Exodus 12:16 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. No manner of work shall be done on them; but that which everyone must eat—that only may be prepared by you.
“THAT ONLY MAY BE PREPARED BY YOU”. Did you catch that?
We eat only Unleavened Bread during the Passover and the 7 days of Unleavened Bread and NOTHING ELSE. We drink water and a little milk sometimes as they did not have the luxury of stopping along the way to the Red Sea to milk their animals or if they did it was brief and then they had to catch up. That is how Passover and Unleavened Bread are celebrated and kept. That is how the Israelite’s who came out of Egypt kept Passover and the Feast. That is what we true believers DO.
A HOLY Convocation.
Not many people really talk about this in detail.
We do not go to a HOLY Convocation if we are not CLEAN and Holy.
That is one of the important lessons of Exodus 16:29 “Let no man go out of his place”
That commandment to stay in one’s place on The Sabbath came before people started going to the Holy Convocation.
Doe your assembly tell you NOT to come by on The Sabbath if you not CLEAN and NOT HOLY?
Or do they want your money?
Achieving Holiness and being CLEAN for our Creator is the main goal of the Faith. When we DO these things we are achieving the FIRST AND GREAT Commandment to LOVE YHVH.
When we achieve Holiness and are CLEAN then we are demonstrating to our families and our neighbor our love of our Creator and our love towards our neighbor to maintain the right relationship between people according to Torah and DOing all those things fulfills the requirement to love our neighbor. Everybody wins!
A HOLY convocation can be held at home or at an assembly but the absolute most important thing is that it is HOLY and everyone that goes to it is HOLY and keeps it HOLY and the entire day is HOLY. There are many assemblies that do not do this and lead people astray.
This is our preparation for the The Judgment then the New Covenant of Revelation 21.
It is our training ground to get it right now and as soon as possible, not years down the road or at the end of life.
A HOLY convocation is NOT some Christian church service on the wrong 24 hours.
A HOLY Convocation is NOT some Christian church service that decides to move its service to the correct Sabbath time, either.
I hope everyone thinks about these things as they read the Torah. This is not a religious game we play to get the day/timeframe right.
We don’t go to a HOLY Convocation if we are UNCLEAN and not HOLY.
We don’t show up at the assembly of the saints/brethren if we are UNCLEAN and not HOLY.
We do not watch Sabbath TV/Internet broadcasts if we are UNCLEAN and not HOLY.
We don’t watch variety shows on Sabbath night if they are UNCLEAN in any way and not HOLY or at any time advocate breaking the Sabbath in any way, shape, or form.
The object being not to defile oneself or cause anyone else to become defiled in any way.
We don’t attend Sabbath assembly services where teaching what is HOLY is not the main object of the teacher.
We don’t ever attend Sabbath or Feast Day assembly services that relax the Sabbath rules for the day or days of their get together.
We do not defile ourselves, on YHVH’s Sabbath, with folks who are not serious about being CLEAN and being HOLY.
If you attend some Sabbath service and they are not rigorously teaching the people how to be CLEAN and HOLY then there is no purpose in attending, AT ALL, EVER.
You do not need fellowship that badly to go to some half baked Sabbath Assembly and end up breaking YHVH’s Commandments.
It is not worth it and you will find that out at The Judgment.
I’ll give you one example…
If you go into your wife on a Thursday night, get up Friday, go to work, and make it home right at sundown, have Sabbath dinner, take a bath, sleep, and get up the next morning, shower, and go to the Sabbath Assembly – YOU HOPEFULLY WILL FIND OUT YOU ARE NOT CLEAN and you should NOT be entering into a HOLY Convocation. But maybe your Assembly does not care…
If you do not immediately see the problem, then you should never again attend the Assembly you are going to, stay at home and read Torah over and over again until you know what you are doing so you can adequately lead your family and then and only then might you ever again consider attending a Sabbath Assembly where there is a true teacher teaching how to be CLEAN and HOLY every week.
If this following scripture does not describe whoever the person you let teach you on the Sabbath or any other times, then you have made a HUGE mistake. If you do not know THE LAW like the back of your hand and have most of it memorized and all of it very familiar, SOMETHING IS WRONG. Is the problem that you do not stay at home and read it enough and learn it or is the problem that the teacher you listen to likes to wander into The Prophets and into Matthew through Revelation SO MUCH that they do not take the time to teach constantly about what is CLEAN and HOLY and ensure their assembly is a true Holy Convocation?
Leviticus 10:8-11 Then YHVH spoke to Aaron, saying: 9 “Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you, nor your sons with you, when you go into the tabernacle of meeting, lest you die. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, 10 that you may distinguish between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean, 11 and that you may teach the children of Israel ALL the statutes which YHVH has spoken to them by the hand of Moses.”
Is that the object of our Sabbath? Is that your focus on The Sabbath and other Holy Convocations?
Until you know Exodus through Deuteronomy practically by heart, as well as Genesis, there is no need whatsoever to stray into the rest of the book.
The rest of the book spends a great amount of time telling us what happens to people who do not get the first 5 books right.
The rest of the book spends a great amount of time telling us what happens to people who do not get the first 5 books right.
Repeat last two lines a few more times…
Do not let some dumb teacher or teaching ministry that needs to produce teachings to survive lead you away from those first 5 books until you have MASTERED those first 5 books. You can read those first 5 books in about 24-30 hours, easily. I can do it in 12. By now, you should have read those first 5 books many dozens, if not hundreds of times. You see, if you know those first 5 books almost perfectly then NO ONE can ever pull the wool over your eyes, like sheeple.
You see, if you are not CLEAN, then you do what is necessary to get yourself CLEAN and then and only then do you go to an Assembly that is truly a HOLY convocation.
Revelation 21:27 But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
You do not EVER go to an Assembly on the Sabbath or Feast Day Sabbath that is not a HOLY convocation!
There are MANY like that out there and you do not want to go to The Judgment and find out you were with them breaking this commandment or that commandment. That is NOT what you want to find out at The Judgment!
If you do visit an Assembly, then you need to know the first 5 books backwards and forwards so if you do go and see something unholy or wrong you can correct them and if they will not receive correction then at least you know enough to leave and not return.
Leviticus 15:31 ‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is among them.
You do not want that mistake to show on your books at The Judgment…
Shalom!