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a publication of Assemblies of Yahweh An Assemblies of Yahweh publication. Assemblies of Yahweh, The Narrow Way Newsletter, The Sacred Name Broadcaster, The Sacred Name Broadcast, The Sacred Scriptures, The Sacred Name Telecast, and WMLK Radio are Service Marks and Trade‑ marks of Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507 September 2014 Volume XLVI, Number 6 CONTENTS 1 Interrogatories Elucidated Questions about: 2 • Diet Page 2 Questions concerning food labels, blood transfusions, eating meat, fel‑ lowship. 4 • Worship Questions concerning musical instruments, Rosicrucians, prayer con‑ clusions, tithing, baptism, and more. 8 • Sabbath Page 4 Questions concerning kindling fire, proper sabbath keeping. 10 Prophetic Trends The Day of Yahweh approaches! Yahweh’s judgment is soon to fall! All must repent before it is too late. Page 16 16 • Feast Days Questions about how and where we keep the feast days, calendar dates, the American Thanksgiving, and more. 20 • Miscellaneous Questions Questions concerning modern medicine, homosexuality, birth control, Page 20 jewelry, and more. The Sacred Name Broadcaster is published monthly by the Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, PA 19507. Your subscription has been paid by the willing co-workers of this ministry who are concerned that this Our Cover: message of salvation should be made available free of charge to all the world as a witness before the Second Coming of Yahshua the Messiah. “The righteous shall flour- While no charge is ever placed upon this publication, CONTRIBUTIONS ish like the palm-tree: He (all of which are tax deductible) are gratefully accepted to help defray expenses. We hope you will share in making this information shall grow like a cedar in available to others. Lebanon.” (Psalm 92:12). The righteous, who are obe‑ All quotes in The Sacred Name Broadcaster are from The dient to the commandments of Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition, 1981, Assemblies of Yahweh, Bethel, Almighty Yahweh (Deuteronomy PA 19507, unless otherwise stated. All translations of the Bible quoted herein have been corrected to be consistent with the oldest available 6:25), shall flourish like a well‑ manuscripts. Copies of The Sacred Scriptures, Bethel Edition, watered date palm tree. These are available. For information about purchasing your copy, write to date palms near the Dead Sea Assemblies of Yahweh. show how the desert can be pro‑ ductive with a little bit of water. © Copyright 2014 Assemblies of Yahweh. All rights reserved. Periodical postage paid at Reading, PA 19612 (ISSN 879320). Telephone (717) With the water of sound 933‑4518. POSTMASTERS: Send form 3579 to Assemblies of Yahweh, doctrine, you also can be pro‑ PO Box C, Bethel, PA 19507. ductive, bearing the abundant fruits of righteousness. Are you Founder and Author: Elder Jacob O. Meyer bringing forth good fruit, or thorns and thistles? by Elder Jacob O. Meyer For those who are unfamiliar various back issues of the Sacred to restore the True Israelite Faith with the antecedents of this minis- Name Broadcaster. We hope they which was recorded for us in the try, you may be unaware that the will prove to be interesting and Sacred Scriptures. Following this Assemblies of Yahweh, non-profit informative to you. direction has produced a reconsti- religious organization, resulted As you will note, the answers tution of the Apostolic Assembly of from a radio broadcast begun by to many of these questions do not the Book of Acts, which had fallen the editor in 1966. The first radio conform to the customary replies into chaos and false doctrine after broadcast was heard over Radio you might receive from organiza- the era of the Apostles. WBMD, Baltimore, Maryland, on tions in ch-rchianity. However, they You will find that answers to February 5, 1966. Immediately, constitute the Truth clearly taught some of these questions might sound listener interest developed and in the Word of Yahweh, the Sacred rather strange to you. But don’t soon a mounting volume of letters Scriptures. We stand ready to prove dismiss them out of hand. Check came from people who wished to the statements we have made in for yourself, and you will find them receive plain answers to their Bible these answers. supported by the encyclopedias and questions, which were not being In-depth Bible research and scriptural versions readily available answered in their churches. constant study sharply separate the in many libraries. To broaden the effectiveness of Assemblies of Yahweh from groups Should you have additional ques- each reply, questions of general in ch-rchianity and other groups tions not covered by this publication, interest were published in this pe- using the Sacred Names of Yahweh write to the Headquarters of the riodical after its inauguration in and Yahshua. Not only do we re- Assemblies of Yahweh, PO Box C, 1968. In this issue we have repro- search and study to determine the Bethel, PA 19507. We will be happy duced some of the more pertinent Will of Yahweh, but we implement to help you achieve a better under- questions and answers which we in our daily lives what we learn. standing of Yahweh’s Word. May we have consolidated and updated from The Assemblies of Yahweh strives hear from you soon? The Sacred Name Broadcaster, 9/2014 1 Answers to Questions About being prepared with a Kosher- fat or blood. Q: What do the different letters on acceptable process. The ingredients “It shall be food labels mean? —Pennsylvania may not always meet the scriptural a perpetu- al statute A: For anyone who may not dietary standards. throughout already be aware of the different A circled “U”d symbol means your gen- designations to be found on most that the product is processed with e r a t i o n s labels of foodstuffs, usually a letter the same care as a “U” product, but in all your or letters circumscribed with a circle, that it has no meat ingredients of dwellings, the following information is offered: any kind. Products marked this way t h a t y o u If you see a circled “R,” this means do have dairy products in them; shall eat “registered” (in this case with the therefore, the “d”. neither fat U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) The True Worshiper must be nor blood.” and refers to the trademark. This careful—although the “U” and “K” means that the name of the product, symbols indicate an absence of pork, Please see or the manufacturing company, has there may be ingredients in the also Leviti- reserved exclusive rights to its name container that are not approved by cus 17:10-16. against imitations or imitators. the Bible. For example, the Jewish Insofar as A circled “C” stands for “copyright” rabbis who regulate the Kosher blood trans- and usually refers to the design, manufacturing process are generally f u s i o n s a r e or content, of the label itself. Such not as careful as are Assemblies of concerned, there copyrights are on file in the Library Yahweh elders about the origins is no legislation of Congress to reserve exclusive of gelatin and the enzymes used in the Scriptures rights to certain graphics. in cheesemaking. Also, something on this subject. We The letters “TM” (normally not marked “Kosher for Passover” may are commanded to circled) means that the trademark contain baking soda, which the As- abstain from blood, “But that we write is not yet registered, but is protected semblies of Yahweh considers as also Acts 15:20. to them, that they abstain from by having an application on file. It being leaven. the pollutions of idols, and from may be thought of as being similar The word Pareve means that the fornication, and from what is in meaning to the term “patent food product in that package was strangled, and from blood.” pending.” prepared under rabbinic supervi- It A circled “U” conveys the informa- sion and contains no meat or dairy is an established fact that, each tion that the contents were prepared derivatives of any kind. year, many blood transfusions are under rabbinical supervision and These foods are completely fatal to the recipient. Increasing approved by the Union of Orthodox composed of vegetables, but the amounts of information are being Jewish Congregations. consumer must still beware of the accumulated regarding the dangers A circled “K” is similar to the possible presence of mushrooms. You of contracting Acquired Immune “U”—it means “ko- should check with the manufacturer Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) from sher.” However, to be sure any cheese used in this blood transfusions. Other diseases, t h e p r o d u c t food is not made with pork enzymes. such as hepatitis, can be transmitted marked with through blood transfusions. a K is only New techniques are currently r e c o g - available for use in times of emer- nized Q: Please show from Scripture gency—all of which should be tried as whether it is all right, or not, to before accepting a transfusion. The eat food with blood in it, or to take first thing to do in an emergency, blood transfusions. —Illinois however, is to pray and trust Yahweh A: The basic dietary laws regard- to move on your behalf. We have ing what foods are clean and unclean grave reservations about taking in the Bible are found in Leviticus blood transfusions, because of both 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Leviticus the scriptural and the physical 3:17 says that we should not eat implications. 2 The Sacred Name Broadcaster, 9/2014 Diet iron; forbidding to marry, and building,” unless you are referring to Q:: Do the Scriptures forbid the commanding to abstain from a house of Baal.