Article Written by Sombra Wilson

As I begin to write today, people around the world are celebrating Christmas. A parallel was

brought to my attention, that keeping Christmas is similar to the of the Golden Calf incident.

The Children of Israel were trying to worship Yehovah, but because they did not have a depth of

knowledge, a depth of intimacy with Yehovah, they resorted to what they knew from Egypt on

how to worship deity. The Egyptians worshipped their god Hathor with revelry, so they sought to

worship Yehovah in the same way. Their intention was pure, they truly wanted to worship

Yehovah, who had rescued them from the slavery in Egypt, but now they were at the base of

Mount Sinai, and had cut the betrothal covenant with Yehovah, and were at a loss for what to do

given their leader, Moses, had gone up the mountain and not returned. They had seen the fire

on top the mountain, maybe they thought he had been burned up like a sacrifice. They looked

to Aaron to lead them in worship, and Aaron did what they asked.

Let’s read the telling of this story.

Exodus 32:1-6

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people

gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, “Up, make us gods who shall go

before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do

not know what has become of him.” 2 So Aaron said to them, “Take off the rings of gold

that are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

3 So all the people took off the rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to

Aaron. 4 And he received the gold from their hand and fashioned it with a graving tool

and made a golden[a] calf. And they said, “These are your gods, O Israel, who brought

you up out of the land of Egypt!” 5 When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it. And

Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD.

” 6 And

they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings.

And the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

Though they had been chosen, hopped over; though they had passed through the Red

Sea, seen their enemies die, their past slavery was dead, and they had been lifted up like

firstfruit on the other side of the Red Sea, as if resurrected to a new life of freedom; they

still had bitterness and needed to learn to apply the Tree of Life, the Torah to their lives

that they may produce good fruit. And even so, here at Mount Sinai, they’ve been

betrothed to Yehovah, and they still do not understand the relationship and to whom

they have been betrothed.

This makes me think of Jacob, when he was to marry Rachel, and found himself tricked

on his wedding day. Please read Genesis 29:15-26

15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve

me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?” 16 Now Laban had two daughters.

The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah’seyes were weak,[a] but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. 18 Jacob loved

Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.” 19

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other

man; stay with me.” 20 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him

but a few days because of the love he had for her.

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is

completed.” 22 So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a

feast. 23 But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he

went in to her. 24 (Laban gave[b] his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her

servant.) 25 And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, “What is

this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you

deceived me?” 26 Laban said, “It is not so done in our country, to give the younger

before the firstborn.

We too, as a Christian society, have been tricked into being betrothed to a different

Bridegroom. If we don’t know Who Yeshua truly is, we are deceived into being the bride

of another Christ. We have allowed the influences of the world to tell us who our

Betrothed is, and we have seen and understood Him through a veil of deceit. Ask

yourself, are you betrothed to the Hebrew Yeshua, who is defined by the Torah, Identified

through it and came to fulfill it? Or are you betrothed to the Greek Jesus, of whom we

are told, did away with the law, and died so we have no need to be under the law, no

need for that Sabbath and those feast days, for He made all things new, even His day of

rest changed to Sunday.

What kind of deceit have we been deceived with?

Matthew 23:1-7

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit

on Moses’ seat, 3 so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do.

For they preach, but do not practice. 4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,[a] and lay

them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their

finger. 5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries

broad and their fringes long, 6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best

seats in the synagogues 7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by

others.

Yeshua tells us to do and observe that which the Pharisees tell us. But do the Pharisees

always tell us the right thing to do? Yeshua tells us they have authority, yet he alsorebukes them in Matthew 15:13-14 13 “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,

hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter

yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.  15 Woe to you, scribes and

Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte,

and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as

yourselves.

We could have read a dozen more verses showing us Yeshua rebuking the Pharisees, so

why has He also told us to obey them? What is this Moses Seat?

This is the type of seat that the leader of the Synagogue sits in on Shabbat. So is it the

seat that makes us supposed to obey them? Or maybe it’s what is proclaimed from this

seat! The Pharisees would read the Torah from this seat. This is what we are to do and

observe!

Matthew 15:1-9 Says 15 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem

and said, 2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not

wash their hands when they eat.” 3 He answered them, “And why do you break the

commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor

your father and your mother,

’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 5But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from

me is given to God,”

6 he need not honor his father.

’ So for the sake of your tradition

you have made void the word of God. 7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of

you, when he said:

8 “‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me;

9 in vain do they worship me,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Now I have seen the Kenyan people wash their hands, there is a strong custom in your

land of washing hands, and it’s a good custom. But is it a commandment? If one fails

to wash their hands, is it sin? According to the Pharisees, even the handwashing that is

done in the restaurants and public washrooms is not according to the teachings of

these Pharisees, these rabbis; according to them, it’s still sin. They teach that when you

wash your hand, you take a jug of water and pour water over the left hand first, then the

right hand, then the left hand then the right hand and then a third time. But even that is

not sufficient. The addition of soap renders the ceremonial washing of the hands also

not right. The thing that makes the pouring of the water over the hands three times

righteous is the saying of the blessing. Blessed are You, Yehovah our God, King of the

Universe who sanctifies us with the commandments and commanded us regarding the

washing of hands. The complaint made in the verses of Matthew 15 by the Pharisees is

that the disciples did not perform this ceremonial washing of the hands before they ate.

They have made their tradition equal to, or greater than the commandments found in the

Torah. This commandment that is mentioned in this blessing – this claim that we are

commanded to wash our hands – there is no such commandment. It doesn’t exist. It’s

not in the Torah. It is a good custom, but it is not sin to not wash the hands and say the

blessing before eating. It is good health to wash the hands, it is good etquette to wash

the hands, but it is not sin to wash with soap or not say the blessing. We can not make

man’s traditions, man’s ways equal to God’s Commandments. Yehovah alone defines

sin.

The word Pharisee comes from the word Prushim; to separate, literally to disperse to

wound: – scatter, declare, distinctly, shew, sting. And these Prushim are the direct

descendants of the Orthodox Rabbis who hold as truths that:

1. There are 2 Torahs – the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, This oral Torah is now

written down as the Mishnah, the Talmud and the Midrash.2. The Rabbis have absolute authority – even if they say the right is left and the left

is right – I must obey them.

3. Midrashic Interpretation: Ignores Language and Ignores Context. They say that

Scripture is a divine code and only the Rabbis have the ability to interpret the

divine code. They took words out of the context of scripture and gave them divine

meaning.

4. They have Authority to Sanctify custom: Clothing, Holidays, headcovering, they

can determine what and how these customs are applied.

5. Commandments of the Rabbis – tradition or rabbinical enactment. – the

Ceremonial Washing of the hands is an example of this.

Is Yeshua agreeing with these principles of Pharisaism in Matthew 15? Let’s look at

Exodus 23:1-3

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a

malicious witness. 2 You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear

witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, 3 nor shall you be

partial to a poor man in his lawsuit.

From this commandment we see we CAN NOT just go with what the majority or the

wicked man says, we MUST NOT be swayed by the cultural norms. Rather we MUST

proclaim the truth, even if we are the only ones declaring this truth. The third principle

of these Pharisees says we can truncated this message from You shall not fall in with

the many to do evil, to fall in with the many Can you see how this completely perverts

the meaning of this instruction?

Now it’s not fair to just finger point at the Jewish Rabbis and say they are the only ones

doing this. We clearly see Christian Pastors doing this as well.

Matthew 12:8

8 For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”

Mark 2:28

28 So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

If Yeshua is Lord EVEN of the Sabbath, then why have our forefathers – the Church

Elders, the Pope, the Protestant Ministers – why do they claim that Sunday is now the

day of rest? By their own testimony, Christians themselves don’t do what Yeshua said.

These forefathers have usurped Yeshua’s Authority over the Sabbath.We can extrapolate that, those who keep Sunday, the very individual who has read the

scriptures, seen what it said, but chosen to do differently, even those individuals have

usurped Yeshua’s authority.

Matthew 16:6

Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Let’s read that whole section

Matthew 16:5-12

5 When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. 6

Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

7 And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.” 8 But

Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among

yourselves the fact that you have no bread? 9 Do you not yet perceive? Do you not

remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered? 11

How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the

leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 12 Then they understood that he did not tell

them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and

Sadducees.

While you may not think you are following the Rabbis, for they teach the Jews not

Christians, why is it that the Forefathers of the Christian Faith still seem to hold the

same principles as the Pharisees? Pastors, Priest, Ministers all seem to say that the

scriptures can’t be interpreted, can’t be understood unless you have been to Theological

Seminary, unless you have been ordained – some groups even DISCOURAGE the lay man

from reading the Bible. True, some do not have strong reading skills, so as Yeshua said,

go – hear the Word of God spoken from the Moses Seat.

How much scripture is even read in church these days?

If a pastor chooses one scripture verse to expound on, how are we to hear – or read – the

whole Word of God?

Deut 31:9-13

9 Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the

ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel. 10 And Moses

commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year ofrelease, at the Feast of Booths, 11 when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your

God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their

hearing. 12 Assemble the people, men, women, and little ones, and the sojourner within

your towns, that they may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, and be careful to do

all the words of this law, 13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and

learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as you live in the land that you are going over the

Jordan to possess.”

This is what Yeshua meant by telling us to do and observe that which the Pharisees

teach from the seat of Moses – that they are to hear the Torah. If you do not have a copy

of the Bible, as most Israelites did not in Yeshua’s day, nor in Moses day – and still many

Kenyan’s do not have a copy of the Bible even today. The Word of God must be READ

Aloud so that the people can hear it and understand it and interpret it for themselves,

without the Rabbis, or Pastors spoon feeding them what they are supposed to

understand from it. This is why I find it important to give you so much scripture to read

to support my teachings each week, and why I want YOU to be doing the reading, so you

can hear it in your own language, straight from the Word of God. This is why Pastor

Philemon has you using a highlighter to highlight key phrases.

Deut 17:13-20 14 “When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and

you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations

that are around me,’ 15 you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will

choose. One from among your brothers you shall set as king over you. You may not put

a foreigner over you, who is not your brother. 16 Only he must not acquire many horses

for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt in order to acquire many horses, since

the LORD has said to you, ‘You shall never return that way again.’ 17 And he shall not

acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself

excessive silver and gold.

18 “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a

copy of this law, approved by[c] the Levitical priests. 19 And it shall be with him, and he

shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by

keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20 that his heart

may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the

commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his

kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.

I have been writing out for myself the New Testament for the last few years. I have not

been consistent, but I have written all of Matthew and I’m now in Mark 10. I have a

friend who did write out the whole Torah. We are commanded to do this. – well, kingswere commanded to do this so that they could rule and reign from a place of

righteousness, and could have their own copy of the torah to reference. We are to be

Prophets, Priests and Kings – and so we too are to have a copy of the scriptures to

reference. If you don’t have a purchased copy of the scriptures, is writing out a copy a

practice you can put into place? – there is great wisdom in doing this, even if you have

your own purchased copy. As you write out the words in your own handwriting, into your

own notebook, you pay attention to the words Yehovah is speaking to us in His Word.

You dwell on words and ponder them, you ask yourself questions and then ask Yehovah

for answers.

In today’s modern age, you all have phones to do your business through M-Pesa. Use

this tool in your hands for more than talking to friends and buying and selling. Use it to

read the Word of Yehovah. Download a copy of the Bible in your Mother tongue and

write it out for yourself. Invest in your relationship with Yehovah and stop letting

someone else tell you what you are supposed to do with your relationship with your

Beloved BrideGroom. Grow in Wisdom. Know the Truth for yourself that you will not fall

into the trap of following the leaven of the Pharisees. Know the Word of God so you do

not fall to worshipping a golden calf, or fall into apostasy.

Matthew 24:24

For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so

as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

This false Christ, this Apollyon, the AntiChrist is at the doorstep. 2300 days from when

W.H.O. shut down the world and put an end to sacrifices and offerings in 2020 brings us

to July 12, 2026. What exactly this will look like we do not yet know, but we must keep

our eyes open and pay attention to the times and seasons we are in. This is the next

thing that these Sabbatical and Jubilee Charts are pointing to. Get the leaven out, and

do it now. Get serious about what you believe – about whom has authority over you, and

choose to submit to this authority.

Philemon has the book 2300 Days of Hell by Joseph Dumond in his library and is willing

to loan it out. Joseph is writing another book right now called “The Lion Rises Up, the

coming of Apollyon” Joseph writes with LOTS of scripture as his motto is Prove All

Things. We need to be able to prove what we believe, if to no one else, prove it to

ourselves.

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