This may be a long post, but if you're not a Sabbath keeper, you need to read it to the last word. The time to obey Jesus has come!

As we endeavor by God's grace to digest some of the criticism of these blogs and recover our Sabbath joy, we hope this entry will not be boring or too much to digest. It is a message about the meaning of the Sabbath day and especially the coming fast day of Atonement (sunset, Thursday, Oct. 6 to Friday sunset, the 7th).

Some great questions came in this morning of Trumpets, so we publish the questions and answers on the Sabbath and the high holy days.

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.

Satan attacks before the feasts, but God turns around what the devil does for our good (Gen. 50:20). The feasts are all times of turnover and change, especially the most important lay down time of the year, Trumpets, which begins Monday sunset, September 26, 2011 and continues through the 28th at sunset on the actual Day of Trumpets. This is the Kingdom lay down, and the beginning of God’s financial year, so some of our lay down items can include financial problems and attacks. Satan tries to discourage us through financial attacks and fears encouraged by today’s economic news. We understand how those attacks can affect us, since we also are attacked. When an author makes less in a year, spending many hours writing spiritual books, than his wife makes in an hour, such an anomaly makes for an excellent lay down item, for both husband and wife.

For our African brethren, it may mean laying down the pain of not having enough to properly feed their children. For others in North America, it may mean the loss...

The Holy Spirit has instructed us at Freedom Church of God to read certain Bible passages during this time of tribulation leading up to the Great Tribulation so that we can be strong in faith to escape this time of great trouble. The passages cited were Isaiah 14, the last part of chapter 49, and chapters 50-52. Isaiah 14:7 is a verse that many cite as a Bible contradiction, which it is not. The bad translation makes us ask the following question: “How can you be quiet while issuing shouts of joy?”

Here is a more correct translation according to the original Hebrew: “The whole Earth has entered God's Sabbath rest and is no longer at war. Peace has broken forth, healing and prosperity are everywhere, and the peoples celebrate in shouts of joy.”

The government of Satan, symbolized by Babylon, was never there for the interest of the people. Their welfare was of no concern, and sicknesses were never healed. Satan drew his energy from making the people poor and suffering. Pain causes light energy to flow out into Satan's demons. War keeps the pain growing and keeps Satan strong.

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Matthew 24:20 Proves the Sabbath Is Still to Be Kept Today (Please forgive the alignment problems resulting from the paste from the book) Matthew 24:20 seems to be the most popular Sabbath proof verse pastors love to twist. Their convoluted arguments make absolutely no logical or biblical sense. We quote below one of the multitude of questions we have received on our blog, with our answer and with related excerpts from our book, Bible Code Broken—The Truth about the Christian Sabbath. Our pastor keeps saying that Matthew 24:20 does away with the Sabbath. In 2 or 3 sentences can you show me how I can explain what is wrong with that understanding? By Matt on 8/29/2011 5:24 PM under Sabbath Facebook Feuds? Matt, If your pastor is a warlock or if he is a product of a seminary and believes tradition over the Bible, even two books could not convince him of his ludicrous argument. Only the Holy Spirit can convict him that his arguments go against the whole Bible and this simple resume: The Bible shows the...

 Read two excerpts from Bible Code Broken on the Sabbath and Eternity (try this link on the radio site if it does not work here). And since the Sabbath helps us in our oneness with the I AM, read and meditate on Identity Scriptures.

 We hope you will post your Sabbath questions on this latest post and that you will read Sabbath in a Nutshell and What a Day!

We thought this answer to a question on our radio blog would be helpful to some of you who may encounter similar opposition to what you are learning.

I tried to talk to my pastor about all the great things of truth that I was able to prove from the bible. He called me a daughter of Hell and you a false pastor. He said that anyone who could not see the holiness in Sunday. Christmas and Easter has to be a sex feign from Hell. He barred me for 30 days from church services. How can one be so full hate and anger-rage when they are suppose to be teaching love? I really do not want to go back to this church but it is the only one nearby.

By Venessa on Friday, May 27, 2011 12:33 P

Venessa, Romans 8:28 tells us that all things work together for good to them that love God, and it is obvious that you love God and want to obey Him. This situation works for your good and gives you freedom from the church leadership that will twist everything you say. You do not want to be under such an oppressive authority...

We believe our answer to Betty's Sabbath question on our radio site will interest everyone. Click here.

Thank you all for your many questions and comments! We do appreciate them. We have been informed today, however, that our new book on 2012 must be in the publishers’ hands (thanking God for miraculous monetary provision for the publishing!) by April 1, 2012. With that in mind, we emphasize our joy at seeing so many people hungry for truth, especially about the Sabbath and the events beginning in late 2012 regarding giants, aliens, UFO’s, etc. Any ideas on book titles for the 2012 book that would incorporate those subjects would be appreciated. With all the hats we wear (with joy!) and considering festival times and voyages to Africa, meeting the requirements of the publisher is a challenge only God can meet.

Some have suggested we write a whole book on those last subjects, but seeing the cost of time and money for book publishing,...

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...

Reminder! We encourage you to tune in to freedomtruthseekers.com 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 since they go back directly to the person who paid to publish the book). So here 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,...

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…...

 Salmon go against the current, as do believers who have the courage to actually do what Jesus said to do (John 14:15). It's not too late to join in the celebration of God's Feast of Unleavened Bread, which ends sunset on Tuesday the 26th with the last holy day of the feast. God will meet you where you are. Most Christians are not yet where God wants them. We see people today keeping "Good Friday" but Jesus said He would be 3 days and 3 nights in the tomb (Mat. 12:40). So because He was put in the tomb just before sunset on Wednesday, since that was Passover in 31 AD, He was thus raised just before sunset at the very end of the third day of Unleavened Bread, a weekly Sabbath that year. It is a bit confusing since even most holy day keepers do not realize that when the first new moon in the spring lasts and is visible for more than a day, the year starts one day later than most calculated and thus the 14th Abib or Passover falls one day later, making today, Friday, April 22, the third day. So at the end of this...

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.

 Is December 21, 2012 an open door to hell? For the world it may well be such a door, but it doesn't have to be that for you. All hell will indeed break loose beginning at that time, but the power of heaven is much greater, and this blog is designed to give you access to powerful revelation from God so that “all heaven can break loose” in your life. If you want to be ready for what Satan is about to unleash, and ready to receive what God is ready to release to you now, read on...