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SHAVUOT 28 MAY 2023
Views: 6Acts 2:14 Maar Kefa het opgestaan met die elf en sy stem verhef en hulle toegespreek: Yehudiese manne en almal wat in Yerushalayiem woon, dit moet julle weet, en luister na my woorde. (But Kĕpha, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, “Men of Yehuḏah and all those … Continue reading
SHAVUOT 2022
Views: 7There are two words in the first verse of Acts 2 that are telling us that there was a unity at that feast that was almost unheard of. First we find in this verse a rather unusual way of saying that the day of the feast “arrived” (Afr “die dag het aangebreek”). The Greek … Continue reading
THE WAYS IN WHICH YAHWEH COVERS US, THE WORLD AND HIMSELF
Views: 23The word for the feast that started last night, as most of you know, is Sukkot, from Sukkah, which means something like a temporary dwelling or a tent. The original word in Hebrew refers to a covering or, more precisely, the act of covering something or someone. A tent is just another word for … Continue reading
WAT DIE SEWENDE MAAND VIR ONS BETEKEN
Views: 701 Die sewende maand het ‘n sterk profetiese betekenis en hou verband met die letterlike betekenis van die Hebreeuse woord vir sewe (“sheva”): om te vervul, om te voleindig, om vol te maak, om volmaak te wees. Die bedoeling van die feeste van die sewende maand is om die inwoners van die aarde voor … Continue reading
HOOGTEPUNTE VAN PESAG EN ONGESUURDE BRODE
Views: 47Pesag is die eerste fees van die Skriftuurlike jaar en die vraag is opnuut: Waarom vier ons hierdie fees? Het dit enigiets met óns te doen? Help dit op enige manier om nader aan Yahweh te kom en Hom beter te dien? Sommige van ons ken nog nie eintlik die feeste nie en voel … Continue reading
SUKKOT 2020
Views: 17 To have the first day of Sukkot coinciding with the weekly Shabbat, is the most excellent kind of double blessing that one can imagine. It is like receiving a tray with two plates covered with lids, so that you can’t see what is inside. When you open the one lid, you find the … Continue reading
Rosh Hashanah of Yom Terua?
Views: 76CC, Plettenbergbaai Wat is die verskil tussen Yom Teruah en Rosh Hashana. Watter een behoort ons te vier en HOE? Volgens wat ek verstaan is Rosh Hashana ‘n oorblyfsel uit Israel se dae in Babilon en word dit nie gevier soos die Vader dit beveel het nie. Ek sien verder op julle kalender dat … Continue reading
Huttefees net vir Jode?
Views: 38SF, Bloemfontein Ek het nog nie voorheen huttefees gevier nie. Party mens/artikels/skrifgedeeltes laat my voel ons moet ook hutte bou. Volgens Lev 23 is dit net iemand wat in Israel gebore is wat dit moet hou. 42 ‘Sewe dae lank moet julle in hutte woon. Almal wat in Jisraél gebore is, moet in hutte … Continue reading
The calendar and the Feasts
Views: 25FS, Location Unknown I am curious about your teachings. My family and I observe the Sabbath as you do. I would like to keep the feasts too, but I’m not sure when to do so. Do you have a calendar for 2009/2010. Your website contains many articles concerning the feasts, but most of them … Continue reading
Hoe behoort ons die feeste te hou?
Views: 28WB, Worcester Ons probeer hierdie jaar ekstra hard om die feeste te hou volgens die voorskrif in die Torah. Maar ons het ‘n meningsverskil oor of ons hierdie week in tente behoort te slaap, en of die sukkoth as een van die drie feeste wat in Jerusalem gevier moet word, beteken dat die tentslaap … Continue reading
WAT MAAK SHAVUOT 2020 SPESIAAL?
Views: 33Waarom word die boek Rut gelees tydens Shavuot? • Rut het heel moontlik by Israel aangesluit in die tyd van Shavuot (tyd van die koring oes) • Rut se verbintenis met Naomi is soortgelyk aan Israel se verbintenis (verbond) met Yahweh by Sinai • Rut eindig met ‘n kort geslagsregister van Dawid, wat vir … Continue reading
HOE YAHWEH ONS LEWENS MET ONGESUURDE BRODE VERRYK
Views: 27Ex 12:15 Sewe dae lank moet julle ongesuurde brode eet; alreeds op die eerste dag moet julle die suurdeeg uit julle huise verwyder ……. Ex 12:12 Ek sal veroordelings uitdeel aan al die magtiges van Mietsrayiem, Ek, Yahweh. HY IS GROTER AS DIE MAGTIGES VAN EGIPTE. Ex 12:18 In die eerste maand, op die … Continue reading
PESAG, SODAT ONS NOOIT SAL VERGEET NIE
Views: 63Ons kan Pesag op verskillende maniere en om verskillende redes vier. Daar is nie ‘n vaste voorskrif nie. Daar is nie ‘n reg of ‘n verkeerd nie. Al wat ons in die Skrif het, is ‘n hele skatkamer met gebeurtenisse, idees en waarhede wat almal op verskillende maniere betekenis gee aan hierdie fees wat … Continue reading
The slaughtering of the Passover lamb
Views: 1364There are believers in Y’shua Messiah who are convinced that we should continue to slaughter a Pesach or Passover lamb, every year, as per the instructions for the original Passover in Exodus 12. Others are having serious doubts as to the proper Scriptural directives in this regard. This brief study is an effort to … Continue reading
WE HAVE MANY REASONS TO REJOICE!
Views: 12 Ps 30:5 For His displeasure is for a moment, His delight is for life; Weeping might last for the night, but joy comes in the morning. (We can rejoice in the knowledge of the character of Yahweh: His slowness to anger, and readiness to save). Pro 10:28 The righteous look forward to joy, … Continue reading
WAT IS DAAR OM NA UIT TE SIEN IN DIE SEWENDE MAAND?
Views: 36Daar is baie mense wat frons oor die feeste en wat geen rede sien waarom gelowiges in die Messias vandag nog die feeste moet hou nie. Om hulle standpunt te steun, gryp hulle na verse in die Skrif soos Jes 1:14 “Julle nuwemane en julle feestye haat my siel; hulle is vir My ‘n … Continue reading
THE DELIVERANCE OF ELOHIM
Views: 18I experienced something this past week that I am sure many of you have experienced before. While I was reading Psalm 50 earlier this week, I was suddenly reminded very clearly of something that happened many years ago – 21 years ago, to be exact. I am not sure why I started to read … Continue reading
VAN ONGESUURDE BRODE TOT ONGESTOORDE RUS
Views: 37Afrikaans is ‘n taal wat lief is daarvoor om woorde met “onge…” te begin, soos ongeduldig, ongebonde, ongebore, ongehoord, ongedaan, ongeletterd, ongesuurd en nog tientalle ander. In die Hebreeuse taal kom hierdie verskynsel glad nie voor nie. Vir die Afrikaanse “ongeduldig” het Hebreeus bloot “katsar” (wat iets soos “vies” beteken); vir die Afrikaanse “ongehoord” … Continue reading
A TIME TO BE SET APART
Views: 170Ezek 45:18 Thus said the Master Yahweh, “In the first month, on the first of the new moon, you are to take a young bull, a perfect one, and shall cleanse the set-apart place. ” A perfect offer is to be brought before Yahweh in this time before Pesach (and during). While we don’t … Continue reading
YOM KIPPUR OF AFGEWATERDE VERSOENING?
Views: 26Met die aanbreek van Yom Kippur vanjaar (2017) is dit ʼn vraag of mense vandag nog enigsins verstaan wat versoening werklik beteken. Nie net mense wat NIE die Skrif erken nie, maar ook mense wat bely dat hulle die Skrif ken en hulle lewens op die beginsels van die Skrif bou. As sommige gelowiges … Continue reading
ALLES OP SY BEPAALDE TYD
Views: 171Prediker 3 is ʼn hoofstuk wat mense soms teenoor mekaar aanhaal, sonder om te besef dat dit eintlik uit die Skrif uit kom. ʼn Mens hoor dikwels dat iemand sê: “Alles het sy tyd” of “Daar is ʼn tyd vir alles”, min wetende dat hulle in werklikheid die bekende Prediker van die Skrif aangehaal … Continue reading
LAAT JULLE STEMME HOOR!
Views: 22Die fees wat vanaand (21 September 2017) begin, staan bekend as die Trompettefees of Yom Teruah, wat letterlik eintlik maar net “Dag van die harde geroep of die harde geluid of die harde geskal” beteken. Die Jode (of Yehudiem) het reeds gisteraand met die fees begin en hulle noem dit Rosh Hashanah wat “Begin … Continue reading
SHAVUOT (FEAST OF WEEKS / PENTECOST)
Views: 44Let us look at some of the main features of SHAVUOT by highlighting each of the seven letters making up the word S-H-A-V-U-O-T (A Hebrew word literally meaning “weeks”): S Setting aside the Set-apart days of Yahweh The sanctity of time … Lev 23:21 And on this same day you shall proclaim a set-apart … Continue reading
IN THE WAKE OF UNLEAVENED BREAD
Views: 16We are into the third week after Unleavened Bread and pretty much in the middle of the period known as “Counting the Omer”. What is a bit confusing about this designation “Counting the Omer” is that it is NOT really the OMER that is being counted, but the DAYS between the WAVING OF THE … Continue reading
CROSSING OVER THIS PASSOVER
Views: 22Read 2 Chronicles 35:1-2; 16-19. In the weeks before this Feast of Unleavened Bread we have focused on the urgent need for believers, in this particular point in time, to take a critical look at their own lives and to the world around them – a world that seems to have lost its moral … Continue reading
BACK TO OUR FIRST LOVE
Views: 15The new moon of two and a half days ago introduced the first day of the first month of the Scriptural calendar. The fixed date for Pesach is the 14th day of the first month, which will fall on Wednesday 12 April 2017, with Thursday 13 April being the First Day of Unleavened Bread … Continue reading
HUTTEFEES: HY SAL SY TENT OOR HULLE OOPSPAN
Views: 43Konkordansies moet versigtig hanteer word: Daar is ‘n groot verskil tussen ‘n woord wat alleen staan OF ‘n woord wat deel van ‘n ander woord is. Bv lig: Lig; ligglans, verlig; oplig, gewillig, liggaam, liggaamsgebrek Of Tent: tent, tente, tentwoning, tentbewoners, tentdoek ……. BUITENTOE As mens die woord buitentoe so effens “verkeerd” spel, beskryf … Continue reading
DIE PROFETIESE BETEKENIS VAN TROMPETTE
Views: 2655Die fees reg aan die begin van die sewende maand, volgens die kalender wat in die Skrif gevolg word, word “Yom Teruah” genoem en normaalweg as “Trompettefees” of “Feast of Trumpets” vertaal. Die boek van Openbaring, wat bekend is vir sy herhaalde gebruik van die getal “sewe”, maak melding van die “sewe trompette” wat … Continue reading
DIT WAT OP DAARDIE PESAG GEBEUR HET
Views: 27Verlede week het ons gefokus op die beskrywing in Johannes 12 toe Y’shua 5 dae voor Pesag (en dus ook 5 dae voor sy dood) op die vul van ʼn esel Jerusalem binnegegaan het. Ons het na die oorweldigende reaksie van die skare gekyk, met hulle palmtakke en uitroepe van sekere profesieë oor die … Continue reading
DIT WAT VOOR DAARDIE PESAG GEBEUR HET
Views: 20Die vraag word soms gevra waarop ons vandag behoort te fokus, wanneer ons die Pesag vier. Behoort ons te fokus op die eerste Pesag, toe die Israeliete uit Egipte getrek het of behoort ons liewer die fokus te laat val op die belangrike en deurslaggewende Pesag (kom ons noem dit die tweede Pesag) toe … Continue reading
YOM HASHEMINI 2015
Views: 19Hierdie dag staan ook bekend as “Shemini Atseret” wat gewoonlik vertaal word met “The Assembly of the Eighth Day”. Lev 23:36 “Sewe dae lank moet julle aan Yahweh ‘n vuuroffer bring. Op die agtste dag (“Yom Hashemini”) moet daar vir julle ‘n afgesonderde byeenkoms wees, en julle moet aan Yahweh ‘n vuuroffer bring. Dit … Continue reading
THE PARADOX OF SUKKOT
Views: 15PARADOX => gr. PARA (contrary to; against) + DOXA (opinion – from DOKEIN: to appear; to seem; to think) The Paradox of Sukkot: sleeping in tents, focusing on the 40 years in the wilderness; the temporariness and the fragile nature of our existence and the fact that we are foreigners and sojourners in this … Continue reading
SHAVUOT 2015
Views: 15“Shavuot” kom van die woord “sheva” wat in Hebreeus twee betekenisse kan hê: (1) Om iets sewe maal te doen en (2) om ‘n eed te neem, te sweer of iets te belowe. Hierdie twee betekenisse hou baie sterk met mekaar verband, want in die antieke tye het jy ‘n eed geneem of gesweer … Continue reading
THE DELIGHT OF PESACH
Views: 14 The definition Pasach – “to pass over” or “to skip over” (Shemot/Ex 12:13) Background of a devastating destruction (firstborn sons of Mitzraim/Egypt) Demonstration of Yahweh’s undeserved favour The day The 14th day of the month of Aviv/Month of the green ears of barley (Shemot/Ex 12:2-6) Between the evenings Different day of the week, … Continue reading
HOE BEREI MENS VOOR VIR PESAG?
Views: 344Sommige mense sal daarop wys dat Pesag (Pasga) en Ongesuurde Brode ‘n fees van herinnering is. Dit herinner ons jaar na jaar aan gebeure wat lank gelede plaasgevind het. ‘n Mens berei jou immers slegs voor vir iets wat nog moet gebeur – nie vir iets wat reeds gebeur het nie. Of is Pesag … Continue reading
TIEN DAE VAN VOORBEREIDING
Views: 32Die tien dae tussen Yom Teruah (Dag van Trompette) en Yom Kippur (Dag van Versoening) word normaalweg gesien as dae van voorbereiding met die oog op Yom Kippur. Die Yehudiem noem dit “The Days of Awe”. Waarom moet ‘n mens spesiaal voorberei vir Yom Kippur? Daar word geen melding in die Skrif gemaak oor … Continue reading
HOSHIANAH – GEE TOG REDDING!
Views: 81Onder die Yehudiem staan die sewende dag van Sukkot bekend as Hoshana Rabbah, wat vertaal kan word as “Die groot Hoshana” of “Die groot Begeerte na Redding”. Die woord “Hoshana” of Hosanna (soos dit allerweë in Afrikaans bekend is) is afgelei van die Hebreeuse uitdrukking “hoshiah na” wat eintlik beteken: “Gee tog redding!” of … Continue reading
Feasts, blessings and curses
Views: 18TP, Gauteng What a fantastic website. I got goose bumps and very excited when I read some of the information on your website. I get so excited when I find Adamites with the same believe as myself. I believe in Elohim, the only living Almighty and Yahushua the only Messiah. I have been a … Continue reading
The seven high Sabbath
Views: 67PN, Duiwelskloof First, let me say your website is very informative. However, I need information regarding the seven “High Sabbaths”. Which dates are they and what are to be done on these Sabbaths? COMMENT: We have a calendar on our website on which all the annual feast days or “High Sabbaths” are shown. Two … Continue reading
COUNTING THE OMER
Views: 21The time between Pesach and Shavuot is also known as the time of the Counting of the Omer. This designation, Counting the Omer, is based upon the following Scriptural passages: Lev 23:15-16 And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the omer of the wave offering, you shall count … Continue reading
PESAG EN NUWE LEWE
Views: 27Daar is soveel simboliek van nuwe lewe wat na vore kom as ‘n mens na die gebeure kyk wat met die Israeliete se uittog uit Egipte gepaard gegaan het. Dieselfde bonatuurlike ingryping van Yahweh wat gelei het tot die dood van die eersgeborenes van Egipte, het gelei tot LEWE (of die behoud/bewaring van lewe) … Continue reading
PESAG, IN WIE SE NAAM?
Views: 29Die Joodse tradisie is om 4 bekers te gebruik tydens die Pesag seder maaltyd. Ons volg nie hierdie gebruik nie, omdat dit nie ‘n Skriftuurlike voorskrif is nie. Daar moet egter ‘n rede wees waarom daar spesifiek VIER bekers gebruik word. Baie verklarings word hiervoor aangebied. Party sê dis omdat die Israeliete van VIER … Continue reading
PESAG, FEES VAN HOOP
Views: 178Terwyl ‘n mens deesdae kort-kort hoor van allerhande nuwe soorte feeste wat gehou word – kunste-feeste, bier-feeste, jazz-feeste, kreef-feeste, olyf-feeste, oester-feeste, film-feeste en nog baie meer, is daar nie baie mense wat notisie neem van Pesag, een van die mees betekenisvolle en oudste gedokumenteerde feeste in die wêreld nie. Baie meer as ‘n miljoen … Continue reading
DIE AGSTE DAG
Views: 68Yom Hashemini = Agste Dag = Syfer 8 dikwels in kombinasie met 7. Pasgebore baba: Sewe dae van versorging; Besnydenis op die agste dag Nasireër: Sewende dag is “dag van reiniging” (hare skeer); Agste dag is dag van Versoening Toewyding van die priesters: Sewe dae lank mag hulle nie die ingang van die Tent … Continue reading
SUKKOT: TYD VAN VOORBEREIDING
Views: 47Dit is interessant dat die Torah lesing vir Sukkot begin by Wayyiekra (Lev) 22:26 en dan die hele Wayyiekra (Lev) 23 insluit. Wayyiekra 23 is natuurlik die hoofstuk waarin die sewe groot feeste in detail beskryf word en dit word afgesluit met die klimaks van die jaar se feeste: Die Loofhuttefees of Sukkot (Feast … Continue reading
DIE TWEE KANTE VAN YOM KIPPUR
Views: 55Yom Kippur lê om die draai en daar is baie gelowiges wat nog steeds worstel met die vraag: Is Yom Kippur regtig bedoel vir nie-Jode en, indien wel, watter betekenis hou dit vir ons in? Daar behoort by ons geen twyfel te bestaan dat Yom Kippur inderdaad ook vir ons bedoel is nie. As … Continue reading
OM YAHWEH AAN TE HANG
Views: 18Hierdie week se Torah leesstuk sluit in Devariem (Deut) 29 en 30. Die heel laaste vers van hierdie gedeelte is Deut 30:20 waar daar staan: “Jy moet Yahweh jou Elohiem liefhê, na sy stem luister en Hom aanhang; want dit is jou lewe en die lengte van jou dae, sodat jy kan woon in … Continue reading
VAN BELOFTE TOT EERSTELING
Views: 18Shavuot is ‘n fees waarop daar van die vroegste tye af, eerstelinge gebring is na die plek van byeenkoms. Die ensiklopedie van Wikipedia beskryf dit as volg: “Shavuot was also the … day on which individuals could bring the Bikkurim (first fruits) to the Temple in Jerusalem. The Bikkurim were brought from the Seven … Continue reading
GEPASTE INLEIDING VIR PESAG
Views: 25Lev 2:1 praat van twee partye: “nefesh” (siel of mens) en Yahweh. Op ‘n verborge manier is hierdie vers ‘n uiteensetting van watter soort verhouding daar tussen die MENS en YAHWEH behoort te wees: 1. (die mens moet) voedseloffers bring – “voedseloffer” (mingah) beteken om te gee, om op te offer, prys te gee; … Continue reading
SUKKOT AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
Views: 58We have seen that Sukkot is a feast of joy. Funny that the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes / Prediker) is traditionally seen as a fitting book to read during the feast of Sukkot. Many people feel that Ecclesiastes is a depressing book. It begins with the words “All is futile” (1:2) and it ends … Continue reading
MET YOM KIPPUR HET EK ONTDEK …
Views: 25Dit is nie vreemd om in die Skrif ‘n uitspraak aan te tref nie wat só verwoord word asof dit alreeds plaasgevind het, terwyl dit gaan oor ‘n werklikheid wat nog eers êrens in die toekoms moet plaasvind. So het Yahweh byvoorbeeld vir Mosheh in Num 21:34 gesê: “Wees nie bevrees vir hom (die … Continue reading
TRUMPETS AND THE COMING OF MESSIAH
Views: 71We have established from Scriptures that the blowing of the shofars on Yom Teruah is first and foremost aimed at the people of Yahweh as a wake-up call to repentance, in the light of some form of future judgement. Just because we have made a choice sometime in the past to put our trust … Continue reading
SHAVUOT, FEES VAN VREUGDE
Views: 146Shavuot, ook bekend as Fees van Weke (Shemot / Ex 34:22); Fees van die Oes (Shemot / Ex 23:16), Dag van die Eerstelinge (Bemiedbar / Num 28:26) en Pinkster (Engels: “Pentecost” – afgelei van die getal “50”) is seker een van die mees kleurryke feeste wat in die Skrif vermeld word. In die Skrif … Continue reading
VIER VAN DIE GROOTSTE YOM TERUAH’S VAN ALLE TYE
Views: 35Yom Teruah beteken letterlik “Dag van die groot geskal” (Engels: “Day of clamour”) en in die Skrif word die woord “teruah” normaalweg binne die konteks van die blaas van ramshorings (“shofars”) of trompette gebruik. Soms is daar egter ook sprake van ander bronne van “geskal” of “geraas” en daar is ‘n hele aantal gevalle … Continue reading
