Exodus 20:2-3
“I am YHWH your ELOHIM, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You have no other mighty ones against My face (have no other god before Me.)”
Psalms 106:19-20
“They made a calf in Horeb, and bowed down to a molded image. Thus they changed My esteem into the form of an ox that eats grass.”
The world today has forsaken YHWH for modern day golden calves in the form of sun worship (Sunday) to sports, entertainment, cell phones, movies, Facebook, video games, and pagan holidays not found in the Bible. First, I will cover sun worship that the world has been deceived into following, then in the latter portion of this article I’ll discuss sports, movies, and how it is a form of spiritual idolatry.
The world has disregarded the commandments of YHWH for the commands of Satan:
Isaiah 24:5
“For the earth has been defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the Torot (Plural form of Torah), changed the Law, broken the everlasting Covenant.”
Daniel 7:25
“And it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the saints of the Most High, and it intends to change the Appointed Times and LAW…). And this has already happened!
You can’t know YESHUA without observing The Appointed Times since they ALL point to Him!
If any believer thinks the Holy Days of YHWH are not important and apply to the Jews only; then I would like to say that I have proven from Scripture alone that Abel, Noah, and Abraham all kept the commandments before there ever was a Jew, which proves the Torah and Commands are eternal, they always existed. Rejection of His day’s means you cannot see the work YESHUA did for us and secondly the days that YHWH and YESHUA want to meet with us are called APPOINTED TIMES (Think of appointments).
And take a look YHWH’s plan and importance of this during creation in Genesis 1:14
“And ELOHIM, said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and APPOINTED TIMES, and for days and years…”
Sirach 43:6
“He made the moon ALSO to serve in its season for APPOINTED TIMES, and a sign for the world. From the moon is the SIGN OF FEASTS…” and Sirach 33:9 “And He turns seasons and Feasts. Some of them He has made High Days (1st and 7th day of Feast of Unleavened Bread for example are holy high days of no work), and sanctified them, and some of them He has made regular days.”
So YHWH gave us the Sun and moon to be for APPOINTED TIMES, signs, days, and years. So what are YHWH’s APPOINTED TIMES?
Leviticus 23:1-5
“And YHWH spoke to Moses saying, “Speak to the children of Yisra’el, and say to them, ‘The APPOINTED TIMES of YHWH, which you are to proclaim as holy gatherings, MY APPOINTED TIMES ARE THESE: Six days work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a holy gathering. You DO NO WORK, it is a Sabbath to YHWH in all your dwellings. These are the APPOINTED TIMES of YHWH, holy gatherings which you are to proclaim at their APPOINTED TIMES (The Sabbath is every Saturday in its Appointed Time). In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, is the Pesach (Passover) to YHWH.” And on the fifteenth day of this month is the Festival of Matzah (Feast of Unleavened Bread)-seven days you eat unleavened bread…”
Then the rest of that chapter YHWH lists the rest of His Appointed Times that Satan has gotten the world to reject. The others are Shavuot aka Pentecost, Yom Teruah aka Trumpets, Yom Kippur aka The Day of Atonement, Sukkot aka The Feast of Tabernacles, and the 8th Day Closing Assembly or the Last Great Day.
So, now we see that prophesy in Daniel 7:25 has already being worked out in modern day Christianity: “And it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the saints of the Most High, and it intends to change the Appointed Times and LAW.” And by rejecting the Torah believers are rejecting YESHUA at the same time since He is the written Word that became Living Flesh. Revelation 12:9 “And the great dragon was thrown out, that serpent of old called the Devil and Satan, who leads ALL THE WORLD ASTRAY.”
Galatians 3:27-29
“For as many of you as were immersed (baptized) into Messiah have put on Messiah. There is not Jew nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there is not male and female, for you are all ONE in Messiah YESHUA. And if you are of Messiah, then you are SEED OF ABRAHAM, and heirs according the promise.”
So there is only ONE baptism and you were baptized into YESHUA and now belong to Him making you a seed of Abraham where there is no Jew nor Greek. So the question is are you doing what Abraham did? He obeyed the commandments before there ever was a Jew.
Genesis 26:5
“Because Abraham obeyed My voice and guarded My Charge: My Commands, My Laws, and My Torot (Plural form of Torah.)”
Sirach 44:19-20
“Abraham was a great father of many people; there was none like him in esteem; who KEPT THE LAW OF THE MOST HIGH, and was in Covenant with Him.”
YHWH knew this would happen: Isaiah 46:10
“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not been done, saying, ‘My counsel stands, and all My delight I do.”
When you don’t follow the commands of YHWH and walk in truth following YESHUA then that means you have accepted the way of the enemy, which means the worship of a mighty one that is NOT YHWH; therefore breaking the 1st Commandment. YESHUA scolded the assembly of Laodicea for being lukewarm trying to straddle the fence. ELOHIM wants ALL of you, not the one who has one foot serving YHWH and the other serving the enemy. Now are will list some other examples of believers are not putting YHWH first below.
So what does YHWH think of those who worship the sun and have we been lied to?
I will be going over in detail about the Sabbath Day when covering the fourth commandment, but this correlates with having no other mighty one before YHWH, because it has to do with worship of another that is not Him! It has to do with worshiping the sun deity and standing behind the sun deity is Satan.
Deuteronomy 4:19
“And lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and shall see the SUN, and the moon, and the stars-all of the host of the heavens and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them…” Those who have rejected the Sabbath Day have bowed before the sun in the spiritual realm and in their hearts.
Ezekiel 8:16
“And He brought me into the inner court of the House of YHWH. And there, at the door of the Heykal (Temple) of YHWH, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs toward the Temple of YHWH and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing themselves eastward to the SUN.”
2 Esdras 6:45-46
“On the fourth day You commanded that the sun should shine, and the moon give its light, and the stars should be in order; and commanded them to DO SERVICE TO MAN, who was to be made.”
Notice how the sun, moon, and stars were created to serve mankind? Yet, mankind is serving and worshiping what was created to serve us? Every culture worships the sun, which is worship of the creation instead of the Creator. Satan through his deceptions and indoctrinating children in schools has made the sun the focus of creation. And he accomplished this by getting the scientist and many others to lie and say that the earth revolves around the sun. But we know in Scripture that the sun is the one doing the moving and NOT the earth. Why because the earth is fixed on pillars and does not move:
Job 9:6
“Who shakes the earth out of its place, and it’s COLUMNS/PILLARS TREMBLE…
1 Samuel 2:8
“For the SUPPORTS of the earth belong to YHWH, and He HAS PUT THE WORLD UPON THEM.” YHWH put the earth upon the supports of the earth and Job says that they supports/columns/pillars tremble!
Proof the sun moves!
Joshua 10:12-13
“Then Joshua spoke to YHWH in the day when YHWH gave the Amorites over to the children of Yisra’el, and he said before the eyes of Yisra’el, “SUN, STAND STILL over Gib’on; and MOON, in the valley of Ayalon.” So the SUN STOOD STILL AND THE MOON STOPPED.” So if the sun is stationary and the earth revolves around it according to scientist, then why did the sun stand still and the moon stop?
Job 9:7
“Who commands the SUN, AND IT DOES NOT RISE; and He seals up the stars.” So we see here in Job that YHWH can command the sun to rise or sit still just as He did with Joshua.
Sirach 26:16
“As the SUN WHEN IT RISES high in the heavens…” And 43:2 “The sun when it appears, showing a marvelous instrument as ITS RISING.”
Sirach 48:22-23
“As Isaiah the prophet, who was great and trustworthy in his vision, had commanded him. In his time the SUN WENT BACKWARD…”
We were taught the exact opposite in school weren’t we? The sun is moving, it is not sitting stationary. I pray this opens your eyes to the deception and lies of making the sun the focus as many have been led astray to worship it either directly or choosing the wrong day of worship.
The Sabbath Day is the FOURTH COMMANDMENT but has been rejected by most of the world for Sun worship on Sun-day. So this makes sense that the sun, moon, and stars were created on the FOURTH DAY and that the plagues in Revelation at the sound of the FOURTH TRUMPET and the FOURTH BOWL of wrath both affects the SUN, moon, and stars. Since the world has trusted and worshiped the Sun, moon, and stars and rejected YHWH then then they will be affected by them. . Remember YHWH says in Exodus 20:5 “For I, YHWH your ELOHIM, am a jealous EL (God), visiting the wickedness of the ancestors on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.”
The result of sun worship
Revelation 8:12
‘And the fourth messenger (angel) sounded, and a third of the SUN, was struck, and third of the MOON, and a third of the STARS, so that a third of them were darkened. And a third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.”
Revelation 16:8-9
“And the fourth messenger poured out his bowl on the SUN, and it was given to him to burn men with fire. And men were burned with great heat, and they blasphemed the Name of YHWH who possesses authority over these plagues. And they did not repent, to give Him esteem.”
All of these pagan holidays including Sunday worship (Xmas, Easter, mother’s day, father’s day etc.) all have ties to sun worship, so since the world wants to continue worshiping them, this is what YHWH says:
Judges 10:14
“Go and cry out to the mighty ones which you have chosen, let them save you in your time of distress.”
Entertainment is put before YHWH
Satan has the whole world distracted with all kinds of entertainment from sports, music, movies, porn, reality TV, cars, and others serve their bank accounts. Others play video games all day on their phone or entertainment system, others live on Facebook and share their life every two minutes making them live on the app. This is idle time that should be used to read Scripture and get to know your Creator. All of these are idols that you are putting before your ELOHIM. You must remove them ASAP so you can focus on YESHUA The Way, The Truth, and The Life Who is the only One that can save you. Trust me, when judgment comes NONE of this entertainment will mean anything to anyone.
Satan loves this, because people can stay up all day and night watching their favorite show, all of their sports, or be on their cell phones being entertained for countless hours, but when it comes time to reading the Bible they fall asleep in 5 minutes. Why? Because this is spiritual warfare as Paul spoke of in Ephesians 6! Satan doesn’t care if you spend your time on his vices that lead to DEATH, but will try to prevent you from getting close to YESHUA that leads to LIFE! It is said that if you give the public food and entertainment then you can control them and they will be in a coma to what’s going on around them.
Examining sports
Sports is a distraction set up by the pagan nations (using Greeks during the time of the Maccabees). The Book of Maccabees goes into great detail about how sports was never intended for YHWH’s people. But as usual Yisra’el self-assimilated meaning they wanted to be like the pagan nations around them. (I have discussed this topic in an earlier article titled “Sports a demonic distraction.”)
Maccabees 1:12-15 says something shocking
“The proposal was agreeable; some from among the Jewish people promptly went to the king, and he authorized them to introduce the way of living of the Gentiles. Thereupon they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem according to the Gentile custom. They covered over the mark of their circumcision and abandoned the holy covenant; they allied themselves with the Gentiles and sold themselves into wrong doing.”
Maccabees 4:18
“Now when the sovereign was present at the quadrennial games that was held at Tsor…”
What are quadrennial games?
Quadrennial games is defined as the Olympics which includes all sports from basketball, baseball, hockey, golf, swimming, world cup, lacrosse, rugby, winter Olympics, yachting, putt-putt, volleyball, water polo, cricket, and youth games to name a few.
It’s interesting to note that the Book of Maccabees explains the Greek and Roman origin of sports and how it’s a gentile custom that the people of Yisra’el have learned just like the pagan holidays. And I remember years ago when I WAS still watching sports, there being a Super Bowl ad that had Peyton Manning and John Malkovich promoting the game in the Roman Coliseum in the background and another commercial had Beyoncé, Brittany Spears, and Pink dressed up as gladiators with spears and shields going into the Roman coliseum as if they were going to fight, then they start singing “We will rock you” as the crowd goes wild. The powers that be behind the sports world was paying homage to the Greek and roman culture for the games and believers missed the message in plain sight. Which further proves that the people of YHWH should have no involvement.
Satan is not going to make you worship him directly, so he has set up distractions to make you do it indirectly, because the further away from our Creator YHWH he can get you is a win for him.
How much time are you spending be entertained?
Joshua 1:8
“Do not let this Book of the Torah depart from your mouth, but you shall MEDITATE ON IT DAY AND NIGHT, so that you guard to do according to all that is written I it. For then you shall make your way prosperous and act wisely.”
How can you meditate on YHWH’s Word and keep the commandments if all of your time is spent being entertained? Sports fanatics will watch football for example on Sunday all day for 10-12 hours from kickoff to the final game, Monday night football for another 3-4 hours, Thursday night football, for another 3-4 hours, then College football on Saturday (breaking the Sabbath) all day for another 10-12 hours. That equates to more than 24 hours of sports not including basketball or any other sports (quadrennial games). Then that same believer will spend an hour in church then go home and watch more sports. So on average that would be 23 hours of sports and 1 hour to our Messiah YESHUA, which would be defined as idolatry. You have given sports ALL of your time and have neglected serving YESHUA, reading your Scriptures, and figuring out what your gift is in the Body of Messiah, and using them for His Kingdom.
Ephesians 4:11-12 which says
“And He Himself gave some as emissaries (person sent on special mission/minister, some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as shepherds and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of service to a building up of the Body of ha’Mashiach”
You don’t have to physically bow down before something in order to make it your mighty One. If YESHUA were to come while you were at a sporting event do you think you will be found blameless before Him? Or do you think He would say, why weren’t you using this time to pray, to read, to proclaim My Name to the lost, was this a proper way to spend your time? Or did you put the modern day gladiators above Me? These are serious questions to ask yourselves!
Also sports teams and athletes are idolized to the point of worship as fans wear jerseys of their favorite players, put posters on their walls, wear team apparel from head to toe, paint team logos on their cars, collecting Jordan shoes like a shrine and have flags on their homes. Yet, YHWH says wear tassels/fringes/tsitsit that gets rejected! The world will idolize a player by following him through college, tracking his position all the way up through the draft, they can tell you what school he attended, what his 40 time was, what is major was and what team wants to draft him. They know more about a human than about YHWH’s Word. None of these athletes can save any of us, only YESHUA can! People will even go as far as to say “that is my idol!” Even the TV shows “American IDOL” What have you just done? Broken the 1st Commandment!
Eye opener for me!
I remember years ago when I used to watch sports as a big-time Redskins fan, I was at the training camp when Robert Griffin was labeled as “The Savior” for the Redskin fan-base after so many mediocre seasons, and we know the only SAVIOR IS YESHUA and as Titus 2:11 says “For the SAVING GIFT of YHWH has appeared to all men.”
As Robert Griffin was walking across the field a young child was screaming RG3’s name out loudly for him to come over and sign his football. He was screaming at the top of his lungs like nothing else in the world mattered, as if RG3 was bigger than life. Seconds later the man standing behind me said “Watching RG3 walking across the field is like watching Jesus Christ walk across the field.” This man turned out to be the child’s dad! I knew immediately from that point on that something was seriously wrong. Parents are supposed to teach their children the way to go and bring them up in the Word of YHWH as commanded in Deuteronomy 6:4-9, and worshiping a man is not the way to do it.
Watching sports is lust of the eyes because we are entertained when we watch it. The fan has a strong lust or desire to watch their teams play and celebrate it with great pomp (Super Bowls, Championships etc.) Does the world love sports? Yes! 1 John 2:15-16
“Do not love the world nor that which is in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is NOT in him. Because all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the yes, and the pride of life is not of the Father but is out the world.”
Bragging rights, championship rings, the hall of fame with busts of all the players, even bragging about clothes, how many pair of Jordan’s you own, money, or even the expensive car you drive are all the pride of life.
James 4:4
“Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with ELOHIM? Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of ELOHIM.”
Sports is of this world and the scripture from the Book of Maccabees is further evidence, because sports is not for followers of YESHUA! It is hard for people to let sports go because they love it so much and I’ve heard people especially believers in YESHUA say “They could never let sports ago because they are too attached” or “that’s the one thing I cannot let go outside of eating pork or shrimp.” Such words should never be uttered from a believer! We should never love anything on the earth that much that we cannot let it go. We were called to be set apart from the world and nothing separates us from the world when believers watch sports too! We cannot tell the difference between a believer and a non-believer anymore.
There was a news report during the time I was watching sports of a man getting beat up by a bunch of fans in Boston simply because he said that Tom Brady isn’t the greatest quarterback. Is that loving your neighbor as yourself? Roger Goodell himself said that he wanted to set Tom Brady up as a” king.” And there is only ONE KING and that is YESHUA! See those in charge of sports know what they are doing by making these guys bigger than life and even on the same pedestal as YESHUA. Wake-up and realize the deception and do not put anyone or your time above YHWH!
Examining movies
Hollywood is orchestrated by Satan which he uses to keep us in the world and cause us to sin. The movies produced promote demons, ghosts, necromancy, greed, money, vanity, rape hatred, violence, homosexuality, adultery, fornication, abuse, just to name a few. Scripture tells us to keep your eyes from all evil, therefore we shouldn’t even be watching these abominations.
Psalm 101:3
“I will set no wicked thing before my eyes”
1 Thessalonians 5:22
“Abstain from every form of wickedness”
Legend has it that Nemi (holy wood) hunted souls for Diana with its beauty, the same way Hollywood hunts souls by deceiving believers in Messiah and other lost souls. “Nemi/Nemus” known as (holy wood) which Los Angeles is modeled after called theirs Hollywood. Hollywood is derived from the Rome’s Nemus (holy wood) which is an exact replica of what we see in Rome.
Both locations are in the middle of the groves on top of the hills. Nemi has a lake in the middle of the groves called “Diana’s mirror”. The emperors from around the world would sail into the lake of Diana’s mirror to assert themselves as “stars”. Now we can see the connection with the term “star” we hear about in America where Hollywood actors/actresses want to become “stars” and also the show “Dancing with the stars”. We have to remember that scripture says there is nothing new under the sun which is found in Ecclesiastes 1:9
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
They have already admitted that the movie industry models itself after Babylon. They even boldly put a huge picture of the Tower of Babel on the stage for those receiving the awards and nobody in the audience even knew what it was. Even the Oscar award is a modern representation of Egyptian deities.
Even at one of the award shows the announcer said to the crowd “You godless, sodomites!” He literally told the audience that they have forsaken YHWH for the Babylonian deities and again putting another mighty one before Him. Then he mentioned them coming to worship their gods! Which are the actors who were coming to receive their idol Oscar award. Yet, the whole audience laughed it off, however the announcers were telling the truth, which is known as “hiding the truth in plain sight” as they lead them down a path of destruction. And movies, reality TV, shows with endless amount of seasons will take up one’s time by binge watching ALL Day instead of reading Scripture. It’s just another form to take your attention away from what really matters.
1 Corinthians 10:21
“You are not able to drink the cup of the Adon (Master) and the cup of demons, you are not able to partake of the table of the Adon and of the table of demons.” Choose which side you are going to be on!
Baruk 4:7-8
“For you provoked He who made you by offering to demons, and not to ELOHIM. You have forgotten the everlasting ELOHIM, who raised you up…”
Baruk 1:17-22
“For we have sinned before YHWH, and disobeyed Him, and have not listened to the voice of YHWH our ELOHIM, to walk in the Commands that He gave us openly. Since the day that YHWH brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt, to this PRESENT DAY, we have been disobedient to YHWH our ELOHIM, and we have been negligent, by not obeying His voice. Therefore the evils clinged to us, and the curse, which YHWH appointed by Moses His servant at the time that he brought our ancestors out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land that flows with milk and honey, as it is to this day. Nevertheless we have not listened to all the words of the prophets, whom He sent to us; but every man followed the IMAGINATION OF HIS OWN WICKED HEART, to serve foreign mighty ones, and to do evil in the sight of YHWH our ELOHIM.”
Are you going to give your life to YESHUA or on these modern day gods, foreign might ones that have been mentioned in this article? Is there a distraction or some sort of entertainment that is preventing you from getting know YHWH? Are they ruling your life becoming your mighty one and breaking the first commandment? Examine your life today, repent, and cling to YESHUA because only He can save us! Pick up your execution stake and DIE TO SELF and not LIVE TO SELF, just as He did for us.
ELOHIM willing next week we will go over Passover which is coming up on the 7th of next month and then after that resume with the 10 Commandments. HalleluYAH