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Crossword Contest
Announcing the first EBD Crossword Contest! You can find this Isaiah-based crossword on my blog at eliyahubendavid.com. Do it for fun or do it to win a prize. Either way, I hope you will enjoy it.

Passover/ULB News

We have been enjoying a blessed Passover and Unleavened Bread Festival this year, here at Tsiyon. Some of our partners and friends came to join us, from California, Nevada, Colorado and various locations right here in Texas. It has been a blessed time with YHWH in our midst. One highlight was the immersion of seven souls in a nearby lake. Much good food and fellowship has also been enjoyed by all. We included all of you in our time together, through prayer. We love you and hope that you have been enjoying a blessed Passover season as well.

Listener Comment - only leavened bread?
I would like your opinion on the Scripture found in Ex. 12:19-20. Is all leaven forbidden during the feast, or only leavened bread? In the past, I have taken this scripture literally and removed all leaven from the house, but have recently come across some teachings that indicate this only pertains to "bread". Not looking for loopholes - just want so very much to understand and obey.

Tsiyon Answer - only leavened bread?
Thanks for your excellent question. Here are the verses that contain your answer:

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. 19 There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’” Exo 12:18-20

"No yeast found in your houses" seems to me to be self-explanatory. "No yeast in your houses" is not the same as "no yeast in your bread." It is an all-encompassing statement. Likewise the statement: "You shall eat nothing leavened." "Nothing" means nothing - not just bread.

This is how we understand the requirement here at Tsiyon, and how we keep it, throughout the days of the feast. Many blessings to you.

Listener Comment - weekly Sabbath?
Are Gentile followers of Yeshua supposed to keep the weekly Sabbath? When I read through the Torah it seems that keeping the Sabbath was something Yah required specifically of Israel. And I don't see where the New Covenant Scriptures demand it - especially when Paul questions some as to why they are still keeping certain days and festivals. Can you shed some light on this for me.

Tsiyon Answer - weekly Sabbath?
(Answered by Tsiyon Team) Eliyahu has written a book on this topic. You can find the first chapter of this book available for download and/or reading online located here:

http://tsiyon.org/holy_time_free_book/

We offer the complete book within the Tsiyon Archives available to all Tsiyon Ministry Partners.

(Additional thoughts from Eliyahu) There has been so much misinformation about the Sabbath, which is set right in the book Holy Time, that I urge everyone to read it.

Consider this one tidbit though: There are Ten Commandments written in stone by the finger of Elohim. Why are those Ten Words written in stone, and not merely on a scroll, like the rest of Torah? Is it not because they are meant to be permanent moral requirements? Sabbath Keeping is the fourth Commandment. If we can just skip this one, why not "you shall not murder" or "you shall not commit adultery" or even "you shall have no other gods before Me"? Why would there be one Commandment out of Ten that can simply be ignored?

Further, there are many verses in the Renewed Covenant Scriptures urging us all to keep the Commandments out of love for Him. Here is one verse:

He who keeps his Commandments remains in Him, and He in him. 1 Jn 3:24