What Yahuah Hates
“And every man that has this hope in him purifies (purge sin) himself, even as he is pure. Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the Torah: for sin is the transgression of the Torah.” YAHUCHANON RI'SHON (1 JOHN) 3:3-4
Which means people are surviving on the prayers of those who are keeping Torah. “But we know that Yahuah does not listen to the voice of a sinner, but listens to whoever worships him and does his will.” John 9:31
“Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Iyov, and offer up for yourselves an ascending smoke offering; and my servant Iyov shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Iyov.” IYOV (JOB) 42:8
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men. For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of Yahuah our Savior toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Ruach Ha'Qodesh; Which he shed on us abundantly through Yahusha Ha'Mashiach our Savior; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. TITUS (TITUS) 3:2-7
“13“Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly. 14“I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
15“So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen.Your hands are covered with blood. 16“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.” Isaiah 1:11
Yahuah told the house of Israel, “I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me ascending smoke offerings and your oblations, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. AMOC (AMOS) 5:21-22 And He told the house of Judah, “When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more an oblation of evil incense; it is an abomination to me; No longer proclaim the Shabbath and the feasts, and the festivals; they are in vain. New Moons and feasts are odious to my soul and are the burden I weary of lifting. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Wash yourself, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says Yahuah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 1:18. He despises something, we must take note and get a full overstanding as to what we need to do to rectify it.
Yahuah had given His people beautiful, meaningful feasts. Obviously it was not His own feasts that He despised, but the way the people were keeping them. In one blatant example of their disregard for Yah's feasts, Jeroboam, king of Israel, had actually changed the dates of Yah's Holy Days when he feared that the 10 tribes of Israel would be drawn back to the nation of Judah and the temple in Jerusalem Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalayim: behold your power, O Yashar'el, which brought you up out of the land of Mitsrayim. And he set the one in Beyt-El, and the other put he in Dan. And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. And he made a house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Leviy. And Yarov'am ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Yahudah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beyt-El, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beyt-El the priests of the high places which he had made. So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beyt-El the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Yashar'el: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. MELEKIYM RI'SHON (1 KINGS) 12:28-33).
The Bible teaches us all of the wonderful and holy feast days Yahuah commands us to keep. He calls them “My feasts” in Leviticus 23:2 He states: Speak unto the children of Yashar'el, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of Yahuah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy assemblies, even these are my feasts.” And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be a holy assembly unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. VAYIQRA (LEVITICUS) 23:21 Later in the Bible we learn that when Yahuah's Kingdom is set up on earth, all nations will keep His feasts (And it shall come to pass, that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Yerushalayim shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahuah Tseva'oth, and to keep the Feast of Cukkoth. ZAKARYAHU (ZECHARIAH) 14:16).
Ezekiel 44:6 states: “And Yahuah said unto me, son of A'dam, mark well, and behold with your eyes, and hear with your ears את all that I say unto you concerning all the ordinances of the house of Yahuah, and all the Torah thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. And you shall say to the rebellious, even to the house of Yashar'el, Thus says Adonai Yahuah; O ye house of Yashar'el, let it suffice you of all your abominations, In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations. And ye have not guarded the watch of my holy things: but ye have set guarders of my watch in my sanctuary for yourselves. Thus says Yahuah; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Yashar'el. And the Leviyiym that are gone away far from me, when Yashar'el went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.” He says the priests will teach the difference between the holy and the unholy, the clean and unclean (Ezekiel 44:23-24). And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall guard my Torah and my statutes in all my assemblies; and they shall hallow my Shabbaths.” Yahuah's Sabbaths include the seven annual Holy Days and the weekly Sabbath the seventh day of the week. He wants mankind to worship Him on these days.
Amos described further transgressions in the way they kept the feasts. Their attitude was wrong. Yahuah expressed His anger with Israel because they complained they could not sell grain and other things until after the Sabbath they were not appreciating the blessing of rest Yahuah gave us. Yahuah was also angry that they wanted to do business so they could cheat the poor (Amos 8:5-6). It was the way Israel worshipped Him and the changes they made to His holy feasts that upset Yahuah. It was an insult to Him and a transgression of His commands. Judah was no better. Though they didn't change the days, they did change the way they worshipped.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the New Moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the Shabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the sheqel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? Yahuah has sworn by the excellency of Ya`aqov, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Shall not the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn that dwells therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Mitsrayim. And it shall come to pass in that day, says Yahuah, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of a yachiyd, and the end thereof as a bitter day. Behold, the days come, says Yahuah, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing את the words of Yahuah: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of Yahuah, and shall not find it. In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst. They that swear by the sin of Shomeron, and say, Your elohiym, O Dan, lives; and, The manner of Be'er Sheva lives; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. AMOC (AMOS) 8:4-14
They became so wicked Yahuah turned from them. There were always major problems in their worship. There were several reformations that took place (usually after a calamity), but the Bible shows that the temple was deserted at times and out of use. Worship was profaned by actions Yahuah condemned (Malachi 1).
Isaiah 58 reveals some of the major problems. Yahuah's people felt quite smug in a self-congratulatory manner—thinking whatever they did was pleasing to Yahuah. They fasted, but then did whatever they pleased. They did not concern themselves with the oppressed and downtrodden. They were gossips and accusers of others. Malachi 1 encompasses Yah's concern by telling Israel to stop breaking the Sabbath and dishonoring it by going their own way and by not using it as a day of joy and delight.
When Yahuah stated He despised their feast days (Amos 5:21), He was referring to the abominable conduct and attitude He was seeing. The attitudes reflected anything but the love and concern for one another Yahuah commanded, and the honor He deserved. He was referring to those who developed whole systems of behavior that were in violation of the spiritual intent of the Holy Days of Yahuah.
In Malachi, Yahuah speaks out against the priests who have not set their heart to honor Him (Malachi 2:2). In the book of Proverbs we read about seven things that Yahuah hates. All seven could be found within the attitudes about the Holy Days of Yahuah. Proverbs 6:16-20 states: These six things Yahuah hates: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren. My son, guard your father's commandment, and forsake not the Torah of your mother: Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them about your neck. When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall guard you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you. For the commandment is a lamp; and the Torah is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 6:16-24
Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Yahuah, whose name is The Elohai Tseva'oth. AMOC (AMOS) 5:27
This I say therefore, and testify in Yahuah, that ye henceforth walk not as the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of Elohiym through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Mashiach); If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the Truth is in Yahusha: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; EPH'SIYM (EPHESIANS) 4:17-22
****correction Christmas is during the winter solstice.