Category: A Thought…

Shema Video from Adat Shalom, Summerville, SC

Here is our first Shema video (other than our family) posted on YouTube by Dorthy of Adat Shalom Fellowship in Summerville, SC.  Please pardon the soft audio, I have attended this fellowship a couple times and it is a fantastic place of worship.  Non-Jews who love YHVH and are learning to walk in His ways!!  This is Ray Gardner’s fellowship and, ironically, I was adding Torah Portion notes that he sent a couple days ago to his page… Go check out that awesome resource as well!

And, thanks, Dorothy and Tommy for this video!  May it bless and encourage others!

Meditations from Psalm 27 v. 2 & 3

This is the month of Elul on the Hebrew calendar and traditionally, a month of repentance as we prepare for the Fall Feasts, most especially, Yom Kippur.  Psalm 27 is one of the Psalms read daily during this period and several days ago I posted the first of several meditations from this passage.  Here is another from verses 2 & 3.

 

2 When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.
3 Though a host encamp against me,
My heart will not fear;
Though war arise against me,
In spite of this I shall be confident.

It is September 2015 and there are a thousand people claiming that this could shape up to be a wildly eventful month.  Blood moon, solar eclipse, Pope at the UN, end of the Shmita, beginning of the Yovel, etc…  No doubt, prophecy seems to be accelerating and bears watching, but the troublesome aspect is how many people get totally bent out of shape and focus on nothing but the bad.

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Yet, these verses clearly say, beginning with the end of v. 1, that “Yehovah is my defense…, Whom shall I fear?”  And, these verses continue the thought by laying out some dreadful thoughts about enemies, adversaries and hosts (armies)!  Still, the Psalmist ‘will not fear’ and is ‘confident.’  Why? Continue reading “Meditations from Psalm 27 v. 2 & 3”

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?

Psalm 27 1Interestingly, 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.

NOTE: Deuteronomy 26:17 also has an alef-Tav as this image demonstrates....
NOTE: Deuteronomy 26:17 also has an Alef-Tav as this image demonstrates….

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

Not in my living room!!
Not in my living room!!

(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 eclipse
Solar Eclipse		 14
Feast of Trumpets		 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23
Yom Kippur		 24 25 26
27
blood moon
Super Blood Moon		 28
Sukkot
1st Day		 29
Sukkot
2nd Day		 30
Sukkot
3rd Day		      

Many 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…”