And our Lord Jesus Christ Himself said in John 6:63:
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are life.”
Also in John 17:17:
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
New Testament churches, knowing the weight, gravity, betrayal, perversion, and seriousness of the greatest sins that we, the New Testament churches, have committed against God and our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, it is a shame that we have committed these greatest abominations upon abominations, sins upon sins, and iniquities upon iniquities in all our daily actions and doings and in all our daily lives regarding these our greatest sins against our Lord Jesus Christ Himself.
These our sins should not have happened if we had listened to the voice, the directions, and the teachings of the Holy Spirit and the spoken words of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself about His truth in John 8:32:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
If we had listened to the teachings of the Holy Spirit, we would not have lived in these sins for these many years.
According to the words spoken by the Holy Spirit through Paul the apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ in Romans 6:1-2:
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
We, the New Testament churches, need very serious and profound confessions, repentances, and forgiveness for sinning against God and our Lord Jesus Christ Himself in making the first day of God’s creation as our resting day — or what we call our Sabbath or first day or 6th day Sunday worship — and also rejecting the spoken words of God concerning His feast days to be holy convocations and His Ten Commandments to be holy convocations where the 7th day Sabbath is that the Lord has blessed and hallowed, which the Lord has put on our minds and written on our hearts through the blood of Jesus Christ, and His New Year to be the beginning of the year and first month of the year for us, His seal upon His churches to separate them from the evil world that they live in.
Why have we, the New Testament churches, done these evils before thee, O our Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ Himself? We have sinned above the number of the sands in the seas and need to repent sincerely, regretfully, sorrowfully, shamelessly, shamefully, and sadly, and we say in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
Oh Lord our God and our Lord Jesus Christ,
We, your New Testament churches, have done wickedly and committed great evils against You—our one and only Almighty God, and our one and only Lord Jesus Christ.
For many years, we have lived in sin upon sin, committing abomination upon abomination daily. We have sinned beyond counting, more than the sands of the sea. We have provoked Your anger, and we now come before You saying: We are very sorry. Again, we say we are very sorry. We repeat it with sincere and wholehearted repentance.
We acknowledge our sins. We have made the first day of Your work of creation our resting day—what we have called our Sabbath or our Sunday worship. We have rejected Your feast days, which You declared to be holy convocations, and we have ignored Your Ten Commandments – especially the seventh-day Sabbath, which You blessed and hallowed.
You wrote these truths on our hearts and minds through the blood of Jesus Christ. You gave us Your calendar: a new year and a first month to mark our beginning. You gave us Your seal to separate us from this evil world.
But we have sinned against that, and we are deeply sorry. We now reject the sins that led us astray. With regret and conviction, we forsake Sunday worship, which we wrongly assumed to be the Sabbath. Instead, we return—shamefully but willingly—to the revival of Your true holy days: Your feasts, Your Sabbath on the seventh day, and Your commandments, all written in our hearts through Christ.
We confess again, Lord: we are very sorry. We have ignorantly committed these sins, yet we have faith in You till eternity. We deeply regret sinning against You – our only Way, Truth, and Life.
We, the New Testament churches, have sinned in all our ways for many years. We’ve lived daily in idolatry, unaware of how deeply we were in error. We turned Your first working day of creation into our rest day – our supposed Sabbath – and by doing so, we went against Your Word.
In Genesis 1:5, it is written:
“And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
Yet we ignored this. We called that day our Sabbath. We have told the world—whether knowingly or not—that You did not begin creation on the first day of the week. What a calamity and what great evil we have done.
You commanded in Exodus 20:9:
“Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work.”
And in Leviticus 23:3:
“Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, an holy convocation…”
Still, we rested on the first day instead and called it holy. We misused the day You entrusted to us for labor, and in doing so, sinned against You.
We compounded our sin by rejecting Your feast days and the seventh-day Sabbath—Your appointed holy convocations, written on our hearts by the blood of Christ. We say again: New Testament churches, be assured— the observance of God’s feast days is not ceremonial law or obsolete tradition. Please read Hebrews 10:1–39.
We have rejected Your spoken Word, which is You Yourself, according to John 1:1:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
We have ignored Your command to keep the feast days, the seventh-day Sabbath, Your appointed times, and the beginning of the year—all of which You gave as signs to separate Your people from the world.
These commandments were never meant for Israel alone. They were not nailed to the cross or done away with. Your Word is eternal.
Psalm 119:89 says:
“Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.”
So how could we have committed such evil, Lord?
We have been eating and drinking sin for years, pretending to serve You while living in hypocrisy. Our actions have been selfish, manipulative, and disgraceful. We have lacked knowledge and ignored the Holy Spirit, whom You gave us to guide us into truth—even from before the foundation of the world.
Your Word says in Genesis 1:5:
“And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
You commanded us to work six days beginning with that first day, as shown again in Exodus 20:9 and Leviticus 23:3. That day was to be the start of our labor, not our worship. Yet we have reversed it. We assumed Sunday was holy. We sinned deliberately.
Lord, we cannot change Your Word. We cannot manipulate You or Your plan. Malachi 3:6 declares:
“I am the Lord, I change not.”
The days of creation are fixed. No human or angel can change or remove them. They stand forever.
In rejecting Your true Sabbath and feast days, we have violated Your commandments. You told Moses in Leviticus 23:1–2:
“These are My feasts… holy convocations.”
And in verse 4:
“These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations.”
One of our greatest errors has been not accepting the name children of Israel as our own. We failed to realize that all believers in Christ – both Jews and Gentiles – are the spiritual descendants of Abraham through the blood of Jesus, as shown in Genesis 17:4–6 and Genesis 26:4.
Lord, we repent of this. We confess our sins and plead for mercy. Help us walk again in Your truth – not in tradition, assumption, or ignorance – but in obedience to Your eternal Word.
Amen.
“And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.”
Genesis 26:4
Jacob’s Blessing
Genesis 27:27-29
27 And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed.
28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine.
29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
Jacob Becomes Israel
Genesis 32:24–28
24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh…
26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
From Abraham to Isaac and Jacob, God made these three patriarchs fathers of many nations. Yet we in the New Testament churches have often overlooked a profound truth: from the day Jacob was renamed Israel, the twelve tribes became only one part of the many nations God promised.
We, the Gentiles who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, are part of those many nations—grafted into the promise through His blood.
Though the nation of Israel was first to bear that name by divine command, the ultimate purpose was larger. God’s plan was always to bring both Jews and Gentiles together into one body under the name Israel—a spiritual people, not just a nation.
Ephesians 1:13–14 reminds us:
“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth… ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance…”
This inheritance is explained in Revelation 21:12, where the new Jerusalem has twelve gates—each bearing the name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. These are not just names for one ethnic group but represent all saints in Christ, both Jew and Gentile.
Revelation 20:9 speaks clearly of Satan’s rebellion against the camp of the saints—that is, all believers—and Revelation 20:10 declares his final defeat.
John 10:15–16 supports this unity:
“I lay down my life for the sheep [the Jews]… And other sheep I have [the Gentiles]… there shall be one fold and one shepherd.”
We, the saints—Jew and Gentile—make up the bride of Christ, the spiritual twelve tribes, kept in the holy city, the New Jerusalem.
Now, about the Feasts of the Lord:
Leviticus 23:1–2 says:
“Speak unto the children of Israel… concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.”
These are not simply Old Testament customs. These are the spoken words of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, according to John 1:1:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
The feasts were never ceremonial laws to be nailed to the cross. Instead, they are God’s appointed times, just as the Sabbath (7th day) is a holy convocation. These were written on our hearts and minds through the blood of Jesus Christ—not abolished, but fulfilled and magnified.
Yet we, the churches, have rejected this. We’ve replaced God’s calendar with the world’s. We’ve treated Sunday—the first day of the week—as the Sabbath, which contradicts both Scripture and the pattern God set from the beginning.
Genesis 1:1–5 tells us plainly that God’s creative work began on the first day (now Sunday in the Roman calendar). He then commanded in Exodus 20:9 and Leviticus 23:3 that we should work six days and rest on the seventh—a day He blessed and hallowed.
We have sinned greatly by:
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Rejecting God’s appointed feasts
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Dismissing the seventh-day Sabbath
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Treating the first day as our Sabbath, against His command
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Embracing worldly traditions instead of His Word
We have lived in ignorance, unrighteousness, and idolatry. We’ve betrayed the trust of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, recognizing this, we humbly repent. We no longer want to carry the weight of our iniquities and abominations.
With sorrowful and repentant hearts, we denounce:
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The false rest day (Sunday) as Sabbath
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All feasts and traditions of the antichrists
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All man-made religious customs that oppose the Word of God
Instead, we now accept:
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God’s feasts as holy convocations
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His Ten Commandments, especially the Sabbath
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His calendar, including the first month of the year
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The true beginning of the week as the first working day, not a rest day
We say we are sorry – sincerely and wholeheartedly.
We bow our hearts before God and our Lord Jesus Christ. We ask for forgiveness and restoration. We commit to walk in faith, to keep His words, and to honor His commandments. We declare that His will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven.
We repent. We believe. We obey.
We now vow to walk according to the spoken Word of God—not by tradition, not by appearance, not by convenience, but by faith.
As it is written in 2 Corinthians 5:7:
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
And again, in Hebrews 11:1:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
We understand now that faith must be rooted in truth—not in man-made doctrines or practices that contradict the Word of God. We have made God’s commandments of no effect through our traditions, and we deeply regret it.
Our Confession and Commitment
We confess that for many years we have lived in ignorance, replacing God’s holy day with one of our own making. We have been ashamed, rebellious, and careless with the things of God.
But now, our hearts are broken. We cry out for mercy.
We acknowledge that the first day of the week (Sunday) is not the Sabbath, but the beginning of the work week, as God intended.
We now honor the seventh day Sabbath, which God blessed, sanctified, and commanded as a holy convocation.
We commit to:
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Reject the false Sabbath and return to the true one.
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Observe the Feasts of the Lord in their seasons—not as old covenant rituals, but as appointed times of remembrance and worship to our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Keep His commandments, not out of fear, but from a heart transformed by His Spirit.
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Teach others the truth—not in pride or condemnation, but in humility and love, knowing that we too were once blind.
The Bride of Christ
We now see that we, as both Jews and Gentiles who believe in Christ, have been called into one body—the spiritual Israel, the bride of Christ, the saints of God.
We are not outsiders. We are not second-class. We are part of the promise, part of the twelve tribes in the New Jerusalem.
As Revelation 21:12 declares:
“And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.”
These names represent all who are in Christ—not by birth, but by rebirth through His blood.
Now, we lift up our voices and say:
“Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
Let it begin with us.
Let it begin today.
We no longer walk in confusion or compromise.
We walk in truth. We walk in light. We walk in Christ.
We forsake the errors of our past.
We embrace the commandments of our God.
We proclaim the feasts of the Lord as holy convocations.
We return to the seventh-day Sabbath with joy and conviction.
We honor His first day of creation as our first day of labor.
And most of all, we receive the seal of God—written on our hearts, not by ink, but by the blood of Jesus Christ and the Spirit of the Living God.
Amen.
