We invite our readers to join with us tonight in our monthly, Friday night praise and worship as a church body, as we celebrate Jesus' day of joy. We also invite you to tune in when you are able to our new series, "Led Astray by Emotions," that also begins tonight at the same time as our praise, 7 PM MST.

How the world needs joy! How the world needs Jesus! Christians, who are supposed to be the shining light of the world, are engaged this week in keeping a pagan festival that is the most depressing time of the year, in spite of all the claims of Christmas joy. Such "joy" is misguided and does not compare with the joy we share with Jesus when we keep as we are doing now, His holy Sabbath day.

In His presence is "fullness of joy" (Ps. 16:11). But Jesus has not poured His presence into any day but the Sabbath. If we want to connect with His love and joy, we must meet Him on this day, not another. When we miss it, we miss the anointing of the "oil of joy" or "oil of gladness" (Isa. 61:3).

It is said of Jesus, "You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; Therefore, God [the Father], Your God, has anointed You with the oil of joy above your fellows" (Ps. 45:7).

Do you want to be anointed with oil of joy above your fellow Christians who blindly follow the crowd without asking questions and keep Sunday, Christmas, and all the pagan holidays falsely baptized Christian? One of the surest ways is to open the Bible and read like a little child, ready to be taught and corrected, reading some simple verses: Exodus 20:8; Gen. 2:2-3; Mark 2:27-28; Hebrews 4:9-11, and alas! Matthew 24:20, where Jesus prophesies that the Sabbath day will be as much in force as the seasons. Jesus says in Genesis 8:22 that while this Earth remains, and the last time we checked it was still there, summer and winter shall not cease. Well, winter is still here, and so is the Sabbath. It is an eternal, perpetual covenant between God and HIs people (Ex. 31:13-16). Israel represents the believers, the people of God. In the First Testament, few were led by the Holy Spirit. Under the New Covenant, we all have the Holy Spirit in our hearts, and the law of love is supposed to be written on our hearts (Jeremiah 31; Hebrews 8). If it is written on our hearts, it will also be our practice.

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While we are not sure how you would implement the following, unless you have a house church, for your information we post the meaning of the offering we give according to Deut. 16:16 on this holy day:

Trumpets Offering

God commands us not to come empty before Him at His feasts. The financial offering we joyfully present to Him on this day calls forth the following: the return of Jesus; the establishment of the kingdom of God; the releasing of the glory of God; the unity of the body of Christ; the releasing of the miracle anointing; the releasing of prosperity; the releasing of the favors of God (e.g. salvation of family members); the acceptance of change and the removal of the old ways; the release of the rest and peace we have in Jesus; the acceptance of everything God has for us – His blessings upon us, our family and our land.

Shabbat shalom,

The eve before the Sabbath is the time to lay down any turmoil of the week to greet Jesus, the King of Peace. When we ask, as do our young brothers and sisters in Red Deer, Alberta, for the grace to keep the Sabbath in joy and peace, we can truly picture the time when Jesus will bring in the seventh day Sabbath of 1000 years of peace. Listen to our broadcast beginning at 7 PM MDT on "Peace, Peace," They Celebrate.

Iron sharpens iron. Because of your excellent questions, we have added to our teaching on the church site, so please click here for the updated version of the truth about the second resurrection. Because of questions, we invite you to read about the lunar Sabbath heresy. We're still learning about blogs and how things disappear with one wrong click. We have important information on our church site blog that we lost when trying to upload here, so please go there. You can also click on the link for the amazing truth in the link above, but other info should be read on the church blog. Below we answer a question about levels of faith.

We received a question about giants that has to do with faith, and we post the answer  first here since we think it will be a great motivator to grow in faith.



Are giants dangerous to just the non-believers, or the Christians...

This post will be our answer to a question on the Sabbath. Question:I also have heard Matt 24=20 used to say that the Sabbath is done away with. We were told that we are all called to be kings and priest and are therefore called to work on the Sabbath as ministers. The Sabbath therefore has to be done away with or we would be in sin and not the grace of God. And Jesus joy comes from seeing us do the work we were called to do. Glenn J Answer:In defending His priestly ministry and in breaking some of the pharisaical laws about eating grain on the Sabbath, Jesus spoke of the First Testament Priests breaking or profaning, so to speak, the Sabbath (Mat. 12:5). They could not have been literally breaking the Sabbath, since it is Jesus Himself who commanded them to make sacrifices on that day. In defending His Sabbath healing ministry, Jesus admitted that He was working (John 5:17), but that work was a spiritual and a holy work befitting His holy day. Helping push a stuck car out of a snow bank on the Sabbath day...

Reminder! We encourage you to tune in to freedomtruthseekers.com this Friday night (tonight!) at 6 PM Mountain Time for a word of encouragement and to hear our apostle’s broadcast shortly thereafter on “What is life?”

Much interest has been generated about the Sabbath question. We have therefore decided to publish this post before the Sabbath to help answer the question to receive, including those about Sabbath legalism. We encourage you to procure for yourself Bible Code Broken, our book on the Sabbath, since it answers virtually every question you could have about the day. Such a move would greatly bless us, since it would answer your questions and give us more time to write the books were called to write in these last days (By the way, we don't profit from the proceeds, which go back directly to the person who paid to publish it). So here it is a short excerpt from our seventh book:

One Friday evening as the Sabbath began I enjoyed a lovely Sabbath stroll in a beautiful Edmonton ravine, communing...

We received a question from a young man of sixteen whose parents will not allow him to attend a Sabbath service or keep the Sabbath. We thought our answer might be helpful to those just starting to understand the Sabbath and not knowing how to keep it holy. Here is our answer to Tyler.

I can empathize. I begin to keep the Sabbath at about age 16 also, and my father was quite hostile to the idea, angry, and mocking in his comments, although he didn’t threaten to stop me or kick me out of the house. So this question hit close to home, but so close I decided to get some help from my colleague, since situations are always unique, and I didn’t want to impose what I did on you. Here is what our apostle Gerald received when he prayed about it, suggestions as to how a young man like you could keep the Sabbath under these circumstances:

• Refrain from any commercial activity on this day. • Spend time in prayer. • Spend time in praise and listening to worship songs. • Give time helping others, such as visiting...

Repeated from a month ago by popular demand...

Some weeks are more trying than others. This has been a week of battling technology, seeking to recover praise songs that were lost from our computer song files. For some of our African brethren, the struggle has been to have enough food for the week, in some cases eating greens that are called in Swahili, “make the week last.” Whatever our issues, they are always difficult for us. So we thank God that many of us have received the truth about the Sabbath and how we can lay down three hours before Friday sunset our weekly cares to Jesus so we can enter His special day of joy and rejoicing, no matter what our weekly circumstances have been. Here are a few verses to consider along these lines:

Rom. 13:1-12 … for now salvation is nearer than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near…. [Sabbath day picturing the end of Satan's mess that intensifies in these last days] Jer. 31:13 I will turn their mourning into joy…joy for their sorrow…...

Some weeks are more trying than others. This has been a week of battling technology, seeking to recover praise songs that were lost from our computer song files. For some of our African brethren, the struggle has been to have enough food for the week, in some cases eating greens that are called in Swahili, “make the week last.” Whatever our issues, they are always difficult for us. So we thank God that many of us have received the truth about the Sabbath and how we can lay down three hours before Friday sunset our weekly cares to Jesus so we can enter His special day of joy and rejoicing, no matter what our weekly circumstances have been. Here are a few verses to consider along these lines:

Rom. 13:1-12 … for now salvation is nearer than when we believed. The night is almost gone, and the day is near…. [Sabbath day picturing the end of Satan's mess that intensifies in these last days] Jer. 31:13 I will turn their mourning into joy…joy for their sorrow… [Jesus is coming to replace the days of sorrow and tribulation by His rule of love, peace and joy].

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We have seen how Job’s words (about abortion in Job 3:16) gave our Father Love the legal right according to John 15:1-2 to prune us. The analogy is that Jesus is the Vine and we are the branches. Our Father is the Vinedresser. Job’s words gave both Satan and God permission to do things in these last days. Who will we allow to work in our life, Satan or God?

Job’s words allow Satan to try to abort us spiritually, to shake the tree or rattle the branches, but God is given legal right on Earth to work through the trials Satan throws at us to make us into His image, which is His goal for our lives. How’s that for a turn around? Satan may make some fruit to fall with his attacks, but the fruit that remains gets stronger and stronger.

Paul uses a different but in some ways similar analogy. He says that Gentile and Jew alike are called to partake together “of the rich root of the olive tree” (Rom. 11:17), referring to the biblical roots of the Hebrew Scriptures. Jesus tells us to abide in Him (John 15:4,7)...

We have more on Job and what he said about the events that will bring great darkness beginning in late 2012,but we first have a few words of encouragement to combat any darkness you may be personally experiencing.