened next morning) and we see this phrase in Hebrew mindset shows something from the past is journeying to a future goal. The Ereb Pesach without the Jews knowing was going to be their last one for there would be a switch over in a transition by Yahusha ha Mashiyach Himself.

1Co 5:7 Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Pěsaḥ was slaughtered for us.

And here in John 19:31 they request Pilate that their legs might not be broken and their bodies not remain on the stake so that their high Shabbat be not broken. They had not yet eaten their Passover. So, what is happening here? According to their calendar they were still on the 13th of Abib which began the previous evening, so at closing the 13th evening transitioning to 14th Abib according to their sunset to sunset time measure they would kill their Pesach lamb, which actually they had to kill the earlier evening  and watch the night as Torah states eating the roasted lamb along with the Unleavened Bread right until the 21st day of the first month. Remember, Yahusha observed the Pesach the previous night with his talmidim (disciples). 

They broke Torah, because we saw Yahusha observed the Pesach the previous evening with his disciples and in the morning when he was brought before Pilate at 6 am it was already the feast of Unleavened bread which was a high Shabbat and they didn't realize this and impaled him on the high Shabbat. However, unknowingly they fulfilled the exact timing in a way because when Yahusha was dying on the stake the people would have started preparing the sacrificing of the Pesach Lamb along with the daily evening sacrifice.This is the same state of those claiming as part of Yasharal as they have different days for Sabbaths and feast days and each camp says I am right and you are wrong. An evidence of Yasharal’s uncleanliness and an awaiting wrath from Yahusha for disobedience to His command “In the place where my name is called”.

Summary

The note shows a clear perspective that the Sabbaths and Feasts of Yahuah, listed as appointed times (moedim) in Leviticus 23, were intended for observance in the land of YasharEL, particularly in Yerushalayim, where Yahuah chose to establish His name (Deut 12:5, 1 Kings 14:21). Key points include:

1. Sabbath as a Moed: Leviticus 23 includes the weekly Sabbath among the appointed times, alongside the seven annual feasts, with a total of 52 weekly Sabbaths and 7 High Sabbaths in a 365-day year. The Shemitah and Jubilee cycles (Lev 25) further tie these observances to the land’s agricultural and spiritual rhythms.
2. Land-Specific Observance: Scriptures like Exodus 13:5 and Deuteronomy 16:16 emphasize that feasts such as Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot are to be observed in the land promised to YasharEL, with mandatory pilgrimages to Jerusalem for males three times a year. The note highlights that these commands are geographically specific.
3. Dispersion and Captivity: Historical and prophetic texts (Ps 137, Hos 2:9-11, 2 Chr 36:20-21) describe YasharEL’s dispersion and the cessation of Sabbaths and feasts during captivity, as the land itself was to “enjoy its Sabbaths” (Lev 26:33-35). The note suggests that Yahuah ended these observances in foreign lands.
4. Calendar Confusion: This presentation shows the existence of multiple calendars (solar, lunar, luni-solar, pentecontad) among Hebrew communities, leading to division and confusion, which is interpreted as a spiritual sign of YasharEL’s waywardness (Yoel’s prophecy). This is seen as evidence of a departure from Yahuah’s intended order.
5. Spiritual Transition: The Renewed Testament texts, particularly Galatians 4:25 and 1 Corinthians 5:7, are cited to argue that the earthly Yerushalayim is now akin to Hagar, in bondage, and that Yahusha’s sacrifice as the Passover Lamb fulfills and transcends the physical observances. The note points to Yahusha’s crucifixion at Golgotha (linked to Gilgal, where YasharEL’s reproach was removed) as a pivotal moment of transition from physical to spiritual Shemitah (release).
6. Historical Context: The note addresses the limited observance of feasts in the wilderness (e.g., Passover at Sinai, Num 9), noting that these were exceptional and tied to the Tabernacle within the promised land’s perimeter. The uncircumcised generation’s inability to observe Passover (Ex 12:48) further supports the land-specific argument.
7. Call to Spiritual Discernment: The note urges readers to move beyond carnal observances, which are tied to the physical land and Torah of sin and death, to embrace the spiritual reality in Yahusha, who embodies the fulfillment of Yahuah’s plan. The note concludes that attempting to observe Sabbaths and feasts in dispersion is misguided, as Yahuah’s presence is now found in Yahusha, the true Tent.

The note encourages a careful, spiritual comparison of scriptures to recognize this transition and to pursue the Renewed Creation order in Yahusha, rather than clinging to outdated physical practices.

 I urge all readers to carefully read and compare spiritual things with spiritual and come out of the physical Shemitah and the carnal elements tied to it to transition to the Ruach Shemitah in Yahusha ha Mashiyach who Himself stands in the transition from invisible Yahuah to being the visible Yahusha taking on a true Tent which we must pursue as the goal of the Torah. Yahuah has transformed Himself and you won’t find Him anywhere else but in the person of Yahusha. Humble yourself and have the right behaviour of a true Yahudite. 

 

The Ornaments put away imagery.

 The Yasharalites in Exo 33 passages when they were asked to move on to the Promised land were asked to be stirpped off their ornaments. There is a spiritual significance which this note covers in detail and how it relates to us in our time as the way in the wilderness is shown by Yahuah in dividing the carnal seed from the spiritual seed. This is note as to introspecting ourselves as to under whose power we bring our stiff necks to? To be ransomed by the Lamb or to be broken? Read on!

Ex 33:1 Then Yahuah spoke to Mosheh, Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Mitsrayim, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Yitschaq, and to Ya’aqob, saying, To your descendants I shall give it.

Ex 33:2 I shall send a messenger before you and I shall drive out the Kanaanite, the Emorite, the Chittite, the Perizzite, the Chiuite and the Yebusite.

Ex33:3 I shall bring you into a land flowing with milk and honey; for I shall not go up in your midst, because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I might destroy you on the way. 

Ex33:4 When the people heard this evil word, they mourned, and no man put his ornaments on him.

Ex 33:5 For Yahuah had said to Mosheh, Say to the sons of Yisra’El, You are a stiff-necked people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.

Ex 33:6 So the sons of Yisra’El stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Choreb. 

Stiff necked: Hebrew words 'qasheh קשה H7186' 'oreph ערפ H6203'

The word 'qasheh' is the same word spelled as in H7185 which means 'hard/harden/grevious'

Ps 95:8 Do not harden/qasha קשה H7185 your hearts, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

The word 'oreph ערפ' is the neck and is the same word spelled in H6202 means 'breaking the neck/beheading.'

Exo 13:13 “But every first-born of a donkey you are to ransom with a lamb. And if you do not ransom it, then you shall break his neck/araph ערפ H6202. And every first-born of man among your sons you are to ransom. 

Exo 34:20 “But the first-born of a donkey/chamor you ransom with a lamb. And if you do not ransom, then you shall break his neck/araph ערפ  H6202. Every first-born of your sons you shall ransom. And they shall not appear before Me empty-handed.

Donkey is an unclean animal & is considered as a beast of burden and if the first-born of a donkey cannot be redeemed with a lamb, Torah said 'then you shall break his neck' and followed by 'And every first-born of your sons you shall ransom' shows that the first-born of Yasharal's sons are closely related to the ransom of the first-born of a donkey.

There is a spiritual significance here as Yasharal was to enter the promised land- when this law would be in full force. Please see all the 3 passages: -

1) Exo 13 passages:

Ex 13:11 And it shall be when Yahuah brings you to the land of the Kanaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

He then gives them the law of ransom vs breaking the neck in Exo 13:13

Ex 13:12 you shall set apart to Yahuah everyone opening the womb, and every firstling opening of beast that are to you; the males belong to Yahuah. 

Ex 13:13 But every firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

2) Exo 34 passages: -

Masha the man of Aluahym prays to Yahuah to go along with them (to the Promised land) and says the people are a stiff-necked people and asks for pardon for their sin.

Ex 34:9 He said, I pray, if now I have found favor in Your eyes, O Adonai (my Master), I pray, let Adonai go in our midst, for it is a stiff-necked/qasheh araph people, and you pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your own possession. 

Twice Yahuah tells them to take heed not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of Kenaan.

Ex 34:12 Take heed for yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you enter in it, lest it shall become a snare in your midst.

Ex 34:15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they commit whoredom after their mighty ones and sacrifice to their mighty ones, and one call to you and you eat from his sacrifice,

He then gives them the law of ransom.

Ex 34:19 Everyone opening the womb is Mine, and all your male livestock opening from cattle and sheep.

Exo 34:20 “But the first-born of a donkey/chamor you ransom with a lamb. And if you do not ransom, then you shall break his neck/araph ערפ  H6202. Every first-born of your sons you shall ransom. And they shall not appear before Me empty-handed.

3) Exo 33 passages: - In discussion with a comparison, the passages here Yahuah says, He will not go with them into the land of Kenaan as they are a stiff-necked people (v 3) and He may destroy them on the way. And they are told to put off their ornaments away from them.

Their hardened neck was broken (qasheh araph) by their ornaments being put away figuratively.

It's interesting to see that usually women put off their ornaments, but here we have it recorded that the men put off their ornaments.

Ex 33:4 When the people heard this evil word, they mourned, and no man/ish H376 put his ornaments on him. 

Ex 33:5 For Yahuah had said to Mosheh, Say to the sons of Yisra’El, You are a stiff-necked people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.

Ex 33:6 So the sons/banay H1121 (plural of ban) of Yisra’El stripped themselves of their ornaments adiy עדי H5716, from Mount Choreb.

Now this is different from what Yahuah says in YashaYahu 3:16 about the women of Yasharal, here its the men who removed the ornaments.

The word for ornaments gives us the clue. The Hebrew word is adiy עדי H5716.

AD עד in Hebrew means 'repeat/witness'. It's also a picture of a woman's unclean state reminder i.e... of her mensuration flux. The suffix 'yod' at the end of 'ad עד' is translated as 'my witness'. Strongs H5716 also defines 'adiy' as an 'excellent mouth'. In Pslams 32:9 & 103:5 the word 'adiy עדי H5716' is translated as 'mouth', the very same word translated as 'ornaments'.

Ps 32:8 I shall instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I shall counsel you with My eye upon you.

Ps 32:9 Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding; with bit and muzzle, his mouth/adiy עדי H5716 to be held in, lest they shall come near to you.

Ps 103:5 Who satisfies your mouth/adiy עדי H5716 with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. 

So what were they stripped off?

Exo 33:4 says ...no man put his ornaments on him.

This can be understood from a few passages out of which the ornaments were made.

1. Yahuah asked the Yasharalites to spoil the Egyptians:

Ex 3:22 But a woman shall ask of her neighbor and the woman who lives in her house, articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons and on daughters. Thus, you shall plunder/nitsal’tem נץלתם H5337 the Mitsrites.

Exo 11:2 records men along with the women were also asked to ask the Egyptians articles of silver and gold.

Ex 11:2 Speak now in the hearing of the people that each man/ish ask from his neighbor and each woman/ishah from her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.

2. Exo 33 passages: only record men stripping of the ornaments which were made from the articles of silver and gold:

Ex 33:6 So the sons/banay of Yisra’El stripped/nitsalu נץלו H5337 themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Choreb.

The same word 'nitsalu נץלו H5337' is used as 'spoiling' the Mitsrites and themseves.

Hence, it is evident they took articles of silver and gold from the Mitsrites/Egyptians and they made ornaments out of them. The same gold plundered was used to make the golden calf which was destroyed at the base of the mountain by Masha/Moses.

Ex 12:35 Now the sons of Yisra’El had done according to the word of Mosheh, for they had requested from the Mitsrites articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing.

Ex 12:36 and Yahuah had given the people favor in the sight of the Mitsrites, so that they granted their request. Thus, they plundered/'nitsalu נץלו H5337' the Mitsrites. 

The articles of silver, gold and clothes plundered from the Mitsrites were offered as a heave offering to Yahuah for the tabernacle, the articles of gold, silver, bronze, curtains, priestly clothing, their ornaments etc. were offered by the people to Masha. Their offerings were so much that Masha had to voice out that it was too much and the people ceased from giving the offerings.

Ex 35:21 Everyone whose heart prompted him and everyone whose spirit moved him came and brought the heave offering of Yahuah for the work of the tent of appointment and for all its service and for the holy garments.

Ex 35:22 Then the men came in together with the women, all with a shalling heart. They brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and bracelets, all articles of gold; so did every man who waved a wave offering of gold to Yahuah.

Ex 35:23 Every man, with whom was found blue and purple and double-dipped crimson and fine linen and hair of goats and rams skins dyed red and porpoise skins, brought them.

Ex 35:24 Everyone raising up a heave offering of silver and bronze brought the heave offering of Yahuah; and everyone with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service brought it. 

Ex 35:25 Every wise-hearted woman spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and double-dipped crimson and in fine linen. 

Ex 35:26 All the women whose heart prompted them with a wisdom spun the hair of goats.

Ex 35:27 The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastplate.

Ex 36:6 So Mosheh instructed, and they caused a voice to pass in the camp, saying, Let no man or woman any longer perform work for the heave offering of the sanctuary. Thus, the people were restrained from bringing any more. 

Ex 36:7 For their work was sufficient for all the work, to perform it and it was too much.

Exodus 33 are interjection passages, the tabernacle, its articles, the ark, altars, basins, priestly garments etc. were all prepared in the wilderness as we have scriptures recording Yasharal carrying them along with them in their journey and when they camped, the tabernacle was set up in the wilderness. Hence, Exo 33 are interjection passages towards the end of their journey where they were camped for long at Mt Choreb and Yahuah tells them to move on to go into the promised land.

Ex 33:1 Then Yahuah spoke to Mosheh, Depart, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Mitsrayim, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Yitschaq, and to Ya’aqob, saying, to your descendants I shall give it.

Hence, we are dealing with the remainder of the ornaments which Yasharal had with them.

3. Remainder of the ornaments: the context of Exo 13 passages: -

Yasharal is still in the wilderness and the instruction to them is once when they are in the land the law of the ransom comes into effect. And when their sons ask them of the meaning of what ordinances they were keeping and its significance, they are to witness to them.

Ex 13:8 You shall tell your son on that day, saying, it is because of what Yahuah did for me when I came from Mitsrayim. 

Ex 13:9 And it shall be to you for a sign on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahuah may be in your mouth; for with a powerful hand Yahuah brought you out of Mitsrayim.

The witness is related to the relics of Torah as 'frontlets, signets on hands, tzitzits, etc. This was because their testimony was that they didn't believe in Yahuah, though they saw His works for 40 years in the wilderness. The frontlets, signets on hands and tzitzits etc. were signs and opportunity for witnessing to their sons & strangers who would ask the meaning of them. The outward signets would make no sense as their hearts were full of unbelief and their necks stiff necked. Hence, the Torah came with redeeming every firstborn, be it of man or beast as the opening of the womb would belong to Yahuah. Because, from the womb with water and blood, He Himself would come to deliver us through his witness/עיד ayad.

1Joh 5:6 This is He that came by water and by blood (and by spirit), Yahusha the Mashiyach, not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who witnesses עיד, because the Spirit is the truth.

The 'adiy' translated as 'my witness' failed for Yasharal. The 'ayad עיד' which has the 'yad יד/hand' completed that witness by His ransom.

John 8:14 Yahusha answered and said to them, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony/aditay עדתי is true, since I know where I came from and where I am going but you do not know where I come from and where I am going.”

The men stood as heads of their families and they stripping/nitsalu נץלו of their ornaments was a sign that their outward witness would fail because of unbelief in Yahuah's Torah of life.

The Yahudites even today under the carnal Levitical priesthood use these relics as 'mezuzah (on their doorposts), menorah's (lampstands), cups, frontlets, hand signs, scroll holders etc. which are articles of 'adiy' (my witness) which we saw is also translated in Psalms 32:9 & 103:5 as 'mouth'.

Now to the imagery of the firstborn ransom:

If we see the prophecy made about Yahudah from where our Master sprang from

Gen 49:10 “The sceptre shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples.
Gen 49:11 “Binding/asar H631 his foal/ayar H5895 to the vine/gaphan H1612, and his beast of burden/athon H860 son/ban to the choice vine/surak H8321, he washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes. 

The Abary word 'asar אסר' has the binding as in a yoke. 'Asar אסר' H631 'The yoke is bound to the neck of the oxen and used by the driver to turn the head of the oxen.'

The word 'surak שורק' H8321 is closely related to 'sarak שרק' H8319 & H8320 which is bright red as piercing to the sight.

It's no coincidence that Yahusha rode his foal to Yerushalayim.

Mark 11:2 and said to them, “Go into the village that is over against you, and immediately as you enter to it, you shall find a foal tied there, on which no man yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.”

Luk 19:30 saying, “Go into the village opposite you, in which, as you enter, you shall find a foal tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loosen it and bring it here.

Zec 9:9 “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Tsiyon! Shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim! See, your Sovereign is coming to you, He is righteous and endowed with deliverance, humble and riding on a donkey/chamor H2543, and/uau on a/al foal/ayar H5895, the son/ban H1121 of a donkey.

At the descent of the Mount of Olives is where he rode the donkey. Now the question is whether he rode both the donkey and its foal as only Matthew records verbatim Zechariah's prophecy but Mark, Luke and John record he rode only a foal. So, is there a contradiction? There is no contradiction here. 

Matt 21:5 Say to the daughter of Tsiyon, behold your king is coming to you, gentle, and mounted on a donkey/chamor, and/uau on a/al foal/ayar, the son/ban of a beast of burden/athon.

Matthew verbatim quotes Zechariah prophecy and the face value of the scripture suggests that Yahusha rode both the donkey and it's foal. It must be carefully understood by common sense that he only rode the foal/ayar when he entered Yerushalayim.

The chamor/donkey and the ayar/foal are one. The foal the male chamor is to show that it was a 'MALE firstborn.'

John 12:14 Yahusha found a certain donkey's colt/ayar and rode on it. As it is written, 

John 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Tsiyon; behold, Your King is coming, brought/lak riding/rakab on a foal/ayar son/ban of the beast of burden/athonoth. 

So, we see that the riding was consistently on the foal, the son/male of the donkey, and also what's noteworthy is that this foal was never rode on and Mark & Luke records this. 

And where did it happen, from outside the camp when entering into Yerushalayim, the place where Yahuah chose to call His name upon. The context of the redemption of the firstborn we saw in Exo 13 and 34 texts was in enforcement when Yasharal would be in the land. Its furthermore deeper when we see its within Yerushalayim, the place where Yahusha the firstborn would redeem the stiff neck of His firstborn sons. It's an amazing imagery showing the fulfillment. 

Exo 34:20 “But the first-born of a donkey/chamor you ransom with a lamb. And if you do not ransom, then you shall break his neck/araph ערפ  H6202. Every first-born of your sons you shall ransom. And they shall not appear before Me empty-handed.

Stripping ourselves from the ornaments: -

The Yahudites who believed in Yahusha ha Mashiyach transitioned from the Levitical priesthood to the Malchitsedek priesthood where the divine appointment/muaed or moead is with Yahusha ha Mashiyach. He is the goal of the Torah. Everything finds its goal post in 

'ayad עיד' His witness' which the Ruach/Spirit gave of Himself. Hence, remnant transitioned Yasharal is restored to its full esteem in Him in COMPLETENESS portrayed by being clothed with the sun, moon and stars while those claiming to believe in Mashiyach show they are complete but have carried the relics of the Levitical priesthood over as 'adiy עדי' (my witness) and hence, they are not complete in Mashiyach as they are running after the sun and moon calendars not able to get an appointment/muaed or moead  with the Savior Himself. (remember same word is used for feasts). 

The imagery of casting of the ornaments can be seen in comparing Rev 12 vs Rev 17 & Daniel passages:

Rev 12:1 And a great sign was seen in the heavens: a woman that was clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. 

The woman here is remnant Yasharal clothed with the sun, and moon under her feet and 12 stars crown on her head. She is covenant Yasharal who brought forth the man child Yahusha ha Mashiyach whom Shaul said would be saved in childbearing. She brought forth the man Yahusha ha Mashiyach and was saved by bearing the firstborn.

1Tim 2:13 Because Adam was first created and followed by Chauwah (Eve).

1Tim 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman has heard to the voice of the deceiver and has come to the hand in her transgression.

1Tim 2:15 But she shall be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith and in love and in sanctifiction with propriety. 

Dan 7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High and shall wear down the saints of Elyonin, and he shall intend to change times and in law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time/moead, times/moaedim, and half a time/chetsi. 

Dan 12:7 I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward the heavens, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time/moead, times/moeadim, and half/chetsi; and when they have made an completeness/kakaluth of scattering the power of the set apart people, all these events shall be finished.

In comparison with the Daniel verses there seems to be a contradiction in the first blush meaning as Rev 12:14 says she is nourished for moead, moaedim and chetsi from the presence of the serpent whereas the passages in Daniel 7:25 & 12:7 show the set apart people shall be given into the hands of the man of sin for moead, moeadim & chetsi.

Rev 12:13 And it came to pass when the dragon saw that he was thrown down to the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the male child.

Rev 12:14 But the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, to fly into the wilderness to her place, that she was nourished (Greek: trephatai, Hebrew: kalkal ) there for a time/moead and times/moeadim and half a time/chetsi, from the presence of the serpent.

That is why we need to look at the Greek and Hebrew word translated as 'nourished' there. 

In Greek trephatai G5142 and is from the root word 'trepho' which means:

5142 tréphō (from 5160 /trophḗ, "food" & trope G5157 which means 'to turn/revolution') – properly, enlarge, fully develop because adequately nourished (fed); (figuratively) to bring (or experience) "personal enlargement," i.e., spiritual development from being properly fed (nourished, taken care of).

The Hebrew uses the word 'kalkal' where the word kal in Hebrew means 'whole/complete/all.' A repetition of the word shows a complete circle in Mashiyach of completeness she has run in meeting Him as a divine appointment/moead.

Hence, both Greek and Hebrew show that the nourishment means being made whole/her spiritual development/her turning around/her growth/her being complete in her turning. The dragon came to make war with her & when he didn't prevail, he went to make war with the remnant of her seed who keep the commandments of Aluahym.

Rev 12:17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman and went away to make war with the rest of her children, those who keep the commandments of Elohim and who have the testimony/aduth עדות of Yahusha in their mouths. 

The seed of covenant Yasharal have the aduth עדות/testimony of Yahusha in their mouths, unlike the ones who have the testimony of 'adiy עדי/my witness'. Remember, we read the word 'adiy' is translated as 'mouth' in Psalms 32:9 & 103:5 and the relics they used as a covering were means of 'my witness' to their sons. Hence, there is no contradiction in understanding that the sons of the covenant are in war with the devil in the relics of Levitical priesthood vs the testimony of Yahusha in their mouths. Hence, in this sense they are scattered or given into the hand of the dragon for moead, moeadim and chetsi. 

The word 'chetsi' in Hebrew means:

chetsi חץי H2677 means 'half/middle/mid' and is from the root word H2673 chatsah חץה which means split in half/divide in half.

This shows us a separation of the seed of the woman, just like separation of wheat from tares, sheep from goats, while the entire seed was given over to the dragon to war against. Only those with the 'aduth עדות' of Yahusha in their mouths will prevail. Those in the relic system of Levitical priesthood would be separated as they still follow the sun, moon calenders without understanding the sign that the sun would turn into darkness, moon into blood and the stars would fall from the heavens before the coming of the great day of Yahuah. Remember Yoseph's dream where the sun, moon and 11 stars (he himself was the 12th star) bowed down to him. This woman who is covenant Yasharal is clothed with the sun, moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars is Yerushalayim from above, who is the mother of us all. The rest in the relic Levitical priesthood are Hagar and her children whom Shaul says the present Yerushalayim is with her children in bondage.

Gal 4:25 For Sinay is a mountain in Arab and it corresponds to the present of Yerushalam, for she is in slavery with her children.

Gal 4:26 But the Yerushalam above is free; she is the mother of us all.

Gal 4:29 But as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also. 

This is the sign we see clearly in our days, the carnal seed likened to Hagar has over run the assemblies with their relic system and hence, we who are in Mashiyach have transitioned into his completeness/kalkal. We are nourished/complete/turned to Him completely for our salvation. Hence, in comparison to the Exo 33 passages before we enter into the Yerushalayim from above we strip ourselves of all outward forms of flesh appeasements in witnessing to the testimony of Yahusha in our mouth.

Ex 33:6 So the sons of Yisra’El stripped/natsalu themselves of their ornaments/adayam, from Mount Choreb. 

 

Our stiff-neckedness (qasheh oreph) breaking of neck is ransomed by Yahusha who is the firstborn, as He rode upon us 'whom no man sat'. The term 'no man sat' on the chamor/donkey can also be seen spiritually as 'the man of sin with his burdens of carnal Torah' couldn't sit on us but the Master Yahusha rides us into Heavenly Yerushalayim as He ransomed us. While the others in Torah of sin and death are being ridden by the man of sin and this can be seen in their continuance of 'moead & moeadim' with their relics- with no appointment with Yahusha ha Mashiyach.

Mystery Babylon:

Rev 17:3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. And I saw, behold, a woman sitting on a scarlet beast like a woman full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. 

Rev17:4 And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and she was adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a gold cup full of abominations and of the uncleanness of her fornication,

Rev17:5 and on her forehead a name was written, in the way of mystery, Babel the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth.

 Rev17:6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the holy ones, and with the blood of the witnesses of Yahusha  And I marveled seeing her with a great admiration.

Yahuchanan/John was taken into the wilderness in the Ruach and he saw this woman clothed in purple, scarlet, gold & precious stones ornaments. Purple, scarlet, gold and precious stones were relics of the Old covenant. The words 'Great admiration' in Rev 17:6, the Hebrew renders as 'shamah gadulah' which means she made a great name for herself. This ties up with Genesis 11.

Gen 11:4 They said, Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name/sham, otherwise we shall be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

In conclusion:

Remember, we read the Covenant Yasharal was given wings of a great eagle and she was nourished for moead, moaedim & chetsi. We saw moead, moaedim relate to the physical feasts & observance of days where the commands were to be observed in the land & later clarified in Torah, the place where Yahuah chooses His name to be called on i.e., Yerushalayim. We also saw that the present Yerushalayim is likened to the bondwoman Hagar and her children in bondage. We also saw the word 'nourished' in Greek and Hebrew means 'a turnaround/spiritual development/fully develop'. The Woman's seed is separated /chetsi in the wilderness as their eyes open to what is happening. It's the spiritual seed/remnant Yasharal who turns around/fully develops to the completeness of Yahusha ha Mashiyach.

Whereas this woman termed as Mystery Babylon also sits in the wilderness decked with all the relics of the Levitical priesthood where Yahuah transitioned us to the Malchitsedek priesthood and the Torah of life causing abominations taking place in carnal Yasharal.

Heb 7:12 For when the priesthood is changed, there is a necessity that a change is made to the Torah also.

The sign of the sun, moon and stars is not understood by them but understood by the remnant who turn to Yahusha for His completeness/kalkal.

There is another imagery in scripture for e.g. The breaking of the neck/araph or oreph ערפ H6202 of the first-born of donkey unless redeemed by the Lamb is spiritually showing us a tie up to Arpah/Orpah ערפה H6204 who was lost in dispersion in the days of when each man was doing what was right in his own eyes, but Ruth crossed over to the tribe which held on to Yahuah's Torah/Way while Orpah went back to her people. Her name exactly means the same 'Breaking of the Neck'. 

Rut 1:4 They took for themselves Moabite women as wives; the name of the one was Arpah ערפה  H6204 and the name of the other Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. 

If what is left behind, who occupies it? Ha Shatan of course. So, the question is "Are you willing to lay down your Levitical priesthood ornaments in the wilderness or continue in the abominations of relics which have been left behind/forsaken by Yahuah as the true transition is happening as per His Purpose in Mashiyach?"