Bear no burden on the Sabbath

 

 

The Sabbath day was kept negligently.

Jeremiah 17:21-22 So says Yahuah, take heed for the sake of your lives, and do not carry a burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. And do not carry a burden from your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

Some were carrying a load coming through the gates to trade and work, which would be violating the Sabbath command. Most worked 6 days in the field, with some using the Sabbath day to gather in their fruit from the countryside.

 

Jeremiah 17:23 “But they did not obey, or incline their ear, and they made their neck stiff not to hear and not to receive instruction.

Sabbath breaking was one of the main violations why Yahuah allowed Israel to go into captivity. Read also Ezekiel 20:13, 20:16, 20:21, 20:24.

 

 

 

 

 

If they kept the Sabbath set-apart (holy) they would have the following blessing.

Jeremiah 17:24-25 “And it shall be, if you diligently obey Me,” declares Yahuah, “to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and set apart the Sabbath day, to do no work in it, then sovereigns and heads sitting on the throne of David shall enter in through the gates of this city, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their heads – the men of Yehudah (Judah) and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And this city shall be inhabited forever.

But if they do not keep the Sabbath set-apart then they will receive the following curse.

Jeremiah 17:27 But if you will not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy, and to not carry a burden and enter at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in her gates. And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem; yea, it shall not be put out.

 

1 Kings 9:6-7 “If you at all turn back, you or your sons, from following Me, and do not guard My commands, My laws, which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other mighty ones and bow yourselves to them, then I shall cut off Yisra’el from the face of the soil which I have given them, and send away from My presence this house which I have set apart for My Name. And Yisra’el shall be a proverb and a mockery among all the peoples.

Are we hearing the words of Yahuah?

 

Written with a pen of iron

 

 

 

 

 

 

Has any preacher/rabbi spoke of Judah's sins as described in the book of Jeremiah. Yahuah says His anger will burn forever because of their sin.

Read these next verses on how Judah lost their inheritance, not through Yahuah but through themselves.

Jeremiah 17:1-4 “The sin of Yehudah (Judah) is written with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars, while their children remember their altars and their Asherahs* by the spreading trees on the high hills. “My mountain in the field, I give as plunder your wealth, all your treasures, your high places of sin, throughout all your borders. “And you, even of yourself, shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you. And I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known, for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Both a diamond and iron showing the permanency of their actions. Being on the horns of their altar shows that the sin remains; it is not atoned for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the above verses it states that Judah would give up their heritance to go and worship false idols of other nations.

‘* KJV says groves. Strongs H842 Astarte (Phoenician/Babylonian/Canaanite goddess). Many claim the word easter comes from Astarte and the green trees are the same thing people have in their homes over December each year.

My question is, has this changed today. Is this idol worshipping still continuing in our time, and I believe it is. I can understand why the sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond on the tablet of their heart and why Yahuah’s anger is burning forever.

Come out of her My people, says Yahuah.

Are we listening?

 

 

The heart is deceitful

 

 

Are all hearts deceitful? Who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

 

Jeremiah 7:24 “But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

 

Jeremiah 16:12 ‘And you have done more evil than your fathers, for look, each one walks according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Jeremiah 18:12 But they shall say, “It is no use! For we walk according to our own plans, and we do each one the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

 

Mark 7:21-22 “For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, greedy desires, iniquities, deceit, indecency, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

Does it mean we are born with evil hearts? No of course not because it says “who shall know it?” We have a choice to have an evil heart or to have a good heart, it is a choice we make. There are those who are evil and no matter what they do their life is in evilness.

In the next 3 verses Yahuah looks at our hearts and rewards us according to what He finds in our heart.

Jeremiah 17:10 I, Yahuah, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

 

2 Chronicles 6:30 then hear from the heavens Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know – for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men.

Revelation 2:23 “And I shall slay her children with death. And all the assemblies shall know that I am the One searching the kidneys and hearts. And I shall give to each one of you according to your works.

The below verse is an example of what happens to someone that becomes rich through wrong doings (having a deceitful heart).

 

Jeremiah 17;11 “As a partridge that broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.”

Those who walk truly in Yahuah’s ways shall not have a deceitful or evil heart.

 

Cursed is the man or blessed is the man

 

 

 

 

Who is cursed and who will be blessed?

Read these verses very carefully to understand what is meant by “Cursed is the man  who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from Yahuah and “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahuah, and whose trust is Yahuah.

 

The curse.

Jeremiah 17:5-6 Thus said Yahuah, “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from Yahuah. “For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited.

Israel as a nation did not turn to Yahuah in faith during their distress, but looked toward other nations for sources.

Are we today trusting in man and making flesh our strength? What examples do we trust in man today: health (medical schemes, doctors, pharmacy etc.), weather (changing or affecting the weather), farming (force feeding animals and modifying crops), teach the word (listen to preachers or making up religious doctrines and traditions), governments (man’s laws: teaching the children and marriage rules) to name a few.

 

The blessing.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 “Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahuah, and whose trust is Yahuah. “For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and does not see when heat comes. And his leaf shall be green, and in the year of drought he is not anxious, no rdoes he cease from yielding fruit.

Psalm 146:5-7 Blessed is he who has the El of Jacob for his help, whose expectancy is in Yahuah his Elohim, maker of the heavens and earth, the sea and all that is in them, who is guarding truth forever, doing right-ruling for the oppressed, giving bread to the hungry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We trust Yah for healing, family, children, rain, health, food, teaching, protection, to name a few.

It is best to trust in Yahuah then in man’s entertainments.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahuah.”