My Messages to the World
We are now approaching Halloween. It is a day where the people of the nations of the world dress up as zombies and skeletons and witches and devils and murderers and all sorts of characters, and party. In various ways all these costumes represent some sort of evil that God hates, so in general this particular celebration is obviously evil. The Torah forbids us from celebrating this day, along with any other day not established by Moses nor the nation of Israel. As it is written, “you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation that I am driving out before you”. And also, “you shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes”. It is also not acceptable to celebrate Christmas, nor Easter, nor birthdays, nor days of independence, nor any other holiday in the nations where we currently live. These are all holidays and celebrations and traditions established in the nations God is calling us out from, in order to become grafted in citizens of the nation of God, which is Israel, whose appointed times are established in the Torah of Moses. Although we are born in the Gentile nations of the world, making us be American or Colombian or Spanish or Italian or whatever other national identity we were born into, this is not our true identity. Our true identity is the nation of Israel, which is the cultivated olive tree God has grafted us into. And the nation of Israel will be the nation we will become in the 1,000 year government of Yeshua over this earth. This is why the 144,000 chosen are counted only among the tribes of the nation of Israel. God wants us to celebrate the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, the appointed time of trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles, and all the appointed times established by God as written by Moses. These set-apart times that must be celebrated in specific days in the Jewish calendar form part of the national identity of Israel that God wants us to adopt in order to truly become “his people”. Figuratively, God does not want us to celebrate the practices of the nation of Egypt, which in all represents sin and slavery in the nations we were born into, which we have figuratively left, nor does he want us to celebrate the practices of the nations of Canaan, which represents all the nations of the world that will be destroyed by Yeshua at his return, which is where we are going literally. Celebrating Purim is permissible, although this appointed time was not established by Moses, but it was established by the tribe of Judah around the time of the Babylonian exile.