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Prophetically, Shaul is telling us about the change of age that is to occur at the beginning of the Seventh Millennial Day, when comes the Olam haBa, or the age to come. The first six millennia can be named according to the sons of Ya'akov and Leah: Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehudah, Yishashcar, and Zevulon and the Shabbat Millennium is named for their daughter, Dinah. These names prophetically described and characterize the main theme of each respective millennial day. Reuven means see, a son and Adam lived for nine hundred thirty years after the fall, but died spiritually in the day that he ate of the forbidden fruit and physically before the end of the First Millennial Day. Shimon means hearing and during the Second Millennial Day, rain fell from the heavens (Heb. shamayim) for the first time when the Great Flood destroyed the earth.
Bereishit 8:13-15 "I do set my bow (symbolic of a mouth, meaning his spoken promise) in the cloud, and it shall be a token of a covenant between me and the earth, And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you, and every living creature of all flesh: and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh."
2nd Pehter 3:1-13 This is the second epistle (witness), beloved, I now write unto you; in which I stir up your pure minds to remembrance: That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken to you by the set-apart prophets, and of the commandments of us, the apostles (Heb. sheliachim) of the (righteous) Judge and Savior: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days (the Fifth and Sixth Millennial Days) scoffers, walking after there own lusts, And saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? (Where is the rapture?) For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as from the beginning (conjecture and reasoning of themselves). For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of Elohim the heavens were of old (2nd Day of Creation corresponding to the Second Millennial Day in which the Great Flood took place) and the earth standing out of the water and in the water (3rd Day of Creation): Whereby the world (Heb. Olam; Age) that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word (Bereishit 8:15) are kept in store, reserved unto fire against THE DAY (The Sabbath Millennium) of (righteous)Judgment and perdition of Sabbath-rejecting men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing: that one day with YHWH as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. YHWH is not slack concerning his promise (the true gathering together of his saints), as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But The Day of YHWH shall come (coronal mass ejection) as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up; then all these things shall be dissolved. What manner ought you to be, in all set-apart conduct and Sabbath-keeping. Looking for and hastening unto the coming of The Day of Elohim (The Seventh Millennial Day) wherein the heavens being on fire shall dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise (the true rapture), look for a new heavens and a new earth, wherein righteousness dwells (tabernacles; inside of men's hearts).
1st Cor. 15:51-54 "Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be transformed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar; for the shofar shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be transformed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, "Death shall be swallowed up in victory."
Levi means bonded from the heart and it was during The Third Millennial Day that YHWH, baruch Shem kevodo, raised up the nation of Israel from the seed of Avraham to become his goy kadosh, or set-apart nation in the same manner as the dry was raised up from the waters in THE THIRD DAY of Creation. Under the watchful protection of the Tribe of Levi, the goy kadosh left Mitzrayim ( Egypt; lit. from seeds) led by Mosheh and Aharon, and was judged by Sh'muel (Samuel the Levitical prophet) until the time came for the Kingdom to be established.
Yehudah means praise but implies becoming one with YHWH by lifting the hands in surrender to and exaltation of him. The Fourth Millennial Day was ushered in when Melek David became King over a unified whole House of Israel and was concluded with the birth of his own seed, Messiah Yahshua being born in 1 b.c.e. This is the darkest period of the nations history that saw the two Houses, Yehudah and Ephrayim divide apart after a civil war, the result being that Ba'al worship was instituted in among the House of Israel, the northern kingdom. That rift has yet to fully be repaired to this day twenty nine centuries later. It is also the time in which the Prophets ministered and wrote their scrolls; it is the time of Nebuchadnezzar's image of world empires that history shows came to pass. Sun = gold; Moon = silver; Bronze = Greece; and Iron = Rome. And what was made in the Fourth Day of Creation?
Yishashcar was the biological fifth son of Leah and Ya'akov and his name means hire or wages. Pay enables one to do all kinds of things that one cannot do without it. The ministry of Yahshua culminated in his sheliachim going to the ends of the earth to preach the gospel message of the resurrection from the dead. Souls by the millions were added to YHWH as those who believed the good news gave their lives to YHWH in repentance and obedient submission. It changed the whole order of society and Byzantium became the most influential culture in the world at the end of the Fifth Millennial Day.
Zevulon means dwelling together and in this millennium, The Sixth Millennial Day we have seen the world shrink through advances in exploration and discovery, and trade and technology, so that now there are those using phrases such as the global community, who want to form a one-world government.
Yochanan 9:4-5 "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the word."
While the natural man thinks in his heart that this phrase means that man did not have light bulbs back then and no one could work by candlelight, Yahshua, as a Jew of Jews was speaking to Jews according to his idiom which is Jewish. The natural light of the world is the sun, though there be. The Hebrew for this phrase is haOr haOlam while the word for sun is shemesh. The middle candle of a chanukiah menorah is called the servant candle or shammash in Hebrew. The setting of this scriptural passage is at Chanukah (Yochanan 9:1 - 10:22), not Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles). A chanukiah is lit for eight days because of the miracle that happened in the time of the Maccabees, when Antiochus IV sought to extinguish the Torah light of the goy kadosh (set-apart nation). The night that comes when no man can work is Erev Shabbat, as any observant Jewish child would quickly point out to you. At the onset of Seventh Millennial Day, the Day of YHWH, Judgment Day, Yom haDin all the works in the earth are to be burned up, as will be the unrighteous, according to the scriptures.
1st Cor. 6:9-10 Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of Elohim? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the malkhut shamayim (kingdom of heaven).
This is the same Rav Shaul, writing earlier in this same epistle, exercised his apostolic authority when he wrote:
1st Cor. 3: 9-17 For we are laborers together with Elohim: you are Elohim's husbandry, Elohim's building. According to the anointing of Elohim which he has given unto me, as a wise master-builder (Greek architecton; from which we get the word architect), I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. But let every man take heed how he builds thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid (by Elohim) which is Yahshua haMashiah. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, and silver, precious stones (Fourth Day language), wood, hay, and stubble (Third Day language) Every man's work shall be made manifest: for The Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward (wages, hire, pay: Fifth Day - Yishashcar talk). If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Know you not that you are the temple of Elohim? And the Ruach Elohim tabernacles in you (Sixth Day-Zevulon talk)? If any man defiles the temple of Elohim, him shall Elohim destroy: for the temple of Elohim is set-apart (unto cleanliness), which you are (that temple).
But then he continues his thoughts in this passage with the following understanding:
1st Cor. 3:18-19 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world (age, day, time, season, culture, society, etc.), let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world (the technology of the present age we find ourselves in) is foolishness with Elohim. For it is written: "He takes the wise in their own craftiness."
The works that abide are what survives this literal baptism of fire that is coming. That coming fire is a fire of righteousness. All who are baptized in the Ruach, or Spirit of Elohim, go through this same baptism of fire from the moment the Set-apart spirit is poured out upon them. Those who love him are purged by the trials they face. The chaff of their errant understanding that misleads them spiritually is burned away from their lives leaving them the pure truth of the word. There is a generation that will be able to see Him as He is, when he comes because they, like the Hebrew boys before them, Chananyah, Azaryah, and Mishael, have already survived the flame by fellow-shipping with the Fourth man (Fourth Day-Yehudah talk) in the fire.
2nd Cor. 3:17-18 Now YHWH is that Ruach (Set-apart Spirit); and where the Spirit of YHWH is, there is freedom. But we all, with open face beholding as in a (looking) glass (a mirror, or perhaps telescope?) the glory of YHWH, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of YHWH.
Romans 12:1-2 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Elohim, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, set-apart, and acceptable unto Elohim, your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this present world (age): but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of Elohim."
Other apostolic eyewitnesses also corroborate Shaul's testimony of these matters:
1st Yochanan 2:15-17 "Love not the world (the present age), neither the things in the world. If any man love the world (his life in this present age), the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world (what this age has to offer natural men), the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world (the physical age in which we find ourselves living). And the world passes away (Entropy, the Second Law of Thermodynamics; but especially at the transition of this age to the Sabbath-Aquarius, Seventh Day-Dinah Age) and the lust thereof: but he that does the will of Elohim abides forever (endures the transition from age to age).
Yochanan then describes the spirit of anti-messiah and how it operates, and how to identify it, and comes back to this subject of the way of this present world or age, contrasted to the way of the Father in the coming Age.
1st Yochanan 2:24-29 Let therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning (the known truth revealed to you from parashat Bereishit about the resurrection from the dead, by the true anointing). If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. And this is the promise he has given us: Life in the Olam haBa. These things I have written concerning them that seduce (deceive, beguile, lead astray, wander off) you. But the anointing which you have received of Him abides in you, and you need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, shall you abide in him. And now, little children, abide in Him; that, when He shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before Him at his coming. If you know that He is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of Him.
Dinah is the feminine form of the word Dan which means judging or judgment. The Seventh Millennial Day, or Sabbath Millennium, is therefore feminine as opposed to masculine in nature and characteristic. In the scriptures, the idea of Sabbath is frequently associated with the idea of judgment.
Bereishit 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on The Seventh Day Elohim ended all his work which he had made; and He rested on The Seventh Day from all His work which He had made. And Elohim blessed The Seventh Day, and set it apart: because that in it He had rested from all his work which Elohim created.
Sh'mot 20:8-11 "Remember the Shabbat, to set it apart: Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: But The Seventh Day is the Shabbat of YHWH thy Elohim: thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days YHWH created the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested The Seventh Day: wherefore YHWH blessed the Shabbat and set it apart."
Jude 4 For there were certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old, ordained to this condemnation, Sabbath-rejecting men, turning the anointing of Elohim into license to violate law, and denying the One YHWH Elohim, and our Judge, Yahshua haMashiah .
Jude 14-15 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these (certain men crept in unawares), saying, "Behold, YHWH comes with ten thousands of his saints (kadoshim), To execute judgment upon all, and to convict all that are Sabbath-rejecting among them, of all their Sabbath-breaking ways, which they have committed with wanton disregard for the Sabbath; and of all the hard things Sabbath-rejecters have spoken against Him."
Yishayahu (Isaiah) 56:2 Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man lays hold on it; that keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
Romans 1:16-25 "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Messiah (the anointing): for it is the power of Elohim unto salvation to every one that believes; to the Jew (Torah-observant) first, and also to the Greek (including the Hellenized Jew) For therein is the righteousness of Elohim revealed from faith (in YHWH by Torah) to faith (in Yahshua the Messiah by the anointing): as it is written: the righteous shall live by faith. For the wrath of Elohim (i.e. Judgment) is revealed from heaven against all Sabbath-breaking and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Because that which may be known of Elohim is manifest in them; for Elohim has revealed it to them. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world (Age) are clearly seen seen, being understood by all things that are made, by His eternal power and Sovereignty, so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew Elohim, they glorified him not as Elohim, neither were (they) thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the uncorruptible Elohim into an image made like to corruptible man (Sixth Day talk), and to birds (Fifth Day talk), and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things (Sixth Day talk). Wherefore Elohim also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: Who change the truth of Elohim into a lie, and take Sabbath for the creature rather than for the Creator, who is blessed forever."
2nd Thessalonians 2:1-5 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Judge, Yahshua the Messiah, and our gathering together unto Him, That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that The Day of Messiah is at hand. Let no man deceive you by ay means: for except there come an apostasy first (a departing from the truth by a vast number; a divorce from Messiah by the false bride), and that man of sin be revealed: the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim, or (that) is Sabbath-related; so that he as Elohim (Heb. ca-Elohim), sits in the Temple of Elohim, showing himself forth that he is Elohim. Remember ye not that when I was with you I told you theses things?
Bereishit 3:1-6 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast in the field which YHWH Elohim had made, and he said unto the woman, "Yea, has Elohim said, "You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?". And the woman said unto the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, Elohim has said, You shall not eat of it, nor touch it, lest you die." And the serpent said unto the woman, "You shall not surely die: For Elohim does know that in The Day you eat thereof, your eyes will be opened, and you shall be as Elohim, knowing good and evil."
2nd Thess. 2:6-12 And now you know what suppresses (the truth; what suppresses the truth is men thinking themselves as Elohim, taking Elohim's place in a religious setting) that he (the man of sin) might be revealed in his own time, For the Mystery of Lawlessness does already work; only he who suppresses (truth), now exists, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Judge shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; whose coming is after, the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish: because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. For this cause Elohim has sent them strong delusion such that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned (judged and condemned) who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Jude 18 How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time, who will walk after their own Sabbath-rejecting lusts.
1st Kings 12:24-33 Thus saith YHWH; "You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore unto the word of YHWH, and returned to depart, according to the word of YHWH. Then Yerevoam built Shechem in mount Ephrayim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence. And Yerevoam said in his heart, "Now shall the Kingdom return to the House of David.(who opposes and exalts...) If this people go up to do sacrifice in the Beit haMikdash at Yeushalayim (...above all that is called Elohim or Sabbath-related...), then shall the heart of ths people return unto their lord, unto Rehovoam, King of Yehudah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehovoam King of Yehudah." Whereupon the king took counsel, and made to gold calves, and said unto them, "It is too far for you to go to Yerushalayim: Behold your elohim, O Israel, which brought you out of the land of Egypt." And he set one in Bethel (the House of El, which indicates the place of assembly; more accurately though, what it was to become, the house of Ba'al), and the other he set in Dan (judgement; a different standard than YHWH's was now going to apply to the House of Israel). And this thing became a sin: for the people went before the one unto Dan (the opposite direction from Jerusalem). And he made a temple of the high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi (....against all that is Sabbath related ....). And Yerevoam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Yehudah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: And he place in Beth-el the priests which he had made. So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
There is a sad story about Dinah recorded for us in Bereshit Thirty-Four, we now read:
Bereishit 34:1-5 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Ya'akov, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem, the son of Chamor, the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and defiled her. And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Ya'akov, and he loved the maid, and spake kindly to the maid. And Shechem spake unto his father, Chamor, saying, "Get me this maid to wife." And Ya'akov heard that he had defiled his daughter: Now his sons were in the field: and Ya'akov held his peace.
The rape of Dinah is the story of the Messianic Jewish movement in the last days prior to the second coming of Yahshua at the dawn of the Seventh Millennial Day. We have already seen that the subjects of Sabbath-keeping and Judgment are intimately associated in the scriptures. The life that a believer partakes in when first coming to faith in Yahshua is the Set-apart Spirit, or Ruach haKodesh in Hebrew. Sabbath observance demands that we stop doing our work: Entering into the spirit means that we stop doing our own thing, our own works. The two are One, because they agree and are in reality, a manifestation of the same thing in two different realms, the natural realm and the spiritual realm. Because of this, Dinah represents the Ruach haKodesh in the Messianic Jewish Movement (daughter of Ya'akov and Leah) which is now going out to the daughters of the land, making overtures to the Gentile churches. As these leaders of the churches perceive the change of the Age in all its fury, they desire to take control this new movement of the spirit, and to seize it for their own. Being aware that what they have called Age of Grace is over, and the Church Age is past, they, like Shechem and his father, Chamor, devise a plan to dispossess Ya'akov - Israel and his sons (today represented by the multitudes of believers in Yahshua who are now coming to an awareness that they, too, like the House of Judah, are Isrealites; whose fathers descended from the Ten Tribes of Israel that were carried away captive by the Assyrians in 745- 721 b.c.e.), of all that belongs to them by pretending to accept circumcision and covenant relationship. Their treachery is a violation of that very covenant however and demands punishment. Shimon and Levi, hearing and joined from the heart, come upon them in their pain, the Third Day, which means in this case, both the third day of a sequence and also THE THIRD DAY of the week. These two sons portray spirit-filled Israelites who speak the living word against all opposition in the last hour - The II Witnesses.
The purpose of the Sabbath has been a mystery to most humankind, but especially to Christians, since its institution by Elohim in the beginning.
1st Timothy 3:16 And without controversy, great is the mystery of Sabbath-keeping: Elohim was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of the angels (messengers), preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Titus 1:1 Shaul, a servant of Elohim, and an apostle of Yahshua haMashiah, according to the faith of Elohim's elect (Torah observant Israelites who know Messiah), and the acknowledgment of the truth which is according to Sabbath-keeping; in hope of Life in the Olam haBa, which Elohim who cannot lie, promised before the world (Age) began.
When Pehter gave his first public oration about the resurrection of Yahshua from the dead, he likewise spoke of the incorruptible body of Messiah as he testified.
Acts 2:22-32 "You men of (the House of) Israel (who sojourned in Jerusalem for the Feast of Shavuot), hear these words: Yahshua of Nazareth, a man approved of by Elohim among you, by miracles and wonders and signs, which Elohim did by Him in the midst of you; Him, being delivered by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of Elohim, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Whom Elohim raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. For David speaks concerning him, "I foresaw YHWH always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad : moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope. Because thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol, neither wilt thou suffer thine Set-Apart One to to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance." Men, brethren (both Houses came from thirteen brothers, Ephrayim and Menasche being adopted sons of Ya'akov), let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day, Therefore, being a prophet and knowing that Elohim had sworn an oath, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up (from the dead) Messiah, to sit on his throne; He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Messiah, that his soul was not left in Sheol, neither did his flesh see corruption, This Yahshua has Elohim raised up, whereof we all are witnesses."