Time to Stop Passing-OVER HIS PASSOVER!

(Pursuing God's Truth Over Man-made Tradition, A.K.A. “OBEDIENCE”)

There is SO MUCH “information” and misinformation (aka DECEPTION) out there concerning “church tradition”, I am not even going to try to cover it all. I am not educationally equipped, nor spiritually motivated to do so. What I am going to attempt to do, however, is to bring an understanding of why The PEOPLE of GOD, who claim to follow HIS MESSIAH, Yeshua/Jesus, should now lay aside all these religious traditions to follow HIM in Spirit and in TRUTH!

I would like to clarify the reasons why we should Repent, and Return, to the Appointed Times which GOD ordained for HIS people, as “an ordinance (or observance) forever”! And, in doing so, finally exalt the BIBLE, the actual WORD OF GOD, over top of our beloved, deception-oriented, human substitutions, which we call “traditions”! These traditions are deceptions of the enemy, that are cherished by religiously deceived flesh!

The very same mistakes, for which Yeshua rebuked the religious leaders of HIS day, were not only repeated in religious pride and total audacity, but also warped way beyond human comprehension - when “The FAITH”, in Yeshua, was hi-jacked, by the State driven religious pawns of Constantine, around 300 AD! This was when “replacement theology” was introduced, and became the driving force of the massive deception we have today. It was the beginning of the unraveling of the True Ekklesia of the book of Acts!

Unfortunately, through this utter subversion of His Truth, people were not only taught – basically - that anyone who gave allegiance to this new religious construct called “Christianity” were the ONLY people that GOD acknowledged - It further insisted that “we”, those who “follow Jesus”, in the precise ways that these self-exalted religious rulers taught us to worship Him, had REPLACED ISRAEL IN GOD's HEART AND PRIORITIES! WRONG CONCLUSION!!!!

Obviously, they somehow skipped over, or seriously misconstrued, most of Paul's (Shaul's) writings, especially those in Romans!!! Especially chapters 9-11!!!!! This blasphemous, deliberate misinformation, spawned and taught by religious leaders who were obviously fleshly, devil-driven, utterly deceived, power hungry men, of that era, (and the ones who have come after them, all “baptized” in this religious deception), has not only produced the blatant Antisemitism that is ravaging our world, our nation and the nation of Israel at this moment - but has been used to righteously justify it as some holy act of worship !!! This religious doctrine of demons, has spawned, and supported, racism of all kinds, but has especially highlighted and applauded hatred, abuse, torture and mass murder of the Jewish people ever since!

Yeshua corrected the very same spiritual mistake in the religious leaders of His own day, saying:

(In Mark 7:1-13, this is the J.B. Phillips translation)

1-5 “And now Jesus was approached by the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem. They had noticed that his disciples ate their meals with “common” hands—meaning that they had not gone through a ceremonial washing. (The Pharisees, and indeed all the Jews, will never eat unless they have washed their hands in a particular way, following a traditional rule. And they will not eat anything bought in the market until they have first performed their “sprinkling”. And there are many other things which they consider important, concerned with the washing of cups, jugs and basins.) So the Pharisees and the scribes put this question to Jesus, “Why do your disciples refuse to follow the ancient tradition, and eat their bread with ‘common’ hands?”

6-8 Jesus replied, “You hypocrites, Isaiah described you beautifully when he wrote—‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’. You are so busy holding on to the traditions of men that you let go the commandment of God!”

9-13 Then he went on, “It is astounding to see how you can set aside the commandment of God to preserve your own tradition! For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death’. But you say, ‘if a man says to his father or his mother, it is Korban—meaning, I have given God whatever duty I owed to you’, then he need not lift a finger any longer for his father or mother, so making the word of God invalid for the sake of the tradition which you hold. And this is typical of much of what you do.”

Now. Before y'all shout me down, let me point out a pattern that I have observed throughout my 60+ years of (formerly, obsessively,) faithful “Church” attendance. The pattern is that “church-goers” of ALL “denominational” or even “non-denominational” leanings, love to exalt themselves above the Pharisees which Yeshua rebuked in the above portions – imagining themselves to be different, somehow better! We've tended to look down our religious, self-sanctified noses, imaging that somehow – because we believe that Jesus is the Christ – WE are better than they are!?! We honestly believe that WE are more obedient to God's Word, because we head for the “Church” building every time the doors are open! Or because we believe what the Pastor says, whether we have read it for ourselves or not!

YET – Please HEAR ME – WE have exalted OUR man-made, religious tradition OVER His commands JUST LIKE THEY DID! We are, by and large, WAY MORE LEGALISTIC than the Pharisees of that time, or the “Orthodox Jews” of this time, ever thought of being! And, I hate to be the one to point it out, but we are also JUST as off the Path of our Messiah, Yeshua than they were, even more so! We've just chosen a different trail, into different religious woods, off HIS PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS than they chose!!! They choose some variety of the “Jewish, Orthodox” legalisms, and we choose some variety of the “Catholic/Protestant” legalisms. But there are NO religions, which support, acknowledge, or make us obedient children of GOD! I have said it before, and I will say it again, Yeshua did NOT come to make yet another religion, named after His power!

The Pharisees exalted their religious preferences, which they put over the clear instruction of God, and we do the same thing – and yet we judge them!!!! For example, we've exalted “Sunday” (The FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK) which WE call “Sabbath” over HIS clear command to Rest on the SEVENTH day, beginning at sundown, which is FRIDAY. Is that a huge deal? Well. I guess that depends on what you consider to be OBEDIENCE. The last I heard Obedience meant doing what we are told, by THE ONE in charge! Does that mean that the “Seventh Day Adventists” have got it ALL right? Not hardly! I've read their information, and spoken with too many of their representatives! But they got that right! Lol (well, I don't think they begin at sundown on Friday … but the day is correct... but again … that is exactly what I mean. We must stop taking the pieces we like and leaving the rest!)

So. Am I saying that we will we go to hell for worshiping on Sunday instead of resting on Saturday? NO! Of course not! But I am insisting that we can miss out on a ton of HIS BLESSING, which attends simply doing things His way! And – just a side note here – we should be WORSHIPING HIM EVERYDAY, and RESTING in HIS GRACE non-stop! Not just on designated days!!!! But GRACE does not exclude, nor replace, obedience – His GRACE simply enables an Obedient heart, making obedience possible! I celebrate His Resurrection EVERY DAY! If He hadn't risen, there would be many days I couldn't rise! But there is an appointed time to celebrate His Resurrection! And – sorry to be the party pooper – but it is NOT this coming Sunday!!!!

Look folks, I'm not going to do all your homework for you. I've been doing mine for decades now. The conclusions I've come to, after studying The Scripture, and the origins of these traditions of men, called “Holy” by “the church”; are these: Every single “church tradition” out there is based in deception and lies. Every one of them are pasted over the celebration of false gods, and idols, and are, therefore, a sharp stick in God's eye, and a gross insult to Him - invoking His judgment on our land! The unquestioning acceptance of these traditions over His Word represents gross ignorance, and utter disobedience to GOD on the parts of those of us who still stubbornly cling to them, in religious legalism! (And many of these are the same people who accuse ME of legalism for choosing to line up with and obey what GOD actually SAID!!!!!)

These man-made substitutions have taken the place of HIS SCRIPTURALLY COMMANDED APPOINTED TIMES, which were given to us to keep us on HIS calendar of events. His appointed times each reveal a piece of the LIFE, Times and Ministry of our Messiah, Yeshua, The Anointed One! But All of the currently accepted “Church” Traditions, are doctrines of demons, being taught as The Word of God, but are lies based on twisted Scripture – the very epitome of Satan's methods of deception! They have misled the majority of God's sincere followers, crippled “the church” and deprived us of His true purpose and anointing – the power with which we are to do HIS WILL in this fallen planet!

Paul's letter to Timothy describes it this way, it sounds very familiar: 2 Timothy 3:1-5

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures (I would add, cherished traditions) more than lovers of God (or His WORD); Having a form of godliness, but denying the power (anointing) thereof: from such turn away.”

The Resurrection of our LORD and SAVIOR, for example, is to be celebrated at PASSOVER, actually, if Scripture is what we are going to LIVE BY! Yet, the “Church” is celebrating it a month ahead of time! Passover, according to the Lunar Calendar which GOD set up, isn't happening until April 22nd!

AND – please understand that Bunnies and EGGS, despite the dressing up people give them, around the concepts of “new life” and “reproduction” - to justify their existence in this “holiday”, are nothing less than fertility symbols! Head's up. Yeshua's BIRTH was “new life”, folks! His RESURRECTION, however, was LIFE FROM THE DEAD! Sorry, but there's NO earthly symbol quite up to representing that! It is not even logical, much less Scriptural!

Bunnies ARE prolific at reproduction! Now, if ONLY the CHURCH were as willing to receive LIFE in the natural as the blessing that GOD says it is, and were able to spread HIS LIFE in the supernatural as well – we might have a point! But since, in my observation neither is true, (if the abortion statistics, and suicide rates are anything to go by) we should give up that idolatrous, false representation now! We should instead pursue actual Scripturally correct methods of celebrating his LIFE, DEATH and RESURRECTION – which GOD prophetically set up way back there in Egypt!!! At The PASSOVER!

Passover is called that because, when the death angel, acting on the judgment of GOD toward the abuse of HIS PEOPLE, PASSED OVER THOSE WHO HAD OBEYED God's INSTRUCTIONS, those who had slain the LAMB, and put it's blood over their door post (in the shape of a cross, not coincidentally, btw)! SO. If you must bring an animal into this holiday – to delight the children and represent this season - it should be a LAMB! Not a bunny! Sheesh! And because of Yeshua, thankfully, we no longer even have to slaughter them!

To my prophetically bent observation, I can't help but notice that one can barely find a Lamb for “easter” anymore. The whole world has embraced the false gods of easter, the bunnies and eggs, and the church has succumbed as well, for the sake of mere tradition. Utterly ignoring The Word of God, and HIS commands for the celebration of this season, which was illustrated by our Savior shortly before his death, as He Himself celebrated the ancient Passover, which He was preparing to fulfill!

So what is the answer to this insult, and blasphemy?! REPENTANCE! We – who claim to be followers of Yeshua The Anointed One, and worshipers of The One True God, YeHoVaH Elohim, The God of Abraham, Isaac and Ya'acov – we who claim to be Grafted IN, to The Vine of The House of Israel – MUST choose to now lay aside the false gods of religious tradition, and embrace The Truth of God's Word, along with HIS Appointed Times, Feasts, Fasts and Observances! We must LOVE THE LORD (YeHoVaH Elohim) with ALL our heart, soul, mind and strength! Then and only then will we be able to embrace HIS redemption, His Passover Lamb, whose blood causes judgment to pass US by!

This season we must decide Who it is that we are serving, the gods of this world – however religiously adorned they may be – or the One True God! We can not expect God to answer the prayers of people who don't even know to Whom they are praying! We can not expect His Blessing on a land filled with deceived covenant breaking rebels – who paste His Son's Name and Sacrifice over the celebrations of false gods. He Who despises a mixture of things has judged this nation and found it wanting. It is time we Read HIS WORD, Choose to believe it, and Choose to obey it. Then, and only then, will this nation be redeemed from the hand of the enemy! We have sold it by our disobedience. It is up to us to receive His redemption, His way, and receive His strength and anointing to rise up and take it back!

CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE! Selah.

SCD

3/27/24