Vatican bans the use of the Divine Name in Catholic Churches

The following news articles is proof that the world is rapidly moving to a One World Religion with the Noahide Laws (as Jewish Talmudists interpret them) are enforced globally in order to unite peoples with one basic creed “generally” acceptable to most. Also see: BEWARE OF THE NOAHIDE LAWS and Ban on the Pronunciation of The-Name for more information on this alarming development.

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Vatican bars use of `Yahweh’ in Catholic churches
– Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Catholics at worship should neither sing nor pronounce the name of God as “Yahweh,” the Vatican has said, citing the authority of both Jewish and Christian practice.

The instruction came in a June 29 letter to Catholic bishops conferences around the world from the Vatican’s top liturgical body, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, by an explicit “directive” of Pope Benedict XVI.

“In recent years the practice has crept in of pronouncing the God of Israel’s proper name,” the letter noted, referring to the four-consonant Hebrew “Tetragrammaton,” YHWH.

That name is commonly pronounced as “Yahweh,” though other versions include “Jaweh” and “Yehovah.” But such pronunciation violates long-standing Jewish tradition, the Vatican reminded bishops.

“As an expression of the infinite greatness and majesty of God, (the name) was held to be unpronounceable and hence was replaced during the reading of sacred Scripture by means of the use of an alternate name: `Adonai,’ which means `Lord,”‘ the Congregation said.

That practice continued with Christianity, the letter explained, recalling the “church’s tradition, from the beginning, that the sacred Tetragrammaton was never pronounced in the Christian context nor translated into any of the languages into which the Bible was translated.”

Invoking a Vatican document from 2001, the Congregation reminded bishops that the name “Yahweh” in Catholic worship should be replaced by the Latin “Dominus” (Lord) or a word “equivalent in meaning” in the local language.

The Vatican’s move will require changes in a number of hymns and prayers currently used in American churches, but not to the Mass itself, said the U.S. bishops’ top liturgical official.

Catholic News Service quoted an Aug. 8 letter from Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, informing American prelates of the policy.

The Vatican’s instruction, Serratelli wrote, would serve as “an encouragement to show reverence for the name of God in daily life, emphasizing the power of language as an act of devotion and worship.”
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Priests (Cohanim) of Future Temple Get Fitted For Holy Garments

Future Temple Jewish Priests Get Fitted For Holy Garments (Arutz Sheva).

“(IsraelNN.com) As the Jewish People continue their national return to their ancestral homeland, tailors at the Temple Institute in Jerusalem’s Old City began taking measurements of Kohanim (the priestly tribe designated to run the Temple services) earlier this month in anticipation of an even bigger event — the dedication of the Third Temple.”

“Yehuda Glick, director of the Temple Institute, presided over the first-ever fitting of Kohanim for their priestly garments. “Today, in this room, Kohanim are being measured for the first time in 2,000 years for the type of garments they will be wearing in the rebuilt Temple,” announced Glick to an audience of rabbis, reporters and cameramen on hand to witness the historic event.”

The “Lord of the Sabbath” has the Last Word on the “lunar sabbath”

The following quotes was taken from Michael Rood’s Astronomically and Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar (2008).

“The Julian calendar (instituted in 45 B.C.E. by Julius Caesar) is the reckoning of time that is utilized for astronomical calculations and for computing events in ancient history. NASA’s calculated accuracy for the Julian calendar is measurably better than 1 millionth of a second. The calculations for the Astronomically and Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar for dates before 1582 are all calculated and expressed in the Julian mode. The Gregorian calendar was instituted in 1582 to rectify the miscalculation of leap years inherent in the Julian system. Pontifex Maximus Gregory XIII, added 10 days to the calendar at midnight, Thursday, October 4th which became Friday, October 15th. The seven-day week, and the seventh day Sabbath have continued uninterrupted from both the Julian and Hebrew reckoning - and it is highly probable that it has continued uninterrupted since creation week.”

“It has been astronomically and mathematically verified that the Sabbath that Yahshua kept is the same day of the week that it is now. The astronomical proofs are precise to 1/1,000,000th of a second and the mathematical calculations are accurate to within 1/10,000,000th of a day. This irrefutable data constitutes prima facie evidence that the recently concocted “lunar-sabbath” is pure fiction. If Yahshua did not find it necessary to “renovate” the Sabbath when he was here, but meticulously guarded its sanctity, I think it is presumptuous and impertinent to assume that one knows more about the “correct” Sabbath than Yahshua did. I am not of the mind to straighten “the Lord of the Sabbath” out concerning this particular issue! Considering the multiple “fatal errors” in the various lunar-sabbath systems which attempt to invent a sabbath that coincides with the phases of the moon, this is, by far, the most fatal. I will stick with Yahshua on the 7th day Sabbath. Messianic believers can be absolutely confident that they are keeping the same Sabbath that the Creator keeps. Frivolous case dismissed!!!”

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Bible Publishers Sued for Anti-Homosexual References

Newsmax reporting Bible Publishers Sued for Anti-Gay References:

A Michigan man is seeking $70 million from two Christian publishers for emotional distress and mental instability he received during the past 20 years from versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin.

Bradley LaShawn Fowler, a gay man, claims his constitutional rights were infringed upon by Zondervan Publishing Co. and Thomas Nelson Publishing, both of which, he claims, deliberately caused homosexuals to suffer by misinterpretation of the Bible.

This is a classic example of our culture calling “evil good and good evil”.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Society is snow balling into moral confusion and decay partially because they have let man-made rules define our cultural values while neglecting what the actual scriptures say (in both Christianity and Judaism) and then when the rest of society (that part which would have no rules (except the rule to have no rules)) gains judicial control over the rest of us, we have to submit and/or be punished based upon their rule to have no rules. Here is the growing theme: “There are absolutely no absolutes and by golly don’t cause me any mental or emotional distress or I’ll sue you and yours for 70 mill.”

Fowler admits that every Bible printed is a translation that can be interpreted in many ways, but he says specifically using the word “homosexual” is not a translation but a change.

Fowler is most concerned with 1 Corinthians 6:9. See three major version translations below:

(NIV) Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders

(KJV) Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

(ASV) Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

The underlying Greek word being translated differently is: Arsenokoites (G733), which has generally been thought to mean “a sodomite: abuser of self with mankind” and is derived from the Greek word: Koite (G2749) which means “a couch; by extension cohabitation; by implication the male sperm: bed, chambering, X conceive”. By looking at the context of the verse, I’m curious how else homosexuals think this word could be alternatively translated.

Largely because people have been taught that “Jesus nailed the Law to the Cross”, they seem to forget Apostle Paul was not deriving his statements, as in 1 Corinthians, from living in a vacuum. He was a Jew from the Israelite tribe of Benjamin who had likely memorized the entire text of the Torah (if not large tracts of it). And the Torah plainly says this:

Leviticus 20:13 ‘And a man who lies with a male as he lies with a woman: both of them have done an abomination, they shall certainly be put to death, their blood is upon them.

Just as in ancient Israel, individuals today are not allowed to “take the Law into their own hands”. Homosexuals were put to death by the assembly of Israelite Elders (Judges). Vigilantes were rare and rarely accepted. We now have a system of Judges in the USA which also have the right in some states to put persons to death for some crimes, but Homosexuality has not been a crime punishable with death for a very long time in this country. Currently, if a person murders a homosexual for being homosexual, that person him/herself would also be put to death in some states or at least go to prison for life. And no one is forcing homosexuals to read the Bible translations which cause them deserved emotional distress and no one is forcing them to fellowship with people who do read those Bible translations and rightly teach against homosexuality.

I’ve had homosexual friends and lovingly talked with them and disagreed with their behavior, but I do not think they themselves are evil. I see their activity/actions as evil. Men were simply not designed to lie with other men and that is why it is considered abominable and wickedness. Wickedness (Ra) is basically defined in Hebrew as breaking the design/function of something. See my article What does the word “Wickedness” mean in Hebrew? for more details.

Sadly, one of my concerns in posting this is whether or not my webhost will one day turn off my domain account simply because of my Torah-stance on this issue or similar controversial issues. Even so, Torah is Light, and I must speak the Light as long as I am able. The World hates the Light because mankind loves darkness more than Light (John 3:19).

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Important topics and controversies covered in the recently updated article: “What is the Proper Name of the Most High?”

See the article here: What is the Proper Name of the Most High?

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