Section 5: Yehuveh’s Time System, Article 7 Sabbaths Page 3
It would be worth the effort to keep a weekly log of the purposes and plans we develop each Sabbath. Each Sabbath assess the events of the past week and then lay simple, achievable plans for the coming week. Then, in humble prayer, commit your plans to Yehuveh. On the following Sabbath look over your noted plans for the past week and assess your progress. Also note achievements which may not have been in your plans but with which you are pleased and satisfied. These weekly plans and assessments, taken down in writing, not only give purpose to our activities throughout the week, but prepare us to assess our achievements each month at the New Moon days, and yearly at the Day of Restarting (Atonement). Through these weekly, monthly, and annual self-evaluations we come to know ourselves and we gain the perspective of realizing our own strengths and deficiencies. We give purpose to our every action and we become powerful forces for good in the world.         Do you have vague desires that float in the back of your mind but are never achieved? Make the decision to achieve any or all of these wishes, commit this decision to Yehuveh, and note your purpose. Break down each decided-on goal into do-able portions and note the first step in your Sabbath goal list the week you are ready to begin. Do you want to change a quality in your character, obtain a specific object, learn a skill, build or rebuild a relationship, visit a location, or change your physical condition? Make a decision, commit it to Yehuveh, and begin with purpose. Sabbath is given us for this very purpose. We are to become all we can be. Social Opportunities: “Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of Yehuveh in all your dwellings.” Popular opinion is that Yehuveh here, by using the word convocation, requires us to meet (as in community church-gatherings) every Sabbath. This is an unfortunate misunderstanding, for convocation correctly calls us to meet with Yehuveh, not with fellow-believers. Nonetheless, Sabbaths do also afford us opportunities to socialize both in and beyond our families. Leviticus 23:3.          As discussed in greater detail in relationship to the Day of Restarting (Atonement), convocation is from miqrah [H4744], stated by James Strong to mean “something called out; a public meeting, a sacred reading,” from the primary root verb qara' [H7121], meaning “to proclaim; to read aloud; to recite; to call out to (address by name); cry out, cry for help.” While public gatherings were possible, convocation more accurately portrays us meeting with Yehuveh individually for personal-life redirection, a call to reconnect with Yehuveh individually. Convocations were for personal and family instruction directly from Yehuveh. Leviticus 23:2; Amos 5:21; Deuteronomy 33:10.         This is not to say that gathering with like-believers cannot at times be beneficial. Something wonderful happens whenever Yehuveh’s people gather to worship Him.                 They encourage each other:  “Thus saith Yehuveh of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there                 shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities: and the inhabitants of one city shall go to                 another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before Yehuveh, and to seek Yehuveh of hosts: I will go                 also.” Zechariah 8:20-21.                 They offer each other fellowship, friendship and support: “Many people shall go and say, Come                 ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Yehuveh, to the house of the Elohim of Jacob; and He will                 teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.” Isaiah 2:3.                 Both by their formal meetings and in quiet conversations, Yehuveh’s children continually teach                 each other: “If they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, Yehuveh                 liveth; . . . then shall they be built in the midst of My people.” Jeremiah 12:16.  Gael Bataman Originally Written:      4 September 2005 Latest Update:          28 October 2008     Return to Zadok Home            Continue . . .         Return One Page          Go to Section 5: Time   Go to Historical Calendar     Go to Daniel 11-12    Go to Revelation     Go to Years of Returning (Darius)