Picking up where we left off in part 1, let’s continue, and I know, it might seem as if we are going through these backward, but as the saying goes, in this instance, we have truly saved the best (or shall I say, the weightier matters), for last, and hope once we are finished, you will see why. And if you didn’t read part 1, feel free to read it first by clicking this link:
So, let’s get back to how we return to the path of restoration, walking towards restoring function to & among Our Community, our people first (and then the rest of the world), we must get back to not only loving our people the way The Most High YAH, our Heavenly Father instructs us, according to His detailed instructions found in Scripture, but we must also love Him the way which He instructs according to Scripture. And we cannot love Him nor His people by our definition of love, but by His!:
So, if we disobey His instructions, if we break His commandments, then we do NOT love Him and we lie to ourselves, which in turn brings the curses & dysfunction among our people, as we see evidenced today throughout our households & communities:
So again, in part 1, we went through the bottom half of “The Big 10” Commandments, seeing how obedience to those commands will work towards restoring function to our households & communities. Now, let us go through the top half of The Big 10, because obedience to these commands is the essential step toward the restoration of Our People:
Our Holy Constitution
Our people — Israel (aka the modern-day so-called Negroes), have been set apart, by The Most High, from every other nation & race of people? The Most High YAH our Elohim gave us specifically The Big 10 Commandments; so we should consider and function as a nation with The Big 10 being OUR Constitution.
And Our constitution/The Big 10 can be summed up as “The 2 Great Commandments”:
The Preamble
Let’s walk down this list of commandments together, and we will see how us obeying these commands, can do what no: politician, program, movement, or government could ever do—this is how we bring restoration to our people. But before we cover the 1st Law Commanded in our constitution, let’s read & understand the Preamble. And in case you might be wondering what a preamble is, let’s do what we do:
Easy to understand right? Here’s our Preamble to Our Constitution, here’s the “introduction to the highest law”:
Exodus 20 is where The Big 10 are first read, and we see the preamble in verses 1 & 2. We read The Big 10 again, when Moses recites our constitution to the next generation of Israelites in Deuteronomy 5, and the preamble is repeated in verse 6.
So, the preamble lets us know a couple of things up front: who is commanding the people, and who the people are who are receiving the commands: The Lord God, יהוה Yahuah/YAH the Elohim who rescued & brought the Israelites out of the house of slavery & bondage which was Egypt/Mitsrayim. So, the Israelites who were freed from their enslavement to another nation of people, declared their obedience to YAH Elohim (in the previous chapter, Exodus 19:8), and here follows after the Preamble are The 10 Commandments—The Constitution of The Children of YAH:
The 1st Commandment
The 1st Commandment builds off the preamble and establishes law, rank, order, it also helps us to keep the main thing, the MAIN THING —YAH will NOT stand for us as His people, to have any other gods/elohim/powers placed in front of Him. Especially since YAH brought us out of pagan polytheism in Egypt/Mitsrayim, a place of many elohim/gods. YAH gave this 1st Commandment FIRST👀. We must know & understand that YAH Echad/ YAH Alone is our ONE power—YAH ALONE is our Elohim and there is NO other!
And just in case you’re still wondering why I say YAH and not Jah, that’s because there’s no “J” in Hebrew:
That same understanding is repeated (frequently once again), by scattered, awakened Israelites worldwide, when we read, sing, and pray what is affectionately called “The Shema” (found is found in Deuteronomy 6), it starts off with these two verses declaring to Israel that we must:
“Hear (Shema/hear & obey), O Yisra’ĕl (Israel): יהוה (Yahuah/YAH) our Elohim, יהוה (YAH) IS ONE! “And you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.”
Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 6:4-5 TS2009
And we also remember what YAH Himself said to/through Isaiah:
Once again, YAH our Elohim, rescued our ancestors from false gods and pagan, heathen nations; YAH chose our ancestors to be His nation of people, and our ancestors pledged allegiance to Him, saying “All that YAH has said, we will do”. The preeminent thing which YAH said, the 1st law commanded in our constitution which YAH said to our ancestors (and to us today), is that YAH was to be their/our one-and-only Elohim, and that they/we would not have any other elohim/god/power!
The 2nd Commandment
And the 2nd law which we are commanded to keep, goes right along with the 1st: Do NOT make, worship, bow down or serve any idol images or likenesses. It’s a two-part commandment dont make them & don’t bow down or serve them. NOTE: YAH told our ancestors to make certain images in the past, but never idols (remember the brazen serpent in the wilderness (don’t forget about 2 Kings 18:3-4), the Ark’s cherubim, and the Temple’s pomagrantes, lions, and bulls?) — YAH never told us to bow down or worship any of them—ever!
The first two of “The Big 10” sound simple enough don’t they? Our ancestors who first heard & understood these commands, thought the same, and they said with one voice “copy that, consider it done🫡”:
“And Mosheh (Moses) came and related to the people ALL the Words (commandments) of יהוה (Yahuah) and all the right-rulings. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “ALL the Words which יהוה has spoken we shall do.””
Shemoth (Exodus) 24:3 TS2009
But… 40 days later, what did they do?… They broke those simple, foundational commands:
“And when the people saw that Mosheh (Moses) was so long in coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aharon (Aaron), and said to him, “Arise, make us mighty ones (idol gods) who go before us. For this Mosheh, the man who brought us up out of the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt), we do not know what has become of him.” And Aharon said to them, “Take off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” “And all the people took off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aharon. “And he took this from their hand, and he formed it with an engraving tool, and made a moulded calf. And they said, “This is your mighty one (Elohim/God), O Yisra’ĕl, that brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim!” And Aharon saw and built a slaughter-place (altar) before it. And Aharon called out and said, “Tomorrow is a festival to יהוה (YAH).” And they rose early on the next day, and offered ascending offerings, and brought peace offerings (idol worship). And the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Mitsrayim have corrupted themselves.”
Shemoth (Exodus) 32:1-7 TS2009
Sadly, many who claim to love and follow the Bible, and profess their devotion to The Father and The Son, are often breaking the first two of the Ten Commandments. Instead of adhering to the foundational instructions of Scripture, many, out of misinformation and ignorance, lean on their own understanding and traditions. Today, just as in the days of our ancestors, idolatry continues to corrupt hearts and minds.
When we think of idolatry and paganism, non-Christian religions might be the first to come to mind. However, idolatrous practices can be found in every religion—even within the various forms of Christianity. For perspective, let us first examine some of the tallest pagan idols in the world:
Once again, idolatrous practices are not limited to non-Christian religions. Sadly, many Christian churches and their diverse doctrines have misled their followers, encouraging the creation, veneration, and worship of their depicted images and likenesses of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph—clearly violating the Second Commandment.
As we did with the idols of other religions, let’s take a look at some of the world’s tallest Jesus idols. Note: they are not merely statutes, as they are typically called — they are idols, idols that are worshiped, prayed to, kissed upon, and venerated by millions each year:
Romans and their Catholicism have led many of our people astray with the idolatry of the crucifix. Similarly, non-Catholic Christianity (including Greek/Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestant Christianity), teaches its form of cross idolatry by revering the “empty cross” in place of the crucifix.
And let’s not overlook how Christianity introduced vague, meaningless, and idolatrous names for Our Heavenly Father and His Son. We’ll delve deeper into this when we explore the next Commandment, but before we move on, let us proclaim to the world:
Now is the time for our people to reject corruption—It’s time for us to return to the righteous & easy-to-keep instructions found in the Commandments. It’s time for us to Just say NO to Idolatry!
The 3rd Commandment
Alright, let’s cover the importance of ‘putting respect on YAH’s name!’ Going all the way back to Mt. Sinai (as we read in Exodus 32 above), where our ancestors put the name of YAH on the idol they made, they then celebrated by holding a festival feast in the name of YAH, while worshiping the golden calf idol they created! What a terrible and disrespectful thing to do! Take your time and imagine telling someone about something you hate, and then they turn around and do the very thing you hate, after pledging that they won’t do the thing you hate, and to make that bad thing worse, they say that they are doing that thing which they know you hate, in honor of you & your name! Pure Insanity! What a vile & vain thing to do. But that’s exactly what happened; YAH said: Don’t participate in idolatry, and they said “We won’t”, and then they proceeded to have a wild full-on Diddy-like party for their idol, while saying it was all done in the name of YAH. They treated His name as if it were nothing at all. That brings us to the next commandment:
Sheesh… They blatantly disrespected His name! What did they do with it? Sadly, the world profanes the name of our Elohim/God in a major way. Christianity and Bible translators have led humanity to disregard the Father’s sacred name. Let’s examine the Hebrew word for “vain” and its usage more closely:
When the Father’s set apart/holy name—Yahuah/YAH, got hidden away, and covered up by the translators with “The Lord”, that was a vanity of vanities move. It is high-level deceit & deception; we were given an empty replacement, a name/title full of falsehood that could be/is often applied to any worthless idol or deity. Our Elohim/God has a name, He gave us His name to call upon & praise, and it’s time for us to get rid of the inferior, worthless, and vain titles like “The Lord” & “God”, and it’s time for us to know Him by His name, and call Him by His name once again!
We dig in deeper on the importance of not taking the name of YAH in vain, in other blogs, so for now, let us end the review of this foundational commandment by highlighting what happens to us when we know the mighty name of YAH our Elohim, and we instead bring His name to naught:
That’s right! We can all read it straight from the Word of YAH ourselves! YAH will punish those who are guilty of irreverently misusing and making His name void/vain. Again, let us declare to the world: It’s time to put all the respect back onto The Name of YAHUAH! Let us make YAH’s name great again—worldwide! It’s a major step towards repairing our people, because we as His people, we are guilty, we have blasphemed His name in every way imaginable, wherever we find ourselves today.
All praises to The Most High YAH, for this truth which is being declared once again, city to city, nation to nation, to us & by us — HalleluYAH (Praise YAH)!!!
Along with YAH’s name being blasphemed worldwide, the world was also taught by Christian dogma (not Biblical doctrine), to forget about the next commandment, and that righteous Law of course, is the only one of The Big 10 which starts by instructing us to not forget, but to “REMEMBER”, and boy did we forget it as His people:
The 4th Commandment
So as His people, we are instructed by YAH (not by men), to keep the Sabbath/Shabbat day, the 7th day of the week, set-apart/holy. Why? For that answer we only have to keep reading:
“Six days you labour, and shall do ALL your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of יהוה your Elohim. You do not do ANY work – you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. “For in six days יהוה made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore יהוה blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart.”
Shemoth (Exodus) 20:9-11 TS2009
So, we must do what our Father did, because that’s what He told us to do. He rested on the 7th day of the week, His Shabbat/Sabbath day, and He instructed us to remember to keep His Day set apart from the other 6 days of the week. But the Catholic Church/Christianity teaches the world to forget about the Biblical Sabbath day, and to instead call the first day of the week a “Christian sabbath” day. Notice I said Christianity because again, the Bible never says that, not once. The Bible says that the Sabbath/Shabbat is FOREVER and it’s to be kept set-apart forever. We’ve also dug in deeper on the importance of keeping YAH’s Shabbat Day set-apart in multiple other blogs, and you can review those at your leisure but know this now: this command & the next actually go together.
The last command which we will cover in this blog, is the 5th Commandment in The Big 10, and it is also immensely important for the restoration of Our People. If we look around, in real life, in entertainment, on social media, etc… we see this commandment being broken daily… and it’s especially tragic knowing the blessing that is forfeited when Our People break this foundational command:
The 5th Commandment
Imagine our communities, our homes, and schools, being full of children (young & old) who honor their parents. What a fix for our people right?!? Instead, however, what do we see more of these days? More and more examples of growing dishonor, disrespect, and even abuse from our children towards their parents, and parental figures. It’s a shame. Yes, unfortunately we also have far too many parents who provoke their children to wrath, yes we have neglectful & abusive parents amongst our households, and yes, it’s a terrible thing indeed, but let’s stay on the topic at hand & The Big 10, the dishonor our people display towards their parents, it has got to stop! Honor must return if we are to stand any chance at restoration & repair… And we know that honor will indeed return once again — HalleluYAH!
And back to the Sabbath/Shabbat keeping & honoring of our parents, they are adjoining passages in The Big 10, and also in another place in Torah, they are actually in the very same verse:
We shall return to honoring Our Father in heaven, and honoring our earthly fathers & mothers. Our parents were supposed to keep YAH’s commandments, and teach their children to keep the commandments, and then when their children grew up, the children would not depart from the commandments, and they would care for their parents in their older age, completing & repeating the cycle established by YAH—HalleluYAH!
The Amplified translation (AMP), actually brings that reciprocal care part out, look again:
Again, we are supposed to have a cycle of honor & care amongst our people; we will again! We will care for those who cared for us, from household to household, community to community, one nation, 12 tribes strong. Let us look forward to our reparation, as we care for & honor our parents & elders again—HalleluYAH!
Well family… that just about covers it, for now at least. We have Our Holy Constitution—the righteous commandments from YAH; His instructions are for our benefit and they are the key to our restoration as His people! Let us live lives upholding Our Constitution. Let us declare His instructions worldwide, wherever we are, every chance we get. We see the plight of our people, and it’s time to repent/turn away from sin & dysfunction and return to obeying YAH. YAH has the plan for our redemption, and our redemption is one day closer—HalleluYAH! Let’s close this out, by remembering what YAH told one of our great prophets:
“For I know the plans I am planning for you,’ declares יהוה (Yah), ‘plans of peace (shalom) and not of evil, to give you a future and an expectancy. Then you shall call on Me, and shall come and pray to Me, and I shall listen to you. And you shall seek Me, and shall find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. And I shall be found by you,’ declares יהוה, ‘and I shall turn back your captivity, and shall gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, declares יהוה. And I shall bring you back to the place from which I have exiled you.’
Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 29:11-14 TS2009
HalleluYAH! HalleluYAH! HalleluYAH! Amen!
Repair/Repairation is coming family!
Until next time, shalom ✌🏾
~Yahrahn
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