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WHAT GOD WANTS: WHAT GOD GETS:

"AND THEY SHALL TEACH MY PEOPLE “HER (Israel’s) PRIESTS
THE DIFFERENCE HAVE VIOLATED MY LAW

BETWEEN THE HOLY AND PROFANED
AND THE UNHOLY, MY HOLY THINGS;
AND CAUSE THEM THEY HAVE NOT
TO DISCERN BETWEEN DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN
THE UNCLEAN AND THE CLEAN. THE HOLY AND UNHOLY,
IN CONTROVERSY NOR HAVE THEY
THEY SHALL STAND AS JUDGES, MADE KNOWN THE DIFFERENCE
AND JUDGE IT ACCORDING TO MY BETWEEN THE UNCLEAN
JUDGMENTS. THEY SHALL KEEP MY AND THE CLEAN;
LAWS AND MY STATUTES IN AND THEY HAVE HIDDEN THEIR EYES
ALL MY APPOINTED MEETINGS, FROM MY SABBATHS,

AND THEY SHALL SO THAT
HALLOW MY SABBATHS.” I AM PROFANED AMONG THEM”

Ezek 44:23-24 Ezek 22:26-27

Much careful meditation is needed on the above passages by both those in the pulpit and those in the
pew. God did not get what He wanted from Israel and He is not getting it from the church either. No
question that leadership has been given a charge to teach God’s people “the difference between the holy
and the unholy…between the unclean and the clean.” It is also clear that the context of what these
passages speak of are “My appointed meetings…hallowing my Sabbaths.” Leviticus 23 will clearly state
what is meant by these statements:

“SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY TO THEM:
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD, WHICH YOU SHALL PROCLAIM TO BE HOLY CONVOCATIONS, THESE ARE MY
FEASTS…YOU SHALL HAVE A SABBATH-REST… IT SHALL BE TO YOU A SABBATH OF REST…ON THE FIRST DAY
THERE SHALL BE A SABBATH-REST, AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY A SABBATH-REST… THESE ARE THE FEASTS OF

THE LORD, HOLY CONVOCATIONS WHICH YOU SHALL PROCLAIM AT THEIR APPOINTED TIMES…”
Lev. 23 excerpts

God has multiple “Sabbaths” not merely one “ Sabbath.” Each of the Seven Feasts of the Lord is called,
“a Sabbath-rest” in Leviticus 23. These Feasts are also referred to as “Holy convocations” (“appointed
meetings”) that are to be kept “at their appointed times.” God’s Holy Days were given to be observed, but
Israel’s priests “…have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths.” The result was that God said, “…I am
profaned among them.” Of these Sabbath Holy Days God charged, “…they shall HALLOW My
Sabbaths” , but it did not happen with Israel, and it is not happening with the Church either! God’s Holy
Days have been profaned by replacing them with Satanic-inspired, pagan-based, and very unholy and
unclean, subtle substitutes called “Holidays!”

Please don’t respond by decrying, “We are not under the Law, but under Grace.” I am not trying to put
people UNDER bondage, but rather deliver them FROM bondage! I am not suggesting that you keep the
LETTER of God’s Law as given to Israel, but rather the SPIRIT of it which focuses the believer directly
upon Christ:

“…WITH REGARD TO A FEAST DAY…SUCH THINGS ARE ONLY A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME,
THEY HAVE ONLY A SYMBOLIC VALUE. THE REALITY, THE SUBSTANCE, THE SOLID FACT OF WHAT IS

FORESHADOWED, THE BODY OF IT BELONGS TO CHRIST.”
Col. 2:17 Amplified

I would suggest a re-reading of last month’s newsletter in which I established that Jesus Christ is fulfilling
the Seven Feasts of the Lord one by one, in their appointed order. I stressed that the whole order of the
New Testament as well as the New Covenant is a direct fulfilling of God’s Holy Days-the Feasts of the
Lord! To observe the Feasts by celebrating each of the great events Christ is fulfilling on the appointed
Feast Days is not bondage, but rather a way to constantly remind ourselves year by year of the pure work
of Christ divorced from unclean and unholy Holidays filled with pagan-trappings.