I think TorahTent.com needs to be redevoped so the directory is not on a subdomain. I started another website the beginning of this month for the city and county I live in at http://CookevilleSocial.com and it has received over 145,000 hits already. It's packed full of things with a social site, a directory, forums and other things. Members can start their own blogs and a variety of things. It's not just for believers but for people in the area I live in. It's a search engine also. Because of that I'm considering starting a search engine with the software I have that will be to serve the body of Messiah.

I am using Cookeville Social to reach people for Messiah without being obvious about it. Please pray that it will serve its purpose and lead people to the Messiah.

Fresh book review for you literary sorts: https://booklight.top/posts/2025-11-23-cowboytails

The Sabbath is for all mankind. The Sabbath was created on the 7th day of creation, kept by all the apostles and early Christians, and will be kept in the future under penalty of death. YHVH aka God rested on the 7th day of creation as an example for mankind the same way that Yeshua aka Jesus was baptized. God was not tired and did not need rest after creating the world, He rested with Adam as an example. Yeshua was sinless and did not need to be baptized, He did that to be an example as well. The first century believers would never have considered changing the Sabbath or stopping it because that was the principle means they identified as worshipers of the one true God. This has never changed and this message proves from scripture that the Sabbath is not just for Christians and Jews, but for all mankind.

https://firstcenturychristiani....ty.net/the-sabbath-i

We are in the ninth biblical month.
https://messiahslove.com/alive..../new-moon-watch-2025

Standing on Your Holy Mountain's peak
Father, it is Your Face I seek
Waiting and watching the valley below
Praying for Your living water to flow

I will know that when Your shofar sound
I will be standing on Holy ground
I bow low before You my King
In Your presence, Your praise I will sing

Touch my spirit and clean my soul
Forgive my sins and make me whole
To me, You speak in whispers, unbroken and sure
Through a vow eternal, steadfast and pure

Father, I know Your Covenant remains
Through my trials, joys and pains
But, Your Words, no time can erase
It is forever sealed by Your mercy and grace

I know as a believer, I am an heir of promises divine
Crafted in love and part of Your design
Now I am on this Mountain's peak
And through thanks, it is Your face I seek. Amen

Excerpt from “Circumcision &
Salvation” by Kyle Matthews

“…The argument of the Nazarenes was that, since the Messiah had come, and made The Way of return possible, that the message should go out to the Lost Tribes to restore Israel, as it once was by bringing them, not into Judaism, but into their own inheritance, the inheritance of their ancestors of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. From the Nazarene perspective, the message is not one of universal eternal salvation from fiery damnation, but a universal offer to the Lost Tribes mixed in among the nations, whose ancestors were Israelites, an offer of salvation, from being lost, cut off, and forever forsaken. The Jewish sect of the Nazarenes, contrary to the sect of the Pharisees, saw themselves as Jews and a remnant of Israel purposed to restore all of Israel, rather than to be content being all that remains.

This cannot be stressed enough: there was no new religion. There was no church. There was no Christianity. There was only Judaism. Two opposing sects of the same religion arguing over what the future of their shared faith was supposed to be, and would become... the Pharisees were not opposed to preaching of the Gospel because it was a new religion. They were opposed to this preaching, because it was a threat to their power, it undermined their worldview, and it relegated them to a remnant of a larger body, a piece of a bigger picture, the leftovers of a lost civilization….”

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BIBLE STUDY --- THE GOOD SHEPHERD

WHAT YESHUA TAUGHT THE TWELVE

From Matthew 9:35-11:1

About that time, Yeshua went throughout Galilee, visiting all the towns and villages. He taught in the synagogues, telling the Good News of the Kingdom and healing people from all kinds of disease and sickness. Wherever He went, He was filled with compassion for the crowds, for they were like sheep that had no shepherd, weak and helpless with nowhere to turn. [There is a great harvest of people,] Yeshua told His disciples. [But the workers are few. Pray to Adonai of the harvest that He will send more workers to gather His harvest.] When Yeshua had called His twelve disciples together, He gave them the power to drive out evil spirits and to heal all kinds of disease and sickness. The names of the twelve were Simon Peter and his brother Andrew, James and his brother John, both sons of Zebedee, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the patriot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Yeshua. These were the twelve whom Yeshua sent forth, giving them the following orders:

[Do not go to the Gentiles or Samaritans but only to the lost sheep of Israel. Go and preach that the Kingdom of heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, and drive out demons. Give without payment as you have received without paying. Carry no gold or silver or money, take no bag of provisions with you, not even a walking stick, for as My worker, you should be given all you need. When you enter a city or village, find some worthy man and stay with him until you leave. As you enter his house, put your blessing upon it. If you are welcomed, let your blessing remain. If you are rejected, let your blessing return to you. Wherever some do not welcome you or hear what you have to tell them, as you leave that place, shake the dust from your feet. You must know for certain that on the Judgment Day the people of Sodom and Gomorrah will be shown more mercy than the people of that place. I send you forth as sheep among wolves. Be as wise as serpents, but as harmless as doves. Be careful! For there are some who will arrest you and try you in court and whip you in the synagogues. Before governors and kings, you will be brought to trial because of Me. But there you may tell the Good News about Me, a witness to all who hear. You must not worry about the words you should speak, for at the time of your trial, the right words will be given to you. For you will not speak these words as your own, but as a gift from the Spirit of your Father, Who will speak through you. Some men will betray their own brothers to the death. Some fathers will betray their own children, too. And children will turn against their parents and send them to their death. People will hate you because you are Mine. But those who endure to the end will be saved. When they mistreat you in one town, go to another. I will come to be with you before you visit all the towns. A pupil is not greater than his teacher. A servant is not greater than his master. If men have called the head of the family ‘Satan,’ what will they call the rest of the family? But you must not be afraid. All that is hidden will be revealed, and all secrets will become known. What I tell you in the darkness of night, you must tell others in the bright light of day. What I whisper now you must proclaim then. Do not fear those who can kill only your body but cannot harm your soul. But fear YHVH, Who has the power over both body and soul. Is the cost of sparrows two for a penny? But not one of them falls to the ground without the consent of your Father. As for you, each hair is counted. So do not fear for you are worth much more than many sparrows. Whoever claims Me as his Friend before other people, I will claim as My friend before My Father in heaven. Whoever denies to others that I am his, I will deny to My Father that he is Mine. I did not come to bring peace to the world. I bring not peace, But a sword. With My coming, sons will turn against fathers, daughters against mothers, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law, and thus one’s worst enemies may come from his own family. Whoever loves father or mother more than Me Is not worthy of Me. Whoever loves son or daughter more than Me Is not worthy of Me. Whoever does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. Whoever clutches his life to himself will lose it, but whoever gives up his life for Me will save it. Whoever welcomes you, welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me, welcomes the One Who sent Me. Whoever welcomes a messenger of YHVH because he is YHVH’s messenger, will share in the rewards for YHVH’s messengers. And whoever welcomes a righteous man because he is righteous, will share in the rewards for righteous men. Whoever gives the least of My helpers a cup of cold water, because he is My helper, will share in the rewards reserved for My helpers.]

When Yeshua had given these instructions to His twelve disciples, He went to other towns to teach and to preach.

COMMENTARY

THE TWELVE DISCIPLES

Yeshua had many followers during His lifetime, but there were twelve men who were especially close to Him. He chose each of them by name to become a member of the circle of His closest friends. They became known as {the Twelve Disciples} because they believed in Yeshua and told others about Him. They left their homes and jobs to travel everywhere with Him. After Yeshua’ death, these twelve men were called {apostles.} They became the leaders of the early believers because they had been eyewitnesses to everything that Yeshua said and did. Some of the apostles wrote down what they remembered about Yeshua in the books that became part of the New Testament. Sometimes Paul is called {the thirteenth apostle} even though he did not know Yeshua during His life on earth. Paul became a follower of Moshiach after he saw Adonai in a vision on the road to Damascus. Paul and the twelve apostles carried on the work that Moshiach began. They risked their lives to spread the Good News.

BIBLE STUDY --- THE GOOD SHEPHERD

NEWS TOO GOOD TO KEEP

From Matthew 9:27-31

When Yeshua left Jairus’ home, two blind men followed, begging Him for help. [Take pity on us, O Son of David,] they shouted. The blind men followed Yeshua into the house where He was going. Then Yeshua talked with them about their need. [Do you believe that I can help you see?] He asked, [Yes, we certainly do, Adonai,] they answered. Then Yeshua touched their eyes. [You will now see as much as you believe,] He told them. Immediately the men were well again. [You must not tell anyone about this,] Yeshua told them sternly. But the news was too good to keep, so the men went all over that part of the country, telling people about Yeshua.

POWER OVER DEMONS

From Matthew 9:32-34

The two men were leaving when some people brought another man in need to Yeshua. This man could not talk because a demon lived in him. As soon as Yeshua drove the demon from the man, he started talking again. The people were greatly amazed to see that. [We’ve never seen anything like this in Israel before,] they said. The Pharisees, however, gave their jealous answer. [Yeshua gets His power over demons from the chief of demons,] they said to the people.

BACK HOME IN NAZARETH

From Mark 6:1-6

With His disciples, Yeshua left this part of the country and went home to Nazareth. When the Shabbat day came, He went to the synagogue to teach. The people who heard Him were surprised that a local boy had grown up with such wisdom and power. [Where did He get all this wisdom?] they wondered. [How does He do these miracles? Isn’t He merely the carpenter Who lived here with His mother Mary and His brothers -- James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? And aren’t His sisters living here among us?] The people refused to accept Him, but Yeshua told them, [Wherever a prophet goes, he receives honour, except in his home town among his relatives and family.] Because the people of Nazareth would not believe, Yeshua did very few miracles among them. A few people were healed when He placed His hands on them, but Yeshua wondered at the unbelief of the others.

COMMENTARY

THE SUFFERING OF THE BLIND

In Yeshua’ time a blind person suffered much more than he would today. There was almost no opportunity for a blind person to earn a living, so he was forced to beg or steal. Frequently the blind sat on street corners or at the entrance to a synagogue or the temple, depending on the more fortunate to have mercy. Blind people often depended on others to lead them from place to place. There was little medical help available for the blind, and what was available could do nothing of consequence. Surgery for the eyes was hundreds of years in the future. There was a social stigma for the blind also. Blindness was often considered a curse from YHVH. It was a punishment for the blind person’s sins or the sins of the parents. Blindness was common in ancient times. Much of it came from improper medical care and unsanitary conditions. One of the most common forms of blindness was the infection of children’s eyes, brought about by swarms of flies which moved from one infected eye to another. Some cultures thought it was unlucky to remove deposits which flies left on and around the eyes, so the victim had no hope. And often the victim was an infant. Widespread disease caused many to be born blind or to go blind in later life. So common was this form of blindness that an ancient manuscript listed more than a hundred prescriptions to cure it. With the hopeless plight of the blind, one can only imagine the excitement Yeshua caused when He healed the blind, something no doctor of His day could do.

Should Sabbath Keepers go to restaurants on the Sabbath?

Yesterday on Sabbath, a Sabbath keeping friend of mine wanted me to meet him with another Sabbath keeper at a coffee shop on the Sabbath. I refused to do so because I don't believe that buying and selling on the Sabbath is appropriate.

Nehemiah 13:15-21 NKJV speaks out against it which says:

In those days I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them about the day on which they were selling provisions. Men of Tyre dwelt there also, who brought in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem. Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, “What evil thing is this that you do, by which you profane the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers do thus, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Yet you bring added wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.” So it was, at the gates of Jerusalem, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and charged that they must not be opened till after the Sabbath. Then I posted some of my servants at the gates, so that no burdens would be brought in on the Sabbath day. Now the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. Then I warned them, and said to them, “Why do you spend the night around the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you!” From that time on they came no more on the Sabbath.

The Seventh Day Adventists do not go to restaurants on the Sabbath. G. Steven Simons of Triumph In Truth Ministries also speaks out against it. The Church of God offshoots of Herbert W. Armstrong see nothing wrong with going to restaurants on Sabbath which is where my friend is from.

Thoughts?