…. then, ‘keep His Covenant and remember His precepts to DO them.’
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(Yeshua/Jesus only offers freedom back into Covenant, not freedom from Covenant…)
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Shema Challenge… Post up!
Yesterday, I posted a few thoughts concerning a recently heralded event in Israel that Jews are paying attention to. Prophetically, it is fascinating that in the last 20 years many, many non-Jews have begun to walk the ancient paths of our Father. This trend is accelerating!!
Here is a video of us singing the Shema, just as we have done for over four years now, and pronouncing to Israel that they are to ‘hear and do,’ Shema!! Judah is beginning to see and watch this global phenomenon with quiet excitement as it portents the coming of Messiah ben David! Encourage them and help get the message out by making your own video and linking it to the Shema Challenge YouTube channel and/or the Shema Challenge G+ page. Share on Facebook, etc… Also, we’ll mirror videos onto this blog as a demonstration of the size of this growing community if you will email us a link! Just use the ‘Contact Us‘ page.
Christian Child Fulfills Prophecy of Isaiah 56:7 on Temple Mount… [VIDEO]
A friend sent me a link to a Breaking Israel News article titled Christian Child Fulfills Prophecy of Isaiah 56:7 on Temple Mount and You’ll Never Guess How [VIDEO]. (Link and a challenge follows my comments)
I strongly recommend reading Isaiah 56:1-12, but the particular verse that has created the excitement is verse 7, (6-8 for context),
6 “Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of Yehovah,
To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath
And holds fast My covenant;
7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;
For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.”
8 The Lord God, who gathers the dispersed of Israel, declares,
“Yet others I will gather to them, to those already gathered.”
Here is the cute video, more comments and video after:
The article, concerning the video, excitedly shares that this Continue reading “Christian Child Fulfills Prophecy of Isaiah 56:7 on Temple Mount… [VIDEO]”
Meditations from Psalm 27. v.1
We are in the month of Elul, the 6th month in the Hebrew calendar. Traditionally, this is a month of repentance and deep introspection as we prepare ourselves to stand before the King on Tishri 10, Yom Kippur. During this time, in addition to normal reading, it is customary to add Psalm 27 as a daily meditation. In that light, I’d like to post a few notes over the next few days. Please share your thoughts on each verse selection as it comes up…
27:1 Yehovah is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
Yehovah is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
Interestingly, one of the reasons this Psalm was selected millennia ago by the rabbis for preparation for the Fall Feasts is because there is an allusion to each of the feasts in the Psalm. The first phrase of the Psalm contains two of the three allusions.
Our first allusion is ‘light,’ and the word points to Yom Teruah, Day of Blowing (Trumpets), which is also known as the Day of Coronation. The King is coming and He will appear on the Day of Trumpets, some year in the future. He is Light and is the bringer and creator of light. More importantly, He is MY light. Continue reading “Meditations from Psalm 27. v.1”
Truth: a few thoughts.
PS 119: 142 Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy Torah is truth.
Human based truth can change, however the truth of God’s Word is unchanging. Can the truth of God’s Word be made more or less true?
When Paul says, in 2 Timothy 3,
16 Every scripture is inspired by God and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, “
Is some Scripture more profitable than other? When he wrote that, he wasn’t talking about any of the ‘ new’ testament…. What Scripture was he talking about for training in righteousness?
25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Is Deuteronomy, or the Torah less true than the Gospels or Pauline letters?
How about this: can one ‘truth’ in God’s Word abolish or overide another without an explicit declaration of such? As an example, Continue reading “Truth: a few thoughts.”
A few more ‘Memra’ verses in this portion….
Yesterday, I posted a Scripture image from my YouVersion account demonstrating an example of the use of ‘Memra’ from Deuteronomy. We have argued on this blog before for the presence of Yeshua in the Torah, one example of which is the ‘Memra.’ Read up on that to better understand the next few verses.
Certainly, Yeshua, the Memra, stood on Mt. Sinai!
Well, here are a few more ‘Memra’ verses from this portion that are fascinating and again compel us to ask, “When Yeshua (Jesus) says, ‘If you love me, then keep my commandments,’ what are his commandments?” (Answer to the question at the end of the post…)
Picking up with yesterday’s verses, these almost have a story line as they are interspersed through Deuteronomy 26-28,
Deu. 26:16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 You have today declared the Memra de Yeya to be your God, and that Continue reading “A few more ‘Memra’ verses in this portion….”
God doesn’t like the smell of cr@p!!
Years ago when I was in sales, I walked up to a scheduled appointment at a very nice looking condominium. As I knocked on the door my expectations were very high
(this was a ‘hot lead’) until the door opened. The putrid aroma that flew out of the home nearly bowled me over. It reeked.
Being in difficult financial straits, I chose to proceed inside to meet with the occupant and found a reasonably nice home, well decorated and pretty. The glaring problem was the dozens of piles of dog poo and pee stains all over the carpet. Seriously. A hazmat suit and breathing apparatus would not have been enough. The place needed a four alarm fire.
I didn’t vomit, but I didn’t make the sale either. I got out as quickly as I could and immediately went home for a shower.
There are three verses in Deuteronomy 23 that directly relate to this and hold some serious thoughts for us. Let’s read, Continue reading “God doesn’t like the smell of cr@p!!”
Blood moons, Paradigm-shifts and Prophesy…
Here are multiple recent items that I have see that I want to share…
First, an email today from the authors of the Lost in Translation Series,
Hi Everyone,Just a glance at the September 2015 calendar should send a few shivers down your spine:
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Solar Eclipse14
Feast of Trumpets15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
Yom Kippur24 25 26 27
Super Blood Moon28
Sukkot
1st Day29
Sukkot
2nd Day30
Sukkot
3rd DayMany things are converging and climaxing in 2015 – too many for coincidence to be at play here. YHWH says the moon and the stars are for signs and mo’ed – appointments (Gen. 1:14), and He’s got His fingerprints all over these signs in 2015. In the history of the world there has NEVER BEEN a super blood moon on the Sukkot following a shemitah year (the sabbatical year which occurs every seven years).
What is a super blood moon? A blood moon is a total lunar eclipse. But the blood moon on Sept. 27, 2015 isn’t just any blood moon – it’s a super blood moon.
Continue reading “Blood moons, Paradigm-shifts and Prophesy…”
Christendom and the Sin of Jeroboam
On occasion, friend and fellow Messianic, Tzefanyah ben Yochanan, has visions that are prophetic in nature. This morning my email had a detailed vision that he had yesterday, and it triggered some thoughts. Here is the majority of that email,
Today @ 8 AM Eastern time Yom Rishon (Sunday) August 23 I had a vision. I was standing and talking to hundreds of people. As I spoke I began to share that it is time to bury the hatchet of all the doctrines that divide us. I began to share that there are many gray areas in scripture, but we have taken those areas and made doctrines out of them and used them to declare ourselves having a truth that everyone needs that I have a corner on. I shared how when we do that we create separation between each other. We as the people of Yosef are still walking in the sin of Jeroboam to this very day. We are erecting golden
calves and altars to ourselves and we have made these doctrines as mighty ones. After I finished sharing that bold message to these hundreds of people my whole body began to shake and my knees began to buckle. I was weeping profusely and I fell prostrate upon the ground and with a loud cry came forth, “Oh King of Yisrael bring us home!!!” As I lay there yelling out and profusely weeping, the hundreds of people in that place began to do the same. We were all identifying the sin of Jeroboam in our lives. The hundreds in that place were now all prostrate on the floor crying out in unison with weeping and travail, “Oh King of Yisrael bring us home!!” My body was quaking and I was weeping throughout the vision and then at the end was a sense of calm assurance, tranquility, that He heard our cry.
All of us in that room knew heaven touched earth in that place. We all knew it was time to prepare for our journey. He heard us and was taking us home.
What particularly struck me was that in recent days, I have again been thinking of the sin of Jeroboam. While this is a topic we have discussed before, I think it is something we need to revisit, particularly in light of Tzefanyah’s vision.
Most of Christendom does not know or realize that the way the faith is currently practiced is not the way it has always been. Indeed, very little has changed in the last 1500 or so years, but a great deal changed between about 150 CE and 500 CE. Even a cursory reading of the book of Acts reveals Continue reading “Christendom and the Sin of Jeroboam”
Does ‘truth’ change?
Multiple points made in yesterday’s post about professor Daniel I. Block’s essay have been running through my head. The major one is one I’ve pondered before but am again relishing.
Simply, the truth recorded in Torah has not and cannot change. When יהיה said to keep His feasts forever (4x in Lev. 23), that is unchanging truth. When יהיה said to keep the seventh-day Sabbath forever (Ex. 31:16-17), that is unchanging truth. It can’t change, else He is a liar, and He cannot lie (Titus 1:2).
Therefore, if someone tells you these have changed, that person is lying. Period. (Now, they may be doing so in ignorance as I once was, but it is still lying.) Gently correct them with this thought: Does (or, can) God lie? Concerning the Torah, He says it is truth and everlasting righteousness.
http://bible.com/100/psa.119.142.NASB
Shabbat Shalom!!
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