tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65968445916114609842024-03-12T22:29:42.384-07:00TORAH EMETHA place to share view regarding Torah, actual events pointing to the fulfiment of prophecies.Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.comBlogger142125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-51886519359674468032021-03-04T11:53:00.002-08:002022-04-20T07:30:44.795-07:0020 Parasha Tetzaveh - You shall command<p><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>
</p><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>Parsha
</b></u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>Tetzaveh</b></u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>-You
shall command </b></span></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sh’mot 27:20,
30:10</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Yechezk’el
43:10-27 </b></span></span></span>
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</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1</b></span></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>st</b></span></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
Shmuel 15: 1-34, Mattityahu 5:14-16</b></span></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Daniel ben Ya’acov
Israel</span></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>For
the Torah, having a shadow of the good </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>matters</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
to come</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>and
not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect
those who draw near with the same slaughter </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>offerings</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
which they offer continually year by year. </b></span></span></span>
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</span><p class="western" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 4pt solid rgb(0, 0, 128); margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0.01in 0in 0.01in 0.06in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>When
used: </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>•
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>"Scripture
taken from “The Scriptures”, Copyright by Institute for Scripture
Research. “Used by permission”!</b></i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 4pt solid rgb(0, 0, 128); margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0.01in 0in 0.01in 0.06in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>When
other: King James Version; I have restored the Name of our Heavenly
Father and our Master Yehoshua Messiah when needed!</b></i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 4pt solid rgb(0, 0, 128); margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0.01in 0in 0.01in 0.06in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Otherwise the
RNKJV(Revisited New King James Version) is used!</b></i></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>RNKJV
(Renewed King James Version) use </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>YEHOVAH
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">while
I use </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">for
the Name of our heavenly father. The RNKJV write according to the
English letters, I preserve the Hebrew letters of the
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>tetragramaton</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
in order to avoid vain discussion and strife concerning the
spelling and pronunciation of the Name of our heavenly Father.
During the reading you will also found the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Tetragramaton
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">written
as: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehovah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
and the name of our Master as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehoshua</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
this is my conclusion after many searching and prayer!</span></span></span></p>
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</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>I
encourage strongly everybody to read every </b></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>parasha
</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>to
the end, as many times some beautiful thoughts are found at the end
for conclusion!</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
The pattern to build the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Mishkahn</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(Tabernacle) has been given to Moshe in the last </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>parasha
T’rumah (Elevation offering).</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
If we remember the building started from inside outside, pointing to
man as a living Tabernacle, the heart been the place where </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">dwells
by His </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach
(Spirit)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
called the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Most
Qadosh Place </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(Holy
of Holy) in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Mishkahn.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Contrary
to what the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Greek
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">teach,
the heart is the place of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>thoughts
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">or
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>mind
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">of
man, the reins the place of the emotions..............;</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
6:5</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>and
Elohim saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
thoughts of his heart</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
was only evil continually. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Ch
22:7</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>and
David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build
an house unto the name of YEHOVAH my Elohim: …</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Here
the Hebrew word used for </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>mind</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">is
Strong’s #H3824 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">לבב</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>lêbâb</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>lay-bawb'……</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">From
</span></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H3823</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">;
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>the
</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>heart</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(as the most interior organ); used also like </span></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H3820</u></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:
- + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ([faint],
[tender-] heart([-ed]), midst, mind, X unawares,
understanding………………..</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">And
comes from the Hebrew word </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Leb
(heart) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">used
in Gen.6:5. So we can understand what the prophet </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yrmeyahu
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">writes:
</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Jer
17:9</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked:</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
who can know it? </i></span></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Jer
17:10</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>I
YEHOVAH search the heart, I try the reins</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the
fruit of his doings. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Mat
15:18</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>but
those things which proceed out of the mouth </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>come
forth from the heart; and they defile the man .</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Mat
15:19</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>for
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>out
of the heart proceed evil thoughts</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies: </i></span></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Mat
15:20</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>these
are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands
defileth not a man………..</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">I
repeat for those who are not familiar with my </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>midrash,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">that
the study of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
must be approached in four different levels, if we want to see and
know what </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">has
prepared before the creation of the world for those who will give
themselves to study the Word and not follow the doctrines of men. In
the beginning of our walk (i.e the Children of Israel coming out of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Mitzrayim
(Egypt)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
we don’t know anything. Like the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Children
of Israel </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">who
followed </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Moshe,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
we follow </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and are not aware of what is coming ahead, like them we will be
brought to the spiritual wilderness in order to learn to obey </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
At this point we know </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>about
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Him
and we know </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>about
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
but </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>we
don’t have relationship. </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">This
relationship will be build during our journey which starts the day we
accept </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">as
Master over our life and decide to follow him with all our heart.
From this moment </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">take
place in us and lead us to the true </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Kehilat
(Assembly) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">to
build the Temple of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">where
each of us come as a living stone build in a spiritual
House..................</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Pe
2:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ye
also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy
priesthood, to offer up </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>spiritual
sacrifices</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
acceptable to YEHOVAH by Yahushua the Messiah.</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
2:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>now
therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow
citizens with the saints, and of the household of YEHOVAH;</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
2:20</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Yahushua
the Messiah himself being the chief corner stone;</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
2:21</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>in
whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy
temple in YEHOVAH:</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
2:22</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>In
whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of Elohim through
the Spirit.............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Until
today, many believers all around the world refuse to see behind the
literal text (the black ink on white paper) and thus denying the
power of the Word. The Ink is like a beautiful garment hiding behind
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">It
is the same when we look at one another, we see the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Tabernacle
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(Any
visible part of the body) and the Garment (clothes) we will approach
the soul (invisible to the eye) by the testimony and behaviours of
each of us. I will give you an example. In the Tabernacle, the place
where </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">dwelt
was the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Qadosh
Place </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(Holy
of Holy) and no single man from the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Children
of Israel </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">except
the High Priest could enter the place, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yochanan,
the immerser says</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">:
</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joh
1:18</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>No
man hath seen the Father at any time</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
the only begotten Son, which was in the bosom of the Father, he hath
declared him............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Only
the High Priest came once a year in the Presence of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">in
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Qadosh
Place,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
thus pointing to what many centuries later </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">will
do: </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>but
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>into
the second went the high priest </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>alone</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
once every year</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors
of the people:</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The
Holy Spirit this signifying</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
that </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest,</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:…………</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>but
the </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Messiah
being come an high priest of good things</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
come</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that
is to say, not of this building;</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>neither
by the blood of goats and calves, but </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by
his own blood he entered in once into the holy place,</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
having obtained eternal redemption for us............;</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">So
now let us approach today’s text and ask our Heavenly Father for
understanding and knowledge of what he want us to know. Once again
we have a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Parsha”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
to be approached on different level. The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“P’shat”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or literal level will give us the instruction for the service to
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Sod”(mystery)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
like the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“remez”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(hint)
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“drash”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(teaching in allegory form) will point to something deeper and will
bring us to discover what </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
has embedded in the Torah for those who seek (Matt.7:7). </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
7:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ask,
and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you: </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
7:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to
him that knocketh it shall be opened. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psalm
81.11-14</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
shows us that the children of Israel (carnal man), our ancestors
where not able to see behind the ink of the Torah and failed. </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
81:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>but
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>my
people would not hearken to my voice</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Israel
would none (obey, listen)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of me. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
81:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
so I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>they
walked in their own counsels. </b></u></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
81:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Oh
that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my
ways! </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
81:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>I
should </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>soon</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their
adversaries...........................</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">What
could have come </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>soon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
wait until the second advent of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
Yehoshua </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">to
be reality. Many believers still today are not able to see behind
the plain text, some even refuse to go deeper as the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“p’shat”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
literal and call it </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“satanic”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
to see what is not written in the plain text. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yochanan,
Shaul, Kefa , Ya’acov</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
spoke and wrote in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“sod”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
level (see </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yochan</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.6:35,48,
51, 7:37-38, 10:7-9, 16, 14:6, 15:1, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
in Rom.11;25-27, 14:1-3, 1</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">st</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Corint. 15:23, 45, 49, Colossian 1:9, 10, 11, 15, Eph. 2:11-22, 1</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">st</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Tessal. 5:4-5 </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Kefa
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">in
1</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">st</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Kefa 2:9, 10, 1:1, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ya’acov</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
1:23-25, 2:18-24, 25. These are only few examples......The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Parasha
“T’rumah”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
started the preparation of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Mishkahn</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and the pattern of the construction. As we have seen </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“T’rumah”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
shows the heart attitude of those who will participate in the
building of the Tabernacle.We also have seen that this tabernacle is
the pattern of the future </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Kehilat
(Assembly)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
in </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
“the head and his body”. The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Miskahn</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
revealed once again the deeper meaning of salvation for those who
will turn back to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
through </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
Every time we read </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Messiah”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
we should have in mind that it is not his name, but the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“title”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Chosen
One”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
or </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Anointed
One”,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the one chosen for a purpose. So we see </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">as
the “Chosen One” or </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
“Anointed One”. Today’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>parasha</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
brings us to the High priest garment and his sons, as well as the
altar for incense. We will go verse by verse to see the
interpretation in the different level as they are made clear unto us.
First of all we see that the High Priest, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
at this time and his children are descendant from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Levi</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
one of Ya’acov sons by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Leah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
They are those chosen to serve in the Tabernacle. We have seen in the
construction that the tabernacle is a microcosm (copy of a larger
one) of the spiritual Temple movable in the world today. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">was
unveiling his plan for the future generations, (i.e. you and me the
living Temple)! As many of you know, I am not a Hebrew scholar and
therefore, sometime cannot see what the Hebrew text reveals in
grammatical or according to the words’ roots. In spite of that, I
read and take information from those who know and understand the
Hebrew language structure to help me in my research, but I have also
explain that grade from Academy or Universities do not make somebody
to be a follower of </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">:
</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Act
4:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Now
when they saw the boldness of Kepha and John, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>perceived
that they were </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>unlearned
and ignorant men</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>,
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>they
marvelled</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with
Yahushua.....</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">All
along the years, I have found many scholars well trained in Hebrew
and Greek who were not able to see behind “the letter”. We know
that knowledge is good, but remember that it is </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>HaQodesh
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(Set
Apart Spirit) who is the great teacher. Only in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the Word made flesh (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yeshayahu</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
55:10-11) can we see the End from the Beginning. Knowledge is good
and is a good tool in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
learning, nevertheless many of those great scholars have not
understood, just because they didn’t had the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>
</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">thus
staying in the doctrine of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Church
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">!
We humble ourselves before </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
ask for revelation knowledge, according to what he wants us to know
in this last day. I have seen brethren who gave up the reading of
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
just because they don’t understand. I have seen other who just read
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>P’shat</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or plain text and cannot follow when we try to bring them in a deeper
revelation, but let us read: </span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Pe
2:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>as
newborn babes</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>desire
the unadulterated milk of the Word</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(Torah</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>)</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>,
</u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>in
order that you grow by it,</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>
..............</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Babies
grow by drinking Milk. Here the milk is the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
at the time </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Kefa</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
is writing there is no “New Testament” </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(Brit
HaChadasha).</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Co
13:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>When
I was a child, I spoke as a child; I thought as a child, I reasoned
as a child. But </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>when
I became a man, </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>I
did away with childish matters</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
.........We see again the process from childhood to the mature man!
</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom
12:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
do not be conformed to this world, but </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>be
transformed by the renewing of your mind</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect
desire of Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">..........Again
the process of changing, been transformed by the “renewing of our
mind” that is the entrance of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
which will bring this renewing process in our life, in patience and
perseverance, enable us to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>prove
what is good and well pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim.
..............</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2Co
3:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>but
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>their
minds were hardened(unbelief)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
for to this day, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>when
the old covenant is being read, that same veil remains, not lifted,
because in Messiah it is taken away. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2Co
3:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
but to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>this
day, when Mosheh is being read, a veil lies on their heart</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2Co
3:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>when
one turns to the Master, the veil is taken away</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2Co
3:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Now </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>is
the Spirit, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>where
the Spirit of </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>is,
there is freedom</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>………..</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">In
these verses from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Kefa</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Shaul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
we can see that a process must start in us, in order to be able to
understand. This process start only when somebody is in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and the veil is “taken away”. The veil is removed through
obedience to the Torah by following </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">willingly,
with all our heart................</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Act
5:32</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And
we are His witnesses to these matters, and so also is </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
Set-apart Spirit whom Elohim has given to those who obey Him</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>.</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Jn
2:6</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>He
that saith he abideth in him </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>ought
himself also so to walk, even as he walked</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>........;</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Torah
remains a mystery for those who are “outside” the covenant and
for those of the covenant who are “hanging” on the “milk” and
do not make any effort to learn. Once I read this from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yochanan:
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Jn
2:20</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
you have an anointing from the Set-apart One, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>you
know all</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
Yochanan </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">goes
on writing: </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Jn
2:26</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>I
have written this to you concerning those who lead you astray.</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Jn
2:27</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
but the anointing which you have received from Him stays in you, and
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>you
have no need that anyone should teach you</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
But as the same anointing does teach you concerning all, and is true,
and is no falsehood, and even as it has taught you, you stay in Him</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
Many years, was I asking myself why </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yochanan</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
wrote that believers do not need somebody to teach us? ..Part of the
answer is in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Gospel”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
he wrote: </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joh
16:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“But
when He comes, the Spirit of the Truth, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>He
shall guide you into all the truth</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
For He shall not speak from Himself, but whatever He hears He shall
speak, and He shall announce to you what is to come</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
....</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>What
is the Spirit of truth is not the Spirit of Messiah in you</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">?</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh
15:26</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>but
when the Comforter is come, </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>whom
I will send unto you</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
from the Father, even </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
Spirit of truth</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: </i></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Eph
2:18</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>for
through him we both have access </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>by
one Spirit</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
unto the Father. </i></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>2Co
4:13</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>We
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>having
the same spirit of faith</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken;
we also believe, and therefore speak; </i></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Col
1:27</b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>to
whom YEHOVAH would make known what is the riches of the glory of this
mystery among the Gentiles; which is </i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
Messiah in you,</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
the hope of glory: </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Do
we need somebody to teach us when we come to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">?....We
read further from Luke:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Luk
10:39</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
she (Martha) had a sister called Miryam, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>who
also sat </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>at
the feet of</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>and
heard His word.</b></i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Act
22:3</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“I
(Shaul) am indeed a Yehuḏite, having been born in Tarsos of
Kilikia, but brought up in</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>this
city(Yerushalayim)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>at
the feet of Gamli’ĕl</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>,
having been instructed according to the exactness of the Torah of our
fathers</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
being ardent for Elohim, as you all are today,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
..........We read in this two verses </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Martha</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">seating
at the feet from </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Gamali’el</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
in order to learn. It was tradition to have somebody to teach a
student until the time, he/she will be able to walk alone. It is
still so today among the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Yehudin”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
who have a “Master”, a “Rabbi” who teach them, unfortunately
not according to what </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">taught,
but mostly according to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Talmud”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
the “tradition of men”. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">say
that when the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
of truth will come, he will guide believers or </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“talmidin”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
into all truth. This is not by “magic”, but as we read the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>and</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Brit
Chadasha</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
will teach us the deep revelation of </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
make all things plain. Today </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>talmidin</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(disciples) learn “seating at the feet of </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">through
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Ruach
HaQodesh</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">”,
in prayer, and reading.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">This
does not mean that we don’t need anybody to help us. Humility will
help us to accept teaching or instruction from others as we are all
members of one body. </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
1:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
I make known to you, brothers, that the Good News announced by me </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>is
not according to man</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>.
</b></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
1:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>I
did not receive it from man</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>nor
was I taught it, </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>but
through a revelation of </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></u></span><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Messiah</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u><b>.
…………..</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
writes that he received revelation direct from </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
was a Torah scholar taught by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Gamali’el</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">;
he is known to have been a great scholar who was able to quote the
Torah by heart from the first to the last verse. ….;Gamaliēl
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Thayer
Definition: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Gamaliel
= “my recompenser is God”1) A Pharisee and celebrated </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>doctor
of the law</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
who gave prudent worldly advice in the Sanhedrin respecting the
treatment of the followers of Yahushua of Nazareth. </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>Act_5:34</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
ff. (A.D.29.) We learn from </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>Act_22:3</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
that </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>he
was the preceptor of Paul</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
He is generally identified with the very celebrated Jewish doctor
Gamaliel, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>grandson
of Hillel</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and who is referred to as authority in the Jewish Mishna…….</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Therefore
the explanation, that the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
found “substance” in him to teach him the truth and revelation
concerning </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Today
I never met somebody able to quote the Torah by heart, nevertheless
has we keep reading and studying the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(Tanak</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Brith
Chadasha)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach
HaQodesh</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
begin to unveil more and more from the “mystery” (sod). After
having received help from other, we become more aware of spiritual
things and delight in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
to see that </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">never
changed the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
rather made it plain for all of those who seek the truth. </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom
16:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Now
I call upon you, brothers</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>,
watch out</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for those who cause divisions and stumbling, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>contrary
to </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>the
teaching which you learned</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>,
and turn away from them</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Ti
4:6</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>If
you present these </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>matters</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>
to the brothers, you shall be a good servant of </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah,
being nourished in the words of belief and of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>the
good teaching which you have followed closely</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>.
</u></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2Ti
3:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>All
Scripture</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
is breathed by Elohim and profitable for teaching (doctrine), for
reproof, for setting straight, for instruction in righteousness, </i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2Ti
3:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
that the man of Elohim might be fitted, equipped for every good work.
...............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">At
this time, the scripture referred to by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
was the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
because the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Brit
HaChadasha</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
will be compile many centuries later. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Now
let us turn back to our </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Parasha</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
for today and with an open mind see what we can learn and start with
the verses concerning the “Oil for the light” .</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Exo
27:20</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you, you are to command the children of Yisra’ĕl to bring
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>you
clear oil of pressed olives for the light, to cause the lamp to burn
continually</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
27:21</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the
Witness, Aharon and his sons are to tend it from evening until
morning before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
– </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>a
law forever to their generations, from the children of
Yisra’ĕl………;</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
clear oil of pressed olive for the light was to cause the lamp to
burn continually.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Clear
oil: Strong’s #H2134 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">זך</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>zak</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
written zayin,khaf (sofit form, at the end of a word). </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">From
</span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H2141</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>clear:
- </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">clean,
pure. </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H2141.</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
zâkak </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>zaw-kak'
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">A
primitive root (compare </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H2135</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">);
to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>be</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>transparent</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>clean</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(physically or morally): - be (make) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>clean,</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
be </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>pure
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(-r).
....If you observe lamps burning, after having been filled with
“petroleum” or other types of oil, you will see a dark smoke
coming out of the flame. This is due to the impurities composing the
oil.....</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Keil
and Delitzsch</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
give us following explanation: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>The
sons of Israel were to bring to Moses (lit., fetch to thee) olive
oil, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>pure</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
(i.e., prepared from olives “which had been cleansed from leaves,
twigs, dust, etc., </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>before
they were crushed”</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>),
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>beaten</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
i.e., </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>obtained
not by crushing in oil-presses, but by beating</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>when
the oil which flows out by itself is of the finest quality and a
white colour</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
This oil was to be “for the candlestick to set up a continual
light</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.”</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">This
is very interesting in the light of what </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
say: </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh
8:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Therefore
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>spoke
to them again, saying, “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>I
am the light of the world</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
He who follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but possess the
light of life.”…..</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Shaul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
gives details how </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">became
this light. …..</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
5:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>though
being a Son, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>He
learned obedience</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by
what</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>He
suffered</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
5:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>having
been perfected</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
He became the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying
Him, . </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">is
described by the Prophet </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehshayahu
(Isaiah)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
to be “beaten of itself” or willingly like the Olive Oil:</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa
53:4</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Truly,
He has borne our sicknesses and carried our pains. Yet we reckoned
Him </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>stricken,
smitten</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
by Elohim, and afflicted. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa
53:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>but
He was pierced for our transgressions, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>He
was bruised</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for our crookednesses. The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
and by His stripes we are healed. ...............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Bruised:
Strong’s #G1792 </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">דּכא</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>dâkâ'
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>daw-kaw'
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">A
primitive root (compare </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H1794</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">)
to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>crumble</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
transitively to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>bruise</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(literally or figuratively): - </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>beat
to pieces</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
break (in pieces), bruise, contrite, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>crush</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
destroy, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>humble</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>oppress</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
smite.. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
understood what </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
did to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
to be a divine appointment for him to become the “Light of the
world”. Now the oil comes from the Olive who gives pure Oil. Let
us see what the Olive is a picture of:</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The
trees</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
went forth to anoint a sovereign over them. And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>they
said to the olive tree, ‘reign over us!’ </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“and the olive tree said to them, ‘</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Shall
I leave my oil</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
with which they esteem mighty ones and men, and go to sway over
trees?’ </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Then </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
trees said to the fig tree</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
‘Come, reign over us!’ </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and
my good fruit, and go to sway over trees?’ </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Then </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
trees said to the vine</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
‘Come, reign over us!’ </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my new wine, which
rejoices mighty ones and men, and go to sway over trees?’ </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Then all </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
trees said to the bramble </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(thorny
bush), ‘Come, reign over us!’ </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me as
sovereign over you, come, take shelter in my shade. But if not, let
fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Leḇanon!’
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And now, if you have acted in truth and integrity in setting up
Aḇimeleḵ to reign, and if you have acted well with </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Yerubbaʽal</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and his house, and have done to him as his hands did to you – </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for my father fought for you and risked his life, and delivered you
out of the hand of Miḏyan, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:18</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
but you have risen up against my father’s house today, and slew his
seventy sons on one stone, and set up Aḇimeleḵ, the son of his
female servant, to reign over the masters of Sheḵem, because he is
your brother – </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
if then you have acted in truth and integrity with Yerubbaʽal and
with his house this day, then rejoice in Aḇimeleḵ, and let him
also rejoice in you. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jdg
9:20</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“But if not, let fire come out from Aḇimeleḵ and devour the
masters of Sheḵem and Bĕyth Millo, and let fire come out from the
masters of Sheḵem and from Bĕyth Millo and devour Aḇimeleḵ!”
................</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">First
of all this text is an allegory and enclose some spiritual point
which can be seen in the overall teaching of the
scripture.............</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Yerubba’al</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">:
Strong’s #H3378 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">ירבּעל</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">written
yod,resh,beth,ayin,lamed. yerûbba‛al </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>BDB
Definition: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Jerubbaal
=</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>let
Baal contend</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>”</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Name
given to Gideon</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
by his father when he destroyed the altar of Baal </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Bramble:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Strong’s#H329 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">אטד</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Atad,</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
written aleph,tet,lamed. 'âṭâd </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>aw-tawd
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">From
an unused root probably meaning </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>to
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>pierce</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>make</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>fast</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>a
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>thorn</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
tree</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(especially the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>buckthorn</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">):
- </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Atad</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
bramble, thorn.......</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jer
11:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>“</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>has
named you</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>,
‘</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Green
Olive Tree</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>,</u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
Fair, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>of
Goodly Fruit</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.’
With the noise of a great sound He has set it on fire, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>its
branches shall be broken</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Jer
11:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>of
hosts, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>who
planted you</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
has spoken evil against you for the evil of the </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>house
of Yisra’ĕl</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and of the </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>house
of Yehuḏah</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
which they have done against themselves to provoke Me, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>by
burning incense to Baʽal</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.”
…………….;</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">We
see here that the “Olive tree of goodly fruit” is the name give
to the House of Israel, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Ephraim</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Yehudah</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
called to bring light to the world…….</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom
11:24</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>For
if you were cut out of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
olive tree</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
which is wild by nature(Ephraim), and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>were
grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree(Israel)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
how much more shall these who are the natural </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>branches(Yehudah)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
be grafted into their own olive tree? .......</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">speaking
to his </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Talmidin</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(disciples) says: </span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>You
are the light of the world</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
It is impossible for a city to be hidden on a mountain. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>on
a lampstand</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and it shines to all those in the house. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Let
your light so shine</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
before men, so that they see your good works and praise your Father
who is in the heavens</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.......</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Olive
tree </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">one
of the Name of Israel. From this tree come olives which will be used
to produce light for the Tabernacle where </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">want
to let His presence dwell. </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">gave
himself willingly to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">to
be beaten in order to bring the pure light of the Torah to His
brethren and to us. Let us now turn to the High Priest and Priest
function. They point to two kinds of people in the future. At the
end of this </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“parasha”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
I have published the text from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Josephus</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
the great </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Jewish</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
historian who was influenced by pagan doctrines especially from the
Greek culture. I encourage you to read this text in order to see that
one can be a great scholar, but blind to the spiritual meaning. Read
also the “Endnotes”. ……………….;- High Priest, this is
the position endorsed by </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">himself
according to the will and predestination of </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:…….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Predestination</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:
I know that many will tell you that predestination does not mean that
everything was created before and that it came in place at a specific
time. Let us see in the scripture what we can learn. First concerning
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
if he existed physically with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
before the creation, or if he was “predestinate” and existed in
the “mind” of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
to come at the appointed time.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Psa
2:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>I
inscribe for a law</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>:
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>has
said to Me, ‘</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>You
are My Son</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Today
I have brought You forth.</b></u></i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-top: 0.06in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Law</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:
Strong’s #H2706 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">חק</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Choq
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">written
chet,qof. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">From
</span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H2710</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
an </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>enactment</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
hence an </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>appointment</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>of
time</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
space, quantity, labor or usage): - appointed, bound, commandment,
convenient, custom, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>decree</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>ordinance</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(-nary), portion, set time, statute, task. </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>H2710</b></u></span></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>
</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>châqaq
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>khaw-kak'
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>A
primitive root; properly to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>hack</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
that is, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>engrave</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
(</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Jdg_5:14</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>be</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>a</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>scribe</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
simply); by implication </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>enact</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
(laws being </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>cut</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
in stone or metal tablets in primitive times) or (generally)
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>prescribe:
- </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>appoint</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
decree, governor, grave, lawgiver, note, pourtray, print, set.
...............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">It
is noteworthy to understand that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>today</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
implies </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>time
and spaces</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
. So we could read this verse this way:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Psa
2:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>I
inscribe for a appointment of time, engrave as decree</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>:
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>has
said to Me, ‘</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>You
are My Son</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Today
I have brought You forth……..</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Shaul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
refers to this psalm when writing: </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
5:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>so
also the Messiah did not extol Himself </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
become High Priest</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
but it was He (</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>)
who said to Him, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>“You
are My Son, </u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>today</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>
I have brought You forth</u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.”</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">1</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
2:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“I
inscribe for a law: </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>has
said to Me, ‘You are My Son, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Today</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
I have brought You forth</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>……..</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">When
it is written “</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>today”</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
this means that before this day he was not Son, but was only
appointed to become. Further </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">was
not a High Priest before becoming a Son and have suffered. The
decree, appointed time, was already proclaimed and stand…………..</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
5:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>though
being a Son, He </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>learned
obedience by what He suffered</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
5:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>having
been perfected </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(past
sentence), </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>He
became</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
5:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>having
been </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>designated</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
by Elohim a High Priest</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“according to the order of Malkitseḏeq,”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
........</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">goes
on quoting another Psalm: </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
5:6</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>as
He also says in another place, </i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>You
are a priest forever</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
according to the order of Malkitseḏeq,”</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Footnote:
</i></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ps.
110:4.................</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Established
according to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">’s
will: </span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Heb
5:10</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
having been </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>designated
by Elohim a High Priest</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“according to the order of Malkitseḏeq,” .................;;</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The
process was to be first Son, appointed before in the mind of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
born in the flesh at the appointed time, been made perfect through
suffering, declare to be </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>and
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>High
Priest of our salvation by the resurrection from the dead........</i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Exo
27:20</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you, you are to command the children of Yisra’ĕl to bring
you clear oil of pressed olives for the light, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
cause the lamp to burn continually</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Exo
27:21</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil which is before the
Witness, Aharon and his sons are to tend it </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>from
evening until morning</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
– </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>a
law forever to their generations, from the children of Yisra’ĕl.
……….</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Olive
Oil</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
a picture or the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ruach
HaQodesh </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">in
the believers’ life had to burn </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>continually</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
meaning </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>without
interruption, day and night!</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Is this light burning in us </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>continually?
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">We
need to note that here the light of the lamp burns night and day,
light in the darkness as everyone of us were in darkness (e.g. the
world system)………….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">writes:
</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Th
5:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Quench
(extinguish) not the Spirit......</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Adam
Clarke </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">gives
following explanation: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Quench
not the Spirit - </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>The
Holy Spirit is represented as a fire, because it is his province to
enlighten and quicken the soul; and to purge, purify, and refine it.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>This
Spirit is represented as being quenched </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>when
any act is done, word spoken, or temper indulged, contrary to its
dictates. It is the Spirit of love, and therefore anger, malice,
revenge, or any unkind or unholy temper, will quench it so that </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>it
will withdraw its influences; and then the heart is left in a state
of hardness and darkness</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
It has been observed that fire may be quenched as well by heaping
earth on it as by throwing water on it; </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>and
so the love of the world will as effectually grieve and quench the
Spirit as any ordinary act of transgression</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>We
should check if the fire burns in our heart every day, or if we have
quenched the </b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>Ruach
Haqodesh</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>!</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
If we see that the fire has become lesser, we should pray and repent
for what may quench the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
make all necessary to make the fire </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“burn”
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">in
our heart </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>continually..........</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">King
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>David
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">after
having gone with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Bathsheba</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
implores </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim:</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
51:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Purge
me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow.</b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
51:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Make
me to hear, joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken
may rejoice.</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
51:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Hide
thy face, from my sins, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>blot
out all mine iniquities (transgression of the Torah)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
51:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Create
in me a clean heart, O Elohim; and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>renew
a right spirit within me</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
51:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Cast
me not away from thy presence; and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>take
not thy holy spirit from me</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
51:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free
spirit.................</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Chapter
28. </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
your brother and his sons ……..</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Nadab</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Abihu</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>El’azar</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ithamar</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:
Meaning of the names: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Aharon</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Strong’s #H175 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">אהרון</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">written
Aleph, He, resh, vav, nun (sofit form). </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">'ahărôn
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>BDB
Definition: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Aaron
= “light bringer”</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Nadab</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:
Strong’s #H5070 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">נדב</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">written
nun, dalet, beth….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>BDB
Definition: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Nadab
= “generous</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">”,
to offer freely</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.04in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Abihu;
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Strong’s
#H30 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">אביהוּא</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">written
Aleph, beth, yod, he, vav, aleph. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>BDB
Definition: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Abihu
= “he is (my) father</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">”
..</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>El’azar;</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Strong’s #H499 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">אלעזר</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">written
Aleph, lamed, ayin, zayin, resh....</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>BDB
Definition: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eleazar
= “God has helped</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">”
Eliezer in the book of Yochanan.....</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ithamar
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Strong’s
#H385 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">איתמר</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">written
Aleph, yod, tav, mem, resh...</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>BDB
Definition: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ithamar
= “coast of palms” from #339 “iy” habitable land; coast,
country, isle, + #8558 “tamar” to be erected, palm tree.
........</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Palm
tree is a picture of the righteous people (Psalm 92:12, Vayyiqra
23:40, Sh’mot 15:27) It help us to understand the nature of the
priesthood. First of all it is interesting to see the meaning of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
who is High Priest called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>“light
bringer”.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
I want to point out that today in the world the worshiper of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>HaSatan
(Hebrew word meaning “the enemy)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
under the name of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Lucifer”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
like the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Illuminati”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Massons”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
call him “the light bearer”!! It is easy to see that this people
have been mistaken by rejecting the truth following a different goal,
which is power and wealth. The High Priest </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
to be the One in charge of le pure light! This is very interesting
because </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">is
the First High Priest after the order of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Melkizedek</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and He is the “Light of the world”. Same Place, same function.
The first High Priest was after the carnal nature, the Last after,
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">............Now
it is also very interesting that we see in the same sentence the sons
of the High Priest </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
been put in the place of Priest; Can you see the spiritual
connection? </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">is
now the High Priest, and who are you? Are you not Priest and King?
Just read this. .....</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
4:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>to
redeem those who were under Torah (which Torah?), in order to receive
the adoption </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>as
sons</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom
9:26</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And
it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My
people,’ there </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>they
shall be called </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>sons
of the living Elohim</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.”
............No more </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Priests</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
after the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharonic</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
order which was from the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Levite</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
but </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Melchizedek</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the order by which </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
established </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
This order existed before the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Levite</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Shem</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the son of Noach as we read in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Book
of Yasher:.......</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Yasher
chapter 16: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>8.
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Abram</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
recovered all the property of Sodom, and he also recovered Lot and
his property, his wives and little ones and all belonging to him, so
that Lot lacked nothing. 9. and when he returned from smiting these
kings, he and his men passed the valley of Siddim where the kings had
made war together. 10. and Bera king of Sodom, and the rest of his
men that were with him, went out from the lime pits into which they
had fallen, to meet Abram and his men. 11. and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Melkizedek
king of Salem</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
same was Shem</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
went out with his men to meet Abram and his people, with bread and
wine, and they remained together in the valley of Melech. 12. and
Melkizedek blessed Abram, and Abram gave him a tenth from all that he
had brought from the spoil of his enemies, for </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Melkizedek
was a priest before God</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
.....</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Melkizedek:
Strong’s # H4442 </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">מלכּי־צדק</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>malkı̂y-tsedeq</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>mal-kee-tseh'-dek....</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">From
</span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H4428</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H6664</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>king</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>of</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>right</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Malki-Tsedek</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
an early king in Palestine: - Melchizedek...</span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>H4428
</b></u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Melek
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>meh'-lek</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
From </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H4427</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>a
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>king</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>:
- </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">king,
royal....</span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>H6664
</b></u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Tsedeq
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>tseh'-dek</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
From </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H6663</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>right</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(natural,
moral or legal); also (abstractly) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>equity</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or (figuratively) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>prosperity:
- </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">X
even, (X that which is altogether) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>just
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(-ice),
([un-]) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>right
(-eous)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(cause, -ly, -ness)....</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Melkitzedek:
The righteous King!</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
One of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Son was the forerunner of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>King
of Righteousness.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Quadosh</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Garment, a garment to make the High Priest set apart to serve </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><ul><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">A
breast plate, the place which is before the heart and will bear the
name of the twelve children of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ya’acov</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
The Breast plate was directly joined to the shoulder party by two
“</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>they
bind the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the
shoulder garment, using a blue cord”.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
The Breast plate is called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“Breast
Plate of judgment or right ruling</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">”,
and the High Priest carry it when he entered the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Holy
of Holies</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
during </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yom
Kippur </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
Day of Atonement</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
once a year. Here we can see what </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">has
done:</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Now
the first </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>covenant
(</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>read
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>first
priesthood)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
indeed had regulations of worship and the earthly set-apart
place.</i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:6</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into
the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
But </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>into
the second part the high priest went alone once a year</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
not without blood, which </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>he
offered for himself and </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>for
sins of ignorance</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
of the people</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,</i></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Footnote: </i></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Num.
15:15-28. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most
Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent
(Tabernacle) has a standing, </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
which was </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>a
parable (figure, similitude) for the present time</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>unable
to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience,</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly
regulations </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>imposed
until a time of setting </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>matters</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
straight</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
But </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Messiah,
having become a High Priest</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of the coming good </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>matters</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>through
the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
that is, not of this creation, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
9:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>entered
into the Most Set-apart Place once for all, not with the blood of
goats and calves, but with His own blood having obtained everlasting
redemption</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span></span>
</p>
</li></ul><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
2:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>So
in every way He had to be made like His brothers, in order </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related
to Elohim, </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>to
make atonement for the sins of the people</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>.</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">A
shoulder Garment, the shoulder with two shoulder pieces with two
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>shoham</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
also called onyx stones where the name of the twelve children of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ya’acov</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
were engraved, six on each stone set in settings of gold. The
shoulder: The place of remembrance (verse 12). Josephus write:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Thus
Josephus says (Ant. iii. 7, 5) there were two sardonyxes upon the
shoulders, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
be used for clasps</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><ul><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">A
robe. Read the details in Josephus text at the end of this </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>parasha</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">An
embroidered long shirt Here also see Josephus text</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">A
Turban; The turban and not the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“kippah”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Martyn Barrow give good explanation in his commentary, which I
summarize here. The material of the turban was white linen, thus
demonstrating the purity or righteousness (Rev.19:8). The head is
well known to contain the brain and so also the seat of the will.
The place where filthy thoughts can be hidden, this is why </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
explains the believers to cast down or demolish every thoughts and
bring unto captivity who lift up itself against the knowledge of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
to the obedience of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(read 2</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">nd</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Corint.10:5) and put the helmet of salvation (Eph.6:17). In the book
of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Zechariyahu</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">is
dealing with the High Priest </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yohushua</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
removing the filthy garments and putting a clean turban on his head,
thus making void </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>HaSatan</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
accusation (Zachar.3:1-8)</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">A
girdle </span></span></span>
</p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Altogether
six parts to make the High priest garment. Six been the number of
man, confirming the earthly character of the priestly service toward
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The
Material</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><ul><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Gold,
the color of purity and eternity</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Blue,
the color of the heaven, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>shamayin</i></span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Purple
the color of Kingship</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Scarlet
material the color of sin</span></span></span></p>
</li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">●<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Fine
Linen the color of righteousness.</span></span></span></p>
</li></ul><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Keil
and Delitzsch</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
give following details concerning the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>P’shat</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(literal) level:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>For
the duties of their office the priests were to receive “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>holy
garments for glory and for honour</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.”
Before they could draw near to Jehovah the Holy One (</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Lev_11:45</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>),
it was necessary that their “unholiness” should be covered over
with holy clothes</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
which were to be made by men endowed with wisdom, whom Jehovah had
filled with the spirit of wisdom. “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Wise-hearted,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>”
i.e., gifted with understanding and judgment; </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
heart being regarded as the birth-place of the thoughts (Matt.15:18)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
In the Old Testament </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>wisdom</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
is constantly used for practical intelligence in the affairs of life;
here, for example, it is equivalent to artistic skill surpassing
man's natural ability, which is therefore described as being filled
with the divine spirit of wisdom. These clothes were to be used “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>to
sanctify him</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
(Aaron and his sons), </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>that
he might be a priest to Jehovah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.”
Sanctification, as the indispensable condition of priestly service,
was not merely the removal of the uncleanness which flowed from sin,
but, as it were, the transformation of the natural into the glory of
the image of God. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>In
this sense the holy clothing served the priest for glory and
ornament</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>............Keil
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Delitzsch</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
say that the word </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>wisdom
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">is
used in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Tanak
(O.T) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">for
“practical intelligence if the affairs of life” missing the
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>wisdom
from above </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">coming
down directly from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">in
opposition of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>wisdom
of the world </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">quoted
by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">in
1</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">st</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Corinth chapter one and chapter 3:19). If so what does this verse
means if there is no spiritual understanding behind hid for many
centuries but revealed in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">?</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:3</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>filled
with the spirit of wisdom</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Going back to
chapter 28 verse 3 we see one interesting word…….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
esteem (glory) and for comeliness (beauty). </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">In
the KJV we read……. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>thou
shalt make</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>H6213</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
holy</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>H6944</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
garments</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>H899</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for Aaron</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>H175</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
thy brother</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>H251</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>for
glory</b></i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>H3519</b></i></span></span></sup></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>and
for beauty</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
........</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The
Hebrew word for “beauty” is Strong’s #H8597 </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>“Tiferet”</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">תּפארת
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">written
Tav, peh, aleph, resh, tav. Meaning: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>ornament</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(abstractly
or concretely, literally or figuratively): - beauty (-iful), bravery,
comely, fair, glory (-ious), honour, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>majesty......</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">What
I want to show is that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Tifere</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">t
is the name for one of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>sefirot</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
(attribute) of the “Tree of life”. It is the fifth </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>sefirot</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Malchut</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the Kingdom or from down up, and it stand for </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
It is also called the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Sefirot
of truth”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
One can do many things when he begin to walk with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
even to empress his fellow by big words, but when he will come to the
level of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Tiferet”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
he will not be able to hide anything. Do you remember what </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">say
in the book of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yochanan</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the fourteenth chapter: “I am the way, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the
truth</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(Tiferet)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and the life, no man comes unto the Father but by me! </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Tiferet
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">is
called the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>sefirot
of truth</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
when one come to this level in his journey, he will have to walk in
the truth to enter the door and continue his journey with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">!
This is fundamental in our walk in order not to be
deceived.....</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Verses
17-21:</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
“</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And
you shall put settings of stones in it, four rows of stones: The
first row is a ruby, a topaz, and an emerald; </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:18</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and the second row is a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond; </i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and the third row is a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Exo
28:20</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and the fourth row is a beryl, and a shoham, and a jasper. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>They
are set in gold settings. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:21</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And the stones are according to the names of the sons of Yisra’ĕl,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>twelve
according to their names</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
like the engravings of a signet, each one with its own name, for the
twelve tribes.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Compare
with: </span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev
21:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
foundations of the wall</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>of
the city</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
were adorned with </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>all
kinds of precious stones</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>:
the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate,
the fourth emerald, </i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev
21:20</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
the fifth sardonyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the
eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh
jacinth, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
twelfth</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
amethyst.......</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Verse
36-38</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
“And you shall make a plate of clean gold and engrave on it, like
the engraving of a signet: SET-APARTNESS TO </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
(</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">קדש
ליהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">)
in Hebrew </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Qadosh
HaYEHOVAH</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">……it
is to be on the front of the turban………and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
shall bear the guilt of the set-apart gifts which the children of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yisra’ĕl</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
set apart in all their set-apart. ……</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Here
the explanation from Keil and Delitzsch:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; text-indent: 0.15in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>The diadem
was the only thing about it that had any special significance. This
was to be placed above (upon) Aaron's forehead, that he “might bear
the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel
sanctified, with regard to all their holy gifts,...as an
acceptableness for them before Jehovah.” </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">עָוֹן</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">נָשָׁא</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>:
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
bear iniquity (sin) and take it away</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
in other words, to exterminate it </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by
taking it upon one's self</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>The
high priest was exalted into an atoning mediator of the whole nation</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>;
and an atoning, sin-exterminating intercession was associated with
his office</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
The qualification for this </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>he
received from the diadem upon his forehead with the inscription,
“holiness to YEHOVAH.”</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Through this inscription, which was fastened upon his head-dress of
brilliant white, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
earthly reflection of holiness</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
he was crowned as the sanctified of YEHOVAH (</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Psa_106:16</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>),
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>endowed
with the power to exterminate the sin</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
which clung to the holy offerings of the people on account of the
“unholiness” of their nature, so that the gifts of the nation
became well-pleasing to YEHOVAH, and the good pleasure of God was
manifested to the nation</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">................</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Was
not </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">made
High Priest to enter the Most </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Qadosh
Place</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
made the Atoning mediator not only for the nation but for the all
world? </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Jn
2:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
he (</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>)
is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>also
for the sins of the whole world................</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Verses
42-43</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
concerning the covering of nakedness from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and his sons </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Keil
and Delitzsch </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">give
us interesting explanation: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>The
covering of their nakedness was an indispensable prerequisite. Aaron
and his sons were therefore to receive </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">מִכְנָסִים</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(from
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">כָּנַס</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>to
cover or conceal, lit., concealers), short drawers, reaching from the
hips to the thighs, and serving “to cover the flesh of the
nakedness.” For this reason the directions concerning them are
separated from those concerning the different portions of the dress,
which were for glory and beauty. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>These
drawers the priests were to put on whenever they entered the
sanctuary</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>that
they might not “bear iniquity and die</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,”
i.e., incur guilt deserving of death, either through disobedience to
these instructions, or, what was still more important, through such
violation of the reverence due to the holiness of the dwelling of God
as they would be guilty of, if they entered the sanctuary with their
nakedness uncovered. For as the consciousness of sin and guilt made
itself known first of all in the feeling of nakedness, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>so
those members which subserve the natural secretions are especially
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>pudenda</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
or objects of shame</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
since the mortality and corruptibility of the body, which sin has
brought into human nature, are chiefly manifested in these
secretions. For this reason these </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>members
are also called the “flesh of nakedness.”</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
By this we are not to understand merely “the sexual member as the
organ of generation or birth, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>because
the existence and permanence of sinful, mortal human nature are
associated with these</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,”
as </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Bähr</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
supposes. For the frailty and nakedness of humanity are not
manifested in the organ and act of generation, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>which
rather serve to manifest the inherent capacity and creation of man
for imperishable life</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
but in the impurities which nature ejects through those organs, and
which bear in themselves the character of corruptibility. If,
therefore, the priest was to appear before Jehovah as holy, it was
necessary that those parts of his body especially should be covered,
in which the impurity of his nature and the nakedness of his flesh
were most apparent. For this reason, even in ordinary life, they are
most carefully concealed, though not, as </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Baumgarten</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
supposes, “because the sin of nature has its principal seat in the
flesh of nakedness.” - “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>A
statute for ever:</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>”
as in </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Exo_27:21</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>...............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">We
remember that when </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ham</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
the father of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Canaan</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
discovered the nakedness of his Father </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and told his brothers, he brought a curse on his descendants.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
9:22</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Ḥam,
the father of Kenaʽan, saw the nakedness of his father</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and told his two brothers outside. </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
9:23</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
so </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Shĕm
and Yepheth</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward
and covered the nakedness of their father, but their faces were
turned away, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>they
did not see their father’s nakedness</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
9:24</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and Noaḥ awoke from his wine, and he knew what his younger son had
done to him, </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
9:25</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>he
said, “Cursed is Kenaʽan, let him become a servant of servants</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
to his brothers.”</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The
curse was not given to </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ham</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
but to his descendants. This curse has been from generation to
generation, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Keil
and Delitzsch</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
give interesting details concerning </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Canaan</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">............</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:1-</b></span></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
six of their names on one stone, and the remaining six names on the
other stone, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>according
to their birth.</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
28:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the
shoulder garment as </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>stones
of remembrance</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for the sons of Yisra’ĕl. And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Aharon
shall bear their names </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>before
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>on
his two shoulders, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>for
a remembrance</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
28:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And you shall make </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>a
breastplate of judgment (mishpat)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
a work of a skilled workman, like the work of the shoulder garment.
Make it of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>material</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and fine woven linen. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
28:21</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
stones are according to the names of the sons of Yisra’ĕl</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
twelve according to their names, like the engravings of a signet,
each one with its own name, for the twelve tribes. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
28:28</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and they bind the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of
the shoulder garment, using a blue cord, so that it is above the
embroidered band of the shoulder garment, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>so
that the breastplate does not come loose from the shoulder garment</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
28:30</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And into the breastplate of judgment you shall put the Urim and
the Tummim, and they shall be on the heart of Aharon when he goes in
before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
And Aharon shall bear </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
judgment of the children of Yisra’ĕl on his heart</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
continually. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
28:43</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And they shall be on Aharon and on his sons when they come into
the Tent of Meeting, or when they come near the altar to attend in
the Set-apart Place, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>so
that they do not bear crookedness and die </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>–
a law forever to him, and to his seed after him. …………….</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Chapter
29. </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
Priest office and its ordinances.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">One
young bull……Two rams. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1.
The </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>male
of the sheep</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
or ovine genus; in some parts of England called a tup. In the United
States, the word is applied, I believe, to no other male, except in
the compound ram-cat.(Webster definition). </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Unleavened
bread;Unleavened cakes;Unleavened wafer;Made of wheat;........</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">To
enter the Priest office, the leaven was to be removed from the
offering as, leaven is a picture of sin, and false
doctrine.(Matt.16:2, 1</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">st</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Corint 5:7). It is noteworthy to see that wheat is the corn which
grows after the Barley at the time of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Feast
of the Week</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
during </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Shavuot</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
The first corn of the year is the Barley…………….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Wheat
a picture of the righteous</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
3:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Whose
fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>his
wheat into the garner</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
13:24</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>another
parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is
likened unto a man which sowed </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>good
seed</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
in his field:</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
13:25</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>but
while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>among
the wheat</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and went his way</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">…………………………….</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Mat
13:30</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Let
both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I
will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind
them in bundles to burn them</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>:
but gather the wheat into my barn.</b></i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>29:4…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">………….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
wash them with water.</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and his sons where of carnal nature and the washing with water is
pointing to the coming “washing of the word” through </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>29:9…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">……</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
the priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting law</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
The priesthood for an everlasting …………;The word for “law”
here is the Hebrew word </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“chuqqah”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
which mean </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“ordinance”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
concerning here the priesthood. The word forever is the Hebrew word
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>“Olam”</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
which clearly demonstrate that the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Levitical</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
priesthood will again appeared during the Millennium, when the Temple
is build again: </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa
66:21</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>from
them too I shall take for priests – for Lĕwites</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,”
declares </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Isa
66:22</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before
Me,” declares </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
“so your seed and your name shall stand. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Isa
66:23</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath
to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
…………</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Today
this priesthood is set by side as the Temple is not standing in
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yerushalayim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
when </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">removed
his presence at the time of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and will again be present when </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">comes
back to establish the Kingdom. In the year 70 C.E, </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">brought
the Romans to destroy </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yerushalayim,
the Temple </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">and
kill thousand upon thousand of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Jews</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
for having rejected </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">as
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Excerpt
from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Wars
of the Jews </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">from
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Josephus
Book 5 chapter 12</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
during the destruction of Jerusalem and the
Temple:...............</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“However,
when Titus, in going his rounds along those valleys, saw them full of
dead bodies, and the thick putrefaction running about them, he gave a
groan; and, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>spreading
out his hands to heaven, called God to witness that this was not his
doing;</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and such was the sad case of the city itself”...............</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">I
want to stretch out the animal sacrifice as it has bothered me for
many years until </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">opened
my understanding. Animals which were given to sacrifices; they were
first of all clean animals, and secondly were innocent and were
sacrificed for the sins of the all House of Israel, a picture of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">who
was also innocent and bear our sins. One innocent and blameless paid
the price for the guilty (you and me). This is a major pillar of
Tanak’s understanding, and fulfilled by </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">……</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
4:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
we do not have a High Priest unable to sympathize with our
weaknesses, but One who was tried in all respects as we are, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>apart
from sin............</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>29:10…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">………….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon
and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
The head is the place where the will </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(Ketter)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
lies and therefore was to receive the sin of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aharon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and his sons to bear their sins. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>29:12…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">…….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
with your finger. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
altar and its four corners display the four corners of the earth
where later both Houses will be scattered. </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa
11:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
outcasts of Israel</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and gather together </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
dispersed of Judah</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>from
the four corners of the earth</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Deu
28:64</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
YEHOVAH shall scatter thee (all the Children of Israel) among all
people, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>from
the one end of the earth even unto the other;</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and there thou shalt serve other elohim, which neither thou nor thy
fathers have known, even wood and stone.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>29:14…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">…….</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
you shall burn with fire </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>outside
the camp. It is a sin offering</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Compare
with what </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
writes:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
13:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Set-apart
Place by the high priest for sin, are </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>burned
outside the camp</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
13:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and so </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>also
suffered </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>outside
the gate</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
to set apart the people with His own blood. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Heb
13:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Let
us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Outside
the camp: Remember that the Tabernacle is a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Qadosh</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
place reserved for the Clean. Animals were clean when they entered
the inner court and were still alive. They lost their statutes once
dead and the blood was removed for the expiation of sin. “Sin
offering”: Sin is the transgression of the Torah, therefore without
the camp, for no sinner has access to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Qadosh</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
place. It is also important to understand again a spiritual picture.
If you look at the end of this </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>parasha</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
you will see a beautiful picture of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Mishkahn
(Tabernacle) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">and
the tribes of the Children Israel all around it according to their
rank in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Torah.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
meaning is as follow: The Wilderness represents the world today were
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Children
of the Living Elohim (you and me) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">in
the four corners of the earth</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">follow
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
The Tabernacle represent the place we enter the Kingdom and begin our
journey from the inner court to be set free from our sin, to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Set
Apart place </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">where
we enter as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Priest
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">to
serve the living </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
The four corners of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Mishkahn
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">outside
represent the four corners of the earth </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
Kingdom is not far but among us, it is the spiritual reality among us
through the obedience of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Torah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">of
what will be physical when </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">comes
back to establish the governance in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yerushalayim.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verses
10-22: </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Jamieson,
Fausset and brown give following explanations. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:10-22</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
..;</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>And
thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
— </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>This
part of the ceremonial consisted of three sacrifices: </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(1)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
The sacrifice of a bullock, as a sin offering; and in rendering it,
the priest was directed to put his hand upon the head of his
sacrifice, expressing by that act a consciousness of personal guilt,
and a wish that it might be accepted as a vicarious (substitute)
satisfaction. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(2)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The
sacrifice of a ram as a burnt offering</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
(</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Exo_29:15-18</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>).
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The
ram was to be wholly burnt</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
in token of the priest’s dedication of himself to God and His
service. The sin offering</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
was first to be presented</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>and
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>then</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
the burnt offering; for until guilt be removed, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>no
acceptable service can be performed</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(3)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
There was to be a peace offering, called “the ram of consecration”
(</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Exo_29:19-22</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>).
And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>there
was a marked peculiarity in the manner in which this other ram was to
be disposed </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>of.
The former was for the glory of God - </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>this
was for the comfort of the priest himself</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
and as a sign of a mutual covenant being ratified, the blood of the
sacrifice was divided - part sprinkled on the altar round about, and
part upon the persons and garments of the priests. Nay, the blood
was, by a singular act, directed to be put upon the extremities of
the body, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>thereby
signifying that the benefits of the atonement would be applied to the
whole nature of man. Moreover, the flesh of this sacrifice was to be
divided, as it were, between God and the priest</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
- part of it to be put into his hand to be waved up and down, in
token of its being offered to God, and then it was to be burnt upon
the altar; the other part was to be eaten by the priests at the door
of the tabernacle - </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>that
feast being a symbol of communion or fellowship with God. </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>These
ceremonies, performed in the order described, showed the
qualifications necessary for the priests. (See </i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Heb_7:26</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Heb_7:27</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
</i></span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u>Heb_10:14</u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>).
.....</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">We
see also </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">telling
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Myriam</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
not to touch him, because he was not ascended to the Father: </span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joh
20:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>said
to her, “Do not hold on to Me, for </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>I
have not yet ascended to My Father</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
But go to My brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father
and your Father, and to My Elohim and your Elohim.’</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
”. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verse
29:20…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">…</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
the right ear</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
of Aharon and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>on
the tip of the right ear of his sons</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
on </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>sprinkle
the blood all around on the altar …….</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">We
just read what </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Keil
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">and
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Delitzsch
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">say
concerning the right ear, the thumb and the big toe of the right
side, but let us see if there is more than that.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">This
is highly mystical and it applies to the teaching of the tree of life
and Adam. What we can say is that to apply blood was for atoning
effect on the right side, which is the side of mercy, the right ears,
is the way to listen, the right hand for the action and the right
foot for the way of walking: Once again physical for spiritual
purpose.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verses
24-25.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
wave offering called an “olah” or </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>holocaust,
ascent</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
This sacrifice was burned as sweet fragrance unto Elohim and waved
for acceptance by Elohim. …… </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Spiritual
application: First I want to show you something which may chock some
readers, but </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>knows
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">my
intention which is in no case against our brethren from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehudah:
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Burn
Offering: </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Strong’s
# H5930 </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">עולה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">‛</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>ôlâh</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>o-law',.....
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Feminine
active participle of </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H5927</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>step</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or (collectively </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>stairs</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>ascending</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">);
usually a </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>holocaust</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>
</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">(</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>as
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>going</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>up</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
in smoke</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">):
- ascent, burnt offering (</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>sacrifice</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">),
go up to. .............</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">During
the last World War II, millions of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehudin
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">died
in the concentration camps. Today when speaking of this very sad
event, people speak of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Holocaust</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">so
is this event called! We can meditate why? I know many will struggle
with these words, but I will ask, was not the King of the Universe
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sebaoth</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
able to protect part of His Children </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>(the
House of Yehudah)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
was he not able to protect them when the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Romains
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">under
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Titus
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">destroyed
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Jerusalem
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">and
killed Thousand upon thousands, do you remember what </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Titus
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">said?
</span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>However,
when Titus, in going his rounds along those valleys, saw them full of
dead bodies, and the thick putrefaction running about them, he gave a
groan; and, spreading out his hands to heaven, called God to witness
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>that
this was not his doing</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
and such was the sad case of the city itself”.(Josephus Wars of the
Jews Book 5 Chapter 11).......</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Was
he not the one with his army going against </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Jerusalem
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
the people? Of course yes but </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Titus
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">realized
that he was and instrument in the hands of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">!
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">I
let you find the answer concerning our brethren from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehudah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">during
World War II! Another point to meditate: The Hebrew world </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>“Olah”</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">עולה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">for
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Burn
Offering</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">has
a gametria of 90 </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ayin
(70), Vav (6), Dalet (4), He (10). </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Ninety
is 90 = (9 x Ten). Nine is the number for Judgment. Greg Killian a
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Jew
Scholar </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">and
believer in</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
add: The completion of a representation for finality, end, sometime
removal. Ten for the sum of all number: Here Greg presents it so: The
number designating a complete whole representing the direction which
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Exercise.
Is that a hazard or coincidence? </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
5:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
walk in love, as Messiah also has loved us, and gave Himself for us,
a gift and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>an
offering to Elohim for a sweet-smelling fragrance</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
!...</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">And
more: </span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:</b></span></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>4</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for it </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>is
impossible for blood of bulls and goats to take away sins</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
therefore, coming into the world, He says, “Slaughtering and meal
offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:6</b></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>In
burnt offerings and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>offerings</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for sin You did not delight.</i></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Footnote: </i></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ps.
40:6, 7. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Then I said, ‘See, I come – in the roll of the book it has
been written concerning Me to do Your desire, O Elohim.’ ” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Saying above, “Slaughter and meal offering, and burnt offerings,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>offerings</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for sin You did not desire, nor delighted in,” which are offered
according to the Torah, ...</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
then He said, “See, I come to do Your desire, O Elohim.” </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>He
takes away the first (animal sacrifice) to establish the second (his
own sacrifice). </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
10:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by
that desire we have been set apart </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>through
the offering of the body of </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></u></span><u><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Messiah
once for all. ………..</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verse
29:30…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">…</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>for
seven days</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
when he enters the Tent of Meeting to attend in the set-apart place.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Seven
days equals seven thousand years? After that there will be no more
Temple and sacrifice, for seven is the number for divine perfection
on earth.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev
21:22</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
I saw no Temple in it, for </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ěl
Shaddai is its Temple, and the Lamb </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>are
the Temple of it.</b></i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">This
verse demonstrates that the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Mishkahn,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>and</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
the Temple </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">were
shadows of what was to come with the first advent of our Master, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>and</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is still to come in the future during the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Millennium</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
…</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verse
29:33.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>they
shall eat those </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>offerings</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
with which the atonement was made, to ordain them, to set them apart</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
But </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>let
a stranger not eat them</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
because they are set-apart…</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Here
we see two important points. First we understand what </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">says
in the book of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yochanan</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joh
6:53</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>therefore
said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>unless
you eat the flesh of the Son of Aḏam and drink His blood</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>you
possess no life in yourselves</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh
6:54</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>He
who eats My flesh</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and drinks My blood </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>possesses
everlasting life</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and I shall raise him up in the last day. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh
6:55</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“For </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>My
flesh is truly food</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and My blood is truly drink. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh
6:56</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>He
who eats My flesh</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and drinks My blood </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>stays
in Me</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and I in him</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Who
was </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah
Yehoshua</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
was he not call the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lamb
of El</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">?
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehoshua
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">knew
when speaking that his name was directly connected to the ritual
sacrifices from the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and thus use the metaphor of his flesh and blood. Like the Priest
were to be partakers of the sacrifice and the blood was to sanctify
them and confirm every-time the covenant they have with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">so
pointed </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehoshua
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">to
his own body and flesh for those who follow him. This was
foreshadowed by the Priestly ritual. Here again we see that this text
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>cannot
be</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>p’shat
(literal) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">but
in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“sod”
(mystical)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
or we would be stamp as cannibal which is against the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">!
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">……
But let a stranger not eat them……Who are these strangers pointing
too? Strangers were not partaker to the Mount Sinai covenant. Unless
they accepted the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Torah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and were circumcised they couldn’t take part to Israel’s life.
</span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
12:43</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
YEHOVAH said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the
Passover: There shall </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>no
stranger eat thereof</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>:</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
12:48</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
when </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>a
stranger shall sojourn with thee</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and will keep the Passover to YEHOVAH, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be
as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall
eat thereof.</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
12:49</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>One
law shall be to him that is home born and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among you..........</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">What
does the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Brit
Chadasha (N.T) tells us? </i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
2:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>that
at that time you (you and me) were without Messiah, excluded from the
citizenship of Yisra’ĕl and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>strangers
from the covenants</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>in
the world (scattered)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
2:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>so
then </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>you
are no longer</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>strangers</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the set-apart ones and
members of the household of Elohim,</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Pe
1:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Kĕpha,
an emissary of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah,
to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>the
chosen, strangers</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>of
the dispersion</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,……..</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>House
of Isarel, Ephraim </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">had
become a stranger since they had been cast away in 721 B.C by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim.
……</i></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And this is the task you shall do to them to set them apart to
serve Me as priests: Take </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>one
young bull</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>two
rams</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
perfect ones, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>unleavened
bread</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>unleavened
cakes</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
mixed with oil, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>unleavened</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
wafers </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>anointed
with oil</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
– make these of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>wheat
flour</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:3</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall put them in one basket and bring them in the basket,
along with the bull and the two rams. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:4</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Then you shall bring Aharon and his sons to the door of the Tent
of Meeting, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>wash
them with water</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall take the garments, and shall put on Aharon the long
shirt, and the robe of the shoulder garment, and the shoulder
garment, and the breastplate, and shall gird him with the embroidered
band of the shoulder garment, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:6</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and shall put the turban on his head, and shall put the set-apart
sign of dedication on the turban, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head and anoint
him. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Then you shall bring his sons and put long shirts on them, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and shall gird them with girdles – Aharon and his sons – and put
the turbans on them. And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
priesthood shall be theirs for an everlasting law</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
So you shall ordain Aharon and his sons. </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall bring near the bull before the Tent of Meeting, and
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Aharon
and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
29:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall slaughter the bull before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
by the door of the Tent of Meeting, </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and take some of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
with your finger, and pour all the blood beside the base of the
altar. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And you shall take all </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and the
two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“But </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
flesh of the bull</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and its </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>skin</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and its </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>dung</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
you shall burn with fire </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>outside
the camp. It is a sin offering</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And take </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>one
ram</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Aharon
and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and you shall slaughter the ram, and you shall take its blood and
sprinkle it all around on the altar. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And cut the ram in pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and
place them upon its pieces and on its head. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:18</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>you
shall burn the entire ram on the altar</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
It is a burnt offering to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
it is a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And you shall take </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
second ram</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Aharon
and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram, </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:20</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and you shall slaughter the ram, and take some of its blood and put
it on the tip of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
right ear</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>of
Aharon</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>on
the tip of the right ear of his sons</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
on </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>sprinkle
the blood all around on the altar. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:21</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And you shall take some of the blood that is on the altar, and
some of the anointing oil, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>and
sprinkle</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
it on Aharon and on his garments, on his sons and on the garments of
his sons with him. And he and his garments shall be set-apart, and
his sons and the garments of his sons with him. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:22</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And you shall take the fat of the ram, and the fat tail, and the
fat that covers the entrails, and the appendage on the liver, and the
two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh – it is for a
ram of ordination – </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:23</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and one loaf of bread, and one cake made with oil, and one thin cake
from the basket of the unleavened bread that is before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:24</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>you
shall put all these in the hands of Aharon and in the hands of his
sons, and you shall wave them – a wave offering before </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>.
</b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:25</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“Then you shall take them from their hands </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>and
burn them on the altar as a burnt offering, as a sweet fragrance
before </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
It is an </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>offering
made by fire to </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>.
</b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:26</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And you shall take </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
breast of the ram of Aharon’s ordination and wave it – a wave
offering before </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>,
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>and
it shall be your portion</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:27</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>from
the ram of ordination you shall set apart the breast of the wave
offering which is waved, and the thigh of the contribution which is
raised, of that which is for Aharon and of that which is for his
sons. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:28</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>it
shall be from the children of Yisra’ĕl for Aharon and his sons by
a law </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>forever,
for it is a contribution. And it is a contribution from the children
of Yisra’ĕl from their peace offerings – their contribution to
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:29</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And the set-apart garments of Aharon are for his sons after him,
to be anointed in them and to be ordained in them. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:30</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>The
priest from his sons in his place, puts them on for seven days, when
he enters the Tent of Meeting to attend in the set-apart place</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:31</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And take the ram of ordination and cook its flesh in a set-apart
place. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:32</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Aharon
and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>and
the bread</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
that is in the basket, by the door of the Tent of Meeting, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:33</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>they
shall eat those </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>offerings</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
with which the atonement was made, to ordain them, </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>to
set them apart</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
But </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u>let
a stranger not eat them</u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
because they are set-apart. </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:34</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>if
any of the flesh of the ordination offerings, or of the bread, be
left over until the morning, then you shall burn up what is left
over. It is not eaten, because it is set-apart. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:35</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And so you shall do to Aharon and his sons, according to all I
have commanded you. Seven days you shall ordain them, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:36</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>prepare
a bull each day as a sin offering for atonement</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
And you shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it, and
you shall anoint it to set it apart. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:37</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>For
seven days you shall make atonement for the altar</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and set it apart. And the altar shall be most set-apart – whatever
touches the altar is to be set-apart. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:38</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>this
is what you prepare on the altar: two lambs, a year old, daily,
continually. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:39</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“Prepare </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
one lamb in the morning</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the
other lamb you prepare between the evenings, </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:40</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and one-tenth of an ĕphah of flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of
pressed oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine as a drink offering,
with the one lamb. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
29:41</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And prepare the other lamb between the evenings. And with it
prepare the grain offering and the drink offering, as in the morning,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>for
a sweet fragrance, an offering made by fire to </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
– </span></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo
29:42</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
a continual burnt offering for your generations at the door of the
Tent of Meeting before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
where I shall meet with you to speak with you. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo
29:43</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And there I shall meet with the children of Yisra’ĕl, and it
shall be set apart by My esteem. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo
29:44</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>I
shall set apart the Tent of Meeting and the altar. And Aharon and his
sons I set apart to serve as priests to Me.</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo
29:45</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>I
shall dwell in the midst of the children of Yisra’ĕl and shall be
their Elohim. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo
29:46</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And they shall know that I am </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>their
Elohim, who brought them up out of the land of Mitsrayim, to dwell in
their midst. I am </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>their
Elohim. …………….</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Chapter
30:</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Again,
we see the material, and the form in the building of the altar,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>shittim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
wood, that is to say </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>acacia</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
overlaid with gold, the metal which demonstrate purity from heaven
and eternity. The wood also as a picture of the frail man’s nature
a picture of the man </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">appointed
by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
in heaven represented by gold. Four scares verse 2, representing the
four corners of the earth. </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Zec
14:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>and
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>shall
be Sovereign over all the earth</b></i></span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>1
(four corners of the earth)</b></i></span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
In that day there shall be one </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and His Name one</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev
11:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And
the seventh messenger sounded, and there came to be loud voices in
the heaven, saying, “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The
reign of </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>this
world</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>has
become </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>the
reign</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>
of Yehovah, and of His Messiah</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>,</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and He shall reign forever and ever!</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>The
Altar for burn offering</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:
</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
a cubit long and a cubit wide – it is a square – and two cubits
high, its horns of the same. </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">A
cubit long, and a cubit wide equal two, it is square so it is double
or equal four, and two cubits high, so multiply by two, is equal
eight? 2+2 x2 = 8! Also 2 x 2 x 2= 8. Eight represent behind the
natural or point to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Olam
Haba, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Eternal
life, were no more incense will be needed because </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">will
be among their people! Just a thought!.......</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verse
3…</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">…a
molding (crown) of gold all around…..That is the kingship of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
as the descendant of King David to be King over </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">s
Kingdom. </span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
27:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>stood
before the governor, and the governor asked Him, saying, “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Are
You the King of the Yehuḏim?</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>”
And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>said
to him, “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>You
say it</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.”
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">was
the right heir of King David and therefore entitled to be King in
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yerushalayim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
This will be fulfilled when </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
comes back. ....</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verse
4.</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
golden ring for the stave of wood and gold: Remember chapter 29:45,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
will move with His people and some </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Levites</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
will be appointed to carry the Altar. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verse
7</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
….and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Ahraon</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning…….a perpetual
incense. Incense represents the prayers of the saints ascending as a
sweet smell to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">’</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">s
throne. </span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev
8:3</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
another messenger came and stood at the altar, holding a golden
censer, and much </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>incense</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
was given to him, that he should offer it </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>with
the prayers </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>of
all the set-apart ones upon the golden altar which was before the
throne. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev
8:4</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
smoke of the incense, with the prayers</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of the set-apart ones</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>,
went up before Elohim </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>from
the hand of the messenger</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Verse
9:</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
Read </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Lev
10:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
Naḏaḇ and Aḇihu, the sons of Aharon, each </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>took
his fire holder</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and put fire in it, and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>put
incense on it</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and brought strange fire before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>which
He had not commanded them. </b></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Lev
10:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and fire came out from </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>and
consumed them, and they died before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Verse
10</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
That is Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement of which we will speak
later! ……..</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And
you shall make an altar to burn incense on, make it of acacia wood,
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
a cubit long and a cubit wide – it is a square – and two cubits
high, its horns of the same. </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:3</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall overlay its top, and its sides all around, and its
horns with clean gold. And you shall make for it a moulding of gold
all around. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:4</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And make two gold rings for it, under the moulding on both its
sides. Make them on its two sides, and they shall be holders for the
poles to lift it with. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with
gold. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:6</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And you shall put it before the veil that is before the ark of the
Witness, before the lid of atonement that is over the Witness, where
I am to meet with you. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And Aharon shall burn on it sweet incense, morning by morning. As
he tends the lamps, he shall burn incense on it. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Exo
30:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“And when Aharon lights the lamps between the evenings, he shall
burn incense on it – a continual incense before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>throughout
your generations. </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
30:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“Do not </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>offer
strange incense on it, or a burnt offering, or a grain offering, and
do not pour a drink offering on it</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Exo
30:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And Aharon shall make atonement upon its horns once a year with
the blood of the sin offering of atonement – once a year he makes
atonement upon it throughout your generations. It is most set-apart
to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.”
……</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">I
will add some thoughts from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>First
Fruits of Zion </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">which
are interesting regarding personal behaviors: </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Thought
for the Week.......</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">It's
not the outside that matters; but the heart matters. However, the
outside often indicates what is going on in the inside. </span></span><strong><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Commentary:
</span></span></span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">You
shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for
beauty. (Exodus 28:2) . YEHOVAH commanded the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">children
of Israel</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
to make special garments for the priests to wear while they
officiated in the Tabernacle. The garments are described as holy
garments for glory and for beauty. The garments of the priesthood
were set apart for the purpose of serving God in the Tabernacle. They
were not to be used for any other purpose. Holiness does not mean
that there is some kind of a mystical goodness attached to the object
(I don’t agree here with the statement), person or place described
as holy. It simply means that God does not want it used for anything
other purposes than His own. The opposite of something holy is
something normal. It also seems that the Tabernacle was the set apart
place to meet </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehovah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
that the carnal man was in need of a special garment to cover is
earthly nature, thus pointing the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
Yehoshua </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
last Adam who will be glorify by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Not
only were the priest's clothes holy garments, they were vestments for
glory. The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Hebrew
word</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
translated "glory" is </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">kivod</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
(</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">כבוד</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">).
It also means "honor." Its root meaning is closely
connected with the Hebrew word for "heavy." To treat
something lightly would be the opposite of glorifying it. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Maimonides</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
points out that the priest's garments were not meant to glorify the
priests who wore them. Instead, the priests' garments reminded the
people of God's greatness. The laws of the priestly garments teach
some important lessons about clothing. For example, they teach that
the way we dress matters to God. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Clothing
can bring honor or dishonor to God.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">In
many churches, and even in some synagogues, it has become popular to
dress casually. Typically people dress better when they are going out
to an expensive restaurant than they do when they attend worship
services of the Most High. In modern </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Western
culture</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
it has become common to regard dress and apparel as inalienable
rights that are essential expressions of the individual. What is
more, we have adopted some sort of assumed piety in dressing down.
The reasoning proceeds along these lines: God does not look at the
outside. God looks at the heart. Therefore, the outside should not
matter but kept in a worthy manner according to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Ironically,
those who wear blue jeans and T-shirts to worship services seem to
regard themselves more intrinsically spiritual than the "stiffs"
who still dress formally, because they assume that their </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">casual
dress</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
reflects a more genuine heart.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The
laws of the priestly vestments prove that God looks at the outside as
well as the inside, and He is concerned for how His people present
themselves in the eyes of the world. The way we dress often reveals
what's going on inside us. It also reflects on God. To dress
disrespectfully on His holy days in His holy houses of worship is to
disrespect Him. Time will soon come when we will again learn how to
dress before coming to worship! </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Haftorah</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">For
the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Haftorah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and the prophecy of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yechezk’el’s</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Temple I will quote from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yashanet</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
the part which come from an exhaustive explanation concerning the
building of the Temple. To read more see ask for file which include
the complete teaching……</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">THE
MILLENNIAL TEMPLE: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Even
greater spiritual insight comes from the study of the Millennial
Temple (as described in the book of Ezekiel). In fact, study of the
design and ordinances of this future Temple was a command given by
God to His people in exile. In times when there was no physical
Temple standing in Jerusalem, study of this future Temple was
considered by God, the same as actually having the Temple present and
performing its ordinances. This remarkable concept is found in the
book of Ezekiel, and further elaborated on in a Hebrew commentary:
</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Ezekiel
43:10-12 - </span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Son
of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel </span></span></em><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>that
they may be ashamed of their iniquities</b></span></span></em><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">;
and let them measure the pattern. And if they are ashamed of all that
they have done, make known to them the design of the temple and its
arrangement, its exits and its entrances, its entire design and all
its ordinances, all its forms and all its laws. Write it down in
their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its
ordinances, and perform them. This is the law of the temple: The
whole area surrounding the mountaintop is most holy. Behold, this is
the law of the temple……</span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Midrash
Tanchuma, Tzav 14 - </span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Ezekiel
said to the Holy One blessed be He: "Master of the World: We are
now in exile, and You tell me to go and inform the Jewish people
about the plan of the Temple? 'Write it before their eyes, and they
will guard all its forms and all its laws and do them'? How can they
'do them'? Leave them until they go out of exile, and then I will
tell them." The Holy One blessed by He said to Ezekiel: "Just
because my children are in exile, does that mean the building of My
House should be halted? Studying the plan of the Temple in the Torah
is as great as actually building it. Go and tell them to male it
their business to study the form of the Temple as explained in the
Torah. As their reward for this study, I will give them credit as if
they are actually building the Temple."………….</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
both the books of Ezekiel and Revelation, the idea of measuring
different aspects of this Temple is mentioned. These measurements in
turn reveal aspects of the Temple that point to deeper realities
about God and creation. By learning </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>these
hidden truths</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
we become more able to "sanctify the Name of God."
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Kabbalistically</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
this means to "unify the Name of God" </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">(Yichud
Hashem Elohim).</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
As we learn what these measurements represent, we "connect
together" the various aspects of the Temple. This is how we can
"build the Temple" by studying it.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
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<p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a name="GEMATRIA"></a>
<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">GEMATRIA</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">As we know, the letters of
the Hebrew alphabet correspond to various numbers. This line of
study is called Gematria, a word with Greek origins, similar to
"Geometry."</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The individual letters also
have other allegorical and metaphysical meanings. They also
combine to form both words which carry additional meaning - such
as the various Names of God, as well as mathematical formulas. </span></span>
</p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">(Interestingly, the top
physicists in the world today tell us that everything in the
cosmos can be explained in terms of mathematical equations.)</span></span></p>
<p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">There is more to Gematria
than just letters equaling numbers however.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">It
is common knowledge that Gematria is the study of the numerical
value of the letters and words of the Hebrew Torah. What is not
generally realized is that Gematria, like geometry, is also the
mathematics of space.</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">LETTER</span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">VALUE</span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Aleph</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Beth</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">2</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Gimel</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">3</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Daleth</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">4</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">He</span></span></em></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">5</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Vau</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">6</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Zayin</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">7</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Cheth</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">8</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Teth</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">9</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Yod</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">10</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Caph</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">20
(final = 500)</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Lamed</span></span></em></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">30</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Mem</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">40
(final = 600)</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Nun</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">50
(final = 700)</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Samekh</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">60</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Ayin</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">70</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Pe</span></span></em></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">80
(final = 800)</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Tzaddi</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">90
(final = 900)</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Qoph</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">100</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Resh</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">200</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Shin</span></span></em></span></p>
</td>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">300</span></span></p>
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<p align="RIGHT" class="western"><span style="background-color: white;"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Tau</span></span></em></span></p>
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<p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">400</span></span></p>
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</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">THE
GATE TO THE HOLY OF HOLIES: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">There
are many aspects of the Millennial Temple that can be measured. For
the purpose of this study, we will focus on the gate to the Holy of
Holies. As mentioned earlier, the Sephirah of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is often associated with the concept of "gate,"
particularly on the side of the east as is the entrance to the Holy
of Holies. The dimensions of this gate are given as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>six
cubits by seven cubits</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Ezekiel
41:3 - </span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Then
went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and
the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven
cubits…………..</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">As
discussed in our previous studies, the number "6" is
closely associated with the Sephirah of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tiphere</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">t.
i.e., </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
represents the Vav ("V") in YH</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>V</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">H,
which has a numerical value of six. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is also sixth </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sephirah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and represents the synthesis of the six </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sephirah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
of </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Ze'er
Anpin</b></span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
(Chesed, Gevurah, Tipheret, Netzah, Hod, Yesod</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">),
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u><b>when
they are not united with Malkhut, the last of the "lower seven"
Sephirot.</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
number "7" in Gematria is associated with "completion,"
This occurs when </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Ze'er
Anpin</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(specifically Tipheret), is joined with its bride, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Malkut</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
thus completing the unity of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>the
lower seven Sephirot. …………</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Thus,
the gate to the Holy of Holies in the Millennial Temple is
representative of the final union between the groom (Tipheret) and
bride (Malkhut). This is reflected in the dimensions of the gate,
which are 6 cubits (representing Ze'er Anpin, the incomplete
arrangement), by 7 cubits, (representing the completed arrangement
that includes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>the
bride</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
Malkhut/Shekinah). Besides their association with the union of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Malkhut</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
the numbers 6 and 7 are also important in term of their product. The
product of 6 and 7 (6 multiplied by 7) is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>42</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
a number which we have already discussed the importance of </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><u><a href="http://www.yashanet.com/studies/revstudy/rev5d.htm"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">in
an earlier study</span></span></a></u></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
as </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Tipheret</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is linked to the "Forty-two letter name of God."…(Recall
the "frustration" of the Shekinah mention above in, </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Midrash
Rabbah - The Song of Songs I:41, </span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">which
depicts the "42" legs of the journey outside of the land.)
As mentioned earlier, the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sephirah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is associated with the idea of a "gate" one must pass
through to move upward spiritually. Recall also, that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is the</span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Sephirah of Truth.</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(i.e., You can fool yourself as to who you think you are at the
ego-level of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yesod</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
but you won't fool God at </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">!).
The Talmud and Zohar pull these themes together in these passages:
</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Talmud
- Mas. Kiddushin 71a -</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
forty-two lettered Name is entrusted only to him who is pious, meek,
middle-aged, free from bad temper, sober, and not insistent on his
rights. And he who knows it, is heedful thereof, and observes it in
purity, is beloved above and popular below, feared by man, and
inherits two worlds, this world and the future world….</span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Zohar
3:256b -</span></span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">This
is the gate to Hashem, the righteous walk through it. </span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">As
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Tipheret</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Azilut</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is also the </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Head
of Creation</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Keter</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Beriah</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">)
in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Metatron</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
the Forty-two letter name is directly tied to creation and to
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Metatron
(i.e. Messiah)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">:
</span></span><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Soncino
Zohar, Bereshith, Section 1, Page 30a -</span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span></span></em><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">AND
THE EARTH WAS VOID AND WITHOUT FORM. This describes the original
state-as it were, the dregs of ink clinging to the point of the
pen-in which there was no subsistence, until the world was graven
with forty-two letters, all of which are the ornamentation of the
Holy Name…………….</span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Soncino
Zohar, Bereshith, Section 1, Page 16a</span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
-</b></span></span></em><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Up to this point only extend the allusions to the Most Mysterious who
carves out and builds and vivifies in mysterious ways, through the
esoteric explanation of one verse. From this point onwards bara
shith, “he created six”, from the end of heaven to the end
thereof, six sides which extend from the supernal mystic essence,
through the expansion of creative force from a primal point. Here has
been inscribed the mystery of the name of forty-two letters……</span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Soncino
Zohar, Bereshith, Section 1, Page 8b -</span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
“And in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam” (I
Chr. XI, 23). This alludes to the divine rod which was in Moses’
hand, and on which there was engraved the divine ineffable Name
radiating in various combinations of letters. These same letters were
in possession of Bezalel, who was called “weaver”, and his
school, as it is written: “Them hath he filled with wisdom of
heart... of the craftsman and the skilled workman, and the weaver,
etc.” (Exod. XXXV, 35). So that rod had engraved on it the
ineffable Name on every side, in forty-two various combinations,
which were illumined in different colours. …………..</span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Soncino
Zohar, Bereshith, Section 1, Page 27a </span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">“And
God showed him a tree” (Ibid.); this is a tree of life, and through
it “the waters were sweetened”. Similarly of Moses it is written,
“And the staff of God was in his hand.” This rod is Metatron,
from one side of whom comes life and from the other death…..</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
summation, this gate to the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Holy
of Holies</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
in the Millennial Temple is equated with the forty-two letter Name of
God and with </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Metatron
(Messiah)</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
who is the Divine Son. Those who walk through this gate (Zohar 3:256b
- above) enter eternity with God. Again, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yeshua</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
spoke of Himself in these </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Kabbalistic</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
terms:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">John
10:7-9 - </span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Therefore
Yeshua said again, "I tell you the truth, </span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
am the gate</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
for the sheep. All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers,
but the sheep did not listen to them. </span></span></em><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>I
am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
He will come in and go out, and find pasture………….</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">As
the forty-two letter Name is also associated with advent of creation
(which "groans" for tikkun/restoration - Romans 8:22), the
"completed gate" of Ezekiel's Temple reflects this state of
restored creation.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p style="margin-bottom: 0.19in; margin-top: 0.19in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">1.
</span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Secrets
of the Future Temple (Mishkney Elyon),</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
by Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto, translated by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Avraham
Yehoshua ben Yakov Greenbaum</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
The Temple Institute and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Azamra</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Institute, Jerusalem, 2000, p. 41. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>ReadingEze
43:10-27</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Son of man, explain the House to the house of Yisra’ĕl, and
when they are ashamed of their crookednesses, they shall measure the
measurements. .................;</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
the book of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Shmu’el,</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
Saul didn’t understand the way of </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">.
His carnal nature was to please men and not </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
(verses 22-23) and so sinned against </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and lost his Kingship. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Saul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is a picture of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Pharisee
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">who
look “good” from outside but inside were corrupted doing their
own plan…………..</span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>1Sa</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>15:1</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
And Shemu’ĕl said to Sha’ul, “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>sent
me to anoint you sovereign over His people, over Yisra’ĕl. And
now, listen to the voice of the words of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“Thus said </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>of
hosts, ‘I shall punish Amalĕq for what he did to Yisra’ĕl, how
he set himself against him on the way when he came up from Mitsrayim.
</i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:3</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
‘Now go, and you shall smite Amalĕq and put under the ban all that
he has, and you shall not spare them, and put to death from man to
woman, from infant to nursing child, from ox to sheep, from camel to
donkey.’ ” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:4</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
Then Sha’ul summoned the people and mustered them in Tela’im, two
hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Yehuḏah. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Sha’ul came to a city of Amalĕq, and lay in wait in the wadi.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:6</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Sha’ul said to the Qĕynites, “Go, turn aside, come down from
among the Amalĕqites, lest I destroy you with them. For you did show
kindness to all the children of Yisra’ĕl when they came up out of
Mitsrayim.” So the Qĕynites turned aside from the midst of the
Amalĕqites. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:7</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Sha’ul smote the Amalĕqites, from Ḥawilah all the way to
Shur, which is before Mitsrayim. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:8</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and he caught Aḡaḡ sovereign of the Amalĕqites alive, and put
under the ban all the people with the edge of the sword. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
but Sha’ul and the people spared Aḡaḡ and the best of the
sheep, and the cattle, and the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and would not put them under the ban. But all goods
despised and worthless, that they put under the ban. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and the word of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>came
to Shemu’ĕl, saying, </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“I am grieved that I have set up Sha’ul as sovereign, for he has
turned back from following Me, and has not performed My words.” And
it displeased Shemu’ĕl, and he cried to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>all
night. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl rose early in the morning to meet Sha’ul, and it
was told to Shemu’ĕl, saying, “Sha’ul went to Karmel, and see,
he set up a monument for himself, then turned and passed over, and
went down to Gilgal.” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl came to Sha’ul, and Sha’ul said to him, “Blessed
are you of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>!
I have performed the word of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.”
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
but Shemu’ĕl said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in
my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear?” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Sha’ul said, “They have brought them from Amalĕq, because
the people spared the best of the sheep and the cattle, to slaughter
to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>your
Elohim. And the rest we have put under the ban.” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>and
Shemu’ĕl said to Sha’ul, “Wait, and let me declare to you what
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>said
to me last night.” And he said to him, “Speak.” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl said, “Though you were little in your own eyes,
were you not head of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl? And did not </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>anoint
you sovereign over Yisra’ĕl? </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:18</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>sent
you on the way, and said, ‘Go, and you shall put under the ban the
sinners, the Amalĕqites, and fight against them until they are
consumed.’ </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“and why did you not obey the voice of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
but swooped down on the spoil, and did evil in the eyes of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>?”
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:20</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Sha’ul said to Shemu’ĕl, “I did obey the voice of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and I went on the way on which </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>sent
me, and brought back Aḡaḡ sovereign of Amalĕq, and I put Amalĕq
under the ban. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:21</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“But the people took of the spoil, of the sheep and cattle, the
best of that which should have been put under the ban, to slaughter
to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>your
Elohim in Gilgal.” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:22</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Then
Shemu’ĕl said, “Does </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>delight
in burnt offerings and slaughterings, as in obeying the voice of
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>?
Look</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>,
to obey </b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>is
better</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>
than an offering, to heed is better than the fat of rams. </b></u></i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:23</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
“For </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>rebellion
is as the sin of divination, and stubbornness is as wickedness and
idolatry</b></u></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>.
Because you have rejected the word of </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>,
He also does reject you as </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>sovereign.”
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:24</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Sha’ul said to Shemu’ĕl, “I have sinned, for I have
transgressed the command of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>and
your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:25</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And now, please pardon my sin, and return with me, and let me bow
myself to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.”
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:26</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
but Shemu’ĕl said to Sha’ul, “I do not return with you, for
you have rejected the word of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>does
reject you from being sovereign over Yisra’ĕl.” </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:27</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and as Shemu’ĕl turned around to go away, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
seized the edge of his robe, and it tore. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:28</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl said to him, “</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>has
torn the reign of Yisra’ĕl from you today, and has given it to a
neighbour of yours, better than you. </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:29</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“Moreover, the Eminence of Yisra’ĕl does not lie nor relent. For
He is not a man, that He should relent.” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:30</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
Then </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>he
said, “I have sinned</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
But esteem me now, please, before the elders of my people and before
Yisra’ĕl, and return with me, and I shall bow myself to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>your
Elohim.”</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:31</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl turned back after Sha’ul, and Sha’ul bowed
himself to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:32</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl said, “Bring Aḡaḡ sovereign of the Amalĕqites
here to me.” So Aḡaḡ came to him delightedly, and Aḡaḡ
said, “Truly, the bitterness of death has turned aside.” </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:33</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl said, “As your sword bereaved women, let your
mother be bereaved among women too.” Shemu’ĕl then hewed Aḡaḡ
to pieces before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>in
Gilgal. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:34</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl went to Ramah, while Sha’ul went up to his house at
Giḇʽah of Sha’ul. </i></span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>1Sa
15:35</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Shemu’ĕl did not see Sha’ul again until the day of his
death, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>for
Shemu’ĕl mourned for Sha’ul</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.
And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>was
grieved that He had made Sha’ul to reign over Yisra’ĕl. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“You are the light of the world. It is impossible for a city to be
hidden on a mountain. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a
lampstand, and it shines to all those in the house. </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:16</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
“Let your light so shine before men, so that they see your good
works and praise your Father who is in the heavens..........</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews</b></i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-top: 0.08in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>BOOK THREE CHAPTER 7</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>CONCERNING
THE GARMENTS OF THE PRIESTS, AND OF THE HIGH PRIEST. </b></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">1.
THERE were peculiar garments appointed for the priests, and for all
the rest, which they call </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Cohanoeoe</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
[-priestly] garments, as also for the high priests, which they call
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Cahanoeoe
Rabbae, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
denote the high priest's garments. Such was therefore the habit of
the rest. But when the priest approaches the sacrifices, he purifies
himself with the purification which the law prescribes; and, in the
first place, he puts on that which is called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Machanase,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">which
means somewhat that is fast tied. It is a girdle, composed of fine
twined linen, and is </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>put
about the privy parts</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
the feet being to be inserted into them in the nature of breeches,
but above half of it is cut off, and it ends at the thighs, and is
there tied fast. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">2.
Over this he wore a linen vestment, made of fine flax doubled: it is
called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Chethone,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
denotes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>linen,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">for
we call linen by the name of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Chethone.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">This
vestment reaches down to the feet, and sits close to the body; and
has sleeves that are tied fast to the arms: it is girded to the
breast a little above the elbows, by a girdle often going round, four
fingers broad, but so loosely woven, that you would think it were the
skin of a serpent. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>It
is embroidered with</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
flowers of scarlet, and purple, and blue, and fine twined linen, but
the warp was nothing but fine linen. The beginning of its
circumvolution is at the breast; and when it has gone often round, it
is there tied, and hangs loosely there down to the ankles: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>I
mean this</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
all the time the priest is not about any laborious service, for in
this position it appears in the most agreeable manner to the
spectators; but when he is obliged to assist at the offering
sacrifices, and to do the appointed service, that he may not be
hindered in his operations by its motion, he throws it to the left,
and bears it on his shoulder. </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Moses
indeed calls this belt </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Albaneth</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">but
we have learned from the Babylonians to call it </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Emia,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">for
so it is by them called. This vestment has no loose or hollow parts
any where in it, but only a narrow aperture about the neck; and it is
tied with certain strings hanging down from the edge over the breast
and back, and is fastened above each shoulder: it is called
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Massabazanes.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">3.
Upon his head he wears a cap, not </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>brought
to a conic form nor encircling the whole head</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
but still covering more than the half of it, which is called
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Masnaemphthes;
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
its make is such that it seems to be a crown, being made of thick
swathes, but the contexture is of linen; and it is doubled round many
times, and sewed together; besides which, a piece of fine linen
covers the whole cap from the upper part, and reaches down to the
forehead, and hides the seams (junction, suture) of the swathes
(bandage, dress), which would otherwise appear indecently: this
adheres closely upon the solid part of the head, and is thereto so
firmly fixed, that it may not fall off during the sacred service
about the sacrifices. So we have now shown you what is the habit of
the generality of the priests. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">4.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>The
high priest is indeed adorned</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
with the same garments that we have described, without abating one;
only over these he puts on a vestment of a blue color. This also is a
long robe, reaching to his feet, [in our language it is called
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.Meeir,]
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">and
is tied round with a girdle, embroidered with the same colors and
flowers as the former, with a mixture of gold interwoven. To the
bottom of which garment are hung fringes, in color like pomegranates,
with golden bells </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(see
explanations13)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
by a curious and beautiful contrivance; so that between two bells
hangs a pomegranate, and between two pomegranates a bell. Now this
vesture was not composed of two pieces, nor was it sewed together
upon the shoulders and the sides, but it was one long vestment so
woven as to have an aperture for the neck; not an oblique one, but
parted all along the breast and the back. A border also was sewed to
it, lest the aperture should look too indecently: it was also parted
where the hands were to come out. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">5.
Besides these, the high priest put on a third garment, which was
called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Ephod</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">which
resembles the Epomis of the Greeks. Its make was after this manner:
it was woven to the depth of a cubit, of several colors, with gold
intermixed, and embroidered, but it left the middle of the breast
uncovered: it was made with sleeves also; nor did it appear to be at
all differently made from a short coat. But in the void place of this
garment there was inserted a piece of the bigness of a span,
embroidered with gold, and the other colors of the ephod, and was
called </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Essen,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">[</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the
breastplate</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,]
.which in the Greek language signifies the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Oracle.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">This
piece exactly filled up the void space in the ephod. It was united to
it by golden rings at every corner, the like rings being annexed to
the ephod, and a blue riband was made use of to tie them together by
those rings; and that the space between the rings might not appear
empty, they contrived to fill it up with stitches of blue ribands.
There were also </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>two
sardonyxes</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>upon
the ephod,</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
at the shoulders, to fasten it </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>in
the nature of buttons</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
having each end running to the sardonyxes of gold, that they might be
buttoned by them. On these were engrave the names of the sons of
Jacob, in our own country letters, and </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>in
our own tongue (Hebrew)</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
six on each of the stones, on either side; and the elder sons' names
were on the right shoulder. Twelve stones also there were upon the
breast-plate, extraordinary in largeness and beauty; and they were an
ornament not to be purchased by men, because of their immense value.
These stones, however, stood in three rows, by four in a row, and
were inserted into the breastplate itself, and they were set in
ouches of gold, that were themselves inserted in the breastplate, and
were so made that they might not fall out low the first three stones
were a sardonyx, a topaz, and an emerald. The second row contained a
carbuncle, a jasper, and a sapphire. The first of the third row was a
ligure, then an amethyst, and the third an agate, being the ninth of
the whole number. The first of the fourth row was a chrysolite, the
next was an onyx, and then a beryl, which was the last of all. Now
the names of all those sons of Jacob were engraven in these stones,
whom we esteem the heads of our tribes, each stone having the honor
of a name, in the order </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>according
to which they were born</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
And whereas the rings were too weak of themselves to bear the weight
of the stones, they made two other rings of a larger size, at the
edge of that part of the breastplate which reached to the neck, and
inserted into the very texture of the breastplate, to receive chains
finely wrought, which connected them with golden bands to the tops of
the shoulders, whose extremity turned backwards, and went into the
ring, on the prominent back part of the ephod; and this was for the
security of the breastplate, that it might not fall out of its place.
There was also a girdle sewed to the breastplate, which was of the
fore mentioned colors, with gold intermixed, which, when it had gone
once round, was tied again upon the seam, and hung down. There were
also golden loops that admitted its fringes at each extremity of the
girdle, and included them entirely. 6. The high priest's mitre was
the same that we described before, and was wrought like that of all
the other priests; above which there was another, with swathes of
blue embroidered, and round it was a golden crown polished, of three
rows, one above another; out of which arose a cup of gold, which
resembled the herb which we call </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Saccharus;
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">but
those Greeks that are skillful in botany call it </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Hyoscyamus.
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Now,
lest any one that has seen this herb, but has not been taught its
name, and is unacquainted with its nature, or, having known its name,
knows not the herb when he sees it, I shall give such ,as these are a
description of it. This herb is oftentimes in tallness above three
spans, but its root is like that of a turnip (for he that should
compare it thereto would not be mistaken); but its leaves are like
the leaves of mint. Out of its branches it sends out a calyx,
cleaving. to the branch; and a coat encompasses it, which it
naturally puts off when it is changing, in order to produce its
fruit. This calyx is of the bigness of the bone of the little finger,
but in the compass of its aperture is like a cup. This I will further
describe, for the use of those that are unacquainted with it. Suppose
a sphere be divided into two parts, round at the bottom, but having
another segment that grows up to a circumference from that bottom;
suppose it become narrower by degrees, and that the cavity of that
part grow decently smaller, and then gradually grow wider again at
the brim, such as we see in the navel of a pomegranate, with its
notches. And indeed such a coat grows over this plant as renders it a
hemisphere, and that, as one may say, turned accurately in a lathe,
and having its notches extant above it, which, as I said, grow like a
pomegranate, only that they are sharp, and end in nothing but
prickles. Now the fruit is preserved by this coat of the calyx, which
fruit is like the seed of the herb Sideritis: it sends out a flower
that may seem to resemble that of poppy. Of this was a crown made, as
far from the hinder part of the head to each of the temples; but this
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ephielis,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">for
so </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>this
calyx may be called, did not cover the forehead, but it was covered
with a golden plate</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(read
explanation14)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
which had inscribed upon it the name of God in sacred characters. And
such were the ornaments of the high priest. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">7.
Now here one may wonder at the ill-will which men bear to us, and
which they profess to bear on account of our despising that Deity
which they pretend to honor; for if any one do but consider the
fabric of the tabernacle, and take a view of the garments of the high
priest, and of those vessels which we make use of in our sacred
ministration, he will find that our legislator was a divine man, and
that we are unjustly reproached by others; for if any one do without
prejudice, and with judgment, look upon these things, he will find
they were every one made in way of imitation and representation of
the universe. When Moses distinguished the tabernacle into three
parts, </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(15)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
and allowed two of them to the priests, as a place accessible and
common, he denoted the land and the sea</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">these
being of general access to all; but he set apart the third division
for God, because heaven is inaccessible to men. And when he ordered
twelve loaves to be set on the table, he denoted the year, as
distinguished into so many months. By branching out the candlestick
into seventy parts, he secretly intimated the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Decani,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">or
seventy divisions of the planets; and as to the seven lamps upon the
candlesticks, they referred to the course of the planets, of which
that is the number. The veils, too, which were composed of four
things, they declared the four elements; for the fine linen was
proper to signify the earth, because the flax grows out of the earth;
the purple signified the sea, because that color is dyed by the blood
of a sea shell-fish; the blue is fit to signify the air; and the
scarlet will naturally be an indication of fire. Now the vestment of
the high priest being made of linen, signified the earth; the blue
denoted the sky, being like lightning in its pomegranates, and in the
noise of the bells resembling thunder. And for the ephod, it showed
that God had made the universe of four elements; and as for the gold
interwoven, I suppose it related to the splendor by which all things
are enlightened. He also appointed the breastplate to be placed in
the middle of the ephod, to resemble the earth, for that has the very
middle place of the world. And the girdle which encompassed the high
priest round, signified the ocean, for that goes round about and
includes the universe. Each of the sardonyxes declares to us the sun
and the moon; those, I mean, that were in the nature of buttons on
the high priest's shoulders. And for the twelve stones, whether we
understand by them the months, or whether we understand the like
number of the signs of that circle which the Greeks call the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Zodiac,
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">we
shall not be mistaken in their meaning. And for the mitre, which was
of a blue color, it seems to me to mean heaven; for how otherwise
could the name of God be inscribed upon it? That it was also
illustrated with a crown, and that of gold also, is because of that
splendor with which God is pleased. Let this explication </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(16)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
suffice at present, since the course of my narration will often, and
on many occasions, afford me the opportunity of enlarging upon the
virtue of our legislator. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>ENDNOTES</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(13)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
The use of these golden bells at the bottom of the high priest's long
garment, seems to me to have been this: That by shaking his garment
at the time of his offering incense in the temple, on the great day
of expiation, or at other proper periods of his sacred ministrations
there, on the great festivals, the people might have notice of it,
and might fall to their own prayers at the time of incense, or other
proper periods; and so the whole congregation might at once offer
those common prayers jointly with the high priest himself to the
Almighty See </span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>Luk_1:10</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;
</span></span><span style="color: green;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>Rev_8:3-4</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
Nor probably is the son of Sirach to be otherwise understood, when he
says of Aaron, the first high priest, Ecelus. 45:9, "And God
encompassed Aaron with pomegranates, and with many golden bells round
about, that </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>as
he went there might be a sound, and a noise made that might be heard
in the temple</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
for a memorial to the children of his people." </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(14)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
The reader ought to take notice here, that the very Mosaic Petalon,
or golden plate, for the forehead of the Jewish high priest, was
itself preserved, not only till the days of Josephus, but of Origen;
and that its inscription, Holiness to YEHOVAH, was in the Samaritan
characters. See Antiq. B. VIII. ch. 3. sect. 8, Essay on the Old
Test. p. 154, and Reland, De pol. Templi, p. 132. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(15)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
When Josephus, both here and ch. 6. sect. 4, supposes the tabernacle
to have been parted into three parts, he seems to esteem the bare
entrance to be a third division, distinct from the holy and the most
holy places; and this the rather, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>because
in the temple afterward there was a real distinct third part, which
was called the Porch</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">:
otherwise Josephus would contradict his own description of the
tabernacle, which gives as a particular account of no more than two
parts. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.08in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>(16)</u></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
This explication of the mystical meaning of the Jewish tabernacle and
its vessels, with the garments of the high priest, is taken out of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Philo</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>and
fitted to Gentile philosophical notions</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
This may possibly be forgiven in Jews, </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>greatly
versed in heathen learning and philosophy, as Philo had ever been,
and as Josephus had long been when he wrote these Antiquities</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">.
In the mean time, it is not to be doubted, but in their education
they must have both learned more Jewish interpretations, such as we
meet with in the Epistle of Barnabas, in that to the Hebrews, and
elsewhere among the old Jews. Accordingly when Josephus wrote his
books of the Jewish War, for the use of the Jews, at which time he
was comparatively young, and less used to Gentile books, we find one
specimen of such a Jewish interpretation; for there (B. VII. ch. 5.
sect. 5) </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>he
makes </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>the
seven branches of the temple-candlestick, with their seven lamps, an
emblem of the seven days of creation and rest</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>,</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
which are here emblems of the seven planets. Nor certainly ought
ancient Jewish emblems to be explained any other way than according
to ancient Jewish, and not Gentile, notions. See of the War, B. I.
ch. 33. sect. 2. </span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>TREE of LIFE</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b>Basic (picture next page)</b></i></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">From
the bottom, up:</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">At
the bottom</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>:
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Malkut</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
the Kingdom, </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
entrance door</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">In
the middle: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Yesod
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>the
foundation </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">i.e.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah
, the Torah</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The
middle pillar </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Tiferet
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>the
Truth </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">i.e.
the place where </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">stands
the place where each of us must go through before entering eternal
life! At this stage in our Journey there is no more places for lies
but a pure and undefiled life.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Right
and left from </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Yesod</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>:</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Right
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Netzah,
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
place of victory represented by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Moshe</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Left
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Hod
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
place of Glory represented by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Aharon</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Above
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Tiferet</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">we
find:</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">On
the right side </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Chesed
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
place of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>mercy
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">represented
by </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Abaraham</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">On
the left side</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
Gewurah </b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
place of strictness and judgment the place of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>HaSatan</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">One
step above we find:</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">On
the right </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Chochmah</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
place of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>wisdom</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
no more for human condition but dwelling in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">On
the left </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Binah
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
place of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>understanding
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">same
as for wisdom, also dwelling in </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">On
the top: </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Ketter
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">which
embed the perfect </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>will
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim:</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>sefirot
(attrinute) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>da’at
(knowledge) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">is
the</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">result
of </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Binah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>and
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Chochmah
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">bringing
knowledge to somebody.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:17</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
he (</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>)
is before all things, and by him all things consist.</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:18</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
he is the head of the body, the assembly: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the
preeminence.</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:19</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
it pleased the Father that in him (</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>)
should </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>all
fullness dwell</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
(ketter, binah and Chochmah, )</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;.........</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>To
the believers </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Sha’ul
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>writes:</b></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:9</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray
for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(da’at)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of his will </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(ketter)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
in all wisdom </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(chochmah)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and spiritual understanding </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(binah)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>;</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:10</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>That
ye might walk worthy of the Master unto all pleasing, being fruitful
in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(da’at)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of Elohim;</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:11</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>strengthened
with all might, according to his glorious </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(hod)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">;</span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:12</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>giving
thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints in light:</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:13</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Who
hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us
into the kingdom </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(Malkut)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of his dear Son:</i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:14</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>in
whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of
sins: </i></span></span><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Col
1:15</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>who
is the image of the invisible Elohim, the firstborn of every
creature:</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">This
is replicated in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Human
body:</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">From
the top to the bottom:</span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Ketter:
The will </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">seat
in the head, the brain of man.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Binah
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
left part of man’s brain</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Chochmah
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
right part of man’s brain</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gewurah
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
left shoulder</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Chochmah</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
the right shoulder</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Tiferet
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the
heart</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Hod
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
left legs</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Netzach
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
right legs</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Yesod
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">man’s
membrum (sex)</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Malchut
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
earthly Kingdom.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Da’at
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>sefirot
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>knowledge
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">is
reach when divine </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>wisdom
(Chochmah) </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">comes
together with divine </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>understanding
</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(Binah)...............</b></i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pro
1:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>The
proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pro
1:2</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>To
know wisdom </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(chochmah</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>)
and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding (Binah);</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pro
1:3</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>To
receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pro
1:4</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>To
give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(da’at)</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and discretion.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: teal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pro
1:5</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>a
wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of
understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:</i></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Pro
9:1</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Wisdom
hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>seven
pillars (Gewurah, Chesed, Tiferet, Hod, Netzach, and Malchut).</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>:</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">This
is mystical but what our heavenly Father want us to understand.</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p align="CENTER" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Picture
of the </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Mishkahn
</b></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>in
the Wilderness (see next page)</b></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">May
</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">bless
you through our Master </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">as
you keep the way of the </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Comments
can be sent to: </span></span><span style="color: #990000;"><u><a href="mailto:danielchaud@yahoo.com"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">d.c.danjan@gmail.com</span></span></a></u></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Daniel
ben Ya’acov Israel</b></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><h6 class="western" lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white;"><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a></span>
</h6><span style="background-color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;">Summary:</span></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>SERPENT</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
– What does John/Yochanan said in the book Revelation concerning
the serpent of old. He is
called ______????? Just read </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Revelation
12:9</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>DOUBT</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
– what does in the book James/Yacob written woncerning DOUBT??</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Just
read in your Bible </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>James
1:6-8.</i></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">DISOBEDIENT
– What does Paul quote from the Prophet Isaiah 65:2?? In the book
of Romans concerning the disobedient sons?? Just read </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Romans
10:21.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
</span></span></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><u>GOOD</u></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
– Which GOOD does Paul/Shaul in the book of Romans?? Just read
Romans 7:12 – 13…1Timothy 1:8</span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">This
the common song Psalm 119:105 </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Thy
word </span></span></span><span style="color: grey;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>is</i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">
a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path………now you compare
this verse in Proverbs 6:23…</span></span></span></span></p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
</p><span style="background-color: white;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Conclusion:
I challenge you to read your bible, Don’t let your bible just a
DECORATION in your house. We may think while walking in this
world,we are FREE from any religion. But mind you, Satan is SMARTER
than us,he has not just slave us from what the WORLD has offer in us
on earth(ALL what is been called modern today & etc.). But also
what is in the Spiritual Realm(Ephesian 6:12) where he put us into
bondage and slave. This our struggle to fight, we must overcome all
this EVIL in the eyes of Elohim(God) by and through what he called
GOOD.. to the Now after you read this short notes, Elohim will show
you something if u have an open mind & heart. And you will
understand what HE call GOOD., The Instruction,The Teaching in our
way of life …If we understand what Elohim(God) call Good ..then we
will understand the prophets,Yahshua(jesus), apostles and the
disciples….So,IF your NOT open, ..then, once again this will just
VEIL before in your eyes. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB">32Parsha Behar – On
the Mount - </span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">Vayiqra 25:1-26:2</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><b><u><span lang="EN-GB">33B’chukotai – In my
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<b>Portion Summary<br />Behar<br />The thirty-second reading from the Torah and second-to-last reading from the book of Leviticus is called Behar (בהר), which means "On the Mountain." The name comes from the first words of the first verse of the reading, which could be literally translated to read, "Yehovah then spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai" (Leviticus 25:1). This portion from the Torah introduces the laws of the sabbatical years, the jubilee and laws concerning redemption. In most years, synagogues read Behar together with the following portion, Bechukotai.<br /><br />Bechukotai<br />The last reading from the book of Leviticus is called Bechukotai (בחקותי), which means "In My Statutes." The name comes from the first verse of the reading, which begins with the words "If you walk in My statutes ..." (Leviticus 26:3). This last reading from Leviticus promises blessings and rewards for Israel if they will keep the Torah, but punishment and curses if they break the commandments of the Torah. The last chapter discusses laws pertaining to vows, valuations and tithes. In most years, synagogues read Bechukotai together with the preceding portion, Behar.</b></div>
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<b>Portion Outline<br />TORAH<br />Leviticus 25:1 | The Sabbatical Year<br />Leviticus 25:8 | The Year of Jubilee<br />Leviticus 26:1 | Rewards for Obedience<br />Leviticus 26:14 | Penalties for Disobedience<br />Leviticus 27:1 | Votive Offerings<br />PROPHETS<br />Jer 16:14 | Elohim Will Restore Israel<br />Jer 17:1 | Judah's Sin and Punishment<br />Jer 17:14 | Jeremiah Prays for Vindication</b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Heb 10:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>For the Torah, having a shadow of the good <i>matters</i> to come</b>, <b>and not the image itself of the matters,
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<b><span lang="EN-GB"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">When used: </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">• <b>"Scripture taken from “The Scriptures”, Copyright by Institute for
Scripture Research. “Used by permission”!When other: King James Version; I have
restored the Name of our Heavenly Father and our Master Yehoshua Messiah when
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<span lang="EN-GB">The <i>RNKJV (Renewed King James Version) use <b>YHWH </b></i>while I use </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> for the Name of our
heavenly father. The RNKJV write according to the English letters, I preserve
the Hebrew letters of the <i>tetragramaton</i>
in order to avoid vain discussion and strife concerning the spelling and
pronunciation of the Name of our heavenly Father. During the reading you will
also found the <i>Tetragramaton </i>written
as: <i>Yehovah</i>, and the name of our
Master as <i>Yehoshua</i> this is my
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<span lang="EN-GB">Today’s <i>“parasha”</i> bring us to a new point which
has been neglected by men until </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">in His mercy put back
in the heart of His people to search the truth. This is the Shabbat of the land
and the <i>“Yovel”</i>, called <i>Year of Jubilee</i> in English. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s time, only the Shabbat of
the land was kept in <i>Eretz Israel (land of Israel)</i>,
there was no <i>“Yovel” </i>kept! We are going to see that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">was concerned with the restoration of all
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<span lang="EN-GB">Today we
see more and more believers dedicate themselves to study and learning of the
Torah. We know that when Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>,
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of <i>Elohim</i><i>,</i> the Torah will be the standard of life
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<span lang="EN-GB">----- <b><span style="color: navy;">Isa 2:2</span></b> <i>and
it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of YHWH's house shall
be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the
hills; </i>and all nations shall flow
unto it.<i> </i><b><span style="color: teal;">Isa 2:3</span></b> <i>and many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of YHWH, to the house of the Elohim of Jacob; and he will teach us of
his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for </i><b>out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word (Torah) of YHWH from
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">----- </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">spoke
to <i>Moshe</i> in the Mount Sinai! This
took place when <i>Moshe</i> went up for
forty days and forty nights. When <i>Moshe</i> writes these laws of rest of the
land and <i>Yovel</i>, the children of Israel are
still in the wilderness, this is the preparation for entering the land.”</span><i><span lang="EN-US"> When you come into the land………”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">As I wrote in a former <i>“parasha”</i>, we are not in <i>Eretz Israel</i> now and therefore should
understand that the study of Torah is a preparation for time to come at the
second advent of Messiah. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Remember, </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, sanctify (Set apart) His
people through keeping the Shabbat: </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Exo 31:13</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And you, speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl,
saying, ‘</i><b>My Sabbaths you are to
guard, by all means, for it is a <span style="color: blue;">sign<sup>1</sup></span>
between Me and you throughout your generations</b><i>, to know that <b>I, </b></i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, am setting you apart</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">.
<span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>The only sign of </span></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> setting us apart, the only sign of the everlasting covenant, is
His Sabbaths, one of them being the seventh day Sabbath. This is repeated in
Ezek. 20:12 & 20</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">………………</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">Exo 31:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one
that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work
therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Exo 31:15</span><span lang="EN-US"> <i>six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest,
holy to YHWH: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be
put to death. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Exo 31:16</span><span lang="EN-US"> <i>wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the
Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Exo 31:17</span><span lang="EN-US"> <b>it is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever</b><i>: for
in six days YHWH made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and
was refreshed. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">Eze 20:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> “And I also gave them My Sabbaths
(Heb.Shabbot), <span style="color: blue;">to be a sign<sup>1</sup></span> between
them and Me, to know that I am </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> who sets them apart.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">Eze 20:20</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And set apart My Sabbaths (Heb. Shabbot),
and <b>they shall be a sign between Me and you, to know that I am </b></span><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> your Elohim.’ </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">When
studying the Torah (</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
instructions) we should have always in mind that the natural points toward the
spiritual. Nowadays, you can hear people everywhere, in the TV, the radio, or
read in news papers about “spiritual”. In reality their so called
“spirituality” is far from the real spiritual way ordained by </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s <i>Ruach</i> (Spirit). It is only a Greek “understanding” of “satisfying
the desire of the flesh”.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">According
to the Torah, the pattern is simple: To follow the flesh is <i>“carnal”</i> to follow the <i>Ruach</i> is “spiritual”:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Gal 5:16</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
I say: <b>Walk in the Spirit</b> and you
shall not accomplish the lust of the flesh. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Gal 5:17</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> for <b>the flesh lusts against the Spirit</b>, and the Spirit against
the flesh. And <b>these are opposed to each
other</b>, so that you do not do what you desire to do. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Gal 5:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> but <b>if you are led by the
Spirit, you are not under Torah</b></span></i><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">From
another translation:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #660099;">Gal 5:17</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #660099;"> <i>for <b>the old nature </b></i></span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">(carnal man)</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #660099;"> wants what <b>is
contrary to the Spirit</b>, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old
nature. These oppose each other, so that <b>you
find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions. <br />
</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #660099;">Gal 5:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #660099;"> but <b>if you are
led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results
from perverting the Torah into legalism</b></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #660099;">. <br />
</span><span lang="EN-GB">In other words we must
choose to be led by the <i>Ruach</i>, in
order to follow Abba </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
will. “You are not under the Torah”, means that walking in the <i>Ruach</i> in Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">make us
free from the bondage of the “Ink of the letter” in other words, trying to be
justified by keeping the Torah!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;">Gal 2:16</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law (Oral Torah of the
Pharisee), but by the faith of Yehoshua the Messiah, even we have believed in </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
the Messiah, that we might be justified by the faith of the Messiah, and not by
the works of the law (Ma’asee HaTorah: Work of the Oal Torah): for by the works
of the law shall no flesh be justified.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Gal 2:17</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>But if, while we seek to be justified by the
Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore the Messiah the
minister of sin? By no means.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Torah
keeping is to walk in a righteous way and not to be justified by the
regulations of men.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rom 8:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>There is, then, now no condemnation to those
who are in Messiah </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, who do
not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rom 8:3</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>For the Torah being powerless, in that it
was weak through the flesh…………</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rom 8:5</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for <b>those
who live according to the flesh</b> <b>set
their minds on the matters of
the flesh</b>, but those who live
according to the Spirit, the matters
of the Spirit</i>. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rom 8:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>because <b>the
mind of the flesh (carnal man) is enmity towards Elohim</b>, <span style="color: blue;">for it does not subject itself<sup>1</sup></span> to the <span style="color: blue;">Torah of Elohim</span>, neither indeed is it able</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rom 8:8</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and <b>those
who are in the flesh (carnal) are unable to please Elohim. </b></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">With this,
we should be able to see those who are able to “please <i>Elohim</i>” in the world today!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Now this is
the aspect of the redemption. When Adam transgressed following <i>Chawah</i>’s <i>(Eve)</i> sin, the all world was put under the power of sin and was
held under the need of redemption.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">established the rest of the land
(Shabbat) in the same pattern it was for the day of rest for mankind (Weekly
Shabbat). In the book of <i>B’reshit</i>
(Genesis) the Rest of the seventh day is given for all mankind, it is only
after the flood, when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">called <i>Abram</i> that the Shabbat was determined to
be for </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s chosen people, because of
the rebellion of mankind.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Now this
pattern was extended to the land of Israel <i>(Eretz
Isarel)</i>, when the Children of Israel (carnal man) will enter it led by <i>Yohushua</i> son of <i>Nun</i>, a picture foreshadowing our (you and me) future entering in <i>Eretz Isarel</i> under Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’leadership.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">This
Shabbat of rest every seven years will become a challenge which the children of
Israel
(carnal man) our forefathers were not able to keep.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Later on we
will see that <i>Sha’ul</i> speaks
concerning the earth waiting also for redemption.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">“The land
shall observe a Shabbat to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">“</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The
challenge: During this year, the Children of Israel (carnal man) were not
allowed to reap what grows of its own and also not to gather the grapes of “un-pruned”
wine. The reason been “it is a year of rest for the land”: “Do not sow and do
not prune your vineyard” (verse 5).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">There are
many things to see in this verse.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara" , sans-serif;">-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The Children of Israel (carnal man) were not
allowed to reap what grows of its own of “un-pruned wine” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara" , sans-serif;">-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The Children of Israel (carnal man) were not
allowed to sow and to gather the grapes during the seventh year.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Remember
all this point to a spiritual aspect of our life! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Who is the
sustainers of life, is it not </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Neh 9:21</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And for forty years <b>You sustained them</b>
in the wilderness – <b>they lacked not</b>.
Their garments did not wear out and their feet did not s</i>well. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">Nehemiah</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> wrote a remembrance concerning </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">sustaining His people during their time in the
wilderness: He gave them “<i>manna</i>”.
What is harder, to give “<i>manna</i>” forty
years or to feed the Children of Israel during the “seventh year”, the Shabbat
year?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">“</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US">The Sabbath of
the land shall be to you for food”.</span></i></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">I wrote a <i>midrash </i>to explain the
forty years in the wilderness which are a pattern of the two thousands years
from the first advent of <i>Messiah </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><span lang="EN-US">to his second advent.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Forty years endurance in the wilderness equal: 40 x 50 (<i>Yovel) = 2000 Years!</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">So the pattern came from </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> speaking to <i>Noach:</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;">Gen 6:3</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and YHWH said, My spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet <b>his days shall be an hundred and twenty years</b>.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The
explanation is this: 120 years represent not the length of man’s life <i>(read Psalm 90:10)</i> but the length of
mankind living in this form on earth:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">120 x 50 <i>(Yovel)= 6000 years.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">One <i>Yovel = 50 Years (7 x7=49 + the Yovel year).</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Now the
second explanation is this:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The six
year of labour are the six thousand years of man on earth, the Shabbat is the
Millennium when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
people will be feed by </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
himself, for during this time </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
people will not work, those having fed on the Torah before the “Millennium “will
eat the fruit of it during the Millennium and will have enough for the Eighth
day which is <i>“Olam Aba”</i>, Eternal life
as we are going to see.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
came in the year four thousand; thus remain 2000 years <i>(40 Yovels)</i> or <i>“40 years
wilderness” </i>foreshadowed in the time of <i>Moshe
</i>when they walk in the <i>“natural”</i>
forty years<i>.</i> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The
question was given by Moshe verse 20:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">“What do we eat in the
seventh year, since we do not sow nor gather in our crops………”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">say that He will command blessing on
the sixth year and that it will be enough for the next three years:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara" , sans-serif;">-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The seventh year which is the Shabbat of the
land,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara" , sans-serif;">-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The eight year which will be the year of
sowing again</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara" , sans-serif;">-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The ninth year which will be the coming
harvest.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Now I want
you to see something according to the numbers and the Hebrew “<i>gemetria</i>”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">●Six is the number of man. During Six years men
will sow and reap (work of the hand).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">●Seven is the number for divine completion on
earth, when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
people will not sow nor reap it is the <i>Millennium
Reign of Messiah</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">●Eight is the number for behind the natural,
also a number for Eternity, found in the last feast during the feast of the
booth, the Eight days is the last great day or “staying a while” also called <i>Shemini Atzeret </i>also <i>shimcha Torah</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">●Nine is the number for judgment! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">●Un-pruned wine! Let us read:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">Un-pruned: Strong’s #H5139<b><i> naw-zeer'</i></b><i>,</i> <i>naw-zeer'</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">נזר </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.written nun (50), tsade (90),
resh(200) (340). nâzir</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">From <u><span style="color: green;">H5144</span></u>;
<b><i>separate</i></b>, that is, <b>consecrated</b> (as <i>prince</i>, <b>a <i>Nazirite</i></b>); hence (figuratively
from the latter) an <i>un-pruned</i> vine (like an unshorn <i>Nazirite</i>). (The translation, <i>Nazarite</i>, is by a false
alliteration with <i>Nazareth</i>.):
separate (-d), vine undressed.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green;">H5144 </span></u><b><span lang="EN-GB">nâzar</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>naw-zar'</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">A primitive root; to <i>hold</i> <i>aloof</i>,
that is, (intransitively) <b><i>abstain</i></b>
(from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (that is, <i>apostatize</i>));
specifically to <i>set</i> <i>apart</i> (to sacred purposes), that is, <i>devote:
- </i>consecrate, separate (-ing, self).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">You
remember the “<i>Nazarites</i>” where to be
set apart like Samson not drinking (abstaining) alcohol neither cutting the
hair.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">So we can
see that <b>this Shabbat of rest was to
consecrate </b></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s creation to His maker</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">All what
grows from the corn to the wine, all point to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">Messiah:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Joh 15:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<b><i>I (</i></b></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) am the true vine</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, and My Father is the gardener. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 15:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “<b>Every branch in Me that bears
no fruit He takes away</b>. And <b>every
branch that bears fruit <u>He prunes</u></b>, so that it bears more fruit. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Prune</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">:
Strong’s #G2508 <b>kathairō</b> <i>kath-ah'ee-ro</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">From <u><span style="color: green;">G2513</span></u>;
<b>to <i>cleanse</i></b>, that is,
(specifically) to <i>prune</i>; figuratively <b>to <i>expiate</i></b><i>:</i> - <b>purge.</b></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Thayers</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> goes further saying: to cleanse, <b>free from corrupt desire</b>, <b>free from every admixture</b> of <b>what is false</b>, sincere genuine</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Prune is
the opposite of un-pruned, bringing back to its intended form!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">During the
seventh year, the land was to be like under a <i>“Nazarene vow”</i> so to say, subjected to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s law in order to rest.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">I remember
that in France
until the 60<sup>th</sup>, we had the year of <i>“Jasher”</i> the field was left unsown in order to rest. Now it is
finished, people use “fertilizer”. Nevertheless, this time of <i>“Jasher”</i> came from the <i>Yehudin</i> living in France; and also from
those of <i>Ephraim</i> who were still
keeping the tradition of their ancestors; of course it was no more perfectly
according to the Torah, because they did it in a manner that they could reap
from another field who was in it sixth years so doing in a circle in order that
every filed had one year rest (Shabbat).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Do you
think the earth was not able to bear fruits in the seventh year? Not so but it
is written, the Just (righteous) will live by faith (<i>Abakkuk 2:4</i>). Faith is to trust <i>Elohim</i>
and not our own ability.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 8-11.</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for
yourself, seven times seven years……….. shall be to you <b>forty-nine years……………………..</b>sound a ram’s horn to pass through on <b>the tenth day of the seventh month</b>, on
the Day of Atonement………..<b> </b>The
fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you………………</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The year of
the <i>“yovel”,</i> seven time seven and the
next year is the fiftieth, the year of the <i>“yovel”</i>,
starting on <i>Yom</i> <i>kippur</i>, the tenth of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">Yovel</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> year the year of freedom:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The seventh
year is a year of rest for the land; <i>Yovel</i>
is the year of release for people, a year when people got a new chance for a
new start.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Luk 4:17</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and the scroll of the prophet Yeshayahu was
handed to Him (</i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it
was written: </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 4:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color: blue;">“The Spirit of </span></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> is upon Me,<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">
because He has anointed </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Me to bring the Good News to <b>the poor</b>. He has sent Me to heal <b>the broken-hearted</b>, <b>to proclaim release to the captives </b>and
<b>recovery of sight to the blind</b>, <b>to send away crushed ones</b> with a
release, <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-3.</span></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 4:19</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color: blue;">to proclaim the acceptable year of </span></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-2.</span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue;"></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Luk
4:20</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> and having rolled up the
scroll, He gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in
the congregation were fixed upon Him. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Luk
4:21</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> and He began to say to
them, “<b>Today this Scripture has been
filled in your hear</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US">ing.” </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">came to fulfill the <i>Yovel</i> year, he didn’t came to set
material things straight, we have learned that the Last Adam came to make the
“new man”. People in </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
time were poor, because having no Torah’s life (they followed the traditions of
men Matt.15:3-9, i.e. the Pharisee) blind to the truth, captive in the prison
of their own sins. They were in need to recover in order to see again, to be
released:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Good news
to the poor: What was the “Good news to the poor, what does </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">says”?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">Isa 42:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>“See, My Servant (</i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)
whom I uphold, My Chosen One My (</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)
being has delighted in! I (</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) have put My Spirit upon Him;
He brings forth right-ruling to the nations.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"> ●<b>The poor</b>:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Mat 5:3</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Blessed are the poor in spirit, because
theirs is the reign of the heavens. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Jas 2:5</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Listen, my beloved brothers: Has Elohim not
chosen the poor of this world, <b>rich in
belief</b> and heirs of the reign which He promised to those who love Him?</i> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB">●To heal the broken
hearted</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Psa 34:18</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">is near to the broken-hearted, and saves those
whose spirit is crushed</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">2Ch 34:27</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> “<i>Because your heart was tender, and you
humbled yourself before Elohim when you heard His words against this place and
against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your
garments and wept before Me, I also have heard,” declares </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">Psa 147:3</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>He</i><i> heals the broken-hearted and binds up their
wounds.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"> ●<b>Release to the captive</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">Psa 102:19</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>for He looked down from the height of His
set-apart place; from heaven </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">viewed the earth,</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt; text-indent: 0.15pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Psa
102:20</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> to hear the groaning of
the prisoner, to release those appointed to death</span></i><span lang="EN-US">,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Psa 146:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Doing right-ruling for the oppressed, Giving
bread to the hungry. </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US">releases those who are bound</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US">,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US">●</span><b><span lang="EN-GB">Recovery of sight to
the blind</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Isa 42:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <b><i>to
open blind eyes</i></b><i>, to bring out
prisoners from the prison, <b>those who sit
in darkness</b> from the prison house</i>. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Isa 42:16</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And <b>I
shall lead the blind by a way</b> they have not known – in paths they have not
known I lead them. <b>I make darkness light
before them</b>, and crooked places straight. These matters I shall do for
them, and I shall not forsake them</i>. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Isa 60:<i>1</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “Arise, shine, for your light has come! And the esteem of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">has risen upon you. (who is the light, is not </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Isa 60:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>“For look, darkness covers the earth; and
thick darkness the peoples. But </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> arises
over you, and His esteem is seen upon you</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.25pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">●<b>Send
away crushed ones with a release</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Gen 3:15</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And I put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her <span style="color: blue;">Seed<sup>1</sup></span>.
<b>He shall crush your head</b>, and you shall crush His heel.</i>” <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>First promise of the Messiah.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Isa 42:3</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“A crushed reed He does not break, and
smoking flax He does not quench. He brings forth right-ruling in accordance
with truth (Torah)</i>. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Isa 35:3</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Strengthen
the weak hands, and make firm the weak knees. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Isa 35:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Say to those with anxious heart, “Be strong, do not fear! See, your
Elohim comes with vengeance, with the recompense of Elohim. He is coming to
save you.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"> ●<b>Release</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color: maroon;">Deu 15:1</span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“At
the end of every seven years you <b>make a
release of debts</b>. </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"> <b><span style="color: maroon;">Deu 15:9</span></b>
<i>“Be on guard lest there be a thought of
Beliyaʽal in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, <b>the year of release, is near</b>,’ and your eye is evil against your
poor brother and you give him naught. And he shall cry out to </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">against you, <b>and
it shall</b> <b>be a sin in you</b>.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">What then
was the “Gospel of the Kingdom
of <i>Elohim</i>”?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Deu 15:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And <b>this
is the word of the release</b>: Every creditor is to release what he has loaned
to his neighbour, he does not require it of his neighbour or his brother,
because <b>it is called the release of </b></i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The last
citation </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">did from the book of <i>Yeshayahu</i> must be look at, very carefully:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 4:19</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color: blue;">to proclaim the acceptable year of </span></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">This is what <i>Yeshayahu</i> wrote?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Isa 61:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>to proclaim the acceptable year of </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, “<b>and the day of
vengeance of our Elohim”</b>, to comfort all who mourn</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">omitted the second part of the
sentence: <i>“and the day of vengeance of
our Elohim”!</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">This was
not a coincidence, because the <i>“day of
vengeance</i>” was not at </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-US">first advent.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Mic 5:8</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>And the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ shall be among
the gentiles (nations), in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the
beasts of a forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes
through, shall both tread down and shall tear, and there is no one to
deliver………</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Mic 5:15</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And <b>I
shall take vengeance</b> in wrath and rage on the gentiles who did not obey.” </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 21:5</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
as some were speaking about the Set-apart
Place, that it was adorned with goodly stones and
gifts, He said,</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Luk 21:6</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“These that you see – the days are coming in
which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.”</i>
</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 21:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and they
asked Him, saying, “Teacher, but <b>when
shall this be?</b> And what is the sign when this is about to take
place?”………………………</i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 21:22</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Because
<b>these are days of vengeance</b>, to fill
all that have been written. </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 21:23</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing
children in those days! For there shall be great distress in the earth and
wrath upon this people. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">2Th 1:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and to give you who are afflicted rest with
us <b><u>when the Master </u></b></i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><u><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US">is revealed
from heaven</span></u></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> with His
mighty messengers</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">2Th
1:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>in flaming fire <b><u>taking vengeance on those who do not know Elohim</u></b>, and on
those who do not obey the Good News of our Master </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Messiah</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">As we have
seen the spiritual follow the natural and not the other way round</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">1Co 15:46</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>the spiritual, however, was not first, but
the natural, and <b>afterward the spiritual</b>. </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">1Co 15:47</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>the first man was of the earth, earthy; the
second Man is the Master from heaven. </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">1Co 15:48</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> as is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the
heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">1Co 15:49</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and as we have borne the likeness of the earthy, we shall also bear the
likeness of the heavenly. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">In the <i>Tanak</i> the release was in the <i>Yovel</i> year every fifty years. Could it
bee that when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">came that it was also a <i>Yovel</i> year in spite that it was not
celebrated? (Read my <i>midrash</i> on the
“One hundred twenty years).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘In the Year of this
Jubilee <b>let each one of you returns to
his possession</b>. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Verse 23.</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, <b>for the land is Mine (says </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is
amazing to see that today the all world is pushing to make Israel give
land to the Palestinians: “Land for peace”. How can people deal with the land
belonging to the King of the universe?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 24</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">
And provide for redemption for the land……</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Redemption
for the land, what does Shaul say concerning the creation waiting for redemption?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rom 8:19</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i><span style="color: blue;">for the intense
longing<sup>1</sup></span> of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of
the sons of Elohim. <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Lit. anxiously looking with outstretched head.</span></i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rom 8:20</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> for the creation was subjected to futility, not from choice, but
because of Him who subjected it, in anticipation, </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rom 8:21</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>that the creation itself also</b> <b>shall be delivered from the bondage</b>
to corruption into the esteemed freedom of the children of Elohim. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rom 8:22</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> for we know that all the creation groans together, and suffers the
pains of childbirth together until now. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rom 8:23</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and not only so, but even we ourselves who have the first-fruits of the
Spirit, we ourselves also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the
adoption, the redemption of our</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> body.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Act 3:20</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
that He sends </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Messiah,
pre-appointed for you, </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Act 3:21</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>whom heaven needs to receive <b>until the times of restoration of all matters</b>, of which Elohim spoke
through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old</i>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 25. </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘When your brother becomes poor, and has sold some
of his possession, and his redeemer, a close relative comes to redeem it, and
then he shall redeem what his brother sold.<b>
</b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We can read
in the book of Ruth:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
Boʽaz went up to the gate and sat down there. And see, the redeemer of whom
Boʽaz had spoken came by. And Boʽaz said, “Turn aside, So-and-so, sit down
here.” And he turned aside and sat down.</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, “Sit down here.” So they
sat down. </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:3</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>He
then said to the redeemer, “Naʽomi, who has come back from the fields of
Mo’aḇ, sold the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimeleḵ</i>. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:4</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And I thought that I should disclose it to you, saying, ‘Buy it back in
the presence of the inhabitants and the elders of my people. If you do redeem
it, redeem it. But if you do not redeem it, inform me, so that I know. For
there is no one but you to redeem it, and I am next after you.’ ” And he said,
“I redeem it.”</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rth 4:5</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>And Boʽaz said, “On the day you buy the
field from the hand of Naʽomi, you shall also acquire Ruth the Mo’aḇitess, the
wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance</i>.” </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:6</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
<b>the redeemer said</b>, “I am not able to
redeem it for myself, lest I ruin my own inheritance. Redeem my right of
redemption for yourself, for I am not able to redeem it.”</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>And
this was formerly done in Yisra’ĕl concerning redeeming and exchanging, <b>to confirm every word: one man took off his
sandal and gave it to the other, and this was a witness in Yisra’ĕl</b></i><b>. </b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:8</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>So
the redeemer said to Boʽaz, “Buy it for yourself.” Then he took off his sandal.
</i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:9</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>And
<b>Boʽaz said to the elders</b> and to all
the people, “<b>You are witnesses this day</b>
that I have bought all that was Elimeleḵ’s, and all that was Kilyon’s and
Maḥlon’s, from the hand of Naʽomi.</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:10</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And
also<b>, Ruth the <u>Mo’aḇitess, the wife
of Maḥlon</u>, I have acquired as my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on
his inheritance</b>, so that the name of the dead should not be cut off from
among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”</i>
</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 4:11</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
all the people who were at the gate, and the elders, said, “Witnesses! </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> make the
woman who is coming to your house as Raḥĕl and as Lĕ’ah, the two who built the
house of Yisra’ĕl. And prove your worth in Ephrathah and proclaim the Name in
Bĕyth Leḥem</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We know
that Ruth a Moabite woman became the vessel through whom King David will come
and later our Master </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">according to the seed.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ruth a
pagan woman was married to <i>Mahlom</i> the
son of <i>Elimelek</i> a <i>Yehudin</i> from <i>Beth</i> <i>Lechem</i>. When her
husband died, instead to do like the other Moabite woman who departed to go
back to her kinsmen, she staid with her mother in law and followed her back to
her country (Israel).
What is amazing is that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-US">in His own purpose and
wisdom “overlooked” the fact that <i>Ruth</i>
was a <i>Moabite</i> and looked at her
heart:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Rth 1:16</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>But Ruth
said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For
wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. <b>Your people is my people, and <span style="color: blue;">your Elohim is my Elohim</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What does <i>Kefa</i> says:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Act 10:34</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Then<sup><span style="color: green;">G1161</span></sup>
Peter<sup><span style="color: green;">G4074</span></sup> opened<sup><span style="color: green;">G455</span></sup> <span style="color: grey;">his</span> mouth,<sup><span style="color: green;">G4750</span></sup> and
said,<sup><span style="color: green;">G2036</span></sup> Of<sup><span style="color: green;">G1909</span></sup> a truth<sup><span style="color: green;">G225</span></sup>
I perceive<sup><span style="color: green;">G2638</span></sup> that<sup><span style="color: green;">G3754</span></sup> <b>Elohim<sup><span style="color: green;">G2316</span></sup> is<sup><span style="color: green;">G2076</span></sup>
no<sup><span style="color: green;">G3756</span></sup> respecter of persons:<sup><span style="color: green;">G4381</span></sup> </b></i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Act 10:35</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">But<sup><span style="color: green;">G235</span></sup>
in<sup><span style="color: green;">G1722</span></sup> every<sup><span style="color: green;">G3956</span></sup> nation<sup><span style="color: green;">G1484</span></sup>
he that feareth<sup><span style="color: green;">G5399</span></sup> him,<sup><span style="color: green;">G846</span></sup> and<sup><span style="color: green;">G2532</span></sup>
worketh<sup><span style="color: green;">G2038</span></sup> righteousness,<sup><span style="color: green;">G1343</span></sup> is<sup><span style="color: green;">G2076</span></sup>
accepted<sup><span style="color: green;">G1184</span></sup> with him.<sup><span style="color: green;">G846</span></sup> </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 39…</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">………..do
not make him serve as a slave</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Read the
book of <i>Philemon</i> in the <i>Brit</i> <i>Chadasha</i>
for <i>Onesimus</i> who passed from slave to
man as slave in Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">and who came back to
his owner:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We read in
Vincent word’s study:</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">The name is withheld until Paul has
favorably disposed Philemon to his request. The word means helpful, and it was a common name for
slaves. The same idea was expressed by other names, as Chresimus, Chrestus
(useful); Onesiphorus (profit-bringer, <u><span style="color: green;">2Ti_1:16</span></u>);
Symphorus (suitable). Onesimus was a runaway
Phrygian slave, who had committed some crime and therefore had fled from his
master and hidden himself in Rome.
Under Roman law the slave was a chattel. Varro classified slaves among implements, which he classifies as vocalia, articulate speaking
implements, as slaves; semivocalia, having a voice but not articulating, as oxen; muta, dumb, as wagons. The attitude of the law
toward the slave was expressed in the formula servile caput nullum jus habet; <b>the slave has no right</b>. The master's power was unlimited. He might mutilate,
torture, or kill the slave at his pleasure. Pollio, in the time of Augustus,
ordered a slave to be thrown into a pond of voracious lampreys (fishes).
Augustus interfered, but afterward ordered a slave of his own to be crucified
on the mast of a ship for eating a favorite quail. Juvenal describes a
profligate woman ordering a slave to be crucified. Some one remonstrates. She
replies: “So then a slave is a man, is he! 'He has done nothing,' you say.
Granted. I command it. Let my pleasure stand for a reason” (vi., 219). Martial
records an instance of a master cutting out a slave's tongue. The old Roman
legislation imposed death for killing a plough-ox; but the murderer of a slave
was not called to account. Tracking fugitive slaves was a trade. Recovered
slaves were branded on the forehead, condemned to double labor, and sometimes
thrown to the beasts in the amphitheater. The slave population was enormous.
Some proprietors had as many as twenty thousand.</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Phm 1:15</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for he parted from you for a while, possibly because of this, so that you
might have him back forever, </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Phm 1:16</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> no longer as a slave but more than a slave, <b>as a beloved brother</b>, especially to me, and how much more to you,
both in the flesh and in the Master. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Phm 1:17</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> so, if you regard me as your partner, <b>receive him as you would me</b>. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Phm 1:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> But if he has wronged you or owes you whatever, put that on my account.
</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Phm 1:19</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> I, Sha’ul, wrote with my own hand. I shall repay – not to mention to
you that you indeed owe yourself to me also. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">1Co 12:13</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for indeed by one Spirit we were all
immersed into one body, whether Yehuḏim or Greeks, <b>whether slaves or free,</b> and we were all made to drink into one
Spirit</i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Gal 3:27</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for as many of you as were immersed into
Messiah have put on Messiah. </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Gal 3:28</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>There
is no Yehuḏite nor Greek, <b>there is not
slave nor free</b>, there is not male and female, for you are all one in
Messiah </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Slave</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> or <i>servant</i> used in these few example is
Strong’s#G1401 </span><b><span lang="EN-GB">doulos</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>doo'-los</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">From <u><span style="color: green;">G1210</span></u>; <b>a <i>slave</i></b>
(<b>literally</b> or <b>figuratively</b>, involuntarily or voluntarily; frequently therefore in
a qualified sense of <i>subjection</i> or <i>subserviency</i>): - bond (-man), <b>servant</b>.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Col</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;"> 3:10</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and have put on the new one who
is renewed in knowledge according to the likeness of Him who created him,</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Col</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;"> 3:11</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>where
there is not Greek and Yehuḏite, circumcised and uncircumcised, foreigner, Scythian,
<b>slave</b>, free, but Messiah is all, and
in all</i>.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 42.</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US"> For they are My servants</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim,
<b>they are not sold as slaves</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
Children of Israel (carnal man) were already bought from slavery to freedom by </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. Slave were of lower value
and therefore </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">didn’t wanted His people been
considered as slave.</span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Lev 25:1</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> spoke to
Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:2</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “Speak to the children of
Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then <b>the land shall observe a Sabbath to </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:3</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Six years you sow your
field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:4</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> but in <b>the seventh year the land is to have a
Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. <u>Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard.</u> </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:5</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather
the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:6</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food</b>, for you and your
servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the
stranger who sojourns with you, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:7</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and for your livestock
and the beasts that are in your land. <b>All
its crops are for food. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:8</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven
ye</b>ars. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to <b>you forty-nine years. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:9</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘You <b>shall then sound a ram’s horn to pass through on the tenth day of the
seventh month, on the Day of Atonement </b>(Yom Kippur) cause a ram’s horn
(Shofar) to pass through all your land. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:10</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall set the fiftieth year apart, and proclaim release </b>throughout
all the land to all its inhabitants, <b>it
is a Jubilee for you</b>. And each of you shall return to his possession, and
each of you return to his clan. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:11</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>The fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you</b>. Do not sow, nor reap what
grows of its own, nor gather from its unpruned vine. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:12</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>It is a Jubilee</b>, it is set-apart to you. <b>Eat from the field its crops</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:13</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘In the Year of this
Jubilee <b>let each one of you return to
his possession</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:14</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And when you sell
whatever to your neighbour or buy from the hand of your neighbour, <b>do not exploit one another</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:15</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘According to the number
of years after the Jubilee you buy from your neighbour, and according to the
number of years of crops he sells to you. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:16</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘According to the greater
number of years you increase its price, and according to the fewer number of
years you diminish its price, because he sells to you according to the number
of the years of the crops. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:17</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>do not oppress one another</b>, but <b>you shall fear your Elohim</b>. For I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> your
Elohim. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:18</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall do My laws and guard My right-rulings</b>, and shall do them.
And you shall dwell in the land in safety, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:19</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘and the land shall yield
its fruit, and you shall eat to satisfaction, and shall dwell there in safety. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:20</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And since you might say,
“<b>What do we eat in the seventh year,
since we do not sow nor gather in our crops?</b>” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:21</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Therefore <u>I have
commanded My blessing on you in the sixth year, and <b>it shall bring forth the crop for three years</b></u><b>. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:22</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall sow in the eighth year, and eat of the old crop until the
ninth y</b>ear. Eat of the old until its crop comes in. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:23</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine</b>,
for you are sojourners and settlers with Me. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:24</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>provide for a redemption for the land</b>, in all the land of your
possession. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:25</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘When your brother
becomes poor, and has sold some of his possession, and his redeemer, <b>a close relative comes to redeem it, then
he shall redeem what his brother sold. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:26</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And when the man has no
one to redeem it, but he himself becomes able to redeem it, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:27</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> then let him count the
years since its sale, and return the remainder to the man to whom he sold it,
that he shall return to his possession. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:28</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if his hand has not
found enough to give back to him, then what was sold shall remain in the hand
of him who bought it <b>until the Year of
Jubilee</b>. And <b>it shall be released in
the Jubilee, and he shall return to his possession.</b> </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:29</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And when a man sells a
house in a walled city, then his right of redemption shall be at the end of the
year after it is sold. <b>His right of
redemption lasts a year</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:30</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But <b>if it is not redeemed within a complete year</b>, then the house in the
walled city shall be established beyond reclaim to the buyer of it, throughout
his generations. It is not released in the Jubilee. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:31</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘The houses of villages,
however, which have no wall around them are reckoned as the field of the
country. <b>A right of redemption belongs
to it, and they are released in the Jubilee. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:32</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘As for the cities of the
Lĕwites, and the houses in the cities of their possession, <b>the Lĕwites have a right of redemption forever. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:33</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And that which is
redeemed from the Lĕwites, both the sale of a house and the city of his
possession shall be released in the Year of Jubilee, because the houses in the
cities of the Lĕwites are their possession in the midst of the children of
Yisra’ĕl. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:34</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But the field of the
open land of their cities is not sold, for <b>it
is their everlasting possession. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:35</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>when your brother becomes poor</b>, and his hand has failed with you,
then you shall sustain him, and he shall live with you, like a stranger or a
sojourner. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:36</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>Take no interest from him, or profit</b>, but you shall fear your
Elohim, and your brother shall live with you. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:37</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>Do not lend him your silver on interest, and do not lend him your food
for profit. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:38</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">your Elohim,
who brought you out of the land of Mitsrayim, to give you the land of Kenaʽan,
to be your Elohim. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:39</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And when your brother
who dwells by you becomes poor, and sells himself to you, <b><u>do not make him serve as a slave</u></b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:40</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But as a hired servant,
as a settler he is with you, and <b>serves
you until the Year of Jubilee. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:41</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And then he shall leave
you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own clan, <b>even return to the possession of his
fathers</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:42</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>For they are My servants</b>, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim, they are not sold as slaves. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:43</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Do not rule over him
with harshness, but you shall fear your Elohim. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:44</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And your male and female
slaves whom you have <b>from the nations</b>
that are around you, from them you buy male and female slaves, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:45</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and also from the sons of
the strangers sojourning among you, from them you buy, and from their clans who
are with you, which they shall bring forth in your land, and they shall be your
property. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:46</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And you shall take them
as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them as a possession,
<b>they are your slaves for all time</b>.
But over your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl, you do not rule with
harshness, one over another. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:47</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Now when a sojourner or
a settler with you becomes rich, and your brother with him becomes poor, and <b>sells himself to the settler or sojourner</b>
with you, or to a member of the sojourner’s clan, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:48</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> after he has been sold, <b>there is a right of redemption to him</b> –
one of his brothers does redeem him, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:49</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> or his uncle or his
uncle’s son does redeem him, or <b>anyone
who is a close relative to him</b> in his clan does redeem him, or if he is
able, then he shall redeem himself. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:50</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And he shall reckon with
him who bought him: The price of his release shall be according to the number
of years, from the year that he was sold to him until the Year of Jubilee; as
the days of a hired servant it is with him. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:51</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘If there are yet many
years, according to them he repays the price of his redemption, from the silver
of his purchase. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:52</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if few years are
left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall reckon with him, and according to
his years he repays him the price of his redemption. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:53</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘He is with him as a
yearly hired servant, and he does not rule with harshness over him before your
eyes. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:54</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if he is not
redeemed in these years, then <b>he shall
be released in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
25:55</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Because the children of
Yisra’ĕl are servants to Me, they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">your Elohim. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Chapter 26.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">After
having given the rules of the Shabbat of the land and of the <i>Yovel</i> of release, </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">remind
His people that they don’t have to make idols, carved image and pillars and
statues of stone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Centuries
later, the children of Israel, both the House of Israel (<i>Ephraim</i>) and
the House of <i>Yehuda</i> will both falls
into idolatry following the way of the heathen nations</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The first
step to guard </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
commands is to keep the Shabbat, written here in the plural form.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Lev 26:1</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘<b>Do not make idols</b> for yourselves, and <b>do not set up a carved image or a pillar</b> for yourselves, and <b>do not place a stone image in your land</b>,
to bow down to it. For I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">your Elohim. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:2</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>Guard My <u>Sabbaths</u></b> and reverence My set-apart place. I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Hebrew word for</span><i><span lang="EN-US"> “guard” or “keep” </span></i><span lang="EN-US">is
the word:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="DE">H8104</span></b><span lang="DE"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">שׁמר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="DE">shâmar</span><span lang="DE"> </span><i><span lang="DE">shaw-mar'</span></i><span lang="DE"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span lang="DE">A primitive root; properly to <b><i>hedge</i>
about</b> (as with thorns), that is, <i>guard</i>; generally to <b><i>protect</i>,</b>
<i>attend</i> <i>to</i>, etc.: - beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self),
keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save
(self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch (-man).</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Haftorah</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The prophet
<i>Yrmeyahu</i> give the example, buying the
field of his uncle, using his right of redemption.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Yrmeyahu</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> was sent to be a vessel for </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">against the crookedness of the children of
Israel which pushed </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">to turn over the land of Israel to
the Chaldean in order to chastise His children.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">My question
is: How it is today when we see the Palestinians, taking more and more place in
<i>Eretz Israel</i>? Many ask to pray to <i>Elohim</i> to deliver our brethren from the
Palestinian oppression, but few ask to pray for repentance from sin!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What is the
reason why </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">gave the land over to the <i>Chaldeans</i>, may be this will help to
understand today’s situation?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Read verses
23-24</span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Jer 32:6</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And Yirmeyahu said, “The word of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">came to me,
saying, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:7</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘See, Ḥaname’ĕl son of
Shallum <b>your uncle</b> is coming to you,
saying, “Buy my field which is in Anathoth, <b>for the right of redemption is yours</b> to buy it.” ’ </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer 32:8</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “So Ḥaname’ĕl my uncle’s son came to me in the
court of the guard according to the word of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, and said to me, ‘Please buy my field that is in Anathoth,
which is in the land of Binyamin, for the right of inheritance is yours, and
the redemption. Buy it for yourself.’ And <b>I
knew that this was the word of </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:9</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “And I bought the field
which was at Anathoth from Ḥaname’ĕl, my uncle’s son, and weighed out to him
the silver, <b>seventeen sheqels of silver</b>.
</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:10</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “And <b>I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses</b>, and weighed the
silver in the scales. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:11</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “Then <b>I took the deed of purchase</b> – that
which was sealed according to the command and law, and that which was open – </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:12</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and I gave the deed of
purchase to Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah, son of Maḥsĕyah, in the presence of
Ḥaname’ĕl my uncle’s son, and <b>in the
presence of the witnesses</b> who signed the deed of purchase, before all the
Yehuḏim who sat in the court of the guard. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:13</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “And I commanded Baruḵ
before their eyes, saying, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:14</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Thus said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">of hosts, the
Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Take these deeds, both this deed of purchase which is
sealed and this deed which is open, and <b>put
them in an earthen vessel</b>, so that they remain many days.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:15</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘For <b>thus said </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">, “Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be
bought in this land.” ’ </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:16</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “And after I had given
the deed of purchase to Baruḵ son of Nĕriyah, I prayed to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, saying,
</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:17</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Ah, Master </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>! See, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great
power and outstretched arm. There is no matter too hard for You, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:18</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> who show kindness to
thousands, and repay the crookedness of the fathers into the bosom of their
children after them – the Great, the Mighty Ěl, </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">of hosts is His
Name, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:19</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> great in counsel and
mighty in work, for <b>Your eyes are open
to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways and
according to the fruit of his deeds.</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:20</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘For You have set signs and
wonders in the land
of Mitsrayim, to this
day, and in Yisra’ĕl and among other men. And You have made Yourself a Name, as
it is this day. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:21</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And You have brought
Your people Yisra’ĕl out of the land
of Mitsrayim with signs
and wonders, with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and with great
fearsome deeds. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:22</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>You gave them this land, of which You swore to their fathers to give
them, a land flowing with milk and honey</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:23</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And they came in and
possessed it, but <b><u>they did not obey
Your voice nor did they walk in Your Torah</u></b>. They did not do all that
You commanded them to do, <b>so You brought
all this evil upon them. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:24</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘See the siege mounds!
They have come to the city to take it. And <b>the
city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans</b> who fight against it,
because of the sword and the scarcity of food and the pestilence. And what You
have spoken has come about, and look, You see it! </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:25</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Yet You, O Master </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, have said to me, “Buy the field for silver, and take
witnesses”! although the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’ ”
</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
32:26</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Then the word of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">came to
Yirmeyahu, saying, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer 32:27</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “See, I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the Elohim of all flesh. Is there any matter too hard for Me?”</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Luk 4:16</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And He came to Natsareth, where He had been brought up. And according
to His practice, He went into the congregation on the Sabbath day, and stood up
to read. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 4:17</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and the scroll of the prophet
Yeshayahu was handed to Him. And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place
where it was written:</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 4:18</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="color: blue;">“The Spirit of </span></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE" style="color: blue;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;">is upon Me,<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> because He has
anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the
broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to
the blind, to send away crushed ones with a release, <span style="color: blue;">Footnote:
<sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-3.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Luk
4:19</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: blue;">to
proclaim the acceptable year of </span></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-2.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Luk
4:20</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and having rolled up the
scroll, He gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in
the congregation were fixed upon Him. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Luk
4:21</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> And He began to say to
them, “<b>Today this Scripture has been
filled in your hearing.”</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Parsha B’chukotai – In
my Instruction</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The second
part of this two-fold “<i>Parasha</i>” give
us a deep understanding concerning the consequences of rebellion against </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">right ruling and commandments.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The first
two verses show the condition: <b>If</b>
and <b>then, </b>to keep the statutes and
guard the commands is the way to get </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s protection from the enemy and provision for our daily life.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">What can we
say for us today in our daily life, for those who are in Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The battle
is spiritual:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Eph 6:11</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Put on the complete armour of Elohim, for
you to have power to stand against the schemes of the devil.</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Eph 6:12</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>because
we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities,
against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness in the
heavenlies.</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Jas 4:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>so then subject yourselves to Elohim. Resist
the <span style="color: blue;">devil<sup>1</sup></span> and he shall flee from
you. <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Or adversary</span></i><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Jas 4:8</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>draw near to Elohim and He shall draw near
to you. Cleanse hands, sinners. And cleanse the hearts, you double-minded!</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">1Pe 1:22</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Now that <b>you have cleansed your lives</b>
<b>in obeying the truth</b> through the
Spirit </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The truth
(read <i>Yochanan</i> 17:17, Psalm 119: 142,
151, 160)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">There are
great promises, but if the Children of Israel, our forefathers reject the truth
and turn to wickedness, </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">make promise to punish
them for breaking the covenant. What does this mean and what are the
consequences?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">wasting
disease</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"> ●inflammation, destroying the eyes</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US"> ●you shall sow your seed in vain</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">you
shall be smitten before your enemies</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">those
who hate you shall rule over you</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">you
shall flee when no one pursues you. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And if they
still remain stubborn:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">
then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">And if they
still keep going their own way in spite of punishment?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">
I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">send
wild beasts among you (<b>euphemism for
cruel adversary</b>)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"> ●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">I
shall send pestilence among you,</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"> ●<i>you
shall be given into the hand of the enemy.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">●I have cut off your
supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall
bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB"> ●<b><i>you shall eat the flesh of your
sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters</i></b><i>.(see the excerpt from Josephus “War of the Jews”, below) </i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">●And I shall destroy
your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the
carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">●<b>I shall turn your cities into ruins</b> (Jerusalem was completely
destroyed by Caesar Titus in the year 69-70 C.E, only few tower and the west wall was
left as reminder of what Titus and his army did to the “Jews”, doing </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
will against His people.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB">●<i>I shall
lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB"> <i>I
shall scatter you among the gentiles</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The land
enjoys its Sabbaths as long as it lays waste and you are in your enemies’ land.
Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The House of <i>Yehuda</i> was punished a first time when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">according
to the word of the prophet <i>Yrmeyahu</i>,
send them to Babylon
<b>for seventy years</b> for not keeping
the Shabbat of the Land during 490 years. <b>(70
X 7=490)</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Dan 9:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>in the
first year of his reign I, Dani’ĕl, observed from the Scriptures the number of
the years, according to the word of </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">given to Yirmeyah</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> the prophet, for the completion of the wastes of
Yerushalayim <b>would be seventy years</b></span></i><span lang="EN-US">.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Chapter
four, </span><span lang="EN-GB">the prophet <i>Yechezk’el</i> was commanded of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">to set himself before the Children of Israel to
announce their rebellion:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Eze 4:4</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And lie on <b>your left side</b>,
and you shall put the crookedness of <b>the
house of Yisra’ĕl </b>on it. As many days as you lie on it, you shall bear
their crookedness. </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Eze 4:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “For <b>I Myself have laid on you <u>the
years</u> of their crookedness, <u>according to the number of the days</u></b>,
<b>three hundred and ninety days.</b> And
you shall bear the crookedness of the house of Yisra’ĕl.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> (One year = one day)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This was to
come to the House of Israel years according to the number of days, so it became
390 days it should become 390 years. The left side is the side of judgment in
the “Tree of life”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Remember
that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">promised that if in spite of it, if they don’t
listen and change their ways, he will punish them seven times more (<i>Vayiqra/Lev.</i> 26:18,21,24,28)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The house
of Israel,
<i>Ephraim</i> was banished or scattered
among the nations (gentiles) in 721 B.C.E. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Let us make
a short calculation: 390 years were the initial punishment, and seven times
more for not turning back, thus we count three hundred ninety years time seven
and we get Two thousand seven hundred and thirty years punishment (2730).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
punishment started in the year 721B.C.E. when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">sent
His people to the Assyrian from where they will be later scattered in the four
winds, to the end of the world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">2730 year
add to the -721 before common area we have the year 2009 (1981 in the Lunar
calendar), meaning that the punishment for the House of Israel, Ephraim will
come an end in the year 2009 (1981) our time. I know some scholars have counted
it another way and there are some small differences. We are now in the time of
refreshing, in our relationship to our heavenly Father.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Yrmeyahu</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> spoke of another punishment <b>for the House of <i>Yehuda</i></b> which has been overlooked by many scholars:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Eze 4:6</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And
when you have completed them, <b>you shall
lie again</b> on your right side and shall bear <b>the crookedness of the house of Yehuḏah</b> <b><u>forty days, a day for a year</u></b>. I have laid on you <b>a day for a year</b>.</i> </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Eze 4:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“<b>Then
<u>you shall set your face toward the siege of Yerushalayim</u></b>, with your
arm bared, and <b>you shall prophesy
against it</b></i>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When was
this period to come?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">I will show
you something and prove it by the word of the historian “Josephus”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">When
Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">came, the <i>Yehudin</i>
rejected him, even if many among them received him as the promised messiah.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Act 3:17</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as your rulers
did too. </i></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Act 3:18</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “But this is how Elohim has filled what He had announced beforehand
through the mouth of all the prophets, that His Messiah was to suffer. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Act 3:19</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">“<b>Repent
therefore and turn back</b>, for the blotting out of your sins, <b>in order that times of refreshing might
come</b> from the presence of the Master, </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Act 3:20</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>and that He sends </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Messiah</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">, pre-appointed for you,</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Kefa/Peter</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is saying that if they (the <i>Yehudin</i>) repent and turn back to the
Torah, accepting </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">will send back </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">messiah.
Do you remember what we read in the <i>Parasha</i>?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:29</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall eat the flesh of your sons</b>, and <b>eat the flesh of your daughters. </b></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:31</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘and <b>I
shall turn your cities into ruins</b> and lay your set-apart places waste</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The set
apart place is the Temple
in <i>Yerushalayim</i>.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Messiah says
to the <i>Yehudin</i>:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Joh 8:21</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Therefore </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said to them again, “I am going away, and you shall seek Me,
and <b>you shall die in your <u>sin</u></b><u>.</u>
Where I go you are unable to come</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Sin is here
singular, the sin for having rejected the one sent of <i>Elohim</i>!</span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">died on the stake at the age of 33,
during Pesach. In order to have
fulfilled the first part of his coming for three and half years, </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">must have started his ministry
during the seventh month at <i>Yom</i> <i>Kippur</i> and died on the stake three and
half years later during the month of Pesach on the 14<sup>th</sup> of Aviv.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Now remember
that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">commanded <i>Yechezk’el</i>
to lie on the side for 40 days as a sign that:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Eze 4:6</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And
when you have completed them, you shall lie again on your right side and shall
bear the crookedness of the house of Yehuḏah <b>forty days, a day for a year</b>. I have laid on you a day for a year.</i>
</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Eze 4:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Then
you shall set your face toward the siege of Yerushalayim, with your arm bared,
and <b>you shall prophesy against it</b></i><b>.</b> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We have
seen that the punishment for rebellion given in the book of <i>Vayiqra/Lev.</i> should be: <b>To eat the flesh of sons and daughters</b>,
and <b>the city shall become a ruin</b>.
With this in mind we can read what the historian <i>Yosephus</i> wrote: From the books Wars of the Jews Book 5-6 Thought it
is a bit long I encourage you to read these excerpts in order to see that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">fulfilled His word perfectly at the right time
and that if there are some mistake it is on our part and not </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Hab 2:<i>2</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> answered
me and said, “Write the vision and inscribe it on tablets, so that he who reads
it runs</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Hab
2:3</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> “<b><i><u>For the vision is yet for an appointed time</u></i></b>, <i>and it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it lingers, wait for it, for <b>it shall
certainly come, it shall not delay</b></i>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The prophet
Habakkuk spoke from the chastisement of Yehuda through the Chaldeans. What I want
us to see is that when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-US">speak a vision for an
appointed time it will come to pass in the time it has been appointed for and
will come to pass.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Vision </span></b><span lang="EN-US">in
Hebrew is the word: Strong’s #H2377 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">חזון</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB">châzôn</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>khaw-zone'</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">From <u><span style="color: green;">H2372</span></u>; a <i>sight</i> (mentally), that is, a <b><i>dream</i></b>, <b><i>revelation</i></b>, or <b><i>oracle</i></b><i>:
- </i>vision</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">What
happened after Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">departure is the
fulfilment of prophecy spoken of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">many centuries before
starting with Moshe according to <i>Vayiqra/Lev.</i>
chapter 26:14-39.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">Josephus</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">: “War of the Jews” Book 5-6, excerpt (this
happened in the year 69-70C.E,
<b>40 years after </b></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">went back to the Father:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">1. WHEN
therefore Titus had marched over that desert which lies between Egypt and Syria, in the manner forementioned,
he came to Cesarea, having resolved to set his forces in order at that place,
before he began the war. Nay, indeed, while he was assisting his father at Alexandria, in settling <b>that government which had been newly conferred upon them by God,</b> it
so happened that the sedition at Jerusalem
was revived,</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Now <b>Titus</b>, according to the
Roman usage, went in the front of the army after a decent manner, and marched
through Samaria to Gophna, a city that had been formerly taken by his father
(Vespasian), and was then garrisoned by Roman soldiers; and when he had lodged
there one night, he marched on in the morning; and when he had gone as far as a
day's march, he pitched his camp at that valley which the Jews, in their own
tongue, call "the Valley of Thorns," near a certain village called
Gabaothsath, which signifies "the Hill of Saul," being distant from
Jerusalem about thirty furlongs. <u><span style="color: blue;">(6)</span></u>
There it was that he chose out six hundred select horsemen, and went to take a
view of the city, to observe what strength it was of, and how courageous the
Jews were; whether, when they saw him, and before they came to a direct battle,
they would be affrighted and submit; for he had been informed what was really
true, that the people who were fallen under the power of the seditious and the
robbers were greatly desirous of peace; but being too weak to rise up against
the rest, they lay still.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">The Jews became still more and more in number,
as encouraged by the good success of those that first made the attack; and
while they had such good fortune, they seemed both to themselves and to the
enemy to be many more than they really were. The disorderly way of their
fighting at first put the Romans also to a stand, who had been constantly used
to fight skilfully in good order, and with keeping their ranks, and obeying the
orders that were given them; for which reason the Romans were caught
unexpectedly, and were obliged to give way to the assaults that were made upon
them. Now when these Romans were overtaken, and turned back upon the Jews, they
put a stop to their career; yet when they did not take care enough of
themselves through the vehemence of their pursuit, they were wounded by them;
but as still more and more Jews sallied (sudden attack) out of the city, the
Romans were at length brought into confusion, and put to fight, and ran away
from their camp.</span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AS now the war abroad ceased for a while,
the sedition within was revived; and <b>on
the feast of unleavened bread</b>, which was now come, it being the fourteenth
day of the month Xanthicus, [Nisan,] when it is believed the Jews were first
freed from the Egyptians, Eleazar and his party opened the gates of this
[inmost court of the] temple, and admitted such of the people as were desirous
to worship God into it. <u><span style="color: blue;">(9)</span></u> But John (a
zealot) made use of this festival as a cloak for his treacherous designs, and
armed the most inconsiderable of his own party, the greater part of whom were
not purified, with weapons concealed under their garments, and sent them with
great zeal into the temple, in order to seize upon it; which armed men, when
they were gotten in, threw their garments away, and presently appeared in their
armor.</span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">NOTES:</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm;">
<i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue;">9)</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Here we see the true occasion of
those vast numbers of Jews that were in Jerusalem during this siege by Titus,
and perished therein; that the siege began at the feast of the Passover, when such
prodigious multitudes of Jews and proselytes of the gate were come from all
parts of Judea, and from other countries, in order to celebrate that great
festival. See the note B. VI. ch. 9. sect. 3. Tacitus himself informs us, that
the number of men, women, and children in Jerusalem, when it was besieged by
the Romans, as he had been informed. This information must have been taken from
the Romans: for Josephus never recounts the numbers of those that were
besieged, only he lets us know<b>, that of
the vulgar, carried dead out of the gates, and buried at the public charges,
was the like number of 600,000</b>, ch. viii. sect.7. However, when Cestius
Gallus came first to the siege, that sum in Tacitus is no way disagreeable to
Josephus's history, though they were become much more numerous when <b><u>Titus encompassed the city at the
passover.</u></b> As to <b>the number that
perished during this siege, Josephus assures us, as we shall see hereafter,
they were 1,100,000,(1million and One hundred thousand)</b> besides 97,000
captives. But Tacitus's history of the last part of this siege is not now
extant; so we cannot compare his parallel numbers with those of Josephus.</span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">3. And now Titus pitched his camp within the
city, at that place which was called "the Camp of the Assyrians,"
having seized upon all that lay as far as Cedron, but took care to be out of
the reach of the Jews' darts. He then presently began his attacks, upon which
the Jews divided themselves into several bodies, and courageously defended that
wall; while John and his faction did it from the tower of Antonia, and from the
northern cloister of the temple, and fought the Romans before the monuments of
king Alexander; and Sireoh's army also took for their share the spot of ground
that was near John's monument, and fortified it as far as to that gate where
water was brought in to the tower Hippicus. However, the Jews made……….</span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AS Josephus was speaking thus with a loud voice, the seditious would
neither yield to what he said, nor did they deem it safe for them to alter
their conduct; but as for <b>the people,
they had a great inclination to desert to the Romans</b>; accordingly, some of
them sold what they had, and even the most precious things that had been laid
up as treasures by them, for every small matter, and <b>swallowed down pieces of gold, that they might not be found out by the
robbers;</b> and when they had escaped to the Romans, went to stool, and had
wherewithal to provide plentifully for themselves; for Titus let a great number
of them go away into the country, whither they pleased. And <b>the main reasons why they were so ready to
desert</b> were these: That now they <b>should
be freed from those miseries which they had endured in that city</b>, and yet
should not be in slavery to the Romans: however, John and Simon, with their
factions, did more carefully watch these men's going out than they did the
coming in of the Romans; and if any one did but afford the least shadow of
suspicion of such an intention, his throat was cut immediately.</span></i></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm;">
<span lang="EN-GB">T<i>he
madness of the seditious did also <b>increase
together with their famine</b>, and both those miseries were every day inflamed
more and more; for there was no corn which any where appeared publicly, but the
robbers came running into, and searched men's private houses; and then, if they
found any, they tormented them, because they had denied they had any; and <b>if they found none, they tormented them
worse</b>, because they supposed they had more carefully concealed it. The
indication they made use of whether they had any or not was taken from the
bodies of these miserable wretches; which, if they were in good case, they
supposed they were in no want at all of food; but if they were wasted away,
they walked off without searching any further; nor did they think it proper to
kill such as these, because they saw they would very soon die of themselves for
want of food. Many there were indeed who sold what they had for one measure; it
was of wheat, if they were of the richer sort; but of barley, if they were
poorer. When these had so done, they shut themselves up in the inmost rooms of
their houses, and ate the corn they had gotten; some did it without grinding
it, by reason of the extremity of the want they were in, and others baked bread
of it, according as necessity and fear dictated to them: a table was no where
laid for a distinct meal, but they snatched the bread out of the fire,
half-baked, and ate it very hastily………..</i></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-GB">3. <b>It
was now a miserable case, and a sight that would justly bring tears into our
eyes</b>, how men stood as to their food, while the more powerful had more than
enough, and the weaker were lamenting [for want of it.] But <b>the famine was too hard</b> for all other
passions, and it is destructive to nothing so much as to modesty; for what was
otherwise worthy of reverence was in this case despised; insomuch that <b>children pulled the very morsels that their
fathers were eating out of their very mouths</b>, and what was still more to be
pitied, <b>so did the mothers do as to
their infants;</b> and when <b>those that
were most dear were perishing under their hands, they were not ashamed to take
from them the very last drops that might preserve their lives</b>: and while
they ate after this manner, yet were they not concealed in so doing; but the
seditious every where came upon them immediately, and snatched away from them
what they had gotten from others; for when they saw any house shut up, this was
to them a signal that the people within had gotten some food; whereupon <b>they broke open the doors, and ran in, and
took pieces of what they were eating almost up out of their very throats</b>,
and this by force: <b><u>the old men, who
held their food fast, were beaten</u></b>; and if <b>the women hid what they had within their hands, their hair was torn for
so doing</b>; nor was there any commiseration shown either to the aged or to
the infants, but <b>they lifted up children
from the ground as they hung upon the morsels they had gotten, and <u>shook
them down upon the floor</u></b>……</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">They were more
barbarously cruel</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> to those that had prevented their
coming in, and had actually swallowed down what they were going to seize upon,
as if they had been unjustly defrauded of their right. <b>They also invented terrible methods of torments</b> to discover where
any food was, and <b>they were these to
stop up the passages of the privy parts of the miserable wretches, and to drive
sharp stakes up their fundaments</b>; and a man was forced to bear what it is
terrible even to hear, <b>in order to make
him confess that he had but one loaf of bread,</b> or that he might discover a
handful of barley-meal that was concealed; and this was done when these
tormentors were not themselves hungry………………</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">They confessed what was true, <u>that
they were the slaves, the scum, and the spurious and abortive offspring of our
nation</u></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, while they overthrew the city
themselves, and forced the Romans, whether they would or no, to gain a
melancholy reputation, by acting gloriously against them, and did almost draw
that fire upon the temple, which they seemed to think came too slowly; and
indeed <b>when <u>they saw that temple
burning</u> from the upper city, they were neither troubled at it, nor did they
shed any tears </b>on that account, while yet these passions were discovered
among the Romans themselves; which circumstances we shall speak of hereafter in
their proper place, when we come to treat of such matters……….</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">when they were going to be taken, they were forced
to defend themselves for fear of being punished; as after they had fought, they
thought it too late to make any supplications for mercy; so <b>they were first whipped, and then tormented
with all sorts of tortures</b>, before they died, and <b>were <u>then crucified before the wall of the city</u></b>. This
miserable procedure made Titus greatly to pity them, while <b><u>they caught every day five hundred Jews</u></b>; nay, some days they
caught more: yet it did not appear to be safe for him to let those that were
taken by force go their way, and to set a guard over so many he saw would be to
make such as great deal them useless to him. The main reason why he did not
forbid that cruelty was this, that he hoped the Jews might perhaps yield at
that sight, out of fear lest they might themselves afterwards be liable to the
same cruel treatment. So <b><u>the
soldiers, out of the wrath and hatred they bore the Jews, nailed those they
caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses</u>, by
way of jest, when their multitude was so great, that room was wanting for the
crosses, and crosses wanting for the bodies</b>……………..</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">3. So all hope of escaping was now cut off from
the Jews, together with their liberty of going out of the city. <b>Then did the famine widen its progress, and
devoured the people by whole houses and families</b>; the upper rooms were full
of <b>women and children that were dying by
famine</b>, and the lanes of <b>the city
were full of the dead bodies of the aged; the children also and the young men </b>wandered
about the market-places like shadows, all swelled with the famine, and fell
down dead, wheresoever their misery seized them. As for burying them, those
that were sick themselves were not able to do it; and those that were hearty
and well were deterred from doing it by the great multitude of those dead
bodies, and by the uncertainty there was how soon they should die themselves; <b>for many died as they were burying others</b>,
and many went to their coffins before that fatal hour was come. Nor was there
any lamentations made under these calamities, nor were heard any mournful
complaints; but <b>the famine confounded
all natural passions;</b> for those who were just going to die looked upon
those that were gone to rest before them with dry eyes and open mouths. A deep
silence also, and a kind of deadly night, had seized upon the city; while yet
the robbers were still more terrible than these miseries were themselves; for
they brake open those houses which were no other than graves of dead bodies,
and <b>plundered them of what they had</b>;
and carrying off the coverings of their bodies, went out laughing, and tried
the points of their swords in their dead bodies; and, in order <b>to prove what metal they were made of they
thrust some of those through that still lay alive upon the ground</b>; but for
those that entreated them to lend them their right hand and their sword to
despatch them, they were too proud to grant their requests, and left them to be
consumed by the famine……………………</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">. However, when <b>Titus</b>, in going his rounds along those valleys, saw them full of
dead bodies, and <b>the thick putrefaction</b>
running about them, he gave a groan; and<u>, <b>spreading out his hands to heaven, called God to witness that this was
not his doing</b></u>; and such was the sad case of the city itself……………</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">These Romans besides had great plenty of corn
and other necessaries out of Syria, and out of the neighbouring provinces; many
of whom would stand near to the wall of the city, <b>and show the people what great quantities of provisions they had, and
so make the enemy more sensible of their famine</b>, by the great plenty, even
to satiety, which they had themselves…….</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">After this man there ran away to Titus many of the eminent citizens, and
told him <b>the entire number of the poor
that were dead, and that no fewer than <u>six hundred thousand </u>were thrown
out at the gates</b>, though still the number of the rest could not be
discovered; and they told him further, that when they were no longer able to
carry out the dead bodies of the poor, <b>they
laid their corpses on heaps</b> in very large houses, and shut them up therein;
as also that <b>a medimnus of wheat was
sold for a talent</b>; and that when, a while afterward, it was not possible to
gather herbs, by reason the city was all walled about, <b>some persons were driven to that terrible distress as to search the
common sewers and old dunghills of cattle, and <u>to eat the dung</u> which
they got there</b>; and what they of old could not endure so much as to see
they now used for food. When the Romans barely heard all this, they
commiserated their case; while the seditious, who saw it also, did not repent,
but suffered the same distress to come upon themselves; for they were blinded
by that fate which was already coming upon the city, and upon themselves
also………</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">1. THUS did <b>the miseries of Jerusalem
grow worse</b> and worse every day, and the seditious were still more irritated
by the calamities they were under, even while <b>the famine preyed upon themselves</b>, after it had preyed upon the
people. And indeed <b>the multitudes of
carcasses that lay in heaps one upon another was a horrible sight</b>, and <b>produced a pestilential stench</b>, which
was a hindrance to those that would make sallies out of the city, and fight the
enemy:</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">And let my first argument to move
you to it be taken from what probably some would think reasonable to dissuade
you, I mean the constancy and patience of these Jews, even under their ill
successes; for it is unbecoming you, who are Romans and my soldiers, who have
in peace been taught how to make wars, and who have also been used to conquer
in those wars, to be inferior to Jews, either in action of the hand, or in
courage of the soul, and this especially when you are at the conclusion of your
victory, <b>and <u>are assisted by God
himself</u></b>; for as to our misfortunes, they have been owing to the madness
of the Jews, while their sufferings have been owing to your valor, and to the
assistance God hath afforded you; <b><u>for
as to the seditions they have been in, and the famine they are under, and the
siege they now endure, and the fall of their walls without our engines, what
can they all be but demonstrations of God's anger against them </u>(read again
Vayyiqra 26:14-32)</b>, and of his assistance afforded us?........</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">For they foretold that this city should be then taken when somebody
shall begin the slaughter of his own countrymen. And <b>are not both the city and the entire temple now full of the dead bodies
of your countrymen? <u>It is God, therefore, it is God himself who is bringing
on this fire, to purge that city and temple by means of the Romans</u></b>, <u><span style="color: blue;">(8)</span></u> and is going to pluck up this city, which is
full of your pollutions."……</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AND now Titus gave orders to his soldiers
that were with him to dig up the foundations of the tower of Antonia, and make
him a ready passage for his army to come up; while he himself had Josephus
brought to him, (for he had been informed that <b>on that very day, which was the seventeenth day <u><span style="color: blue;">(5)</span></u> of Panemus, [Tamuz,] the sacrifice called
"<u>the Daily Sacrifice</u>" had failed</b>, and <b>had not been offered to God, for want of men to offer it</b>, and that
the people were grievously troubled at it,) and commanded him to say the same
things to…….</span></i></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue;">5)</span></u><span lang="EN-GB"> This was a remarkable day indeed, <b><u>the seventeenth of Paneruns. [Tamuz,]
A.D. 70,</u></b> when, according to Daniel's prediction, six hundred and six
years before, the Romans "in half a week caused <b>the sacrifice and oblation to cease</b>," <u><span style="color: green;">Dan_9:27</span></u>. For <b>from the month of February, A.D. 66</b>, about which time Vespasian
entered on this war, to this very time, <b><u>was
just three years and a half</u></b>. See Bishop Lloyd's Tables of Chronology,
published by Mr. Marshall, on this year. Nor is it to be omitted, what year
nearly confirms this duration of the war, that four years before the war begun
was somewhat above seven years five months before the destruction of Jerusalem,
ch. 5. sect. 3.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Upon this Josephus stood in such a place where
he might be heard, not by John only, but by many more, and then declared to
them what Caesar had given him in charge, and this <b>in the Hebrew language</b>. <u><span style="color: blue;">(6)</span></u>
So he earnestly prayed them to spare their own city, and to prevent that fire
which was just ready to seize upon the temple, and to offer their usual
sacrifices to God therein……</span></i></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue;">(6)</span></u><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>The same that in the New Testament is always so called, and was then
the common language of the Jews in Judea</b>, which was the Syriac dialect.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Thou hast indignation at me again, and makest a clamor at me, and
reproachest me; indeed I cannot deny but I am worthy of worse treatment than
all this amounts to, because, in opposition to fate, I make this kind
invitation to thee, and endeavor to force deliverance <b>upon <u>those whom God hath condemned</u></b>. And <b>who is there that does not know what the writings of the ancient
prophets contain in them</b>, - and <b><u>particularly
that oracle which is just now going to be fulfilled upon this miserable city</u></b>?
For they foretold that this city should be then taken when somebody shall begin
the slaughter of his own countrymen. And <b>are
not both the city and the entire temple now full of the dead bodies of your
countrymen? <u>It is God, therefore, it is God himself who is bringing on this
fire, to purge that city and temple by means of the Romans</u></b><u>,</u> <u><span style="color: blue;">(8)</span></u> and is going to pluck up this city, which is
full of your pollutions."</span></i></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue;">(8)</span></u><span lang="EN-GB"> Of this oracle, see the note on B.
IV. ch. 6. sect. 3. <i>Josephus</i>, both
here and in many places elsewhere, speaks so, that it is most evident he was
fully satisfied that <b>God was on the
Romans' side, and made use of them now for the destruction of that wicked
nation of the Jews;</b> which was for certain the true state of this matter, as
the prophet <i>Daniel</i> first, and our
Saviour himself afterwards, had clearly foretold. See Lit. Accompl. of Proph.
p. 64, etc.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Moreover<b>, their hunger was so
intolerable, that it obliged them to chew every thing</b>, while they gathered
such things as the most sordid animals would not touch, and endured to eat
them; <b>nor did they at length abstain
from girdles and shoes</b>; and the very leather which belonged to their
shields they pulled off and gnawed: the very wisps of old hay became food to
some; and <b>some gathered up fibres</b>,
and sold a very small weight of them for four Attic [drachmae]. But why do I
describe the shameless impudence that the famine brought on men in their eating
inanimate things, while <b>I am going to
relate a matter of fact, the like to which no history relates,</b> <u><span style="color: blue;">(15)</span></u> either among the Greeks or Barbarians? <b><u>It is horrible to speak of it</u></b><u>,</u>
and incredible when heard. <b>I had indeed
willingly omitted this calamity of ours, that I might not seem to deliver what
is so portentous to posterity, but that I have innumerable witnesses to it in
my own age</b>; and besides, my country would have had little reason to thank
me for suppressing the miseries that she underwent at this time………</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">4. There was a certain woman that dwelt beyond
Jordan, her name was Mary; her father was Eleazar, of the village Bethezob, which
signifies the house of Hyssop. She was eminent for her family and her wealth,
and had fled away to Jerusalem
with the rest of the multitude, and was with them besieged therein at this
time. The other effects of this woman had been already seized upon, such I mean
as she had brought with her out of Perea, and removed to the city. What she had
treasured up besides, as also what food she had contrived to save, had been
also carried off by the rapacious guards</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">,………….</span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB">She then attempted a
most unnatural thing</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">; and <b>snatching up her son, who was a child sucking at her breast, she said,</b>
"O thou miserable infant! for whom shall I preserve thee in this war, this
famine, and this sedition? As to the war with the Romans, if they preserve our
lives, we must be slaves. This famine also will destroy us, even before that
slavery comes upon us. Yet are these seditious rogues more terrible than both
the other. <b><u>Come on; be thou my food,</u></b>
and be thou a fury to these seditious varlets, and a by-word to the world,
which is all that is now wanting <b>to
complete the calamities of us Jews</b>." As soon as she had said this, <b>she slew her son, and then roasted him, and
eat the one half of him</b>, and <b>kept
the other half by her concealed</b>………</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">upon this the seditious came in presently, and smelling the horrid scent
of this food, they threatened her that they would cut her throat immediately if
she did not show them what food she had gotten ready. She replied that she had
saved a very fine portion of it for them, and withal uncovered what was left of
her son. Hereupon <b>they were seized with
a horror</b> <b>and amazement of mind</b>,
and stood astonished at the sight, when <b>she
said to them, "This is mine own son,</b> and what hath been done was mine
own doing! Come, eat of this food; for I have eaten of it myself! Do not you
pretend to be either more tender than a woman, or more compassionate than a
mother; but if you be so scrupulous, and do abominate this my sacrifice, as I
have eaten the one half, let the rest be reserved for me also." After
which those men went out trembling, being never so much aftrighted at any thing
as they were at this, and with some difficulty <b>they left the rest of that meat to the mother</b>. Upon which the whole
city was full of this horrid action immediately; and while every body laid this
miserable case before their own eyes, they trembled, as if this unheard of
action had been done by themselves. So those that were thus distressed by the
famine were very desirous to die, and those already dead were esteemed happy,
because they had not lived long enough either to hear or to see such miseries.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">5. This sad instance was quickly told to the
Romans, some of whom could not believe it, and others pitied the distress which
the Jews were under; but there were many of them who were hereby induced to a
more bitter hatred than ordinary against our nation. But for <b><u>Caesar, he excused himself before God as
to this matter</u></b>, and said that he had proposed peace and liberty to the
Jews, as well as an oblivion of all their former insolent practices; but that
they, instead of concord, had chosen sedition; instead of peace, war; and
before satiety and abundance, a famine. That they had begun with their own
hands to burn down that temple which we have preserved hitherto; and that
therefore they deserved to eat such food as this was. That, however, this
horrid action of eating an own child ought to be covered with the overthrow of
their very country itself, and men ought not to leave such a city upon the
habitable earth to be seen by the sun, wherein mothers are thus fed,</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">But when Titus perceived that his endeavours to spare a foreign temple
turned to the damage of his soldiers, and then be killed, <b>he gave order to set the gates on fire</b>……..</span></i></div>
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<b><i><u><span lang="EN-GB">But as for that house, God had, for
certain, long ago doomed it to the fi</span></u></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">re</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">; and now that fatal
day was come, according to the revolution of ages<b>; it was the tenth day of the month Lous, [Ab,]</b> upon which it was
formerly burnt by the king of Babylon; although these flames took their rise
from the Jews themselves, and were occasioned by them; for upon Titus's
retiring, the seditious lay still for a little while, and then attacked the
Romans again, when those that guarded the holy house fought with those that
quenched the fire that was burning the inner [court of the] temple; but these
Romans put the Jews to flight, <b>and
proceeded as far as the holy house itself.</b> At which time one of the
soldiers, without staying for any orders, and without any concern or dread upon
him at so great an undertaking, and being hurried on by a certain divine fury,
snatched somewhat out of the materials that were on fire, and being lifted up
by another soldier, he set fire to a golden window, through which there was a
passage to the rooms that were round about the holy house, on the north side of
it. As the flames went upward, the Jews made a great clamor, such as so mighty
an affliction required, and ran together to prevent it; and now they spared not
their lives any longer, nor suffered any thing to restrain their force, since
that holy house was perishing, for whose sake it was that they kept such a
guard about it.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Moreover, the hope of plunder induced many to go on, as having this
opinion, that all the places within were full of money, and as seeing that all
round about it was made of gold. And besides, one of those that went into the
place prevented Caesar, when he ran so hastily out to restrain the soldiers,
and threw the fire upon the hinges of the gate, in the dark; whereby the flame
burst out from within the holy house itself immediately, when the commanders retired,
and Caesar with them, and when nobody any longer forbade those that were
without to set fire to it. <b>And thus was
the holy house burnt down</b>, without Caesar's approbation……..</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Now the number of years that passed <b>from
its first foundation, which was laid by king Solomon</b>, <b>till this its destruction, which happened in the second year of the
reign of Vespasian,</b> are collected to be <b>one thousand one hundred and thirty (1130), besides seven months and
fifteen days</b>; and from the second building of it, which was done by Haggai,
in the second year of Cyrus the king, <b><u>till
its destruction under Vespasian</u></b>, there were <b>six hundred and thirty-nine years and forty-five days</b>.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">2. And now the Romans, judging that it was in
vain to spare what was round about the holy house, burnt all those places, as
also the remains of the cloisters and the gates, two excepted; the one on the
east side, and the other on the south; both which, however, they burnt
afterward. <b>They also burnt down the
treasury chambers, in which was an immense quantity of money, and an immense
number of garments, and other precious goods</b> there reposited; and, to speak
all in a few words, there it was that the entire riches of the Jews were heaped
up together, while the rich people had there built themselves chambers [to
contain such furniture]………</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Thus also before the Jews' rebellion, and
before those <b>commotions which preceded
the war</b>, when the people were come in great crowds <b>to the feast of unleavened bread</b>, on the eighth day of the month
Xanthicus, <u><span style="color: blue;">(21)</span></u> [Nisan,] and at the
ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy
house, that it appeared to be bright day time; which lasted for half an hour. <b><u>This light seemed to be a good sign to
the unskillful, but was so interpreted by the sacred scribes, as to portend
those events that followed immediately upon it</u></b>. At the same festival
also, a heifer, as she was led by the high priest to be sacrificed, brought
forth a lamb in the midst of the temple. Moreover, the eastern gate of the
inner <u><span style="color: blue;">(22)</span></u> [court of the] temple, which
was of brass, and vastly heavy, and had been with difficulty shut by twenty
men, and rested upon a basis armed with iron, and had bolts fastened very deep
into the firm floor, which was there made of one entire stone, was seen to be
opened of its own accord about the sixth hour of the night……….</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">They were all received by the Romans, because Titus himself grew
negligent as to his former orders for killing them, and because the very
soldiers grew weary of killing them, and because they hoped to get some money
by sparing them; for they left only the populace, and sold the rest of the
multitude, <u><span style="color: blue;">(28)</span></u> with their wives and
children, and every one of them at a very low price, and that because such as
were sold were very many, and the buyers were few: and although Titus had made
proclamation beforehand, that no deserter should come alone by himself, that so
they might bring out their families with them, yet did he receive such as these
also. However, he set over them such as were to distinguish some from others,
in order to see if any of them deserved to be punished. And indeed the number
of those that were sold was immense; but of the populace above forty thousand
were saved, whom Caesar let go whither every one of them pleased.</span></i></div>
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<u><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue;">28)</span></u><span lang="EN-GB"> This innumerable multitude of Jews
that were "sold" by the Romans was an eminent completion of God's
ancient threatening by Moses, that if they apostatized from the obedience to
his laws, they should be "sold unto their enemies for bond- men and bond-women,"
<u><span style="color: green;">Deu_28:68</span></u>. See more especially the note
on ch. 9. sect. 2. But one thing is here peculiarly remarkable, that Moses
adds, Though they should be "sold" for slaves, yet "no man
should buy them;" i.e. either they should have none to redeem them from this
sale into slavery; or rather, that the slaves to be sold should be more than
were the purchasers for them, and so they should be sold for little or nothing;
which is what <i>Josephus</i> here affirms
to have been the case at this time.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">THAT WHEREAS THE CITY OF JERUSALEM HAD BEEN FIVE
TIMES TAKEN FORMERLY, THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME OF ITS DESOLATION. A BRIEF
ACCOUNT OF ITS HISTORY.</span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AND thus was <b>Jerusalem taken,
in the second year of the reign of Vespasian</b>, on the eighth day of the
month Gorpeius [<b>Elul the sixth month
before Etanim</b>]. It had been taken five <u><span style="color: blue;">(34)</span></u>
times before, though this was the second time of its desolation; for Shishak,
the king of Egypt, and after him Antiochus, and after him Pompey, and after
them Sosius and Herod, took the city, but still preserved it; but before all
these, the king of Babylon conquered it, and made it desolate, one thousand
four hundred and sixty-eight years and six months after it was built. But he
who first built it. Was a potent man among the Canaanites (himself was not a
Canaanite) , and is in our own tongue called [<b>Melchisedek]</b>, the Righteous King, for such he really was; on which
account he was [there] the first priest of God, and first built a temple
[there], and called the city Jerusalem, which was <b>formerly called Salem</b>. However, David, the king of the Jews,
ejected the Canaanites, and set-tied his own people therein. It was demolished
entirely by the Babylonians, four hundred and seventy-seven years and six
months after him. And from king David, who was the first of the Jews who
reigned therein, to this destruction under Titus, were one thousand one hundred
and seventy-nine years (1179); but from its first building, till this last
destruction, were two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years (2177); yet
hath not its great antiquity, nor its vast riches, nor the diffusion of its
nation over all the habitable earth, nor the greatness of the veneration paid
to it on a religious account, been sufficient to preserve it from being
destroyed. And thus ended the siege of Jerusalem.</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Do you remember what </span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">told his disciples?</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Mat 24:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and going out, </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">went away from
the Set-apart Place
(Temple), and His taught ones came near <b>to point out to Him the buildings of the
Set-apart Place</b>.(Temple)
</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Mat 24:2</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">and </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">said to them,
“Do you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, <b>not one stone shall be left here upon another, at all, which shall not
be thrown down</b>.”</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This
prophecy was fulfilled 40 Years after </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">departure
according to <i>Yechezk’el</i> 4:6-7</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;">Eze 4:6</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> a<i>nd when thou hast accomplished them lie
again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty
days: I have appointed thee <b>each day for
a year.</b></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Eze 4:7</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Therefore <b>thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem</b>, and thine arm shall be
uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.</i></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">What can we
say then? I have heard many people judging the accuracy of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s word, but here we have the
proof that what <i>Moshe</i>, the prophets
or Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">spoke, was perfectly fulfilled:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Mat 5:18</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>“For
truly, I say to you, <span style="color: blue;">till the heaven and the earth
pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah <u>till
all be done</u></span></i><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Luk 16:17</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one
tittle of the Torah to fall. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The
prophecy and understanding must be revised because according to <i>Josephus</i>’s proof concerning the
destruction of the Temple and <i>Yerushalayim</i>
the vision concerning the last week was completely fulfil in the year 70C.E.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The first
part was fulfilled when </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">entered his ministry
for three an half year. The last part of the week (seven years) was
accomplished by Titus from the midst of Year 66 to the year 70CE.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">For those
waiting now for the last seven years, when the <i>“Anti-Christ”</i> shall appear; they should read the work from <i>Josephus</i> before making a conclusion. I
know that it is also written: <i>“what has been, it is what will be… Eccl.)</i></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">do not speak of one remaining week
in his prophecy:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Mat 24:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
</i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">said to them,
“Do you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left
here upon another, at all, which shall not be thrown down.” </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: maroon;">Mat 24:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> and
as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the taught ones came to Him separately,
saying, “Say to us, <b>when shall this be</b>,
<b>and</b> <b>what is the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” </b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In this
chapter, </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">told his disciples first of the destruction of
the Temple,
this was fulfilled in 70C.E
as we read from <i>Josephus</i>, after that,
the disciples asked him concerning the sign of His coming and of the end of the
age. So the all chapter is divided in two different period of time. Let the
reader be careful when reading and not putting all in the same period of time.</span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">give the premises of what will be
before his second coming and the time of the end of the age.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first
part: The destruction of the Temple
and so the completion of one part of <i>Daniel</i>’s
vision was completed in 70C.E,
the last part the end of the age will be when Messiah will come back. I will
give more details in the study of <i>Daniel</i>’s
vision.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">It is not
said that history does not repeat itself, concerning the seventy’ weeks vision
in Daniel’s book?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Dan 12:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Now at that time Miḵa’ĕl shall stand up,
the great head who is standing over the sons of your people. <b>And there shall be</b> <b>a time of distress such as never was since there was a nation, until
that time</b>. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who
is found written in the book, </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Mat 24:21</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“For
then there <b>shall be great distress, such
as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever
shall be</b>.</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">In the
first verse from Daniel chapter 12, the Hebrew word for “stand up” is the word <b><i>“âmad”</i></b>
which can also means: <b><i>“stand still”</i></b>. If we consider the
meaning to be <i>“stand still”</i> we will
see what Shaul say:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">2Th 2:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for the secret of lawlessness is already at
work – only until <b><u>he</u> who now
restrains comes out of the midst</b></i><b>.
</b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The
question is: Who is this “he”?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">I have read
many interpretation, <i>Christians</i> like
to say that it is the “<i>church</i>” that
will be “<i>raptured</i>” and then the
lawless One will come. This of course is not true. <i>Michael</i> is the <i>Archangel</i>
in charge of the protection of Israel,
by <i>“standing still”</i> this will open a
free way for the man of perdition to enter into the scene and do what he is
appointed to do and <i>Elohim</i> judgment
comes upon the earth. You may say, what happen with <b><i>Yah</i></b>’s people?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">You should
read Psalm 91 which is a psalm for the coming end days, and also what </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">say to the Philadelphia Assembly:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Rev 3:10</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Because you have guarded My Word of
endurance, <b>I also shall guard you from
the hour of trial which shall come upon the all world</b>, to try those who
dwell on the earth.</i> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">The word <i>“Philadelphia”
</i>is a Greek word meaning: <i>“Love as
brethren”</i> from two words: <i>“Philos”</i>
and <i>“adelphos”.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Do you
remember what </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">told his disciples in the book of <i>Yochanan</i>?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Joh 13:35</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“By this shall all know that you are My
taught ones (disciples/talmidin), <b>if you
have love for one another.”</b></i><b> </b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-GB">Could this
be valid for the <i>Philadelphia</i> Assembly during the last
days?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Lev 26:3</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘<b>If </b>you walk in My laws (chuqqah/Statutes) and guard My commands
(mitzvoth), <b><u>and shall do them</u></b>,
</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:4</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>then</b> I shall give you rain
in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field
yield their fruit. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:5</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>your threshing shall last
till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the
time of sowing</b>. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, <b>and shall dwell in your land safely</b>. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:6</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one
make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and <b>not let the sword go through your land. </b></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:7</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword
before you. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:8</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>five of you shall pursue a
hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand.</b> And your enemies shall
fall by the sword before you. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:9</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>I shall turn to you and
make you bear fruit</b>, and shall increase you, and shall establish My
covenant with you. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:10</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>you shall eat the old
supply</b>, <b>and clear out the old
because of the new.</b> </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:11</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And I shall set My Dwelling
Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject
you. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:12</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>I shall walk in your midst</b>,
and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Lev 26:13</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> your
Elohim, who brought you out of the land
of Mitsrayim, from being
their slaves. And <b>I have broken the bars
of your yoke</b> and made you walk upright. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:14</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But <b><u>if you do not obey Me</u></b>, and do not do all these commands, </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:15</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>if you reject My laws</b>, or if your being loathes My right-rulings,
so that you do not do all My commands, but <b>break
My covenant</b>, </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:16</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <b>I also do this to you</b>: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, <b>wasting disease</b> and <b>inflammation</b>, <b>destroying the eyes</b>, and <b>consuming
the life</b>. And <b>you shall sow your
seed in vain</b>, for <b>your enemies shall
eat it</b>. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:17</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall set My face
against you, and <b>you shall be smitten
before your enemies</b>. And <b>those who
hate you shall rule over</b> you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:18</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And after all this, <b>if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish
you seven times more</b> for your sins. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:19</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall break the
pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like
bronze. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:20</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>your strength shall be spent in vain </b>and your land not yield its
crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:21</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if you walk contrary
to Me, and refuse to obey Me, <b>I shall
bring on you seven times more plagues</b>, according to your sins, </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:22</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>send wild beasts among you</b>, which shall bereave you of your
children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and
your highways shall be deserted. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:23</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if you are not
instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me, </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:24</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> then I also shall walk
contrary to you, and <b>I Myself shall
smite you seven times for your sins. </b></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:25</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall bring
against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall
gather together in your cities, and <b>I
shall send pestilence among you</b>, and <b><u>you
shall be given into the hand of the enemy</u></b><u>.</u> </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:26</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘When I have cut off your
supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall
bring back to you your bread by weight, and <b>you shall eat and not be satisfied. </b></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:27</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if in spite of this, you do not obey Me</b>, but walk contrary to Me, </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:28</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> then I shall walk
contrary to you in wrath. And <b>I Myself
shall punish you seven times for your sins. </b></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:29</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b><u>you shall eat the flesh of your sons</u></b>, and <b><u>eat the flesh of your daughters</u>. </b></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:30</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>I shall destroy your high places</b>, and <b>cut down your sun-pillars</b>, and put your carcasses on the carcasses
of your idols. And My being shall loathe you. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:31</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b><u>I shall turn your cities into ruins</u></b> and lay your set-apart
places waste, and <b><u>not smell your
sweet fragrances</u></b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:32</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall lay the land
waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:33</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>I shall scatter you among the gentiles (goy)</b> and draw out a sword
after you. And <b>your land shall be desert</b>
and your cities ruins, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:34</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste</b> and you are in
your enemies’ land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:35</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘As long as it lies waste
it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:36</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And as for <b>those of you who are left</b>, <b>I shall send faintness into their hearts</b>
in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them
to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and <b>they shall fall when no one pursues. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:37</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>they shall stumble over one another</b>, as from before a sword, when
no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:38</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall perish among the gentiles</b>, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:39</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your
enemies’ lands</b>, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with
them. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:40</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their
fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they
also have walked contrary to Me, </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:41</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and that I also have
walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies <b>– <u>if their uncircumcised heart is then
humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness</u></b><u>, </u></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:42</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <b>then</b> I shall remember My covenant with Yaʽaqoḇ, and also My
covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Aḇraham, <b>and remember the land</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:43</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘For the land was
abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them,
and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My
right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:44</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And yet for all this, <b>when they are in the land of their enemies,
I shall not reject them,</b> nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and
break My covenant with them. For I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> their
Elohim. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:45</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Then I <b>shall remember for their sake the covenant
of the ancestors</b> whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim before the
eyes of the nations to be their Elohim. I am </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.’ ” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
26:46</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> These are the laws and
the right-rulings and the <span style="color: blue;">Torot<sup>1</sup></span>
which </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> made between Himself and the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh. <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Torot - plural of Torah, teaching.</span></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Lev 27:1</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> spoke to Mosheh, saying,</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:2</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “Speak to the children of
Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of
lives unto </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:3</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> when your evaluation is
of <b>a male from twenty years old up to
sixty years old</b>, then <b>your
evaluation shall be fifty sheqels of sil</b>ver, according to the sheqel of the
set-apart place. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:4</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if <b>it is a female</b>, then your evaluation
shall be <b>thirty sheqels</b>; </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:5</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and if <b>from five years old up to twenty years ol</b>d,
then your evaluation for a male shall be <b>twenty
sheqels</b>, and for <b>a female ten
sheqels</b>; </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:6</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and if <b>from a month old up to five years old</b>,
then your evaluation for a male shall be <b>five
sheqels of silver</b>, and <b>for a female</b>
your evaluation shall be <b>three sheqels
of silver; </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:7</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and if <b>from sixty years old and above</b>, if it
is <b>a male</b>, then your evaluation
shall be <b>fifteen sheqels</b>, and for <b>a female ten sheqels</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:8</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But if he is too poor to
pay your evaluation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and <b>the priest shall set a value for him</b>.
According to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:9</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if it is a beast of
which they bring an offering to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, all such given to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">is set-apart. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:10</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘He is not to replace it
or exchange it, good for spoilt or spoilt for good. And if he at all exchanges
beast for beast, then both it and the one exchanged for it is set-apart. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:11</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if it is any unclean beast of which they do not bring an offering to </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, then he shall present the beast before the priest;</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:12</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and the priest shall
value it, whether it is good or spoilt. According to your evaluation, O priest,
so it shall be. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:13</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But <b>if he indeed redeems it, then he shall add one-fifth</b> to your
evaluation. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:14</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>when a man sets his house apart, to be set-apart to </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, then
the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. As the priest values
it, so it stands. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:15</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if he who sets it
apart does redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your
evaluation to it, and it shall be his. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:16</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if a man sets apart to </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US">a field he owns</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">,
then your evaluation shall be according to the seed for it – <b>a omer of barley</b> seed at fifty sheqels
of silver. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:17</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘If he sets his field
apart from the Year of Jubilee, according to your evaluation it stands. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:18</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But if he sets his field
apart after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver due <b>according to the years that remain till the
Year of Jubilee</b>, and it shall be deducted from your evaluation. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:19</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if he who sets the
field apart ever wishes to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver
of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:20</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if he does not redeem the field</b>, or if he has sold the field to
another man, it is no longer redeemed, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:21</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> but <b>the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, is set-apart to </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US">as a dedicated
field, to be the possession of the priest. </span></i></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:22</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if a man sets apart
to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">a field which he has bought, which is not the field
of his possession, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:23</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> then the priest shall
reckon to him the amount of your evaluation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he
shall give your evaluation on that day, set-apart to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:24</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>In the Year of Jubilee the field returns to him from whom he bought it</b>,
to him whose is the possession of the land. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:25</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And all your evaluations
is to be according to the sheqel of the set-apart place: twenty gĕrahs to the
sheqel. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:26</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘However, <b>a first-born of the beasts, which is
first-born to </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, no man sets it apart</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> – whether bull or sheep, it belongs to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:27</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if among the unclean
beasts, then he shall ransom it according to your evaluation, and shall add
one-fifth to it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to
your evaluation. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:28</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘However, whatever a man
lays under ban for </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">of all that he
has, man and beast, or the field of his possession, is not sold or redeemed.
Whatever is laid under ban is most set-apart to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:29</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>No one under the ban, under the ban among men, is ransomed, but shall
certainly be put to death. </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:30</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And all the tithe of the
land – of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree – belongs to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. It is
set-apart to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:31</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>If a man indeed redeems any of his tithes, he adds one-fifth to it</b>.
</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:32</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b><u>the entire tithe of the herd and of the flock</u></b>, all that
passes under the rod, the tenth one is set-apart to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:33</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘He does not inquire
whether it is good or spoilt, nor does he exchange it. And if he exchanges it
at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it are set-apart, it is not
redeemed.’ ” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Lev
27:34</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> These are the commands
which </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">commanded Mosheh for the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB">Haftorah</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">The hope
for those who have been scattered to the end of the earth the day will come and
has indeed come when men shall see and understand and therefore turn away from
their false gods, to the living and only true <i>Elohim</i> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Zebaoth</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> the <i>Qadosh</i>
One of <i>Israel</i>.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Yrmeyahu</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> 17:13</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ………Those who depart from
Me shall be written in the earth</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">,
because they have forsaken </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the <span style="color: blue;">fountain of living waters</span></span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">We see
something done by </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">which is directly related to what
the prophet is saying:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Joh 8:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and at dawn He came again into the Set-apart Place,
and all the people were coming to Him. And having sat down, He was teaching
them. </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and <b>the scribes and Pharisees</b>
brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And having set her in the midst, </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of
adultery. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And in the Torah Mosheh commanded us that such should be stoned. What
then do You say?” </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and this <b>they said, trying Him,
so that they might accuse Him</b>. <b>But </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, bending
down, wrote on the ground with the finger,</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">
as though He did not hear. </span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:7</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> But as they
kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and <b>said to them</b>, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the
first to throw a stone at her.”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></div>
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some scholars say that this part of chapter 8 was not in earlier documents, nevertheless
the writing on the ground from </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">was directly related to
the words from <i>Yrmeyahu</i>, pointing to
the scribes and Pharisee who were seeking to proclaim their own righteousness,
following their <i>Oral Torah </i>with their <i>“takanots, gezerot and ma’asee”</i>
but indeed had only evil in their heart </span><i><span lang="EN-US">“He
who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US">!</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: navy;">Joh 8:8</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and again he stooped down, and wrote on the
ground</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:9</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and they which heard it, being convicted by
their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto
the last: and Yehoshua was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:10</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>when </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-GB">had lifted up himself, and saw none but the
woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man
condemned thee?</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Joh 8:11</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>She said, No man, Sir. And </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said unto her, Neither do I
condemn thee: go, and sin no more</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></div>
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understand in this story, that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> was not first concern with
the adulterer woman but much more with the hypocrisy of the scribes and
Pharisee and thus writing on the ground did what the prophet <i>Yrmeyahu</i> spoke.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> came first to restore and not to judge, nevertheless he told
the woman to <b>stop sinning. </b>The
Scribes and Pharisee had not righteousness in mind but to accuse </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Jer 16:19</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> O </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, my
strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles
(goy) shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, <span style="color: blue;">“Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and
there is no value in them.”<sup>1</sup></span> <span style="color: blue;">Footnote:
<sup>1</sup>See Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 60:2-3, John 4:22, Rom. 2:20, Rom.
3:2, Rom. 9:4.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
16:20</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Would a man make mighty
ones for himself, which are not mighty ones? </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
16:21</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “Therefore see, I am
causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And <b>they shall know that My Name is </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>!” </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: maroon;">Jer 17:1</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “The sin of Yehuḏah is written
with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond <b>on the tablet of their heart</b>, and on the horns of your altars, </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Jer 17:2</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕrim by the
spreading trees on the high hills. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Jer 17:3</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “My mountain in the field, I give as plunder your wealth, all your
treasures, your high places of sin, throughout all your borders. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Jer 17:4</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And <b>you, even of yourself,
shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you</b>. And <b>I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known</b>,
for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: teal;">Jer 17:5</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Thus said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, “<b>Cursed is the man who
trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:6</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “For he shall be like a
shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:7</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <b>“Blessed is the man who trusts in </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, and
whose trust is </span></i></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:8</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “For he shall be like a
tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and does
not see when heat comes. And his leaf shall be green, and <b>in the year of drought he is not anxious, nor does he cease from
yielding fruit</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:9</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <span style="color: blue;">“The
heart is crooked<sup>1</sup></span> above all, and desperately sick – who shall
know it? <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>See 7:24, 16:12, 18:12,
23:17.</span></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:10</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “<b><u>I, </u></b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, search the heart, I try the
kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of
his deeds. </span></u></i></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:11</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “As a partridge that
broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It
leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:12</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> An esteemed throne,
exalted from the beginning, is the place of our set-apart place. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:13</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> O </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the
expectation of Yisra’ĕl, <b>all who forsake
You are put to shame</b>. “<b>Those who
depart from Me shall be written in the earth</b>, because they have forsaken </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the <span style="color: blue;">fountain of living waters.”<sup>1</sup></span> <span style="color: blue;">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>See 2:13.</span> </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: teal;">Jer
17:14</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Heal me, O </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, so that
I am healed. Save me, so that I am saved, for You are my praise.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">May </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> our <i>Elohim </i>bless you as you follow our <i>Master </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue;">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> in the Torah, </span></i><span lang="EN-US">the path or Life!<i> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>The
quest for Rebekah, the bride of Isaac, alludes to the redemption of
Israel, the bride of the Messiah.</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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wanted to find a worthy bride for his son Isaac. Abraham looked for a
woman of the same caliber as his righteous wife Sarah. He sought a
woman who would bear children worthy of inheriting his legacy and the
covenantal promises. The quest for Isaac’s bride tells an important
chapter in the story of the Messiah in that Rebekah became one of the
mothers of the Jewish people and an ancestor of the Messiah.</span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Some
rabbis read the story of Isaac and Rebekah as an allegory about
Elohim and the Jewish people. The prophets often describe the
relationship between Yehovah and His people as that of a husband to a
wife. In view of this metaphor, the death of Sarah can be compared to
the exile—her empty tent can be compared to Jerusalem.8 The mission
to bring Rebekah out of Aram and into the promised land can be
compared to the final redemption when the Messiah will gather the
exiles of Israel and lead them to the land. “For as a young man
marries a virgin … and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,”
Yehovah will rejoice over Zion in the final redemption (Isaiah 62:5):</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom
and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, “Give
thanks to Yehovah Zebaoth, for Yehovah is good, for His
lovingkindness is everlasting.” (Jeremiah 33:11)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Moreover,
as the bride of Isaac, Rebekah symbolizes Messiah’s bride. Isaac
prefigures Messiah in several ways. He is the promised “seed of
Abraham,” the only begotten son who was sacrificed. In a symbolic
manner Isaac represents Messiah. If we carry that imagery forward
into this parashah, we can look to the story about Rebekah for
insight into the bride of Messiah and her relationship with Isaac.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Abraham
commissioned his servant Eliezer and sent him on a mission to seek
out a suitable bride. In Hebrew, a person sent on a mission is called
a shaliach (</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">שליח</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">),
which means “sent one.” The same word translates into Greek as
apostolos (ἀπόστολος), which in turn enters English New
Testament translations as “apostle.” In that sense, Abraham
commissioned and sent Eliezer as his apostle.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Yeshua
commissioned His apostles with a similar assignment. He sent them to
make disciples for Himself. These disciples, in turn, constitute the
Assembly of Messiah, which the New Testament metaphorically refers to
as the “bride of Messiah.”9 When read in this light, Genesis 24
becomes a textbook for evangelism and transmitting the good news of
the kingdom.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
Messiah Himself is the Shaliach of Elohim, sent by the Father to
proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. In the Gospel of John, Yeshua
repeatedly reminds His disciples that He was sent from the Father. He
refers to God as “The One who sent me,” “the Father who sent
me,” “He who sent me,” and so forth. Yeshua used the term in
various formulas at least forty times throughout the book. In that
regard, He models the work of the shaliach for us.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Love
and Marriage</b></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Falling
in love with someone is a bad reason to get married, but upon what
should a marriage be based? The story of Isaac and Rebekah holds the
secret.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Genesis
24:67 says that Isaac took Rebekah, she became his wife and he loved
her: "Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and
he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus
Isaac was comforted after his mother's death" (Genesis 24:67).
Notice the order. This seems backward to us. We would expect the
opposite. In our culture, we believe that a person should marry
whoever he or she falls in love with. Isaac married his wife, and
then he fell in love with her.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Isaac
took his bride into his mother's tent. All this time Sarah's tent had
been empty and forlorn, symbolizing the absence of the eishet chayil
(virtuous wife). The Torah portion began the story of Rebekah by
telling us of the death of Sarah. Since his mother's death, Isaac had
been in mourning. He keenly felt her absence. Isaac taking his bride
into Sarah's tent symbolizes Rebekah stepping into Sarah's role as
matriarch over the house of Abraham. In the language of the rabbis,
Rebekah became the house of Isaac.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Abraham
loved Sarah, and Isaac loved Rebekah. Genesis 24:67 says that Isaac
took Rebekah, she became his wife and he loved her. Notice the order.
This seems backward to us. We would expect the opposite. He should
have fallen in love with her, married her and then taken her into the
tent. The Bible has a more sober (but no less romantic) view of
marriage. Isaac did not marry Rebekah because he loved her; he loved
Rebekah because he married her. Considering the folly of the human
heart and the fickle ups and downs of emotions, this is the proper
order of things. We should love our spouses because they are our
spouses.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Love
followed be marriage seems like the natural order, but it's a bad
plan. It is possible to fall in love with the wrong person. It is
possible to fall in love with many wrong persons. Falling in love is
a terrible criteria upon which to base a marriage. It would Falling
in love is a terrible criteria upon which to base a marriage. It
would have been easy for Isaac to fall in love with any number of
Canaanite girls.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
children of Abraham and followers of Messiah, we are to love our
spouses. Paul tells men to love their wives as themselves—and more
than that, to love them as Messiah loved the assembly. He warns
husbands not to become embittered against their wives. It's not a
matter of the whims and inclinations of the heart; it is a duty of
every husband to love his wife.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">If
a man or woman bases his or her marriage merely on love, it is doomed
from the start. Feelings are unpredictable. They rise and fall. They
come and go. Marriage must not be based upon love. Love must be based
upon marriage.<br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">
</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Bashert
The real soul mate</b></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><h2 class="western" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
our culture, we believe that a person should marry whoever he or she
falls in love with. This is a bad plan. It is possible to fall in
love with the wrong person. It is possible to fall in love with many
wrong persons.<br /><br />Falling in love is a
terrible criteria upon which to base a marriage. It would have been
easy for Isaac to fall in love with any number of Canaanite girls.
Why didn’t he? Because Abraham would not allow it. Abraham placed
clear and specific limits around Isaac’s potential mates.</span></span></span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Abraham’s
servant Eliezer was sent to find a wife for Isaac. He prayed that
Elohim would indicate which woman He had appointed for Isaac to
marry. Elohim miraculously singled out Rebekah. Later, when
recounting the story of his encounter with Rebekah to her family,
they had to admit, “The matter comes from Yehovah” (Genesis
24:50). By all appearances, Elohim had appointed Rebekah to be the
wife of Isaac.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This
teaches that God appoints each person’s a spouse. Some people call
this appointed person a soul mate.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">How
do you know when you have found your soul mate? And what exactly is a
soul mate? The idea is that each individual has one other person,
somewhere out there, who is his or her preordained, perfect match. A
person’s soul mate is the ideal complement to fulfill his or her
physical, spiritual and psychological needs. Soul mates are like two
halves of the same soul, and if you marry the wrong person, you will
never be truly happy because you missed your soul mate. This is not a
biblical idea.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
our culture, we believe that a person should marry whoever he or she
falls in love with. This is a bad plan. It is possible to fall in
love with the wrong person. It is possible to fall in love with many
wrong persons. Falling in love is a terrible criteria upon which to
base a marriage.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
search for a soul mate sounds romantic, but how do you know if the
one you are with is really your soul mate? Isn’t it possible that
you missed your true soul mate, or might still encounter him or her? </span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">What
if you were married previously and are now on your second marriage?
Was your first spouse your soul mate, or is this one the true soul
mate? The soul-mate concept is a foolish idea that ultimately
discourages people from getting married because they fear that their
prospective match might not be their soul mate. For people already
married, the soul-mate concept can lead to discontentment and
uncertainty.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
soul-mate idea does exist in Judaism. It was probably born from a
misunderstanding of the Jewish concept of soul mate. Among
Yiddish-speaking Jews, the term for soul mate
is </span></span></span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">bashert </span></i></span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">באשערט</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">). </span></span></span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bashert </span></i></span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is
a Yiddish word that means “destiny.” A person’s ideal spouse is
called his or her “destined one.” How is this different from the
romantic soul-mate concept? You cannot seek your destined one,
because you will not know if you are destined to be together until
you marry each other. Once you are married, destiny has been
fulfilled and proven your soul mate. In other words, your spouse is
your destined one. The person you are married to is the person God
has ordained for you. If he or she was not, you would not be married.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="border: medium none; line-height: 0.23in; margin-bottom: 0in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">So
don’t waste time trying to find your soul mate. She/he does not
exist and will not exist until you get married. Once you are married,
you can be confident that your spouse is your true </span></span></span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">bashert</span></i></span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /><b>Good
Things of his Master's hand</b></span><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span></span><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
world has plenty of religions and ideologies for sale, each one
clamoring for attention like obnoxious salesmen. What do we have to
offer the world?</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Abraham
sent his servant Eliezer to find a wife for his son Isaac. The name</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">When
we set out to do the work of Elohim, we need to rely on Him for help,
especially in the matter of evangelism. After all, we are not trying
to make converts to a religious creed; we are trying to change
hearts. This is an impossible task for a human being. Even the
greatest psychiatrists cannot change the human heart. Therefore, like
Eliezer, we rely utterly on Elohim for Help.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Then
the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set
out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; and
he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. (Genesis
24:10)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">As
we go forth to proclaim the good news, we bring the good things from
the household of God. In the midst of a lost and hurting world, we
have the goods that people need. What are these good things of our
Master’s house? They are acts of loving-kindness, forgiveness,
wholeness, peace, and that most precious of all commodities: hope.
Many people have never experienced unconditional love. They have
never known real kindness, real friendship, real compassion. Many
people have lived most of their lives without even modest hopes.
These are things we have received in abundance through Messiah, and
we can pass them on to others, but only if we bring them with us.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Eliezer
brought the gifts from his master’s household with him in order to
establish his credibility. If he had simply appeared in Aram,
claiming to be looking for an attractive young girl to bring back to
some faraway prince, the men of that place would have driven him away
as a scoundrel and kidnapper.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Is
it any different with us? If we start to speak into people’s lives
about Elohim and faith without first having provided them with
evidence of the fruit of our faith, they will drive us away as
religious fanatics. The world has plenty of religions and ideologies
for sale, each one clamoring for attention like obnoxious salesmen.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
good things of our Master’s house establish credibility: “Love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23). The fruit of the Spirit is
irresistible to the thirsty soul. A person of genuine faith and
conviction who lives out his faith and manifests his convictions in
godliness and real kindness, without phoniness or pretense, naturally
attracts others.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>The
Canaanatites</b><br /><br />Abraham insisted that Isaac should not marry
a Canaanite. What about today? Is it safe to worship with Canaanites?</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Abraham
warned Eliezer not to seek a bride for Isaac from among the Canaanite
women. Abraham knew that the Canaanites were destined to be ejected
from the land and erased from history. He did not think it prudent
that his seed, to whom Elohim had promised the land, should
intermarry with a race from whom the land was to be taken. The
midrash imagines Abraham reasoning: “My son is blessed, and the
accursed cannot unite with the blessed.”</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
today’s world, there are no Canaanites. The Canaanites ceased to be
an identifiable people group long ago. Nevertheless, the warning
still has relevance for our outreach efforts today. The Canaanite
religion became a toxic poison for the children of Israel, seducing
them into idolatry and syncretism. Likewise, we must not bring the
religion of Canaan into the house of Abraham. In our zeal to make
converts, we should not allow the idolatrous world to exercise its
influence over the Assembly of Messiah:</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Do
not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have
righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with
darkness? … What has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or
what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the
temple of the living God. (2 Corinthians 6:14–16)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">On
the other hand, the disciple of Yeshua should have no hesitation
about reaching out to the godless, the wicked, the secular, or the
idolater. The transforming power of the gospel is not limited by
ethnic or sociological boundaries. The good news taught by our
Messiah can transform even the most reprehensible idolater into a
worthy spiritual bride, sanctified “by the washing of water with
the word, that He might present to Himself the Assembly in all her
glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she
would be holy and blameless” (Ephesians 5:26–27). Yeshua’s
disciples needed to learn this lesson before they could be effective
apostles. Two incidents from the New Testament illustrate the matter:
the story of Yeshua’s encounter with the Samaritan woman (John 4)
and the story of the Peter’s encounter with Cornelius the centurion
(Acts 10).</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
story of the Master’s encounter with the Samaritan woman in John 4
reminds readers that, in those days, “Jews had no dealings with
Samaritans” (John 4:9). The Jewish people of the day considered
Samaritans as the equivalent of Canaanites, but the Master shoved
aside the conventional prejudices and engaged the Samaritan woman in
conversation. His example opened the way for His disciples to present
the gospel to the Samaritan people.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
story of Peter and Cornelius opened the scope of the gospel message
even wider. Peter deemed Gentiles as outside the purview of God’s
redemption. He regarded them as “Canaanites,” so to speak, in
that he had never imagined taking the message of the gospel directly
to non-Jews. He misunderstood the commission to go to all nations as
a reference to the Jewish people and converts to Judaism scattered
among the nations, but the vision of the sheet let down from heaven
reoriented Peter’s thinking. The gospel is sufficient to </span></span></span></span>
</div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">save
even the Gentiles (People from the nations).</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal;">
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Praying
in Abraham’s Name</b></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Christians
pray “in Jesus name” because that is how our Master taught us to
pray. Chasidic Judaism understands this principle and encourages
praying in the name of a righteous man.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Disciples
of Yeshua pray “in His name,” but what does that really mean? To
learn the significance of praying in the name of Yeshua, we first
have to understand what it means to pray in the name of Abraham.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">He
said, “O Yehovah, Elohim of my master Abraham, please grant me
success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.”
(Genesis 24:12)</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">When
Abraham sent Eliezer out on the mission to find a bride for Isaac, he
assured his servant that the mission would be a success because of
Elohim’s covenant promises. Abraham told his servant that Yehovah
“Who swore to me, saying, ‘To your seed I will give this land,’
He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my
son from there” (Genesis 24:7). Abraham trusted that the mission
would succeed because God had made promises to him regarding his
offspring.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">When
Eliezer arrived at the city well, he prayed. He did not pray out
loud. He prayed “speaking in [his] heart” (Genesis 24:45). He
asked Elohim to show chesed (</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">חסד
</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">)
to Abraham by indicating a bride for Isaac. The Hebrew word chesed
can be understood as “lovingkindness,” but in this context, it
implies “covenant devotion.”</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">This
explains what it means to pray in the name of someone else. Eliezer
did not attempt to persuade Elohim to hear him on his merit alone. He
invoked the name of Abraham and reminded the Almighty of His
obligations to Abraham. He prayed in Abraham’s name.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Christians
pray “in Jesus name” because that is how our Master taught us to
pray. Yeshua said to the disciples, “Until now you have asked for
nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be
made full” (John 16:24). The typical, Protestant, extemporaneous
prayer concludes with the formulaic ending “in Jesus’ name” as
if it meant “signing off, over and out.” Prayer in Jesus’ name
has a far richer meaning. When we pray in His name, we remind the
Father of His chesed toward the Son, and we remind Him that we are
associated with the Son. We ask to be answered not on our own merit,
but on His merit.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Chasidic
Judaism understands this principle and encourages praying in the name
of a righteous man. For example, some Chasidim use a similar formula
when they pray in the name and in the merit of their Rebbe. The
Chasidim teach, “The Rebbe is not an intermediary who intercepts
the prayers, but an intermediary who connects the prayers to God.”</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Likewise,
our Master warned the disciples against imagining that He will pray
on their behalf as an intermediary between them and God. The Father
Himself delights to answer the prayers of Yeshua’s disciples.
Disciples of Yeshua beseech the Father through the Son. We address
our prayers to the Father in the authority of Yeshua’s Name. He
taught us to pray to the Father in the name of the Son, “Our Father
who art in Heaven …”</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I will
request of the Father on your behalf; for the Father Himself loves
you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth
from the Father. (John 16:26–27)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Based
on the prayer of Abraham’s servant Eliezer, the disciples of Yeshua
might pray:</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">O
Yehovah, Elohim of my Master Yeshua, please grant me success today,
and show chesed to my Master Yeshua.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Stranger
in a Strange Land</b></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Ever
feel strange or like you don't quite fit in? Your in good company.
Abraham described himself as a stranger in a strange land. He lived
as a nomad and a stranger in a land that did not belong to him.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Elohim
promised Abraham the whole land of Canaan, but the reality was that
Abraham did not even own enough land to bury his wife. Abraham was a
stranger in Canaan without any property of his own. He did not have a
family tomb. He had to purchase property from the locals. Abraham
approached the Hittites who lived at Hebron and said, “I am a
stranger and a sojourner among you.” The author of the book of
Hebrews paraphrased that statement in his remarks on Abraham’s
sojourn in Canaan:</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">By
faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign
land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the
same promise; for he was looking for the city which has foundations,
whose architect and builder is Elohim. (Hebrews 11:9–10)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Having
confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the [land]. For
those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a
country of their own. And indeed if they had been thinking of that
country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to
return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a
heavenly one. Therefore Elohim is not ashamed to be called their
Elohim; for He has prepared a city for them. (Hebrews 11:13–16)</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
author of the book of Hebrews inferred from Abraham’s statement “I
am a stranger and a sojourner among you” that Abraham was seeking
after Messianic Jerusalem and the kingdom of heaven on earth. He
looked for “the city which has foundations, whose architect and
builder is Elohim” and “a better country, that is, a heavenly
one.” If he had merely been seeking a homeland to call his own, he
could have returned to Aram in Mesopotamia where his family still had
holdings.</span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Abraham
had plenty of opportunities to return to Aram, and later in this
parashah, he sends his servant Eliezer back there. That being the
case, why did Abraham and Sarah choose to live as nomads and
strangers on a little scrap of a promised land that they themselves
were not going to inherit? The author of the epistle to the Hebrews
says, “These died in faith, without receiving the promises, but
having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having
confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth”
(Hebrews 11:13). They lived as strangers and exiles in the land of
Canaan, but they did so confident in the future inheritance. They
sought the promised land of the Messianic Era. They anticipated the
transcendent, “holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven
from Elohim, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband”
(Revelation 21:2).</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">In
the world to come, the Jerusalem above will descend to unite with the
physical Jerusalem below. Then the upper waters will be rejoined with
the lower waters.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Though
Abraham and Sarah could only glimpse it as if from a distance, and
even then, only through the eyes of faith, that glimpse of the
Messianic Era and the New Jerusalem of the world to come made this
current world and all it had to offer pale in comparison. Abraham
identified himself as a citizen of the future kingdom and city. As to
this present world and all it had to offer, he said, “I am a
stranger and a sojourner among you.” Therefore, Elohim was not
ashamed to be called the Elohim of Abraham.</span><br /></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b>Hidden
Person of the Heart</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Our
mother Sarah was the most beautiful woman in the world--and the most
modest woman in the world.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Abraham
was captivated by Sarah's beauty all their years together. "I
know that you are a beautiful woman" (Genesis 12:11), he told
her. Sarah must have been beautiful. She caught the eyes of kings.
She was taken into the harems of Pharaoh and Abimelech. But Sarah
possessed more than a pretty face.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
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</div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
Apostle Peter taught that Sarah's great beauty came from her inner
quality. He called this inner quality the "hidden person of the
heart" (1 Peter 3:4). What is the "hidden person of the
heart"? Peter is speaking of Sarah's modesty.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Our
modern culture has accustomed us to brazenness. We no longer have a
sense of shame or boundaries. We have forgotten how to blush. In the
biblical culture, modesty is much more than simple reticence about
one's own accomplishments and merits. In Hebrew, the word modesty
comes from the verb tzana (</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">צנע</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">),
a word that implies humility, submission and discretion. A modest
person is a person who knows the difference between private and
public, inside and outside, male and female.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
immodest person pays no regard to gender lines. The immodest person
makes no distinction between appropriate and inappropriate
conversation. Paul warns us that among believers "there must be
no filthiness and silly talk, or course jesting" (Ephesians
5:4). He reminds us that "it is disgraceful even to speak of the
things which are done by [the disobedient] in secret" (Ephesians
5:12). He warns Timothy to "avoid worldly and empty chatter, for
it will lead to further ungodliness" (2 Timothy 2:16). A modest
person is careful with his words; he does not seek to draw attention
to himself. He does not interrupt to speak his mind.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
Proverbs say that "the woman of folly is boisterous"
(Proverbs 9:13). A loud person who dominates a conversation or
interjects himself into others' conversations displays immodesty.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
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</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
immodest person is flirtatious. The Bible criticizes women of pride
who "walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, and go along
with mincing steps and tinkle the bangles on their feet" (Isaiah
3:16). God is not impressed with fashion, charm, wiles or bangles.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A
modest person does not share the intimacy of physical affection
outside of the privacy of marriage. The kiss, the hug, the caress,
and even simple hand-holding are means of connection between husband
and wife, who are one flesh. When offered to others of the opposite
gender outside of marriage, these simple affections are cheapened and
rendered meaningless.</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
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</div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">A
modest woman is careful to properly cover herself. "She makes
coverings for herself. ... Strength and dignity are her clothing,"
says Proverbs 31:22-25. The private parts of our bodies are clothed
to keep them private. The immodest person dresses to expose as much
as possible. "As a ring of gold in a swine's snout so is a
beautiful woman who lacks discretion" (Proverbs 11:22).</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
apostles caution women in particular against adorning themselves to
attract attention. Peter says, "Your adornment must not be
merely external ... let it be the hidden person of the heart, with
the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is
precious in the sight of God" (1 Peter 3:3-4).</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Peter
states that this is how the holy women of the past, such as Sarah,
used to adorn themselves, and he reminds us that we "have become
her children" (1 Peter 3:6). Sarah knew the difference between
inside and outside, between private and public. Her beauty radiated
out from the hidden person within her heart.<br /><br />(Text from FFZO,
First Fruits of Zion)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Parsha Noah – Noah</span></span></b></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">B’reshit
6:9-11:32, </span></span></b>
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<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">YeshaYahu
54:1-55:5, 1st Kefa 3:18-22</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Daniel
ben Ya'acov Ysrael (updated october 2019) </span></span></b>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
parsha Noah is one of the most important in the Torah Study at the
end of the parsha you will find the table of the nations descendants
of the three sons from Noah. If we can enter the Sod (secret,
mystery) of this Torah portion, we will be able to overcome many
doctrines of men. I will try to demonstrate that </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>did
everything in a way that all saints (Qadoshin) may be able to see
that there is none like our Elohim, </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Zebaoth.
</i></span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>As
I began to study this Parsha years ago, many things were concealed
and I had difficulty to see behind the letter. I have read from our
brethren from different assemblies, from Messianic teachers, from
some of Yehuda coming back to the faith through </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Messiah.
Some good teaching who inspired me to search. As we go through the
Parsha, I will give some name to give the honour to those who have
helped me to enlarge my understanding.....................</i></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>First
of all I give glory and glory to </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Elohim
who give to those who seek him. </i></span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Pro
1:1 The proverbs of Shelomoh son of Dawiḏ, sovereign of Yisra’ĕl:
Pro 1:2 for knowing wisdom and discipline, for understanding
(separate mentally) the words of understanding (binah),Pro 1:3 for
receiving the discipline of wisdom, Righteousness, right-ruling, and
straightness; Pro 1:4 for giving insight to the simple (silly),
Knowledge and discretion to the young. Pro 1:5 the wise one hears and
increases learning, and the understanding one gets wise counsel, Pro
1:6 for understanding a proverb and a figure, the words of the wise
and their riddles (puzzle, dark saying)). Pro 1:7 the fear of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>is
the beginning of knowledge</i><sup><i>1</i></sup><i>;
Fools despise wisdom (chochmah) and discipline.......</i></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Noah
didn’t found out his own way. He was instructed in his family: </span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sh’lomo
wrote the book of Proverbs for wisdom and discipline (warning,
instruction), for understanding, to give insight to the simple. </span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Torah is a tree of life, as we are going to read, I will back
this midrash with:</span></span></div>
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<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
Torah and the scriptures </i></span></span></b>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Parsha Noah is enlightening to understand our days, the time we are
living now for Sh’lomo tells us that there is nothing new under
heaven (Ecc. 1:9).</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ecc
1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing
under the sun. ..........</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I
have said many times that in order to understand we should apply
certain rules of interpretation i.e. the “Pardes” or four levels
of interpretation as I have explain in the parsha b’reshit. Further
we should consider what our Master </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>,
the Shaliach (apostles) Sha'ul/Paul, Yochanan/John, Kefa/Jean,
Ya’acov/James teach, in their midrash as I have say many time that
to understand the spiritual, it is necessary to learn TORAH.</i></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sha'ul
make it clear: </span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
15:45 and so it has been written, “The first man Aḏam became a
living being,” the last Aḏam a life-giving Spirit. 1Co 15:46 the
spiritual however <u>was not first</u>, but the natural, and
afterward the spiritual. 1Co 15:47 the first man was of the earth,
earthy; the second Man is the Master from heaven. 1Co 15:48 as is the
earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so
also are those who are heavenly. ....</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>So,
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>spoke
also to Nicodemus :</i></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joh
3:12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how
shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? </span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>What
does Sha'ul tells us verse 46? The spiritual was not first, but the
natural. Verse 47 he goes on saying the “first man” or first Adam
was of the earth, the second Adam is the Master or Adon from heaven.
Verse 45 Sha’ul told us that the second one was the LAST Adam,
meaning after him there will be no other. Mankind renewed or
regenerated in Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>..
In other words, those living before </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>were
after the first Adam as it is written:</i></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Important
concept: </span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
5:3 and Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in
his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: </span></span>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here
we have a signal that man original state was changed due to Adam’s
sin. We compare with Adam’s original state: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
1:27 so Elohim created man in his own image, in the image of Elohim
created he him; male and female created he them............</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Same
with Chawah’s /Eve condition who came from Adam’s rib: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
2:22 and the rib, which YHWH Elohim had taken from man, made he a
woman, and brought her unto the man.............................</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>From
Seth on, all generation will be in the image of Adam this doesn’t
mean as Roman Catholic teach that we have sin in our DNA, sin is
rebellion against the Torah and we can overcome it by submitting our
will to </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>following
our Master </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>.
</i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">B'reshit/Gen.4:6
And YHWH said unto Caïn, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy
countenance fallen?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">4:7
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not
well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and
thou shalt rule over him. Eccl 8:12-13; Gen 3:16;</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
is call “Free will”. Sha’ul saw that man’s condition
changed with Adam and that now with Messiah man had the possibility
to reverse the condition. With that in mind we can read again the
same verses:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
15:45 and so it has been written, “The first man Aḏam became a
living being,” the last Aḏam a life-giving Spirit. 1Co
15:46 the spiritual, however, <u>was not first</u>, but the natural,
and afterward the spiritual. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
15:47 the first man was of the earth, earthy; the second Man is the
Master from heaven. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
15:48 as is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is
the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. ................</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">During
four thousand years, man’s condition will be after the flesh earthy
with the coming of the last Adam, man’s condition can change for
those who are heavenly!</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>During
these four thousand years </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>will
found people who will be example how to follow after the Ruach
(Spirit) whereby the Ruach didn’t dwell in them but came upon
them..... </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Have
you seen that Sha’ul says the last Adam meaning before him there
was another Adam but also that after him no other should
come?.................</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Strong
gives us following description for last: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">G2078
ἔσχατος eschatos es'-khat-os</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
superlative probably from <u>G2192</u> (in the sense of contiguity);
farthest, <u>final</u> (of place or time): - ends of, last, latter
end, lowest, uttermost.................. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>There
can’t be any misunderstanding has the nature of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>if
we understand what Sha’ul says, we will also understand when </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>says:
</i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joh
3:13 and no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he <u>that came</u>
down from heaven, even the Son of man which was in heaven.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joh
8:14 Yehoshua answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of
myself, yet my record is true: for <u>I know whence I came</u>, and
whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joh
16:28 <u>I came forth from the Father</u>, and am come into the
world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. Joh 17:8
for I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they
have received them, and have known surely <u>that I came out from
thee</u>, and they have believed that thou didst send me.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">In
all these verses the same Greek word is used: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Strong’s
#G1831 ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai ex-er'-khom-ahee</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">From
<u>G1537</u> and <u>G2064</u>; to issue (literally or figuratively):
- come-(forth, out), depart (out of), escape, get out, go (abroad,
away, forth, out, thence), <u>proceed (forth</u>), spread
abroad...........</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Yochanan
explaining the nature of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>was
saying that he came , was issued, came out, proceed from the Word,
the Logos (Word) of Elohim, meaning from his mind, is innermost
thought and creation from the beginning (b’reshit): </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Joh
1:1 In the beginning was the Word (Logos, thoughts), and the Word was
with YHWH, and the Word (logos, thoughts) was YHWH.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Psa
33:6 By the word of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>were
the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath (ruach) of
his mouth. ……..</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>was
restoring Adam’s nature in Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>the
last Adam. </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>fleshly
nature was the same like ours, therefore he had to die also in order
to fulfil all what was written in the Torah. Sorry for those who
think that </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>was
different and was “G-d the Creator in the flesh”. That Thomas
says to him “my Master and my Elohim” (Yochan.20:28) doesn’t
make </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>to
be the creator of the universe. </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>was
the reason of creation, the perfect man undefiled and without sin as
Adam was before sin in Gan Eden, and incarnate </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>perfect
will for mankind (Adam).</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>What
can we understand here? When does the last Adam, Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>came,
was it not in the year 4000? Yes it was, and those born before him
came from the first Adam up to the year 4000.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
does this mean? Sha'ul says they were earthy verses,47-48. Those who
came after, and who have the nature of Messiah are like the Last
Adam, spiritually.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rom
8:29 for whom he did foreknow (you and me), <u>he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son</u>, that he
might be the firstborn <u>among many brethren</u>.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Col
3:10 and have put on the new man (Adam), which is renewed in
knowledge after the image of him(YHWH) that created him (the last
Adam):</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
15:49 and as we have borne the image of the earthy (first Adam), <u>we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly (last Adam). </u>..........</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Are
you the brother/sister of “G-d”, because he is the firstborn
among many brethren (verse 29)? What can we conclude?
When we read the TORAH, in the P’shat level (litteral), we see the
action of our forefathers, but much more they reflect our carnal
nature. Every time we read the TORAH we learn about our carnal
inclination. When we dig a bit deeper in the Remez (hint), we see
that the carnal man’s deliverance is in </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>HaMoschiach
and if we go more deeper the Torah teaches us something and then, we
see the secret of what </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Elohim
has given us in Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>In
order to avoid any man’s doctrine, </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>has
put the fullness of revelation in the SOD (mystery, secret) level of
the Pardes interpretation......................</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Psa
25:14 The secret (sod) of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>is
with </i><i><u>those who fear Him</u></i><i>, And He
makes His covenant known to them…………………</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
Hebrew word for “secret “is: Strong’s # H5475 “sod” </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>סוד</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>sôd
sode written: samek, vav, dalet........</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">From
<u>H3245</u>; a session, that is, company of persons (in close
deliberation); by implication intimacy, consultation, a secret: -
assembly, counsel, inward, secret (counsel).......</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>With
this in mind we are going back to the Parsha Noah and see what
beautiful things </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>has
hidden in His Torah. Today the world begin to shake,
people are under tremendous pressure. Man‘s system is uncovered and
appears as foolishness. The bank system collapses the capitalism
shows itself to be an evil plan to give favour to the rich from the
world and oppress the poor. All these are warning from </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>to
mankind, to turn back to the right way, but man seek for the “super
man “to deliver them from material problem. They don’t understand
that in order to solve material problem we have need to solve first
spiritual problem first to lay down the carnal nature imperfection
and this can only be done in Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>.....
..... </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of
this age? Has not Elohim made foolish the wisdom of this
world?....1Co 2:6 Yet we speak wisdom among <u>those who are perfect</u>,
and not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age that
are being brought to naught. 1Co 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of
Elohim, which was hidden in a secret (sod), and which Elohim ordained
(prepared) before the ages for our esteem (glory), 1Co 2:10 But
Elohim <u>has revealed them to us through His Spirit</u>. For the
Spirit searches all matters, even the depths of Elohim. …………..</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
2:12 And we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the
Spirit <u>that is from Elohim</u>, in order to know what Elohim has
favourably given us, 1Co 2:13 which we also speak, not in words which
man’s wisdom teaches but which the Set-apart Spirit teaches,
comparing spiritual matters with spiritual matters. 1Co 2:14 But the
natural man does not receive the matters of the Spirit of Elohim, for
they are foolishness to him, and <u>he is unable to know them,
because they are spiritually discerned. </u>1Co 2:15 but <u>he who is
spiritual discerns indeed all matters</u>, but he himself is
discerned by no one. ....... “Those who are perfect” (verse 26)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perfect:
Strong’s # G5046 Τέλειος teleios tel'-i-os..... From
<u>G5056</u>; complete (in various applications of labour, growth,
mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as noun, with <u>G3588</u>)
completeness: - of full age, man, perfect............</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Praises
to </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>for
what He has done for us in </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Messiah!
The natural man (worldly, religious people or pagans,) know nothing
because they are spiritually discerned. You brethren who
are spiritual will understand because you are spiritual. Noah
was the last of a righteous generation and is a picture of those who
came after him through Shem but also Yepeth (Japeth) as we are going
to see. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
6:9 This is the genealogy of Noaḥ. Noaḥ was a righteous man,
<u>perfect</u> in his generations. Noaḥ walked with Elohim. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Noah
came from a righteous generation. I have read that the rabbis teach
that if Noah had lived in another generation today, he wouldn’t
have been counted righteous. I don’t agree with that as the Torah
teaches us that he was righteous and blameless, are you like Noah
righteous in your generation?.................</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Methuselah
acted uprightly in the sight of Elohim, </i><i><u>as his
father Enoch had taught him, </u></i><i>and he likewise during
the whole of his life </i><i><u>taught the sons of men wisdom,
knowledge and the fear of Elohim</u></i><i>, and he did not
turn from the good way either to the right or to the left.(Yasher
4 :3)</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">14.
And Methuselah called his name Noah, saying, The earth was in his
days at rest and free from corruption, and Lamech his father called
his name Menachem, saying, This one shall comfort us in our works and
miserable toil in the earth, which God had cursed. 15. And the child
grew up and was weaned, and <u>he (Noah) went in the ways of his
father </u>Methuselah<u>, perfect and upright with God</u>. 16. And
all the sons of men departed from the ways of YHWH in those days
(Yahser 4:14-15). .................</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Noah/Menachem
was taught in the way of his father perfect and upright before
Elohim. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">How
does Elohim sees righteousness?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isa
51:7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my Torah; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye
afraid of their revilings. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
are going to see that from Adam, through Seth who replaces Hebel
(Abel) who was killed by Caïn there was a generation following after
the Torah. Does it mean that Noah was without sin? I came to
this question because I read from Jamieson, Fausset and Brown
commentary: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">--
Noah ... just ... and perfect — not absolutely; for since the fall
of Adam no man has been free from sin except Yeshua Messiah. But as
living by faith he was just (<u>Gal_3:2</u>; <u>Heb_11:7</u>) and
perfect - that is, sincere in his desire to do God’s will.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
we read from Yochanan parents: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Luk
1:6 and they were both righteous before YHWH, walking in all the
commandments and ordinances of YHWH <u>blameless</u>........Humm! </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">What
does the scriptures says: righteous and
blameless........................</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Blameless:
Strong’s # G273 ἄμεμπτος amemptos am'-emp-tos From <u>G1</u>
(as a negative particle) and a derivative of <u>G3201</u>;
irreproachable: - blameless, <u>faultless</u>, unblamable. Righteous:
Strong’s # G1342 Δίκαιος dikaios dik'-ah-yos From
<u>G1349</u>; equitable (in character or act); by implication
innocent, holy/Qadosh (absolutely or relatively): - just, meet, right
(-eous)............</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Could
it be that righteousness was in the Torah? </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mat
19:16 and, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Rabbi, what good
thing shall I do, <u>that I may have eternal life</u>? Mat
19:17 and he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none
good but one, that is, Elohim: but <u>if thou wilt enter into life,
keep the commandments (Torah)</u>.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Was
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>mistaking
by saying that in order to enter eternal life man should keep the
commandments?</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>In
both cases, Yochanan’s parents and the one who came to </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>there
is not say that they never sin, we read that there were righteous and
blameless and kept the commandments. We shouldn’t read what is not
written. Noah was perfect doesn’t mean that he was without
sin (transgression of the Torah) but that he gave himself to the best
to follow the Torah. David was counted as to be the one after
Elohim’s heart but the same David write: </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Psa
51:5 behold, I was shaped in iniquity; and </i><i><u>in sin
did my mother conceive me</u></i><i>. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>What
does </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>says
concerning David? </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Sa
13:14 but now thy kingdom (Saul) shall not continue: <u>YHWH hath
sought him a man after his own heart</u>, and YHWH hath commanded him
to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which
YHWH commanded thee.....</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Ki
14:8 and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it
thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant <u>David, who kept my
commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only
which was right in mine eyes</u>;</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Ki
15:5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of YHWH, and
turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of
his life, <u>save only</u> in the matter of Uriah the
Hittite.........</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>We
see David in spite of his sin in the case of Bathsheba and Uriah her
husband was considered by Elohim to be a man after </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>own
heart! How can it be? Simply in the fact that David
repented! So we see that we don’t seek our own
righteousness but the righteousness which is in Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>we
were sinner before, but now through Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>have
been made righteous before Elohim. Before </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>came,
righteousness was measured according to the Torah! Once again this
doesn’t mean without sin. Sin is the condition of man before </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>the
period from Adam, the First man to </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>the
last Adam (mankind). </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Strong
gives us following definition for "sin": </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>חַטָּאתּ</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>chatta'ah
(khat-taw-aw') (or chattacth {khat-tawth'}) n-f.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1.
</b>an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty,
occasion, sacrifice, or expiation</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>2.
</b>(concretely) an offender</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>from
H2398 </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>חָטָא</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>chata'
(khaw-taw') v.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1.
</b>(properly) to miss</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>2.</b>
(hence, figuratively and generally) to sin</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>3.</b>
(by inference) to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>4.
</b>(causatively) to lead astray, condemn</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">[a
primitive root]</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">To
miss the mark! Every time we don't follow what the Torah tells us to
do, we "miss the mark" and thus sin. We need to return to
the path of life and forsake the wrong way.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jeff
Benner give us following definition:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Sling
(</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>קלע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>qela,
Strong's #7050): The sling was a common weapon carried by shepherds
to defend the flock however, modern visions of a sling is very
different from these original weapons. The stones were generally 2 to
3 inches in diameter and carefully chipped into a perfect sphere. It
was not slung in circles above the head but, slung in one arc in the
same manner as a softball is pitched and can be thrown with some very
surprising force, accuracy and distance. It is a deadly weapon and
was used by most all ancient armies of the Ancient Near East.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
1:30 but of him (Yehowah) are ye in the Messiah Yehoshua, who of YHWH
is made unto us wisdom, and <u>righteousness</u>, and sanctification,
and redemption: ---- Righteousness: Strong’s # G1343 Δικαιοσύνη
dikaiosunē dik-ah-yos-oo'-nay.......From <u>G1342</u>; equity (of
character or act); specifically justification: - righteousness.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>G1342</u>
dikaios dik'-ah-yos .....From <u>G1349</u>;
equitable (in character or act); by implication innocent, holy/qadosh
(absolutely or relatively): - just, meet, right (-eous).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
is the same word used in Luke chapter 1:6, no more by work but
through faith, can you see that? </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
5:3 and Aḏam lived one hundred and thirty years, and brought forth
a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name
Shĕth. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">If
we follow the generation from Sheth to Noah we will see that they
followed the way taught to them by the Torah. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
6:10 And Noaḥ brought forth three sons: Shĕm, Ḥam, and Yepheth.
(see at the End the Table of Nation from ISBE and descendants of Shem
Japheth and Ham and the Chart concerning Noah’s
descendants)...................</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>it
has been taught that it took Noah 120 years to build the Ark. </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Deu
6:6 “And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in
your heart, Deu 6:7 and <u>you shall impress them upon your
children</u>, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house,(not
only during Shabbat) and when you walk by the way, and when you lie
down, and when you rise up, </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joh
14:15 “If you love Me (Yehoshua the Word of Yehowah), you shall
guard My commands.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pro
22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
6:11 and the earth was corrupt before Elohim, and the earth was
filled with violence. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
6:12 and Elohim looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt –
for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth – </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
6:13 and Elohim said to Noaḥ, “The end of all flesh has come
before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them. And
see, I am going to destroy them from the earth.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>This
120 years “period” is also what </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>will
explain Noah later, it is also the number of Moshe’s life (D’varim
34:7). Many scholars have taught that Elohim gave a 120 years
span life to mankind! Have you ever met many people who live 120
years? Today in 2010/2011 (updated October 2019) as it is says, the
oldest man is in Japan and he said to be 113 years old, one among
billions of people! He may be an exception, but read this verse from
the psalm 90:</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Psa
90:10 The days of our lives <u>are seventy years</u>; Or if due to
strength, <u>eighty years</u>, Yet the best of them is but toil and
exertion; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">-----If
we look at the average of man’s life today, we will see that it
agrees with this verse in Psalm 90. Conclusion the 120 years
must have a deeper meaning as the literal shows. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now
brethren let us see what is going on today, the time we are living.
People have gone after their own way, some goes after their own
religions (Buddhist, Muslim, Catholics, Christians…..) others goes
after their own righteousness (Humanist) and other look for the
pleasures of life (Hedonist).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
have read a <u>tenth of the spoil</u> and not tithe as many teach
falsely. Many scholars have taught errors concerning the statement
found in the book of Hebrew concerning the priesthood of
Melchitzedek: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Only
a remnant follows </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>:
----- 17. and Naamah conceived and bare a son, and he called his name
Japheth, saying, God has enlarged me in the earth; and she conceived
again and bare a son, and he called his name Shem, saying, Elohim has
made me </i><i><u>a remnant</u></i><i>, to raise up
seed in the midst of the earth. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>I
want you to see the importance of this statement. You are the remnant
following </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>the
King of righteousness (Hebr.5:6, 10). You also know Abraham met
the King of righteousness called Melchizedek, Malkitsedek in Hebrew,
after he returned to deliver Lot. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
14:18 and Malkitseḏeq sovereign (King) of Shalĕm brought out bread
and wine. Now he was the priest of the Most High Ěl. Gen 14:19
and he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Aḇram of the Most High
Ěl, Possessor of the heavens and earth. Gen 14:20 “And
blessed be the Most High Ěl who has delivered your enemies into your
hand.” And he gave him a tenth of all. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">This
Melchizedek was Shem the son of Noah:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's
begin where they begin - Priesthood is patrilineal. It means that
priesthood is given from father to son, or trans-generationally
through the father, grandfather or great grandfather relationship
(however many generations involved). Noah was a priest, informal at
least, and formal at best. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
know this because: a) he made sacrifices and b) God spoke to him
about the animals to be taken on the ark in terms of "clean"
and "unclean" which are terms related to sacrificial
worship.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Consider
also the migration of documents and genealogies from Adam to Noah.
The question arises as to why Genesis is replete with "he begat"
sections that lead us from Adam to Noah, Noah to Abram and eventually
all the way to Levi. I had accepted that it was due to historical
record keeping. Now I understand that they were not merely history,
but patrilineal records to prove the priestly office. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">At
the time of Noah, Methuselah would have been the eldest kohen
(priest). He would have passed the "accounts" of creation
of heaven and earth, and Adam's line to Noah. After the flood, Noah
gave them to his second oldest son - Shem. Genesis clearly states
that he was not the eldest. Shem was blessed as the one of the three
brothers who uniquely bore spiritual selection for the salvation of
mankind. Noah died 2 years before Abram was born, making Shem the
eldest priestly line. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Chapter
11:6</b> </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>says
that if people are of one language nothing will be retain from them,
which they have imagined to do. Today through the UN (the beast)
people from all over the world speak the same language. Only Elohim’s
people speak another language. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heb
7:2 to whom also Aḇraham gave a tenth part of all, his name being
translated, indeed, first, ‘sovereign of righteousness,’ and then
also sovereign of Shalĕm, that is, ‘sovereign of peace,’ Heb
7:3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither
beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son
of Elohim, remains a priest for all time. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Sha’ul
is teaching here the difference between the Levitical priesthood and
the Melchitzedek Priesthood. To understand, Sha’ul doesn’t say
that the One who is called Melchitzedek has no father or mother, but
that the Levitical priesthood was descending from Levi one of
Ya’acov’s son, and therefore was a priesthood having father and
mother. Not so the Melchitzedek Priesthood which came
with Adam who was coming direct from Elohim’s will and was to be
pass from generation to generation. It went lost after the sin of the
golden calf and came back with </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>.
As we are going to search the Torah through the coming Parasha, we
are going to see that many things are not shown in the Torah in the
plain text and that by seeking we can have a better understanding.
Today all Qadoshin (saints) following </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>do
not walk after the Levitical priesthood, but after the Melchitzedek
priesthood, following the King of Righteousness.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the
ark, and shalt pitch it <u>within and without</u> with pitch. Gen
6:15 and this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length
of the ark shall be three hundred cubits (around 160meters), the
breadth of it fifty cubits (around 28Meters), and the height of it
thirty cubits (around 16 meters). Gen 6:16 a window shalt thou make
to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door
of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second,
and third stories shalt thou make it. Gen 6:17 and, behold, I,
even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all
flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every
thing that is in the earth shall die. Gen 6:18 but with thee will I
establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and
thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee. Gen 6:19 and
of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou
bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male
and female. Gen 6:20 of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after
their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two
of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive. Gen 6:21 and
take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather
it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Gen 6:22
Thus did Noah; according to all that Elohim commanded him, so did he.
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
Parsha Noah is the first deeper revelation of Moschiach (Messiah)
</i></span></span></b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></b><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>and
his atoning work. Only in the sod level, the mystical interpretation
is revealed. On the other hand, it teaches us the end of our time
today before the coming of Messiah to establish </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>’</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>s
Kingdom on earth.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
P’shat (literal) level show us how </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>saved
Noah and his family from destruction Noah was righteous before Elohim
. Gen 6:9 This is the genealogy of Noaḥ. Noaḥ was a
righteous man, perfect in his generations. Noaḥ walked with Elohim.
</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
Hebrew word for righteous is Strong’s # H6662 </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>צדּיק</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>tsaddîyq
tsad-deek' written Tzaddi, dalet,yod,Qof (gemetria :204) From
</i><i><u>H6663</u></i><i>; just: - just, lawful,
righteous (man).</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">H6663:
tsâdaq tsaw-dak' A primitive root; to be (causatively make) right
(in a moral or forensic sense): - cleanse, clear self, (be, do) just
(-ice, -ify, -ify self), (be, turn to) righteous (-ness).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>is
called the “righteous One” Yeshayahu 53:11(righteous servant),
Yrmeyahu 23:5 (Branch of righteousness), Malachi 4:2 (the sun of
righteousness).</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Act
7:52 “Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And
they killed those who before announced the coming of the Righteous
One (</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>),
of whom you (Yehudin) now have become the betrayers and murderers, </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
flood came because of the wickedness and evil way of men (chap.6:5).
Noah found grace verse 8. It is noteworthy to see that the Hebrew
word “chen” from the word “chanan”, means to bend in
kindness to an inferior, to show favour, to have mercy. To be
saved by grace is NOT a “new testament” doctrine as pretended by
Christians. Sha’ul says “by grace through faith you are saved”
Eph.2:8 and also 2<sup>nd</sup> Timot.1:9 to see that grace existed
with the creation. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Elohim
has now reduced the life of man to 120 years symbolically represented
by the life span from Moshe in the book of D’varim chapter 34.
These 120 years do not refer to the age of man as we can see that the
average of man’s life is lesser then 100 years!! The answer is in
the Hebrew as the word used for years means also: “revolution of
time”. And it is further taught that Messiah will come on earth
after 120 Yovel/Jubilee from creation. The Yovel occurs every 50
years, so that we can make a simple calculation: 120 x 50 equal 6000
years. Some scholars count Yovel with 49 years and therefore 49 X 120
equals 5880, but this counting bring a major problem, because if
today we have only 5880 years from creation, then we would write the
year 5880 minus the 2011 years we write today and we have the year
3879 thus telling us that Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>didn’t
came on the fourth day, the year 4000, and therefore cannot be the
promised Messiah! You see how we should be careful in counting;
because it is confirmed by many document and proof are given that
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>started
his ministry during the fourth day during his 30</i><sup><i>th</i></sup><i>
years. More details are to be fund in my midrash on “the
Shemitta and Yovel years”. Just before the flood, the earth
was corrupted. How is it today?</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rom
1:18-32 For the wrath of Elohim is revealed from heaven... </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rev
13:4 and they worshipped the dragon (HaSatan) who gave authority to
the beast. And they worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the
beast? Who is able to fight with him?” Rev 13:5 and he was given a
mouth speaking great matters and blasphemies, and he was given
authority to do so forty-two months. Rev 13:6 and he opened his
mouth in blasphemies against Elohim, to blaspheme His Name, and His
Tent, and those dwelling in the heaven. Rev 13:14 And he leads astray
those dwelling on the earth because of those signs which he was given
to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth to make
an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword, yet lived....... </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verse
13 Elohim warn Noah that the end of all flesh is come and that he
will destroy men from the earth. We know through the Torah that the
people and every living thing died. The earth was not destroyed
literally. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read
: Pro 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is
the way of death .. And compare with:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rev
11:18 “And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come, and
the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the reward to Your
servants the prophets and to the set-apart ones, and to those who
fear Your Name, small and great, and <u>to destroy those who destroy
the earth.” </u></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Elohim
will punish man again </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isa
13:11 “And I shall punish the world for its evil, and the wrong for
their crookedness, and shall put an end to the arrogance of the
proud, and lay low the pride of the ruthless.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">14:
Make thee and ark of gopher wood and pitch it within and without with
pitch (tar).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">While
gopher wood sees to refers to cypress, a long Mediterranean tree. To
pitch is the Hebrew word “Kaphar” meaning to cover, to expiate
same word used in Vayiqrah 16:16 for “atonement”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lev
16:16 “And he shall make atonement (kaphar) for the Set-apart
Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and
because of their transgressions in all their sins. And so he does for
the Tent of Meeting which is dwelling with them in the midst of their
uncleanness. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Exo
21:30 “If a sin-covering is laid upon him, then he shall give the
ransom (Kaphar) of his life, whatever is laid on him.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Yeshayahu
43:11“For I am </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>your
Elohim, the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, your Saviour; I gave
Mitsrayim for your ransom (kaphar), Kush and Seḇa in your place. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
know also that we have an ark in the tent of meeting within the
tabernacle. The Hebrew word here means: “a box”, simply a box
where Noah and his family will take place. The wood will be pitched
or covered within and without.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
can imagine that without protection the wood would not resist very
long in the water. It needs protection.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
spiritual explanation is as follow:</span></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
ark represents Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>,
the material is wood and represent the frail man’s nature which
will decease. The water represents the Torah and the pitching the
anointing covering from </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>’</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>s
blood. If you are in the “Ark” (Messiah), you are secured, the
water, a picture of the Torah will lead you to a safe place which is
the promised Kingdom, if you are outside the ark the same water
(Torah) will destroyed you (judgment).</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verses
17-18 Elohim tells Noah, he will destroy all flesh, but he will make
a covenant with him and his family. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Read
: --- Isa 26:20 Go, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your doors
behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little while, until the
displeasure is past. Isa 26:21 For look, </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>is
coming out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for
their crookedness. And the earth shall disclose her blood, and no
longer cover her slain.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Elohim
will again pour out His wrath upon the earth before the coming of
Messiah </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>.
</i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">19-22
Elohim instruct Noah what to do and Noah obeyed. Noah in Hebrew
means:”rest”</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
7:1- 24</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
7:24 and the waters were mighty on the earth, one hundred and fifty
days.(5 months) … …… </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Noah
is told to take from clean and unclean animals. We see again that in
order to know about clean and unclean the Torah was needed to teach
the difference and will be later given to Moshe in written form with
some new instructions as it was necessary. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verse
4 seven more days: </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read
2<sup>nd</sup>Kefa </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>2Pe
3:9 </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>is
not slow in regard to the promise, as some count slowness, but is
patient toward us, not wishing that any should perish but that all
should come to repentance</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nevertheless
one day He will shut the door of salvation the same as He shut the
door of the Ark (verse16)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">It
rained 40 days and 40 nights. 40 is the number for radical change
test and trials in life. Many people have turned back to Elohim once
having reached the age of 40. Verse 6 Noah was 600 years old. Again
the symbolic is in the number 6.which is the number of man. Noah took
unclean two by two. The number 2 is for division according to
B’reshit 1:7 the second day. The clean animals by seven: 7 is
the number for perfect completion on earth according to B’reshit
2:3 …</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verse
10. After seven days. 7000 Years will be the time on earth, after
that will be the Olam Haba or eternal life. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">11-24.Verse
11 the great deep broken up and the windows of heavens were open. We
should try to imagine that it rained on earth from all side north,
south, east and west during 40 days and 40 nights. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Remember
the earth has been cursed after Adam sin B’reshit 3:17. The
earth underwent a “mikveh” (baptism) cleansing by water. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">7:12
according to Patten, Hatch and Steinhauer, the waters “waiting”
in heavens have been animated by the gravitational force of a passing
comet that was thrown out of its course. By this near brush with the
earth and became what is now the first planet. This provoked seismic
activity and volcanoes to form mountains. Joseph Pillow
explains scientific study, how so much water could have been stored
above the atmosphere for about 1600 years(earth pre-flood, vapor or
canopy) (Chicago Moody press 1981) .In B’reshit 1:7, the firmament
as the sense to be solid in Hebrew. There may have been crystalline
“window” of ice in a heat sunk 11 miles above the earth, where
extra water was held in reserve for a special time. This explains the
flash freezing seen in the remains of mammoth with indigested food in
their stomachs. (Commentary from “One bread ministry”)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">As
Miller points out, in a full polar shift, the North Pole and South
Pole are swapped, or the earth is turned sideways and the present
equator becomes the North and South Pole. There was a total pole
shift during the flood—this is why Genesis 8:20-22--seasons began
for the first time. The earth was previously 72 degrees all over*—no
ice, no seasons, no winter—no cold…but afterwards there were
seasons. At His coming, when earth is restored to its pre-Flood
conditions, we go back to the oxygen count and temperatures of before
the Flood. The only way to do this is for another pole shift to
occur.............</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">2Pe
3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of YHWH,
wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the
elements shall melt with fervent heat? </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">2Pe
3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness......</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b> </b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>*
My comment: </b>Today the axial position of the earth is 23.5 degrees.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verse
13 Noah entered the ark with his family, 8 persons together. Eight is
the number pointing behind the natural and thus to all those who will
enter the Olam Haba the life to come on the Eight day mentioned in
the great last day of the Feast of the tabernacle. At the time
when Noah called the people t repent they didn’t believe him one of
the reasons is that there was no rain on the earth and the watering
was by the dew of the morning. Noah and Methuselah spoke all
the words of YHWH to the sons of men, day after</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">day,
constantly speaking to them. (Yasher 5:9)......11. And YHWH granted
them a period of one hundred and twenty years, saying, If they will
return, then will God repent of the evil, so as not to destroy the
earth. (Yahser 4:11)......</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">We
see here the 120 time period a natural for spiritual ....... 11. and
on that day, YHWH caused the whole earth to shake, and the sun
darkened, and the foundations of the world raged, and the whole earth
was moved violently, and the lightning flashed, and the thunder
roared, and all the fountains in the earth were broken up, such as
was not known to the inhabitants before; and God did this mighty act,
in order to terrify the sons of men, that there might be no more evil
upon earth. 12. and still the sons of men would not return from their
evil ways, and they increased the anger of YHWH at that time, and did
not even direct their hearts to all this.(Yasher 4)
................ </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Compare
with:</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Joe
2:1 Blow a ram’s horn in Tsiyon, and sound an alarm in My set-apart
mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day
of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>is
coming, for it is near: </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joe
2:2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
like the morning clouds spread over the mountains – a people many
and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be
again after them, to the years of many generations. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mat
24:21 “For then there shall be great distress,<sup>1</sup> such as
has not been <u>since the beginning of the world until this time, no,
nor ever shall be </u></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mat
24:29 “And immediately after the distress<sup>1</sup> of those days
the sun shall be darkened (total sun eclipse), and the moon shall not
give its light (total moon eclipse), and the stars shall fall from
the heaven (comet shower), and the powers of the heavens shall be
shaken. ...Rev 14:10 he (the man who worships the beast verse 9) also
shall drink of the wine of the wrath of Elohim, which is poured out
undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he shall be tortured with
fire and sulphur before the set-apart messengers and before the Lamb.
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rev
14:11 “And the smoke of their torture goes up forever and ever. And
they have no rest day or night, those worshipping the beast and his
image, also if anyone receives the mark of his name.” Rev 16:8 and
the fourth messenger poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given
to him to burn men with fire. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Rev
16:9 and </i><i><u>men were burned with great heat</u></i><i>,
and they blasphemed the Name of Elohim who possesses authority over
these plagues. And they did not repent, to give Him esteem. Rev 16:10
and the fifth messenger poured out his bowl on the throne of the
beast, and his reign became darkened. And they gnawed their tongues
from pain. Rev 16:11 and they blasphemed the Elohim of the
heaven for their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their
works. Rev 16:12 and the sixth messenger poured out his bowl on
the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order to
prepare the way of the sovereigns from the east. Rev 16:13 and
I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of
the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean
spirits, as frogs, Rev 16:14 for they are spirits of demons,
doing signs, which go out to the sovereigns of the entire world
(presidents, kings and others), to gather them to the battle of that
great day of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>the
Almighty. Rev 16:15 “See, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is
he who is staying awake and guarding his garments, lest he walks
naked and they see his shame.” </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rev
16:16 and they gathered them together to the place called in Heḇrew,
Har Meḡiddo (Mount Megiddo). </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rev
16:17 and the seventh messenger poured out his bowl into the air, and
a loud voice came out of the Dwelling Place of the heaven, from the
throne, saying, “It is done!” Rev 16:18 <u>And there came
to be noises and thunders and lightnings. And there came to be a
great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not came
to be since men were on the earth. </u>Rev 16:19 and the great
city (Yerushalaim) became divided into three parts, and the cities of
the nations fell, and great Baḇel (Yerushlayim) was remembered before
Elohim, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His
wrath. Rev 16:20 and every island fled away, and the mountains
were not found. Rev 16:21 and great hail from the heaven (comets
shower) fell upon men, every hailstone about the weight of a talent,
and men blasphemed Elohim for the plague of the hail, because that
plague was exceedingly great. …… </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Remember
Sh’lomo write: There is nothing new under heaven, what has been is
that which will be (Eccl.1:9)…… </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">17-24.The
flood was running forty days and prevailed for 150 days or exactly 5
month. At this time every month had 30 days. Everything which was not
in the ark died (21-23) . We can see in the sod level something
beautiful. The ark as I said is a picture to be in Messiah who
covered us with his blood like Noah pitched the ark within and
without. If we are in the covenant represented by the ark, we will be
saved from destruction. The water is an euphemism for the Word or the
Torah of Elohim (Eph. 5:26, Yochan.3:5). The water or the Torah
carries the Ark where Noah and his family took place and they were
saved. The Water underneath the Ark destroyed those outside (not in
the covenant). Five the number for Torah (five books Moshe) indicates
from one side mercy for Noah and his household, and judgment for
those outside…. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Gen
8:1 and Elohim remembered Noaḥ, and all the beasts and all the
cattle that were with him in the ark, and Elohim made a wind (ruach
in Hebrew the same name as for the Ruach of Elohim!) to pass over the
earth, and the waters subsided. Gen 8:2 and the fountains of the deep
and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the
heavens was withheld. Gen 8:3 and the waters receded steadily from
the earth and at the end of the hundred and fifty days (5 x 10 x
3=150) the waters diminished. Gen 8:4 and in the seventh month</i><i><u>,
the seventeenth day of the month</u></i><i>, the ark rested on
the mountains of Ararat. Exactly 150 days or 5 month each with 30
days on the seventeenth of the month as it started on the second
month on the seventeenth of the month). Gen 8:5 and the waters
decreased steadily until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the
first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible.
.... Again the number reveal </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>hands
in the action, ten been the number which include the sum of all
number the number which man can reach on earth e.g. 10
commandments..... Gen 8:6 and it came to be, at the end of forty
days, that Noaḥ opened the window of the ark which he had made,
Forty: The number for change, test and trials, renewing. Noah and his
household will now be alone to replenish the all earth. Gen 8:7
and he sent out a raven, which kept going out and turning back until
the waters had dried up from the earth. ........ </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
raven is an unclean animal and his nature a picture of selfishness he
didn’t returned. The dove is a picture of the Ruach HaQodesh who
goes and come back because there is no earth. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">-----
Gen 8:8 then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the waters had
receded from the face of the ground. Gen 8:9 but the dove found no
resting place for its feet and returned into the ark to him, for the
waters were on the face of all the earth. So he put out his hand and
took it, and pulled it into the ark to himself. Gen 8:10 and he
waited yet another seven days, and again he sent the dove out from
the ark. Gen 8:11 and the dove came to him in the evening, and see, a
freshly plucked olive leaf was in its mouth. and Noaḥ knew that the
waters had receded from the earth. .....</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Spiritual Explanation: The Olive leaf points to the Olive tree,
which is a picture of Israel. The dove, a picture of the Ruach
HaQodesh bringing the olive leaf brings good tiding to Noah thus
pointing to future events which will come to one of his descendant,
Shem! And by consequence the House of Yacov Israel! Discuss it! </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
question? Which picture is the raven? Help, the colour of the raven
its action, Hint everything start with darkness. !</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">-(<b>Chanah
add</b>- the Creation;Days;Months;We came from darkness in the womb,
before we came out; and also we came from darkness before we came to
day light of Messiah &so on...) .</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
8:12 and he waited yet another seven days and sent out the dove,
which did not return to him again. Gen 8:13 and it came to be in the
six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the
month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noaḥ
removed the covering of the ark and looked, and saw the surface of
the ground was dry. Gen 8:14 and in the second month, on the
twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. Gen 8:15 and
Elohim spoke to Noaḥ, saying, Gen 8:16 “Go out of the ark, you
and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Gen
8:17 “Bring out with you every living creature of all flesh that is
with you: of birds, of cattle and all creeping creatures that creep
on the earth. And let them teem on the earth, and bear and increase
on the earth.”Gen 8:18 so Noaḥ went out, and his sons and his
wife and his sons’ wives with him, Gen 8:19 every beast,
every creeping creature, and every bird, whatever creeps on the
earth, according to their kinds, went out of the ark. Gen 8:20 and
Noaḥ built an altar to </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>,
and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and offered
burnt offerings on the altar. Gen 8:21 and </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>smelled
a soothing fragrance, and </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>said
in His heart, “Never again shall I curse the ground hbecause of
man, although the inclination of man’s heart is evil from his
youth, and never again smite all living creatures, as I have done, </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
8:22 as <u>long as the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold
and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease</u>.”
…………..</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Seasons
as we know them today came into existence after the flood. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verse
1 Elohim remembered: Hebrew “zakar” to mark (as to be recognize)
that is to remember, Strong’s # H2142, see Mal;3:16-18….. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mal
3:16 Then shall those who fear </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>speak
to one another, and </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>listen
and hear, and a book of remembrance be written before Him, of those
who fear </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>,
and those who think upon His Name. Mal 3:17 “And they shall be
Mine,” said </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>of
hosts, “on the day that I prepare a treasured possession. And I
shall spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mal
3:18 “Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous
and the wrong, between one who serves Elohim and one who does not
serve Him. Remembrance: Strong’s H2146 </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>זכרון</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>zikrôn
zik-rone'</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">From
<u>H2142</u>; a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing): -
memorial, record. H2142 : Zakar: to remember. Verse 4;
The Ark rested in the seventh month on the seventh day of the
month……, which is Turkey today. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
seventh month is the month of Yom Kippur, the marking of the
atonement for the believers through the sacrifice of Messiah. Vayiqra
16:16, Hebr.9:22-23, Rev. 8:2-5. Verse 7 Noah send a raven. The
raven is an unclean animal, representing selfishness. Verse 8 Noah
sent a dove. The Hebrew word for dove is the word “Yonah” like
the prophet who pictured the Ruach HaQodesh (Set Apart Spirit) among
the nations, who was sent to Nineveh. The dove unlike the Raven
returned to the Arch. The Dove is a clean animal and a picture for
the Ruach HaQodesh who leads us into all truth (Yochan). </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joh
16:13 “But when He comes, the Spirit of the Truth, He shall guide
you into all the truth. Luk 3:22 and the Set-apart Spirit descended
in bodily form <u>like a dove</u> upon Him, and a voice came from
heaven saying, “You are My Son, the Beloved, in You I did delight.”
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verse
11. Read Yeshahayahu 11:1, YermeYahu 11:16. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Isa
11:1 and a Rod shall come forth from the stump of Yishai, and a
Sprout from his roots shall bear fruit. Jer 11:16 “</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>has
named you, ‘Green Olive Tree, Fair, of Goodly Fruit.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
’<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>B’reshit
8:12; He stay another seven days. 8:13 in the first month which is
the month of Abiv when the barley is in the ears the water were dried
up. 8:14 in the second month the earth was dry. So it was exactly 370
days or one year and ten days. 8:15-22 Elohim told Noah
to go out and that He will not again smite the ground anymore. The
Hebrew word for “smite” is Strong’s # H 5221 </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>נכה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>nâkâh
naw-kaw'... A primitive root; to strike (lightly or severely,
literally or figuratively): beat, cast forth, clap, give [wounds], X
go forward, X indeed, kill, make [slaughter], murderer, punish,
slaughter, slay (-er, -ing), smite (-r, -ing), strike, be stricken,
(give) stripes, X surely, wound. Here in the sense of
punishment……………. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
earth was clean by a gigantic “mikveh” (baptism). The cursed was
washed away Noah was born for this purpose (Read Chap. 3:17)</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">14.
and Methuselah called his name Noah, saying, The earth was in his
days at rest and free from corruption, and Lamech his father called
his name Menachem, saying, This one shall comfort us in our works and
miserable toil in the earth, which Elohim had cursed.(Yasher 4:14).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Menachem
another name for Noah given to him by his father Lamech.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
9:1 and Elohim blessed Noaḥ and his sons, and said to them, “Bear
fruit and increase, and fill the earth. Gen 9:2 “And the fear of
you and the dread of you is on every beast of the earth, on every
bird of the heavens, on all that creeps on the ground, and on all the
fish of the sea – into your hand they have been given. Gen 9:3
“Every moving creature that lives is food for you. I have given you
all, as I gave the green plants. Gen 9:4 “But do not eat flesh with
its life, its blood. Gen 9:5 “But only <u>your blood for your lives</u>
I require, from the hand of every beast I require it, and from the
hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I require the
life of man. Gen 9:6 <u>“Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his
blood is shed, for in the image of Elohim has He made man. </u>Gen
9:7 “As for you, bear fruit and increase, bring forth teemingly in
the earth and increase in it.” Gen 9:8 and Elohim spoke to Noaḥ
and to his sons with him, saying, Gen 9:9 “And I, see, I establish
My covenant with you and with your seed after you, Gen 9:10 and with
every living creature that is with you: of the birds, of the cattle,
and of every beast of the earth with you, of all that go out of the
ark, every beast of the earth. Gen 9:11 “And <u>I shall establish
My covenant with you, and never again is all flesh cut off by the
waters of the flood, and never again is there a flood to destroy the
earth</u>.” </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
9:12 and Elohim said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I
make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you,
for all generations to come: Gen 9:13 “I shall set My rainbow
in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me
and the earth. Gen 9:14 “And it shall be, when I bring a
cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud,
Gen 9:15 and I shall remember My covenant which is between Me
and you and every living creature of all flesh, and never again let
the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh. Gen 9:16 “And
the rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I shall see it, to remember
the everlasting covenant between Elohim and every living creature of
all flesh that is on the earth.” Gen 9:17 and Elohim said to
Noaḥ, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established
between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.” Gen 9:18 and
the sons of Noaḥ who went out of the ark were Shĕm and Ḥam and
Yepheth. And Ḥam was the father of Kenaʽan. Gen 9:19 These
three were the sons of Noaḥ, and all the earth was overspread from
them. Gen 9:20 and Noaḥ, a man of the soil, began and planted
a vineyard. Gen 9:21 and he drank of the wine and was drunk,
and became uncovered in his tent. Gen 9:22 and <u>Ḥam, the
father of Kenaʽan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two
brothers outside. </u>Gen 9:23 so Shĕm and Yepheth took a
garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and went backward and
covered the nakedness of their father, but their faces were turned
away, and <u>they did not see their father’s nakedness</u>. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
9:24 and Noaḥ awoke from his wine, and he knew what his younger son
had done to him, </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
9:25 <u>and he said, “Cursed is Kenaʽan, let him become a servant
of servants to his brothers.”</u> </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Gen
9:26 and he said, “Blessed be </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>,
the Elohim of Shĕm, and let Kenaʽan become his servant. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
9:27 “Let Elohim enlarge Yepheth, and let him dwell in the tents of
Shĕm. <u>And let Kenaʽan become his servant.” </u>Gen
9:28 and Noaḥ lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
Gen 9:29 so all the days of Noaḥ were nine hundred and fifty
years, and he died. …….950 = 9x100 + 10x5. Nine
is the number for completion of a representation for finality, end,
sometimes removal, also judgment. 3+3+3 ou 3X3. The Aleph bet as 22
letters, the Gemetria sum of all 22 letters is 4995 or 5 x 999. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hundred
is 10x10 or the multiplication of the sum of all number. Five :
the number for Torah . Jugement or finality: B’reshit
5 :5 for Adam’s life, B’reshit 5:8 for Seth’s life, 5:11
for Enosh’s life, 5 :14 for Kenan’s life, 5:20 for Jared’s
life, 5:27 for Methuselah’s life. Others examples for finality: 2nd
Melachim (King) 17 :6 for Samaria’s captivity, 2nd Melachim
(King) 25:1 for Nebuchadnezzar’s march toward Jerusalem. (Greg
Killian).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
10:1 and this is the genealogy of the sons of Noaḥ: Shĕm, Ḥam,
and Yepheth. And sons were born to them after the flood. Gen
10:2 The sons of Yepheth: Gomer, and Maḡoḡ, and Maḏai, and
Yawan, and Tuḇal, and Mesheḵ, and Tiras. Gen 10:3 and the
sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Toḡarmah. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Elohim
establish His covenant with Noah that neither flesh nor earth shall
be destroyed by flood again (verse 11). In this chapter Elohim
gives meat to Noah for food, with the commandment not to eat the
blood, saying that blood will be required to those who shed blood;
Lev 17:11 ‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I
have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your lives,
for it is the blood that makes atonement for the life.’ </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Mat
26:52 Then </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>said
to him, “Return your sword to its place, for all who take the sword
shall die by the sword….; </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Until
these days, during the first millennium, man was vegetarian. How will
it be during the Millennium reign of Messiah, will we also be
vegetarian?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can
you tell me why so many wars are done today in the name of “G-d”
when Elohim says: “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood is
shed, for in the image of Elohim has He made man. The reason
not to kill is because man is made in the image of Elohim! Today wars
are made to make peace can we believe this position of the powerful
rulers of the world around the US?</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">......
13 The bow in the cloud is the sign of the covenant. It is made of
seven colours (divine perfection on earth) </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>....
19-29 Noah and his three sons: Out of them the all earth will be
replenished, from Shem will come Abraham and </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>.
Here we can clearly see the difference in the world population today.
Don’t mistake me I don’t say that there is a difference, because
all men have sinned. Nevertheless </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>came
first for the house of Ya’acov then for the world. Verse 20
Noah planted a vineyard and drank of the wine and was drunk. The
vineyard is a picture of Israel (YesaYahu 5:1,7).</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">From
Ham will come all the enemies of Israel (cush, Mitzraim which is also
called Egypt, Nimrod, Philistine, called today Palestinians read
Psalm 83). Out of Yapeth Magog. We have see that from Ham
came the nations from Africa. We know from history that many from
among these nations were slaves .......</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Barnes
gives us following explanation concerning Ham: ------ The prophecy
consists of two parts - a malediction and a benediction. “Cursed be
Kenaan.” A curse </i><i><u>Gen_3:14</u></i><i>,
</i><i><u>Gen_3:17</u></i><i>; </i><i><u>Gen_4:11</u></i><i>
is any privation, inferiority, or other ill, expressed in the form of
a doom, and bearing, not always upon the object directly expressed,
but upon the party who is in the transgression. Thus, the soil is
cursed on account of Adam the transgressor </i><i><u>Gen_3:17</u></i><i>.
It is apparent that in the present ease the prime mover was Ham, who
is therefore punished in the prospect of a curse resting </i><i><u>on
his posterity</u></i><i>, and especially </i><i><u>on a
particular line of it.</u></i><i> Let us not imagine, however,
that the ways of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>are
not equal in this matter; for Kenaan and his descendants no doubt
abundantly deserved this special visitation. And as the other
descendants of Ham are not otherwise mentioned in the prophecy, we
may presume that they shared in the curse pronounced upon Kenaan. At
all events, they are not expressly included in the blessing
pronounced on the other two divisions of the human family,(Shem and
Yapheth) It is proper to observe, also, that this prediction does not
affirm an absolute perpetuity in the doom of Ham or Kenaan. It only
delineates their relative condition until the whole race is again
brought within the scope of prophecy.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keil
and Delitzsch confirm in their personal commentary/------ “Ham
gave his son the name from the obedience which he required, though he
did not render it himself. The son was to be the servant (for the
name points to servile obedience) of a father who was as tyrannical
towards those beneath him, as he was refractory towards those above.
The father, when he gave him the name, thought only of submission to
his own commands. But the secret providence of God, which rules in
all such things, had a different submission in view” (Hengstenberg,
Christol. i. 28, transl.). “Servant of servants (i.e., the lowest
of slaves, vid., Ewald, §313) let him become to his brethren.”
Although this curse was expressly pronounced upon Canaan alone, the
fact that Ham had no share in Noah's blessing, either for himself or
his other sons, was a sufficient proof that his whole family was
included by implication in the curse, even if it was to fall chiefly
upon Canaan. And history confirms the supposition. The Canaanites
were partly exterminated, and partly subjected to the lowest form of
slavery, by the Israelites, who belonged to the family of Shem; and
those who still remained were reduced by Solomon to the same
condition (<u>1Ki_9:20-21</u>). The Phoenicians, along with the
Carthaginians and the Egyptians, who all belonged to the family of
Canaan, were subjected by the Japhetic Persians, Macedonians, and
Romans; and the remainder of the Hamitic tribes either shared the
same fate, or still sigh, like the negroes, for example, and other
African tribes, beneath the yoke of the most crushing slavery
(European and American). </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>We
see how far reaching is </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>word.
It amazes me when I see people taking the Torah on the “light
shoulder” when we see what our heavenly Father wants us to know.
Today we see people boasting of their “freedome in Christ”
rejecting everything instead of humbling themselves in gratefulness
and thankfulness......... </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chapter
10-31 the generation of Noah’s children (see the end of the parsha
for explanation with the table of the nations and the chart).....
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gen
10:32 These were the clans of the sons of Noaḥ, according to their
generations, in their nations. And from these the nations were
divided on the earth after the flood. Gen 11:1 and all the earth had
one language<sup>1</sup> and one speech. Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Hebrew
lip Gen 11:2-31</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Gen
11:32 and the days of Teraḥ came to be two hundred and five years,
and Teraḥ died in Ḥaran. ……………… </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Verse
11:1 to speak one language means to agree with one another ….
</span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rom
12:16 be of the same mind toward one another. Do not be proud in
mind, but go along with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own
estimation. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">2Co
13:11 for the rest, brothers, rejoice. Be made perfect,<sup>1</sup>
be encouraged, be of one mind, live in peace. And the Elohim of love
and peace shall be with you.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Php
2:2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same
love, <u>one in being and of purpose, </u></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Joh
15:18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it
hated you. Joh 15:19 “If you were of the world, the world would
love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you
out of the world, for that reason the world hates you. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">2Pe
3:3 knowing this first: that mockers shall come in the last days with
mocking, walking according to their own lusts, </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">2Pe
3:4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the
fathers fell asleep, all continues as from the beginning of
creation.” 2Pe 3:5 For they choose to have this hidden from them:
that the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and
in the water, by the Word of Elohim,<sup>1</sup>Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Heb.
11:3.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">2Pe
3:6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded
with water. 2Pe 3:7 and the present heavens and the earth are
treasured up by the same Word, <u>being kept for fire, to a day of
judgment and destruction of wicked men</u>. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">10-32
The generation of Shem. ......</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Shem
was king of Shalem (Hebr.7:1) he was the son of Noah and all
his descendants became the forefathers of Abraham, Itsak and Ya’acov.
They were not all righteous. Terah was an idolater established by and
servant of Nimrod. At the end of his life Terah took distance from
Nimrod by going in Ur in Chaldea but was not able to go further and
died in Haran which in Hebrew means: parched. Abram will hear the
call of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>and
follow it. </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">HAFTORAH
</span></span></b>
</div>
<b>
</b>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Isa
54:1-55:4 </span></span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">55:1
Compare with: </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Joh
4:14 but whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never
thirst. And the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain
of water springing up into everlasting life.” </i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">55:2
Read: Mat 11:28 “Come to Me, all you who labour and are
burdened, and I shall give you rest. </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
prophet YehshaYahu is bringing comfort to the people by telling them
that the day will come that Messiah will be reveal chapter 53. He let
the people know that it is not finished with Israel; hope is still
there because </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>is
merciful. He takes Noah covenant as proof, because every one knows
about the covenant. The day will come when the all world will
recognize </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>’</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>s
people, those who are called by His Name and walk in Messiah’s
footsteps. Who is the deserted one or desolate as the KJV
says? Read: Isa 62:4 No longer are you called “Forsaken,”
and no longer is your land called “Deserted.” But you shall be
called “Ḥephtsiḇah,” and your land “Married,” for </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהוה</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>shall
delight in you, and your land be married…… This is Israel!</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hos
1:10 “Yet the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be as the
sand of the sea, which is not measured nor counted. And it shall be
in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’
they shall be called, ‘You are the sons of the living Ěl.’...
Hos 1:11 “And the children of Yehuḏah <u>and </u>the children of
Yisra’ĕl shall be gathered together, and appoint for themselves
one head, and shall come up out of the earth, for great is the day of
Yizreʽĕl! ..... </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>1Pe
3:18 Because even Messiah once suffered for sins, the righteous for
the unrighteous, to bring you to Elohim, having been put to death
indeed in flesh but made alive in the Spirit,..... 1Pe 3:19 in which
also He went and proclaimed unto the spirits in prison, 1Pe
3:20 who were disobedient at one time when the patience of Elohim
waited in the days of Noaḥ, while the ark was being prepared, in
which a few, that is, eight beings, were saved through water, 1Pe
3:21 which figure now also saves us: immersion – not a putting away
of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward
Elohim – through the resurrection of </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Messiah,
1Pe 3:22 who, having gone into heaven, is at the right hand of
Elohim, messengers and authorities and powers having been subjected
to Him.</i></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The
patience of Elohim last for a time period of 120 revolutions of time
or Yovel years. After that all the wicked will be destroyed and
righteousness will run the earth under </i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span><i>
</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Messiah,
until He gives over the Kingdom to Elohim! </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>1Co
15:24 then the end, when He(</i></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"><i>יהושע</i></span></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>)delivers
up the reign to Elohim the Father, when He has brought to naught all
rule and all authority and power. 1Co 15:25 For He has to reign until
He has put all enemies under His feet. 1Co 15:26 The last enemy to be
brought to naught is death. </i></span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">1Co
15:27 for “He (Yehowah) has put all under His feet.” But when He
says “all are put under Him,” it is clear that He (Yehowah) who
put all under Him (Yeshua) is excepted. 1Co 15:28 And when all are
made subject to Him (Yeshua), then <u>the Son Himself shall also be
subject to Him (Yehowah) who put all under Him, in order that Elohim
be all in all.</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">TABLES
of the NATIONS </span></span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Descendants
of Shem Yapheth and Ham</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">Order
of the Three Races: -----Notwithstanding that the sons of Noah are
here (<u>Gen_10:1</u>) and elsewhere mentioned in the order Shem, Ham
and Japheth (<u>Gen_5:32</u>; <u>Gen_6:10</u>), and Ham was
apparently the youngest (see HAM), the Table begins (<u>Gen_10:2</u>)
with Japheth, enumerates then the descendants of Ham (<u>Gen_10:6</u>),
and finishes with those of Shem (<u>Gen_10:21</u>). This order in all
probability indicates the importance of each race in the eyes of the
Hebrews, who as Semites were naturally interested most in the
descendants of Shem with whom the list ends. This enabled the
compiler to continue the enumeration of Shem's descendants in
<u>Gen_11:12</u> immediately after the verses dealing with the
building of the Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>4.
Extent of Each</u>: ---- The numbers of the descendants of each son
of Noah, however, probably bear witness to the compiler's knowledge,
rather than their individual importance in his eyes. Thus, the more
remote and less known race of Japheth is credited with 14 descendants
only (7 sons and 7 grandsons), while Ham has no less than 29
descendants (4 sons, 23 grandsons, and 2 great-grandsons), and Shem
the same (5 sons, 5 grandsons, 1 great-grandson, and 20 remoter
descendants to the 6th generation). Many of the descendants of Shem
and Ham, however, are just as obscure as the descendants of Japheth.
How far the relationship to the individual sons of Noah is to be
taken literally is uncertain. The earlier names are undoubtedly those
of nations, while afterward we have, possibly, merely tribes, and in
chapter 11 the list develops into a genealogical list of individuals.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>5.
Sons of Japheth</u>: --- It is difficult to trace a clear system in
the enumeration of the names in the Table. In the immediate
descendants of Japheth (<u>Gen_10:2</u>), Gomer, Magog, Tubal and
Mesech, we have the principal nations of Asia Minor, but Madai stands
for the Medes on the extreme East, and Javan (the Ionians) for the
Greeks (? and Romans) on the extreme West (unless the Greeks of Asia
Minor were meant). Gomer's descendants apparently located themselves
northward of this tract, while the sons of Javan extended themselves
along the Mediterranean coastlands westward, Tarshish standing,
apparently, for Spain, Kittim being the Cyprians, and Rodanim the
Rhodians. My comments: France, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy
Switzerland, Greece, and other eastern countries, descendants from
Yapheth before they were intermingled with the House of Israel ,
Ephraim beginning in 721 B.C.E.????</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>6.
Sons and Descendants of Ham</u>: ---- Coming to the immediate
descendants of Ham (<u>Gen_10:6</u>), the writer begins with those on
the South and then goes northward in the following order: Cush or
Ethiopia, Mizraim or Egypt, Phut (better Put, the Revised Version
(British and American)) by the Red Sea, and lastly Canaan - the Holy
Land - afterward occupied by the Israelites. The sons of Cush, which
follow (<u>Gen_10:7</u>), are apparently nationalities of the Arabian
coast, where Egyptian influence was predominant. These, with the sons
of Raamah, embrace the interior of Africa as known to the Hebrews,
and the Arabian tract as far as Canaan, its extreme northern
boundary. The reference to Babylonia (Nimrod) may be regarded as
following not unnaturally here, and prominence is given to the
district on account of its importance and romantic history from
exceedingly early times. Nevertheless, this portion (<u>Gen_10:8-12</u>)
reads like an interpolation, as it not only records the foundation of
the cities of Babylonia, but those of Assyria as well - the country
mentioned lower down (<u>Gen_10:22</u>) among the children of Shem.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>7.
Further Descendants of Ham</u>: ---- The text then goes back to the
West again, and enumerates the sons of Mizraim or Egypt (<u>Gen_10:13</u>),
mostly located on the southeastern and eastern shores of the
Mediterranean. These include the “Libyans in the narrowest sense”
(Lehabim), two districts regarded as Egyptian (Naphtuhim and
Pathrusim), the Casluhim from whom came the Philistines, and the
Caphtorim, probably not the Cappadocians of the Targums, but the
island of Crete, “because such a large island ought not to be
wanting” (Dillmann). The more important settlements in the
Canaanitish sphere of influence are referred to as the sons of Canaan
(<u>Gen_10:15</u>) - Sidon, Heth (the Hittites), the Jebusites (who
were in occupation of Jerusalem when the Israelites took it), the
Amorites (whom Abraham found in Canaan), and others. Among the sons
of Canaan are, likewise, the Girgashites, the Arkites and Sinites
near Lebanon, the Arvadites of the coast, and the Hamathites, in
whose capital, Hamath, many hieroglyphic inscriptions regarded as
records of the Hittites or people of Heth have been found. It is
possibly to this occupation of more or less outlying positions that
the “spreading abroad” of the families of the Canaanites
(<u>Gen_10:18</u>) refers. In <u>Gen_10:19</u> the writer has been
careful to indicate “the border of the Canaanites,” that being of
importance in view of the historical narrative which was to follow;
and here he was evidently on familiar ground.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>8.
Sons of Shem:</u> -- In his final section - the nations descended
from Shem (<u>Gen_10:21</u>) - the compiler again begins with the
farthest situated - the Elamites - after which we have Asshur
(Assyria), to the Northwest; Arpachshad (? the Chaldeans), to the
West; Lud (Lydia), Northwest of Assyria; and Aram (the Aramean
states), South of Lud and West of Assyria. The tribes or states
mentioned as the sons of Aram (Uz, Hul, Gether and Mash), however, do
not give the names with which we are familiar in the Old Testament
(Aram Naharaim, Aram Zobah, etc.), and have evidently to be sought in
different positions, indicating that they represent an earlier stage
of their migrations. With regard to their positions, it has been
suggested that Uz lay in the neighborhood of the Hauran and Damascus;
Hul near the Sea of Galilee; and that Mash stands for Mons Masius.
This last, however, may have been the land of Mas, West of Babylonia.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>9.
Further Descendants of Shem</u>: -- Only one son is attributed to
Arpachshad, namely, Shelah (shālaḥ, shelaḥ, <u>Gen_10:24</u>),
unidentified as a nationality. This name should, however, indicate
some part of Babylonia, especially if his son, Eber, was the ancestor
of the Hebrews, who were apparently migrants from Ur (Mugheir) (see
ABRAHAM; UR OF THE CHALDEES). Though Peleg, “in whose days the land
was divided,” may not have been an important link in the chain, the
explanatory phrase needs notice. It may refer to the period when the
fertilizing watercourses of Babylonia - the “rivers of Babylon”
(<u>Psa_137:1</u>) - were first constructed (one of their names was
pelegh), or to the time when Babylonia was divided into a number of
small states, though this latter seems to be less likely. Alternative
renderings for Selah, Eber and Peleg are “sending forth”
(Bohlen), “crossing” (the Euphrates), and “separation” (of
the Joktanites) (Bohlen), respectively.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">The
Babylonian geographical fragment 80-6-17, 504 has a group explained
as Pulukku, perhaps a modified form of Peleg, followed by (Pulukku)
ša êbirti, “Pulukku of the crossing”, the last word being from
the same root as Eber. This probably indicates a city on one side of
the river (? Euphrates), at a fordable point, and a later foundation
bearing the same name on the other side. Reu, Serug, and Nahor,
however, are regarded generally as place-names, and Terah as a
personal name (the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran). From this point
onward the text (<u>Gen_11:27</u>) becomes the history of the
Israelite nation, beginning with these patriarchs.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>1.
Position in Noah's Family: His Name:</u> --- The eldest son of Noah,
from whom the Jews, as well as the Semitic (“Shemitic”) nations
in general have descended. When giving the names of Noah's three
sons, Shem is always mentioned first (<u>Gen_9:18</u>; <u>Gen_10:1</u>,
etc.); and though “the elder” in “Shem the brother of Japheth
the elder” (<u>Gen_10:21</u> margin) is explained as referring to
Shem, this is not the rendering of Onkelos. His five sons peopled the
greater part of West Asia's finest tracts, from Elam on the East to
the Mediterranean on the West. Though generally regarded as meaning
“dusky” (compare the Assyr-Babylonian sâmu - also Ham - possibly
= “black,” Japheth, “fair”), it is considered possible that
Shem may be the usual Hebrew word for “name” (shēm), given him
because he was the firstborn - a parallel to the Assyr-Babylonian
usage, in which “son,” “name” (šumu) are synonyms (W. A.
Inscriptions, V, plural 23, 11, 29-32abc).</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>SHEM</u>
---2. History, and the Nations Descended from Him: --- Shem, who is
called “the father of all the children of Eber,” was born when
Noah had attained the age of 500 years (<u>Gen_5:32</u>). Though
married at the time of the Flood, Shem was then childless. Aided by
Japheth, he covered the nakedness of their father, which Ham, the
youngest brother, had revealed to them; but unlike the last, Shem and
Japheth, in their filial piety, approached their father walking
backward, in order not to look upon him. Two years after the Flood,
Shem being then 100 years old, his son Arpachshad was born
(<u>Gen_11:10</u>), and was followed by further sons and daughters
during the remaining 500 years which preceded Shem's death. Noah's
prophetic blessing, on awakening from his wine, may be regarded as
having been fulfilled in his descendants, who occupied Syria
(Aramaic), Palestine (Canaan), Chaldea (Arpachshad), Assyria
(Asshur), part of Persia (Elam), and Arabia (Joktan). In the first
three of these, as well as in Elam, Canaanites had settled (if not in
the other districts mentioned), but Shemites ruled, at some time or
other, over the Canaanites, and Canaan thus became “his servant”
(<u>Gen_9:25</u>, <u>Gen_9:26</u>). The tablets found in Cappadocia
seem to show that Shemites (Assyrians) had settled in that district
also, but this was apparently an unimportant colony. Though
designated sons of Shem, some of his descendants (e.g. the Elamites)
did not speak a Semitic language, while other nationalities, not his
descendants (e.g. the Canaanites), did</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>HAM</u>
-- 1. The Youngest Son of Noah : ---- The youngest son of Noah, from
whom sprang the western and southwestern nations known to the
Hebrews. His name first occurs in <u>Gen_5:32</u>, where, as in
<u>Gen_6:10</u> and elsewhere, it occupies the second place. In
<u>Gen_9:18</u> Ham is described as “the father of Canaan,” to
prepare the reader for <u>Gen_9:25-27</u>, where Noah, cursing Ham
for having told Shem and Japheth of his nakedness, refers to him as
Canaan. On account of this, it has been suggested that “Canaan”
stood originally in all the passages where the three brothers are
spoken of, and that this was later changed to “Ham,” except in
the verses containing the curse. It seems more likely, however, that
the name “Canaan” is inserted prophetically, as Noah would not
desire to curse his son (Ham), but only one branch of that son's
descendants, who were later the principal adversaries of the Hebrews.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>2.
Ham as a Nationality</u> --- The name given, in <u>Psa_105:23</u>,
<u>Psa_105:17</u>; <u>Psa_106:22</u> (compare <u>Psa_78:51</u>), to
Egypt as a descendant of Ham, son of Noah. As Shem means “dusky,”
or the like, and Japheth “fair,” it has been supposed that Ham
meant, as is not improbable, “black.” This is supported by the
evidence of Hebrew and Arabic, in which the word ḥāmam means “to
be hot” and “to be black,” the latter signification being
derived from the former.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>3.
Meaning of the Word</u> --- That Ham is connected with the native
name of Egypt, Kem, or, in full pa ta' en Kem, “the land of Egypt,”
in Bashmurian Coptic Kheme, is unlikely, as this form is probably of
a much later date than the composition of Gen, and, moreover, as the
Arabic shows, the guttural is not a true kh, but the hard breathing
h, which are both represented by the Hebrew ḥētȟ.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">4<u>.
The Nations Descending from Ham</u> --- Of the nationalities regarded
as descending from Ham, none can be described as really black. First
on the list, as being the darkest, is Cush or Ethiopia (<u>Gen_10:6</u>),
after which comes Micrayim, or Egypt, then Puṭ or Libyia, and
Canaan last. The sons or descendants of each of these are then taken
in turn, and it is noteworthy that some of them, like the Ethiopians
and the Canaanites, spoke Semitic, and not Hamitic, languages - Seba
(if connected with the Sabeans), Havilah (Yemen), and Sheba, whose
queen visited Solomon. Professor Sayce, moreover, has pointed out
that Caphtor is the original home of the Phoenicians, who spoke a
Semitic language. The explanation of this probably is that other
tongues were forced upon these nationalities in consequence of their
migrations, or because they fell under the dominion of nationalities
alien to them. The non-Sem Babylonians, described as descendants of
Nimrod (Merodach), as is welI known, spoke Sumerian, and adopted
Semitic Babylonian only on account of mingling with the Semites whom
they found there. Another explanation is that the nationalities
described as Hamitic - a parallel to those of the Semitic section -
were so called because they fell under Egyptian dominion. This would
make the original Hamitic race to have been Egyptian and account for
Ham as a (poetical) designation of that nationality. Professor F. L.
Griffith has pointed out that the Egyptian Priapic god of Panopolis
(Akhmim), sometimes called Menu, but also apparently known as Khem,
may have been identified with the ancestor of the Hamitic race - he
was worshipped from the coast of the Red Sea to Coptos, and must have
been well known to Egypt's eastern neighbors. He regards the
characteristics of Menu as being in accord with the shamelessness of
Ham as recorded in <u>Gen_9:20</u></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>YAPTHETH</u>
--- This name, in <u>Gen_9:27</u>, seems to be explained by the
phrase “may God make wide (yapht, the American Standard Revised
Version “enlarge”) for Japheth,” where yapht and Japheth are
represented by the same consonants, but with different vowel-points.
The root of yapht is pāthāh, “to make wide.” This etymology,
however, is not universally accepted, as the word-play is so obvious,
and the association of Japheth with Shem (“dark”) and Ham
(“black”) suggests a name on similar lines - either gentilic, or
descriptive of race. Japheth has therefore been explained as meaning
“fair,” from yāphāh, the non-Sem and non-Hamitic races known to
the Jews being all more or less whiteskinned. The Targum of Onkelos
agrees with the English Versions of the Bible, but that of Jonathan
has “God shall beautify Japheth,” as though from yāphāȟ.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>2.
His Descendants</u> --- The immediate descendants of Japheth were
seven in number, and are represented by the nations designated Gomer,
Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Mesech, and Tiras; or, roughly, the
Armenians, Lydians, Medes, Greeks, Tibarenians, and Moschians, lthe
last, Tiras, remaining still obscure. The sons of Gomer (Ashkenaz,
Riphath and Togarmah) were all settled in the West Asian tract; while
the sons of Javan (Elisah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim or Rodanim)
occupied the Mediterranean coast and the adjacent islands.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u>3.
His Place Among the Sons of Noah --- </u>In <u>Gen_9:27</u>, as in
other passages, Japheth occupies the 3rd place in the enumeration of
the sons of Noah, but he is really regarded as the 2nd son, Ham being
the youngest. In the genealogical table, however (<u>Gen_10:1</u>),
the descendants of Japheth are given first, and those of Shem last,
in order to set forth Semitic affinities at greater length. Though
this would seem to indicate that the fair races were the least known
to the Jews, it implies that the latter were well disposed toward
them, for Japheth was (ultimately) <u>to dwell in the tents of Shem</u>,
<u>and therefore to take part in Shem's spiritual privileges.</u></span></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;">May
YHWH bless you as you keep the way of the Torah following our Master
Yehoshua HaMaschiach!</span></span></div>
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<style type="text/css">P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-40010359016696542662019-10-24T02:08:00.000-07:002019-10-24T02:09:18.620-07:00# 3 PARASHA LECH LECHA "GO FOR THYSELF" B’reshit 12:1-17:27<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial black" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>Parsha
Lech L’cha – Go for thyself - </b></u></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>B’reshit
12:1-17:27</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>YeshaYahu
40:27-41:16, Romans 4:1-25, ; Galatians 5:1-6</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Daniel
ben Ya’acov Israel (updated October 2019)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">With this </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Parasha</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
we are going to study </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham’s</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
life and dig unto his life to see what the reason of this study is.
The </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
doesn’t give a lot of details concerning the life of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
in his first years before he reach the age of seventy. This brought
many Christians scholars to speculation and false teaching. We have
already seen with the first </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>parsha
b’reshit </i></span><span lang="en-GB">that the Torah was given
with </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Adam</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
who came from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
In traditional </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Judaism </i></span><span lang="en-GB">it
is taught that seven things came with Adam, one of it was the Torah.
We get confirmation in the fact that Elohim told Cain about </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>sin
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">and sin cannot exist without the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Torah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,
because </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>sin is the transgression of the
Torah (1</i></span><sup><span lang="en-GB"><i>st</i></span></sup><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Yochan.3:4) </i></span><span lang="en-GB">! Further we have seen also
that </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Hebel</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
(Abel) brought a better sacrifice, here also according to the Torah.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">In the Torah
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham’s</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
story start when </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">say to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
to “Go for thyself” or “Go out” “</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Lech
L’cha</i></span><span lang="en-GB">” in Hebrew. We don’t have
any information in the Torah concerning his former life and why
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> has
chosen him. From the first </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>parasha </i></span><span lang="en-GB">we
learn that sin call for judgment! Abram life is an important study
to understand our own life. We can divide Abram’s life as
following:</span></span></div>
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<li><div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Abram call.</b></span></div>
</li>
<li><div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Abram promise</b></span></div>
</li>
<li><div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Abram struggle</b></span></div>
</li>
<li><div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Abram become
Abraham</b></span></div>
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</ol>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">This call is for all
of us who want to follow Messiah! Abram was 75 years old (B’reshit
12:4) when he left </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Haran </i></span><span lang="en-GB">as
we are going to read, he was raised in the tent of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Shem</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Eber</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
from his youth and was well acquainted with the knowledge of one
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,
one creator, pure and impure, and all justice and judgment (B’reshit
18:19) where we learn the premises of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>D’varim
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">6:6-7. Christianity will tell you as
they do many times, that </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">is Omnipresent, Omniscient and this is why
he could call </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-GB">:
“</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>He knew his heart</b></span><span lang="en-GB">”!
Is it true?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Yes it is true that
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">knew the heart of Abram the same as he
knows our heart because He is the one who search the heart and try
the reins of every man to reward them after their deeds (</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yrmeyahu</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
17:10), but there is another reason to have chosen Abram. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Knowing now the
context we read the Torah with an open mind. It becomes easy to
understand why </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">chose </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
after having chosen </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and his household </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
knew </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">from his youth and walked according to the
teaching from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Shem</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
his son. ----- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Gen
12:1</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>said to Aḇram, “Go yourself
out of your land, from your relatives and from your father’s house,
to a land which I show you. ………</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">In another </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>midrash</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
I have explained that in order to work in somebody’s life, </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><b>
</b></span><span lang="en-GB">will require “separation”, set
apartness or to be “</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Qadosh</i></span><span lang="en-GB">”,
and this is only possible </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>when we remove
ourselves form our former way of life and cut every relation to those
who were our “friends, family members, even children” if they
reject </b></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><b>’</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>s
way</b></span><span lang="en-GB">. Are you ready?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Remember that we
shall always try to see the “</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Pardes</i></span><span lang="en-GB">”,
the four ways of interpretation in order to see the “secret” or
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“mind of Elohim”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">!
For we have the mind of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">(1</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">st</span></sup><span lang="en-GB">
Corint.2:16). The Prophet </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>YeshaYahu</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
says that </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
speaks the End from the beginning (Isa.chap. 47). The Hebrew word
used for “beginning” is “</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>B’reshit</i></span><span lang="en-GB">”:
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>the </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>first</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
in place, time, order or rank. </i></span><span lang="en-US">There
is no coincidence with </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">everything take place according to
His own will and purpose. This is also truth with our own life. If
any person has told you that you’re and “accident” in your
parent’s life, I am sorry to say that’s a lie. Everything in life
happen because it is </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">’</span></span><span lang="en-US">s
will.----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2Ti 1:9</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
who has saved us and called us with a set-apart calling, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>not
according to our works, but </b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>according
to His own purpose</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b> </b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
favour which was given to us in Messiah </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>before times of old</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><u>,
</u></i></span><span lang="en-US">The KJV write: “before the world
began”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 12:2</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And I shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your
name great, and you shall be a blessing! ……. </i></span><span lang="en-US">The
call is always with a promise, for us it is salvation through Messiah
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">if we endure to the end........... </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Here </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">make </span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>the
promise to </b></u></span><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>Abram</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-US">
to make him to become a great nation and that he will become a
blessing! Just read what we can found in the book of Hebrew: ----
</span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 11:8</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by belief, </b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>Aḇraham
obeyed</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> when he was called to
go out to the place which he was about to receive as an inheritance.
And he went out, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>not knowing
where he was going</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
11:9</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by
belief</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, he sojourned in the land
of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥaq and
Yaʽaqoḇ, the heirs with him of the same promise, </i></span></span>
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 11:10</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for he was looking for the city having foundations, whose builder and
maker is Elohim. </i></span></span>
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</span>
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 11:11</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by belief also</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
Sarah herself was enabled to conceive seed, and she bore a child when
she was past the normal age, because she deemed Him trustworthy who
had promised. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
11:12</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and so </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>from
one</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, and him as good as dead,
were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the
sand which is by the seashore. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb
11:13</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> In belief all these
died, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>not having received the
promises,</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> but seeing them from a
distance, welcomed and embraced them, and confessed that they were
aliens and strangers on the earth.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">What is with the other “fathers of faith”:
----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 11:39</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and having obtained witness through the belief, </i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>all
these did not receive the promise..................</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> and the
others didn’t receive the promise! This is very amazing to read
this in the book of Hebrew. Is </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
or the one writing this book wrong? No!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Hebrew tells us that they saw the promise from a
distance but </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>obtained witness through
belief</b></span><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Now it will be </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">who will have to complete His promise to
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and all who followed him (included </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and his family). At it seems to be confusing but if we consider that
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">was the First raise from among the
death we will understand: </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">will have to raise </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram,
Itzach, Ya’acov, Noach, Shem, Eber, King David</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and many others who were born before </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">in order for them to see the
fulfilment of the promise. Can you see? The promise is still valid
and will be plain when our forefathers see the Fullness of it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">How it is with us? ---- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mar
10:29</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>said, “Truly, I say to you,
there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father
or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the
Good News, </i></span></span>
</div>
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</span>
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Mar 10:30</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and
brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with
persecutions, and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>in the age to
come, everlasting life. …….. </b></i></span><span lang="en-US">We
walk by faith not by sight, nothing has changed brothers and sisters,
we also have the hope of eternal life and through faith in Messiah
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">have obtained the promise. We will
see the fulfillment of it with our forefathers when </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">will come to establish </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">’</span></span><span lang="en-US">s
Kingdom on earth. When we hear </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">’</span></span><span lang="en-US">s
call we are almost all come from Christianity, the place where </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>fish </i></span><span lang="en-US">us.
From this point on, we are like </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
not knowing where we are going, finish the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>comfort
zone </i></span><span lang="en-US">among so call Christian’s
family. Now we will be taught to walk by faith alone and to trust
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">in our everyday life. Finish the
flawed teaching of false pastors, </span><span lang="en-US"><b>the
teacher is now the </b></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Ruach HaQodesh</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-US">who will lead us into the truth, the
Torah. </span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Unlike </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
who was raised in the truth from his youth, we will have </span><span lang="en-US"><b>to
renew our mind</b></span><span lang="en-US"> (Rom. 12:2) to escape
the world’s system. </span><span lang="en-US"><i> </i></span><span lang="en-US">The
choice is still ours either to follow the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ruach
HaQodesh </i></span><span lang="en-US">or to fall into the hands of
the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Beast</i></span><span lang="en-US">!
----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 12:3</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
“And I shall bless those who bless you, and curse him who curses
you. and in you all the clans of the earth shall be blessed.” ………</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The Hebrew word for “bless” is the word
“</span><span lang="en-US"><i>barak</i></span><span lang="en-US">”
which mean: to kneel down” or to come closer in order to fulfill
the promise. This word has been misused by Christianity which has
turned it in a “money machine” used by “G-d” for those who
pay “tithe” to their pastors! Do not be blinded </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">
is not a respecter of person and His blessing is not “money”. I
don’t say that </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">
will not make money come into your hands, but he is more interested
to restore our soul and make us fruitful in good works (i.e. give
money to other!). </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">is here telling Abram: I will care
for you in every way and those who despise you or reject you I will
curse. We should again go to the Hebrew in order to understand. The
word “curse” in our understanding has more to do with some kind
of evil things done by </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">.
This is what you will see especially in </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Africa</i></span><span lang="en-US">
where people go to the “marabou” to put “curses” on somebody.
This is not </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">,
but the forces of darkness. The word for curse is the Hebrew
word:”</span><span lang="en-US"><i>arar</i></span><span lang="en-US">”
which means: abhor, or hate. In other word </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">say to Abram, I will kneel down to
those who will kneel down to you, who will be favorable to you and I
will abhor and hate those who hate you. Those who will help </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abraham’s</i></span><span lang="en-US">
descendant will receive help from </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">and the other will be hated and
abhorred.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 12:4</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
So Aḇram left, as </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>had commanded him, and Lot went
with him. And </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Aḇram was
seventy-five years old when he set out from Ḥaran. ……………</b></i></span><span lang="en-US">Once
again we will see what </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">has embedded in the Torah. The
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>gemetria</i></span><span lang="en-US">
or study of the number will show us that Abram was called at the
appointed time. He was 75 years old. Seven plus Five equals twelve. 7
the number for divine perfection on earth, we could also say </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">’</span></span><span lang="en-US">s
perfect will on earth; 5 the number for Torah, the five books Moshe
and also the number for “grace” </span><span lang="en-US"><i>(Chesed)</i></span><span lang="en-US">
as it is taught in the study of the “Tree of Life” in the
esoteric teaching. Twelve </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">’</span></span><span lang="en-US">s
number for divine government on earth. ------ </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mar
10:29</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>said, “Truly, I say to you,
there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father
or mother or wife or children or lands, for the sake of Me and the
Good News, </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Mar
10:30</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> who shall not receive a
hundredfold now in this time, houses and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>brothers
and sisters</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>mothers
and children</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and lands, with
persecutions, and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>in the age to
come, everlasting life. </b></i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This is a place to meditate and build our faith on
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">and not on our surrounding which is
familiar to us.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Have you not receive
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>brothers </i></span><span lang="en-US">and
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>sisters</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and </span><span lang="en-US"><i>mothers </i></span><span lang="en-US">and
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>children </i></span><span lang="en-US">since
the day you are in Messiah </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">or do you still make difference
between the children you receive from </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">and those from the brethren! Have we
not all received new </span><span lang="en-US"><i>mothers </i></span><span lang="en-US">in
our older sisters? We can think about that! ----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
12:5</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and Aḇram took Sarai
his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that
they had gathered, and the beings whom they had acquired in Ḥaran,
and they set out for the land of Kenaʽan. And they came to the land
of Kenaʽan. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Abram took </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">
the daughter of his older brother Haran who died under Nimrod’s
violence. Lot was also Haran’s son and nephew of Abram. In other
words, Abram married his cousin </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai.
Haran; Abram’s</i></span><span lang="en-US"> brother died burned,
when Nimrod had him thrown with </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram </i></span><span lang="en-US">in
fire where a messenger of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">came to deliver him. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Haran
</i></span><span lang="en-US">died because of lack of faith! They
left Haran (read </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Charan</i></span><span lang="en-US">:
Karan). The Hebrew word “</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Haran</i></span><span lang="en-US">”
means: </span><span lang="en-US"><b>parched</b></span><span lang="en-US">,
and comes from the Hebrew word </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Charan</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(read Karar), to glow, literally </span><span lang="en-US"><b>to
melt, burn</b></span><span lang="en-US">, dry up or figuratively to
incite to passion. This is very significant as we know that </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">told Abram to leave this place where
he couldn’t live his faith and worship Him. How is it with us
today? Is it different with our family and our friends who reject
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">and </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">to follow their own ways? </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Abram</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>
took </b></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Sarai</b></i></span><span lang="en-US">!
The word meaning here comes from the Hebrew word “</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sar</i></span><span lang="en-US">”
which means: </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“</i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>dominative</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>”,</i></span><span lang="en-US">
a head person. Later she will be called “</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarah</i></span><span lang="en-US">”
which means: a mistress, a princess, </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">
also will undergo a change in her life in order to become this
princess. </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Pe 3:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
as </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>Sarah obeyed Aḇraham</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>,
calling him master</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, of whom you
became children, doing good, and not frightened by any fear. .......
</i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Don’t be chocked we have all one Master; </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">and one </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Zebaoth</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
It is not bad to have a Master. Another meaning for </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sarai
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">according to ISBE </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>(International
Standard Bible Encyclopedia):</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.04in; text-indent: 0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The
former name appears to be derived from </span><span lang="en-US"><b>the
same root as </b></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Israel</b></i></span><span lang="en-US">,
if, indeed, </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Gen_32:28</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">
is intended as an etymology of Israel. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“She
that strives,”</i></span><span lang="en-US"> a contentious person,
is a name that might be given to a child at birth (compare </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Hos_12:3</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">,
</span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Hos_12:4</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">,
of Jacob), or later when the child's character developed; in </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Gen_16:6</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">
and </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Gen_21:10</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">
a contentious character appears. Yet comparison with the history of
her husband's name warns us not to operate solely upon the basis of
the Hebrew language. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">
was the name this woman brought with her from Mesopotamia. On the
other hand there can be little doubt that the name Sarah, which she
received when her son was promised, means “princess,” for it is
the feminine form of the extremely common title </span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>sar</b></i></span><span lang="en-US">,
used by the Semites to designate a ruler of greater or lesser rank.
In the verse following the one where this name is conferred, it is
declared of Sarah that </span><span lang="en-US"><b>“kings of
peoples shall be of her”</b></span><span lang="en-US"> (</span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>Gen_17:16</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">).</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Today women are
taught to live on their own to be </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>emancipated,</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
to</span><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span lang="en-GB">have
their own way of life. The result of it is depravity and destruction
of the family. Modern countries promote </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>liberty
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">for women. Their independency has
become an instrument in the hands of those who want to destroy the
remaining belief in one “G-d” to enforce </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>humanism
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">which is a mix of Greek </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>stoicism
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">belief defining the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>law
of nature as reason </i></span><span lang="en-GB">and </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Epicureans
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">who follow after </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>hedonism
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">(pleasure of life). </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Emancipate</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:
To set free from the power of another, to free from any controlling
influence, to set free from bondage, to give freedom (Everest
dictionary) .This movement started in the 60’s.Today many laws
encourage this life style for women. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">---- </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
warns the Corinthians against the</span><span lang="en-GB"><i> Wisdom
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">of the Greeks: ---- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Co
1:19</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>for
it is written, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>I will destroy the
wisdom of the wise</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, and will
bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. </i></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Co
2:5</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>that
your faith should not stand in </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the
wisdom of men</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, but in the power
of YHWH. </i></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Co
2:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>howbeit
we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>not
the wisdom of this world</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, nor of
the princes of this world, that come to nought:</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>---- </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Corinth</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:</span><span lang="en-GB">
A celebrated city of the Peloponnesus, capital of Corinthian the land
of the Phoenicians, when </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Athens</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Thebes</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sparta</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> and
Argos fell away, Corinth came to the front again as the wealthiest
and most important city in </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Greece</b></span><span lang="en-GB">;(ISB)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 12:6</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and Aḇram passed through the land to the place of Sheḵem, as far
as the terebinth tree of Moreh. At that time the Kenaʽanites were in
the land. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
12:7</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>appeared to Aḇram and said, “To
your seed I give this land.” And he built there an altar to </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
who had appeared to him. Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US"> goes to
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Kanaan</i></span><span lang="en-US"> a
land given to him by </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Kanaanite</i></span><span lang="en-US">
were idolaters, descendants from </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Kanaan</i></span><span lang="en-US">
the son of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ham</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
son of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
In B’reshit 9:25, </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-US">
put a “curse” on </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Kanaan</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
Read/ ----- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Zec
14:21</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"> and every pot in
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yerushalayim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehuḏah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
shall be set-apart to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">of hosts. And all those who
slaughter shall come and take them and cook in them. And there shall
no longer be a merchant (</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Kanaanite</i></span><span lang="en-US">:
trafficker) in the House of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">of hosts, in that day…….. </span><span lang="en-GB">I
have explained in the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>parsaha Noach </i></span><span lang="en-GB">what
happened to the descendants of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
one of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach’s</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
sons. Nevertheless, </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>curse </i></span><span lang="en-GB">is
removed for all those who are in Messiah </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-GB">.
The world today ignores the truth, and therefore follows its own
doctrine. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
Abram’s life influenced other people life that came to join
themselves to him. How it is with us, are we also a good image to
others, are we bringing people back to the Torah?
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">--- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
12:8</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and from there he moved
to the mountain east of Bĕyth Ěl, and he pitched his tent, with
Bĕyth Ěl on the west and Ai on the east. And he built there an
altar to </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and called on the Name of </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>.
……. Beyth’El</i></span><span lang="en-US"> on the west and </span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Ai</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-US">on the east: The word </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“ay”</i></span><span lang="en-US">
written </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ayin,Yod</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and meaning a heap or ruin coming from the word </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“avah”</i></span><span lang="en-US">
to crook, lit., or fig., do amiss, to make crooked, </span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>commit
iniquity</b></i></span><span lang="en-US">, pervert, </span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>do
wickedly</b></i></span><span lang="en-US">. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">On the west </span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Beyth’El</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>,</b></span><span lang="en-US">
“House of El”. If we look what later happen to the House of
Israel, we will see that they will be scattered to the west: </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">----- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Psa
103:12</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> As far as east
(Ai) is from west (Beth’El), So far has He removed our
transgressions from us........</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">This verse tells us that as far those who commit
iniquity (transgression, rejection of the Torah) is far from
Beyth’El, the House of El, so far as He (</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">)
removes our transgression: </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
3:13</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> Messiah redeemed us from
the curse of the law, having become a curse for us – for it has
been written, </i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Cursed
is everyone who hangs upon a tree.”</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></sup></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
– </i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Footnote:
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></sup></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Dt.
</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><i>21:23.</i></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal 3:14</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
in order that the blessing of Aḇraham might come upon the nations
in Messiah </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
to receive the promise of the Spirit through belief. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
3:26</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> for </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>you
are all sons of Elohim</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> through
belief in Messiah </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gal 3:27</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
for as many of you as were immersed into Messiah have put on Messiah.
</i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gal 3:28</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
There is not Yehuḏite nor Greek, there is not slave nor free, there
is not male and female, for you are all one in Messiah </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>.
</i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gal 3:29</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
and if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs
according to promise……. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Test: </b></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>--- </b></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
12:9</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and Aḇram set out,
continuing toward the South. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 12:10</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>a scarcity of food</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
came to be in the land, and Aḇram went down to Mitsrayim to dwell
there, for the scarcity of food was severe in the land………….</i></span><span lang="en-US">Something
happen to </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
which was not possible to calculate or to plan. Does </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">felt short? Just read: ----- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Luk
4:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
being filled with the Set-apart Spirit, returned from the Yardĕn and
</i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>was led by the Spirit into the
wilderness, </b></i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Luk
4:2</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>being
tried</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i> for forty days by the
devil. And in those days He did not eat at all, and afterward, when
they had ended, He was hungry. ………….</i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">try his people. If he did with </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
as He did also to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">do you think that he will do with
us? Of course he will, so don’t be surprised when things happen
that do not go as you expect. Pray and wait upon </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">.
-------- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
12:11</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and it came to be, when
he was close to entering Mitsrayim, that he said to Sarai his wife,
“See, I know that you are a fair woman to look at. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 12:12-20</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“and it shall be, when the Mitsrites see you, that they shall say,
‘This is his wife.’ And they shall kill me, but let you live...</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Conclusion: If we
are doing right in the sight of </b></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Elohim</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>
according to His will, in time of distress, He will hear our prayers!</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chapter 13.</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>-----</b></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Gen
13:1</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and Aḇram went up
from Mitsrayim into the South, he and his wife and all that he had,
and Lot with him. ....... </i></span><span lang="en-GB">Abram journey
toward the south: In esoteric thoughts, the south is on the right
side the side of mercy (</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>chesed</i></span><span lang="en-GB">)
opposite to the north the side of strength and judgement (</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>gewurah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">)
The tabernacle will be built on the east where the Mercy seat will
take place: ---</span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Num
3:38</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> And those who were
to camp before </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the Dwelling Place</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>on the east</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
before the Tent of Meeting, were Mosheh and Aharon, and his sons,
guarding the duty of the set-apart place, and the duty of the
children of Yisra’ĕl. But the stranger who came near was to be put
to death. ............ </i></span><span lang="en-GB">If the
tabernacle is on the East, the opposite is the west, the entrance of
the Tabernacle through the inner court. With this in mind we can read
again: ----- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
103:12</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>As
far as east is from west</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, So far
has He removed our transgressions from us...........</i></span><span lang="en-GB">Can
you see how promises come to us? Abram went to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Mitzrayim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Egypt</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> a
microcosm the world today. The Torah’s frame is a representation of
what happen in the all world today. We know that </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Egypt</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
is a synonym for oppression it was a shadow of the world today as we
understand the scripture in our days. </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">has </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>chosen</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
a place to make us understand what will be in the “later days”,
as </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ya’acov</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
will later tells his children and later Moshe. ---- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>49:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and Yaʽaqoḇ called his sons and said, “Gather together, so that
I declare to you what is to befall you </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>in
the last days</b></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
The world system is the place for the natural food, and also at the
same time a place of immorality.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>........Pharaoh</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
is a picture of the ruler of this world today “</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>g-d
on earth</i></span><span lang="en-GB">” as he was called, the
ultimate ruler, the lawless one. If we remember the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>parsha
B’reshit</i></span><span lang="en-GB">, we saw that the woman is a
picture of the “</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>called out”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
assembly, the House of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ya’acov</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
Luke 1:33 see also Eph.5:31-32 . Whenever the rulers of this world
will touch the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“called out”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
(</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ekklesias</i></span><span lang="en-GB">)
or “Assembly” </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
will plague them. ----- </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
105:14</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>He
allowed no one to oppress them</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>He reproved sovereigns for
their sakes</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
105:15</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Saying</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
“Do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no
evil.”..................</i></span><span lang="en-GB">In chapter
12:10 it is written: </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“and Abram went
down”</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> it is here written in chapter
13:1 </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“and Abram went up”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
This has a very important meaning as it can be also found before the
children of Israel enter the Promise land, they will have to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“go
down”. </i></span><span lang="en-GB">In Hebrew thoughts to go down
means: to humble ourselves to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-GB">s
will, to go up is to be elevated by </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-GB">.
Read: ----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Pe
5:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> Humble yourselves (go
down), then, under the mighty hand of Elohim, so that He exalts (to
go up) you in due time,....... </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">I found another
explanation given by Nathan Lawrence: </span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>The
rabbis note the significance of this passage in that one always
speaks of “going up” or “making </i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>aliyah</i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>”
(i.e., ascending) to the land of Israel and Jerusalem. Going up </i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>from
</i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>what </i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>to
</i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>what
spiritually speaking? Here the country Abram is leaving represents
what spiritually? Where does he end up? What does </i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Beth-el
</i></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>mean?
Doesn’t this speak of the spiritual journey each of us is on as we
leave the spiritual servitude, bondage and slavery of the world,
flesh and the devil seeking to “dwell in the house of YHVH forever”
as David states in Psalm 23:6? ------ </i></span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
23:6</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>I
will dwell in the house of YHWH forever. --------- </b></i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
13:2</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i> and Aḇram </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>was
very rich in livestock</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>in
silver</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>in
gold</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
13:3</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and he went on his
journey from the South as far as Bĕyth Ěl, to the place where his
tent had been at the beginning, between Bĕyth Ěl and Ai, </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
13:4</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> to the place of the
altar which he had made there at first. And there </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Aḇram
called on the Name of </b></i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>.
</b></i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 13:5</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
now Lot, who went with Aḇram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
</i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 13:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
and the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell
together, for their possessions were great, so that </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>they
could not dwell together</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:7</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and there was strife
between the herdsmen of Aḇram’s livestock and the herdsmen of
Lot’s livestock. And at that time the Kenaʽanites and the
Perizzites dwelt in the land. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:8</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> Then Aḇram said to
Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between
my herdsmen and your herdsmen, </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>for
we are brothers</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:9</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> “Is not all the land
before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I go
to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I go to the left.”
</i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 13:10</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Lot lifted his eyes and saw
all the plain of the Yardĕn, that it was well watered everywhere </b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>–
before </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>destroyed Seḏom and Amorah –
like the garden of </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
like the land of Mitsrayim as you go toward Tsoʽar. </i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:11</b></span><span lang="en-US"><i> so </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Lot
chose for himself all the plain of the Yardĕn</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and Lot moved east. Thus they separated from each other, </i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:12</b></span><span lang="en-US"><i> Aḇram dwelling in the land
of Kenaʽan, and Lot dwelling in the cities of the plain and pitched
his tent as far as Seḏom. ……..</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Lot walked by
sight: -----</b></span><span lang="en-US">Let us see first the
meaning of the name according to:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Strong’s:</span><span lang="en-US"><b>H3876
</b></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">לוט</span></span><b>
</b></span><span lang="en-US">lôṭ </span><span lang="en-US"><i>lote</i></span><span lang="en-US">
The same as </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H3875</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">;
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
Abraham’s nephew: - Lot…..</span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H3875</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">
From </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H3874</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">;
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>a </b></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>veil</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>:
- </i></span><span lang="en-US">covering………</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Was </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot
</i></span><span lang="en-US">blind? Do you remember what </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Shaul
</i></span><span lang="en-US">says: ----- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>2Co
3:15</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"> </span><span lang="en-US"><i>but
even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
</i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>2Co 3:16</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>nevertheless when it shall turn to YHWH,
the veil shall be taken away. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">There was a conflict
between </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and his uncle </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
Lot followed </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
because he knew that his father’s brother was right, he didn’t
had the maturity of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
When it came to separate, he chose the easy way, the place he could
see prosperity, he journey toward the East. Remember the east and
west are opposite. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot</i></span><span lang="en-US">
pitched his tent toward </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sodom</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sodom</i></span><span lang="en-US"> is
known for immorality. Read </span><span lang="en-US"><i>B’reshit</i></span><span lang="en-US">
19:4-5. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sodomite</i></span><span lang="en-US">
today is accepted in the Society, even protected by laws against
discrimination. </span></span>
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</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot</i></span><span lang="en-US">
represents those who live by sight and thus will run into trouble
while </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
is the pardigm of the perfect faith, following </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and His TORAH. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot</i></span><span lang="en-US">
knew that </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
was right but He chose the place were he can see the abundance. Not
so </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
he doesn’t care for that knowing that </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">will provide. We will see that </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot</i></span><span lang="en-US">
will be saved from destruction because of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
We should think about this situation. What will happen with those
from among Christianity who will acknowledge being Abraham’s seed
in </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: #002060;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">but still walking their own ways? </span></span>
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</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:19</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i> “Whoever, then, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>breaks
</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>one of the least of these
commands, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>and teaches men</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
so, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>shall be called least in the
reign of the heavens</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>; but
whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign
of the heavens. ............</i></span><span lang="en-GB">Do not
think it is out of context. At this time </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">came to restore the truth to the
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehudin</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
who were following the tradition of man (Pharisee/rabies). This
principle is still valid today, for those who want to teach others.
----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 13:13</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
But the men of Seḏom were evil and sinned before </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
exceedingly so. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:14</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> And </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>after
Lot had separated from him, </b></i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>said to Aḇram</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
“Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are,
northward and southward and eastward and westward, …………………..</i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">gives the promise to Abram, only
after he has been separated from Lot. How it is with us, are we still
among our brethren from Christianity who rebel against </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">’</span></span><span lang="en-US">s
Torah asking for material well being, or having let everything in
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">’</span></span><span lang="en-US">s
hand trusting him for our best?</span></span></div>
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</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lot </i></span><span lang="en-US">will become
the father of: </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ammon </i></span><span lang="en-US">and
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Moab </i></span><span lang="en-US">who
later become enemies from the Children of Israel!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 13:15</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
for all the land which you see I shall give to you and your seed
forever. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:16</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> “And I shall make
your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the
dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:17</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> “Arise, walk in the
land through its length and its width, for I give it to you.” </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This promise 15-17 is still valid today and the
descendant have become like the dust of the earth. Unfortunately most
of them do not know where they are coming from, and for the majority
“they don’t care”, they are to busy with “money making”.
</span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Cor 4:4</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>in whom the
mighty one (g-d) of this age</i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of
the Good News of the esteem (glory) of Messiah, who is the likeness
of Elohim, does not shine on them. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen
13:18</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> So Aḇram moved his
tent, and went and dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ, which are
in Ḥeḇron, and built an altar there to </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>.
……….. </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
dwelt in the plain of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Mamre</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
In Hebrew the word “</span><span lang="en-US"><i>mamre</i></span><span lang="en-US">”
comes from the word </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“mara”</i></span><span lang="en-US">
which means to rebel, through the idea of maltreating, to whip, be
filthy, lift us self! Very interesting as we are going to see in the
next chapter </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
is on the way to be called “</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-US">”.
He will change is nature. </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">says: ”you must be born from
above” (Yochanan 3:3,7)……… </span></span>
</div>
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</span>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Chapter 14 </b></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen 14:1</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and it came to be in the days of Amraphel sovereign of Shinʽar,
Aryoḵ sovereign of Ellasar, Keḏorlaʽomer sovereign of Ěylam,
and Tiḏʽal sovereign of Goyim, </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:2</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> that they fought against
Bera sovereign of Seḏom, Birsha sovereign of Amorah (Gomohra),
Shinaḇ sovereign of Aḏmah, Shem’ĕḇer sovereign of Tseḇoyim,
and the sovereign of Bela, that is Tsoʽar. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:3</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> all these joined
together in the Valley of Siddim, that is the Salt Sea. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Gen 14:4</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Twelve years they served Keḏorlaʽomer, and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>in
the thirteenth year they rebelled</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
...... </i></span><span lang="en-GB">Therefore in Hebrew gemetria,
the number 13 is the number for rebellion. </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:5</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and in the fourteenth
year Keḏorlaʽomer and the sovereigns that were with him came and
smote the Repha’im in Ashteroth Qarnayim, and the Zuzim in Ḥam,
and the Ěmites in Shawĕh Qiryathayim, </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and the Ḥorites in
their mountain of Sĕʽir, as far as Ěl Paran, which is by the
wilderness. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:7</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and they turned back and
came to Ěn Mishpat that is Qaḏĕsh, and smote all the country of
the Amalĕqites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Ḥatsetson
Tamar. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:8</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and the sovereign of
Seḏom, and the sovereign of Amorah (Gomohra), and the sovereign of
Aḏmah, and the sovereign of Tseḇoyim, and the sovereign of Bela,
that is Tsoʽar, went out and joined together in battle in the Valley
of Siddim, </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:9</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> against Keḏorlaʽomer
sovereign of Ěylam, and Tiḏʽal sovereign of Goyim, and Amraphel
sovereign of Shinʽar, and Aryoḵ sovereign of Ellasar – four
sovereigns against five. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:10</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and the Valley of
Siddim had many tar pits. and the sovereigns of Seḏom and Amorah
(Gomohra) fled and fell there, and the remainder fled to the
mountains. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:11</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and they took all the
goods of Seḏom and Amorah (Gomohra), and all their food, and went
away. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
14:12</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>they
took Lot, Aḇram’s brother’s son</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
who dwelt in Seḏom, and his goods, and left. ........</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Amraphel</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> (verse
1) was descendant from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>through Ham</b></span><span lang="en-GB">,
Cush, Nimrod.. They made war with 5 kings:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Zoar</b></span><span lang="en-GB">= Hebrew
Tzoar: to be small, </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>ignoble</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Shmeber</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: name of
pinion, illustrious </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Sinab</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: from the
Hebrew word “</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>shana</i></span><span lang="en-GB">”
to alter, change. and </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Besha</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
and </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Bera</b></span><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">These 5 kings from Sodom and Gomorrah rebelled in
the thirteen year. These wicked kings joined themselves to back
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Chedor’laomer</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
a </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Perser</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
king descendant from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Canaan</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
descendant from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Cush</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
descendant from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
son of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
---- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen 14:13</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and one who had escaped came and informed Aḇram the Heḇrew, for
he dwelt by the terebinth trees of Mamrĕ the Amorite, brother of
Eshkol and brother of Anĕr, and they had a covenant with Aḇram. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen 14:14</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
And when Aḇram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed
his </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>three hundred and eighteen
</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>trained servants who were
born in his own house</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, and went
in pursuit as far as Dan. ........ </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
Look how was the proportion in the battle Abram entered:
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
In Gematria (value of numbers) 318 the number of Abram servants: --
Three hundred = 50 x 6 + 6 x 3.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
50 is the number 10x 5 or the sum of all numbers and the number for
Torah the 5 books Moshe together. We can say that this number
represent a decision taken according to the Torah or divine
instruction with men (number 6) submitting not to the natural. The
number 3 relate to what is solid, real, and complete: past, present
and future, thought words and deeds. Three denote divine perfection.
The number 3 is part of creation that was in three steps: mineral,
vegetal and animal.
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Remember that man without </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-GB">s
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ruach</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> is
like an animal! </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>318 </b></span><span lang="en-GB">the number
from the gematria for Eliezer ( helped of El/G-d)in Hebrew:</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "ezra sil";"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">אליעז
</span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.behindthename.com/support/transcribe?type=HB&target=%27E%5E%5Eliy%22e%5Eze%5Er"><span style="color: #444488;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: "optima" , "segoe" , "segoe ui" , "candara" , "calibri" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ר</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Counting
the value of the letters Alef 1, Lamed 30, yod 10, Ayin 70 , zain 7 ,
and resh 200 we have</span></span></span><span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>
</b></span></span><span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the
sum: 318.</b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">We
found another example in the book of John (Yochanan )21:11, 153
fishes. Which erveal that this practice was well known in the first
century, pointing to the work of Yeshua as a Master builder. I will
explained later in the book of Shemot/Exodus. </span></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen 14:15-18</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Christians who read
only the plain text refers to him as to be </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Messiah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
the pre-incarnate Messiah, because of Hebrew 7:1 “without father,
without mother, without descend, having neither beginning nor end,
but made like the sons of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
</span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">This is a poor
understanding. The difficulty to understand is to know if the
“without father ….’ Is literal or to see this title given to
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">is a heavenly on in opposition to
the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>levitical</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
priesthood which came from father and mother, all descendants from
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Levi</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> son
of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ya’acov</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
(i.e </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Moshe</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Aaron</i></span><span lang="en-GB">)?
The meaning of “without beginning and without end is because it is
a priesthood from above not earthly. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Verse 20</b></span><span lang="en-GB">.
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> paid
tithe to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Malkitsedek</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
Some have interpreted that this is the proof we shall pay tithe. Here
the Hebrew word is </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“ma’asrah”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
the tenth part of the spoil and nothing else. The same word when
translated </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“tithe”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
is in regards to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-GB">s
commands to bring the first fruits of the ground, here the spoil is
to be regarded in connection with the word </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“ma’asrah”,
tenth”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">! Ten is a divine number used
by </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-GB">s
to represent the sum of all numbers. In this case it has nothing to
do with the </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Levitical</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
priesthood, if not the allegorical meaning has written in Hebrew
7:9-10. This is not to be taken literally as it is mentioned by the
writer of Hebrew (verse 9) </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“that I may
say so”</i></span><span lang="en-GB">: It is an allegory made by
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
because </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Levi </i></span><span lang="en-GB">will
descend from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham </i></span><span lang="en-GB">though
his father </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ya’acov!</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen 14:21- 24</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-US"><i> </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The chapter 15
recalls the confirmation of the promise, a “</span><span lang="en-US"><i>brit</i></span><span lang="en-US">”
as we have the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“brit Ha Chadsah”</i></span><span lang="en-US">
falsely called “new testament”</span><span lang="en-US"><b>.
</b></span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
complain to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">that he has only </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Eliezer</i></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>(El will help)</i></span><span lang="en-US">
as heir, but </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">tell him that his heir will come out of his
own bowel and his descendants will be like the stars of heavens.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Do you know how many
descendants from </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
are under heaven? Look at the stars in the night. Unfortunately most
of them, ignore it, or reject it. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">---- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
15:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> after these events the
word of </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>came to Aḇram in a vision, saying, “Do
not be afraid, Aḇram. I am your shield, your reward is exceedingly
great.” </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
3:3</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> but You, O </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>,
are a shield for </b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>me, My esteem,
and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>the One lifting up my head</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 84:11</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim is a sun and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>a
shield</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>; </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>gives favour and esteem; </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>He
withholds no good </b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>matter</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>
</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>from those who walk blamelessly.
</i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 91:4</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB">
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>He covers you with His feathers, and
under His wings you take refuge; His truth </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>is
a shield and armour. </b></i></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Pro
30:5</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Every
Word of Eloah is tried</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></sup></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
He is </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>a shield</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
to those taking refuge in Him. </i></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Psa
119:114</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> You are my hiding
place and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>my shield</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>;
I have waited for Your word.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 15:2-6</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-US"> speaks
of this passage from the Torah when explaining in his epistle the
true faith to the believers in Rome</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom 4:1</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> what,
then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to
the flesh? </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom 4:2</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for if Aḇraham was declared right by works, he has </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>ground
for</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> boasting, but not before Elohim.
</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom 4:3</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for what does the Scripture say? “</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Aḇraham
believed Elohim</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and it was
reckoned to him for righteousness.”</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal 3:6</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Even so Aḇraham “did believe Elohim, and it was reckoned unto him
as righteousness.” The book of Galatians speaks about the
justification by faith and not by work. This is the mean topic of
this epistle. Christianity has changed it to make it a book against
the Torah. Only those who reject the Torah will come to this
conclusion. I recommend to read the book on Galatians from Abiv
Mordechai.</i></span><span lang="en-GB">. </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
3:7</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> Know, then, that those
who are of belief are sons of Aḇraham......... </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">
This is the conclusion of the matter.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 15:7</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
and He said to him, “I am </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
who brought you out of </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Ur</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.” ………………</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">The meaning of the name </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ur</i></span><span lang="en-US">
gives us a better understanding:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Ur</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>:
</b></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Strong’s #</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>H218
</b></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">אוּר</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US">'ûr </span><span lang="en-US"><i>oor</i></span><span lang="en-US">
The same as </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H217</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">;
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ur</i></span><span lang="en-US">, a
place in Chaldea; also an Israelite: - Ur.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: green; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H217
</u></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">From </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H215</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">;
</span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>flame</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>,</b></span><span lang="en-US">
hence (in the plural) the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>East</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(as being the region of light): - </span><span lang="en-US"><b>fire</b></span><span lang="en-US">,
light. See also </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-US"><u>H224</u></span></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0.03in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><b>Gen
15:8-19</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This sacrifice is </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Torah</i></span><span lang="en-US">
based only clean animals are part of the sacrifice. Later </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Moshe</i></span><span lang="en-US">
will put it in written form. Verse 11 the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>fowls</i></span><span lang="en-US">
represent the demoniacs forces trying to steal the covenant from
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Read: </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph
6:12</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> Because we do not
wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>matters</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
of wickedness in the heavenlies. ................. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">The battle is in our mind, the place where the
forces of darkness try to steal the promise from us by lying. The
renewing of our mind (Rom.12:2) by studying the Torah and prayers
makes us strong to withstand these powers. </span><span lang="en-US">Verse
13 </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">
tells </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
that his seed shall be “</span><span lang="en-US"><b>stranger</b></span><span lang="en-US">
in a land (Egypt). </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Read : </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Pe
1:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> Kĕpha, an emissary of
</i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah, </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>to
the chosen, </b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>strangers</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
of the dispersion in Pontos, Galatia, Kappadokia, Asia, and Bithunia,
</i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Kefa</i></span><span lang="en-US">
write to the strangers. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">
say that He will judge Egypt (World). The land given to the seed of
Abram is from the Nile in Egypt to the Euphrates which is today in
Iraq, and ten nations will be eradicated for their wickedness. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Read:
</span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">---- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Deu
12:29</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> “When </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>your Elohim does cut off from before you
the nations which you go to dispossess, and you dispossess them and
dwell in their land, </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Deu
12:30</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> guard yourself that you
are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before
you, and that you do not inquire about their mighty ones (g-ds),
saying, ‘How did these nations serve their mighty ones (g-ds)? </i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><i>And
let me do so too.’</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span lang="en-US"><i>1</i></span></sup></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
</i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Footnote: </i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span lang="en-US"><i>1</i></span></sup></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><i>See
also 18:9, Lev. 18:3, Jer.10:2, Ezek. 11:12 & 20:32, Eph. 4:17,
and 1 Peter 4:3</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Deu 12:31</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
“Do not do so to </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>your Elohim, </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>for
every abomination which </b></i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>hates they have done to their mighty
ones</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>, for they even burn their
sons and daughters in the fire to their mighty ones(g-ds). </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Chapter 16. ---
</b></span><span lang="en-US">In this chapter we come to the great
change of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and his wife </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
They have been walking with </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">many years. For </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
since he was three years old, he has been trained by </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Noach</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and his son </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Shem</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Eber</i></span><span lang="en-US">
in divine way. As believers our journey brings us to a change also
until we become </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“born from above”.</i></span><span lang="en-US">
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Saraï</i></span><span lang="en-US">
take initiative and give </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
her maid </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Hagar</i></span><span lang="en-US">
to him. It was tradition in this time that when a woman was barren
that she took her maid and gave her to her husband in order to insure
the descendant. At the birth, the maid sat on the laps of the wife
and the child coming from between her legs became the heir if he was
a boy. </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Hagar</i></span><span lang="en-US">
was an Egyptian woman taught in the way of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">by </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
Remember </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Saraï</i></span><span lang="en-US">
means </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“dominative”</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
It looks like the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“church”</i></span><span lang="en-US">
trying to tell </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">
what he should do. They know about the promise but look at the
natural and think: “on this way it’s not possible, let us tell
“g-d” what he should do! Hagar conceived and as she bares a son
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ishma’El</i></span><span lang="en-US">
meaning </span><span lang="en-US"><i>El shall hear</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
She though that now </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
will despise his wife because she gave a son to him. This was an
error and Abram told </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Saraï</i></span><span lang="en-US">
to do whatever she thinks to be right. </span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
16:1</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
Sarai, Aḇram’s wife, had borne him no child. And she had a
Mitsrite female servant whose name was Haḡar. </i></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><b>Gen 16:2-15</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 16:16</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>
And </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Aḇram was eighty-six years
old when Haḡar bore Yishmaʽĕl</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
to Aḇram. …….</i></span><span lang="en-US">Eighty Six in
Hebrew gemetria is 8 x 10 + 6 or eight for supernatural plus ten the
sum of all sum and six for the action of man. Have you seen today
many men making children at the age of 86? Most of them are dead!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen
17:1</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i> and it came to be when
Aḇram was ninety-nine years old, that </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>appeared to Aḇram and said to him, “I
am Ěl Shaddai – walk before Me and </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>be
</b></u></i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>perfect……….</b></u></i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Yehoshua
speak the same way:</b></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat
5:48</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>Therefore,
be perfect</b></u></i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,</i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
as your Father in the heavens is perfect.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Gen 17:2-27</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>……….</i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>El Shaddai</i></span><span lang="en-US">
the All Mighty One has changed the name of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
into </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">
by adding both the letter </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“he”</i></span><span lang="en-US">
or </span><span lang="en-US"><i>“h”</i></span><span lang="en-US">
in English, to their name. This letter is the second letter from
YHWH’s name. The letter “He” is the fifth in the Aleph-Tov and
the gametria of this letter point to the Torah which are the five
books Moshe. It is important to understand that it is </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">who make the promise to </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
to make him the father of many nations, the position of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram
</i></span><span lang="en-US">is only to believe what </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim
</i></span><span lang="en-US">told him! How is it with us today, do
we believe all the promises </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">has given us in </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah
</i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">?
</span><span lang="en-US">Both will now come into the position </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">wanted them to be in order to become the
Head of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-US">s
people. It took 25 years for </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-US">
to be transformed and be called </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-US">
and </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sarah</i></span><span lang="en-US">
since the time they left their family. How long will it taken for you
and me? Especially Christians who reject the Torah? Read: </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">---- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom
12:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> I call upon you,
therefore, brothers, through the compassion of Elohim, to present
your bodies a living offering – set-apart, well-pleasing to Elohim
– your reasonable worship. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom
12:2</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>do
not be conformed to this world</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
but </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>be transformed</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>by the renewing of your mind</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>,
so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect
desire of Elohim. </i></span></span>
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joh 14:15</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
</i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“If you love
Me, </i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>you shall guard My
commands.............. </b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
give the covenant of circumcision to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
on the eight days. Eight is the number which indicates </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“behind
the natural” </i></span><span lang="en-GB">for everything in
creation was finished in 7 days. Eight represent what is behind man
understanding what man cannot grasp in the natural: Eternal life,
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Olam aba</i></span><span lang="en-GB">”.
We do not need circumcision in order to be saved as some requires in
Acts 15:1, </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">bring us back to the pure faith of
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and the circumcision is a sign of the covenant, a sign of a complete
devotion to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Moshe</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> gave
the circumcision to the children of Israel and they rejected it Read:
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jos 5:5</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
for all the people who came out had been circumcised, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>but
all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way as they
came out of Mitsrayim had not been circumcised... </b></i></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ishmael</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> was
circumcised has he was already 13, the age of rebellion. All the
household of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
was also circumcised. Today Arabs are circumcised, bearing the
tradition coming from Ishmael </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>bearing
also the rebellion</b></span><span lang="en-GB"> of </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ishamel</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
In Judaism today, boys are circumcised on the eight days after
birth, while Arabs circumcise their children between the age of 5 and
13 years. Abraham was 100 years old when </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Itzak</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
was born. The Gametria for 100 is 10x10 the perfection of perfection
from the sum of all numbers. We could call it the CONCLUSION of
</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-GB">s
promise for </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham’s</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
life. Are we today like Abraham; ready and willing to let everything
behind us, father and mother, family relatives and friends in order
to follow the One who has called us in </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-GB">Messiah? Let us pray and check our
life to become like our forefather </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
and </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sarah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abram</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
has become </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Abra</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>H</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>am</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,
</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sarai</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> has
become </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sara</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>H</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB">,
and both have gone through the process of sanctification. What is
with you and me, are we following </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB">letting him doing what He want? The same
process will also be with </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Ya’acov </i></span><span lang="en-GB">to
become </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Israel. </i></span><span lang="en-GB">Nathan
Lawrence quotes the Psalm 37 and calls some verses: process of
sanctification and spiritual maturity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 37:4</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>
and delight yourself in </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and let Him give you the desires of your heart. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Psa
37:5</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> Commit your way to </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and trust in Him, and He does it. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Psa
37:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> and He shall bring forth
your righteousness as the light, and your right-ruling as midday.
</i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Psa 37:7</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>
Rest in </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers
in his way, Because of the man doing wicked devices. </i></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa
37:23</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> the steps of a man are
ordered by </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and He delights in his way. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Psa
37:24</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i> though he falls he is
not cast down, for </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>is supporting his hand.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Haftorah</b></span></div>
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<div lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><i>The Soncino Edition
Pentateuch introduces its commentary to this Haftorah portion as
follows:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The Sedrah
[Parashah] opens with the call of Abraham and [YHVH] bidding, “Be
thou a blessing” unto all the families of the earth. Such, likewise
declares the great Prophet of Consolation,is the Divine charge to the
Children of Abraham. Israel, suffering in Exile, might well despair
of the fulfillment of the Divine promise, nay, even of God’s
remembrance of that promise. The Prophet stills such questionings.
In God, Israel has the source of inexhaustible strength. The
everlasting God will not fail to carry through His great purposes for
mankind through Israel His servant, the child of “Abraham, My
friend.” </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>How firmly do you
believe this?</b></i></span><span lang="en-US"><i> When the daily
rigors and routine of life take their toll, your faith wanes and your
upward look dims, the joy of your salvation diminishes, your first
love for Yeshua lessens, and your hope in YHVH’s promises for your
life is tarnished, what do you do? What is your reaction and
response? Do you call to remembrance the ongoing faithfulness of YHVH
to his promises and to his Word as Isaiah here encourages us to do?
2 40:27, My way is hid from YHVH. Is YHVH……………..</i></span><span lang="en-US">The
prophet </span><span lang="en-US"><i>YeshaYahu</i></span><span lang="en-US">
remind us that </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-US">s
promise is eternal for all of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-US">’s
descendants, the House of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ya’acov</i></span><span lang="en-US">
those who follow the steps of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">.
He call </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>’</span><span lang="en-US">s
people to help his brother to remember </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">according to His word and that those who
will try to change this plan will not exist anymore. The boasting of
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ya’acov</i></span><span lang="en-US">
house will be in </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">.
The </span><span lang="en-US"><i>schaliach</i></span><span lang="en-US">
(messenger) </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-US">
in the book to the Romans says that faith alone was the way for
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Abraham</i></span><span lang="en-US">,
not work in order to be recognized by </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">.
This is the pattern for those who are called in Messiah.
Unfortunately there are many misconceptions from many sides. </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Christians</b></span><span lang="en-US">
say: No TORAH faith alone we don’t need to follow the Torah: </span><span lang="en-US"><b>WRONG</b></span><span lang="en-US">!
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>Judaism</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
They reject the way of “jesus” even </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">and follow the Torah after the letter:
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>WRONG</b></span><span lang="en-US">!
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>The World view</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
With the spirit of Humanism, everybody is nice, everybody can believe
whatever he want so long that we all can live in “peace”: </span><span lang="en-US"><b>WRONG</b></span><span lang="en-US">!
</span><span lang="en-US"><b>Sha’ul</b></span><span lang="en-US">:
Salvation is not work it is by FAVOUR through FAITH in Messiah </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span lang="en-US">.
This doesn’t nullify the Torah </span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>work
and faith work together</b></u></span><span lang="en-US">. ----- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jas
2:17</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Even
so </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>faith, if it hath not works,
is dead</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, being alone. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Jas
2:18</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><b> </b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yea,
a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith
without thy works, and </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>I will
shew thee my faith by my works</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>.
</i></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 40:27</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>
Why do you say, O Yaʽaqoḇ, and speak, O Yisra’ĕl, “My way is
hidden from </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>,
and my rights are overlooked by my Elohim”? </i></span></span>
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<span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><b>Isa
40:28-41:14</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom
4:-25</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
is not encouraging the rejection of the circumcision as many have
taught among Christianity, the book of Galatians in its contain is
about justification by faith. </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
is explaining to the Galatians believers that </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>justification
is by faith in Messiah </b></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>and nothing else.</b></span><span lang="en-GB">
This doesn’t nullify the circumcision. We read in the book of Acts
that certain </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehudin</i></span><span lang="en-GB">
who believed in Messiah were also requiring </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>circumcision
</i></span><span lang="en-GB">as part of salvation: ---- </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Act
15:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"> </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>and
certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and
said, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>except ye be circumcised
after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>...........
Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-GB"> answers to this requirement in
this way: ----- </span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
5:3</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> and I witness again </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to
every man being circumcised that he is a debtor to do the entire
Torah. </b></i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
5:4</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> You who are declared
right by law have severed yourselves from Messiah, you have fallen
from favour. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
5:5</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>for
we, in Spirit, by belief, eagerly wait for the expectation of
righteousness</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>. </i></span><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gal
5:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i> for in Messiah </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="he-IL">
</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision has any strength, but </i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><u><b>belief
working through love. ………….</b></u></i></span><span lang="en-US">Once
again </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Sha’ul</i></span><span lang="en-US">
was not encouraging not to circumcise, but corrected the false view
of the believers in </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Galatia</i></span><span lang="en-US">:
</span><span lang="en-US"><i>”if you search circumcision as
perquisite to salvation you are debtor to the entire Torah”</i></span><span lang="en-US">.
In other words you put yourself in bondage seeking your own
righteousness! May </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">our </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Elohim</i></span><span lang="en-US">
bless you through Messiah </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span>
</span><span lang="en-US">as you walk in the Torah in your daily
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">THE NAME OF GOD YeHoWaH. ITS STORY,
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Gérard Gertoux
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A1 - Is it possible to pronounce the divine name if its genuine vowels are not known
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The question of knowing which vowels were with the four consonants of God's name is
absurd because the Masoretic vowels, which are the vowel-points, appeared after 500 of
our common era. Before this time the only vowels were the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">matres lectionis</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Furthermore, the vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">e,o,a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">did not play any role to find again the true pronunciation
among Hebrew Believer scholars. On the other hand, in order to justify their
pronunciation of the Name "according its letters", they quoted the book of Maimonides
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Guide of the Perplexed </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(part 1 chapters 61 to 64) very often. In addition, before
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1100, the vowel-points written with the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Tetragram </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">were not </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">e,o,a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 16.000000pt;">e,a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that is to say
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the vowels of the Aramaic word Shema‟ meaning "The Name".
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The present Masoretic vowels are not the genuine vowels because they appeared only
after 500 CE. Before this epoch, the Jews used a "mothers of reading" system (some
consonants were used as vowels) to pronounce most of the proper names. The writings
from Qumrân have shown that before the second century CE even usual words were
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">vocalized owing to these special letters (mothers of reading, that is to say </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">vowels I and E, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">W </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for O and U, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">H </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for an A at the end of words), proving that the
"mothers of reading" system was widely used. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Judah Halevi </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">wrote in his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The
Kuzari </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(1140), that the letters of the Tetragram are used as vowels for any other words
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(furthermore Judah Halevi in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Kurazi IV:3 </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">related that </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is used for I, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">W </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for O, and
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">H </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for A). A long time before, in the first century, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Flavius Josephus</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, a Jewish writer, had
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">written that the Tetragram is written with four vowels (and not four consonants).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Flavius Josephus 37-100), who knew the priesthood of this time very well, clarified that,
when Romans attacked the Temple, the Jews called upon the fear-inspiring name of God
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Jewish War V:438</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), but he wrote of his refusal to give it his reader (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Jewish
Antiquities II:275</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). However, he gave some information of primary importance to
rediscover the pronunciation he wanted to conceal. One can read indeed in the work </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The
Jewish War </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the following remark: "The high priest had his head dressed with a tiara of
fine linen embroidered with a purple border, and surrounded by another crown in gold
which supported into relief the holy letters; these ones are </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">four vowels</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">." (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Jewish
War V:235</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) This description is excellent; moreover, it completes the one found in
Exodus 28:36-39. However, as each one knows, there are no vowels in Hebrew, but only
consonants. Regrettably, instead of explaining this visible abnormality, certain
commentators (influenced by the form Yahweh) mislead the readers of Josephus by
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">indicating in note that this reading was </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IAUE</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. Now, it is evident that the "sacred letters"
noted the Tetragram wrote in paleo-Hebrew, and not in Greek. Furthermore, in Hebrew
these consonants </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Y, W, H</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, are exactly used as vowels; they are moreover called </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">matres
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">lectionis </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"mothers of reading". Qumrân's writings showed that in the first century </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">as
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">vowel served only to indicate sounds I and E, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">W </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">served only for sounds Ô and U, and a
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">H </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">final served for the sound A. Furthermore, the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">H </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">was use as vowel only at the end of
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">words, and never inside of it (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but between two vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">H </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is heard as a slight E). So,
to read the name YHWH as four vowels, it is to read </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHÔA </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that is </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IEÔA</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The orthography of the Aramaic portion of the Tell Fekherye Bilingual dated before 9</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">th
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">century BCE(D.N. Freedman A.D. Forbes F.I. Andersen - Studies in Hebrew and
Aramaic Orthography in: Biblical and Judaic Studies vol.2 Indiana 1992 Ed. University
of California pp. 137-170) proves that for a long time three vowels were used, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">waw </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for
û, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yod </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for î, and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">he </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for final â. For example, numerous words were read “a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ccording to
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">their natural reading” in this old inscription:
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Complete study, see : A. Abou-Assaf, P. Bordreuil, A. R. Millard - La statue de Tell
Fekherye et son inscription bilingue assyro-araméenne. in: Etudes Assyriologiques
Cahier n°7, Paris 1982, Editions Recherche sur les civilisations. pp. 13-60
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Writing Reading
TBH TaBA
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">TYTB TITaB
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">DMWT‟ DaMUTa‟
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">GWGL GUGaL
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟LYM ‟aLIM
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">TSLWTH TaSLUTA
WLKBR< WaLaKaBaR
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Writing Reading
BTNWR< BaTaNUR
YGTZR YiGTiZaR
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">„DQWR „aDaQUR
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YLQH YiLQaH
NHR NaHaR
LMT LaMaT
RHMN RaHMaN
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">As a general rule the „natural reading‟ was mainly used to vocalize proper names.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Fekherye
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Alphabetic
HBWR
NYRGL
GWZN
HDDSKN
SSNWRY
(YHWH)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Syllabic
Ha-bur
(Nè-iri-gal)
Gu-za-ni
Adad-si-ka-ni
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Šama Š</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-nu-ri
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Reading according to:<br />
> Akkadian M.T. LXX
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">HaBUR HaBOR Abôr
NIRGaL NéRGaL Nèrigél
GUZaN GOZaN Gôzan
HaDaDSiKaN HaDaD- Adad-
SaSNURI SiS- Sos-
(YiHWA) (YeHoWaH)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">reference:
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">2 Ki 18:11
2 Ki 17:30
2 Ki 18:11>
Gen 36:35
1 Ch 2:40
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The word YHWH meaning „He will [prove to] be‟ is found in the Sefire inscription
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">dated 750 BCE. The normal vocalization is probably YiHWaH at this time because the
sound -èH comes from an old -aH
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A second witness of this period about the pronunciation, is the Talmud itself, because
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the Tetragram is called the Shem Hamephorash which means "the name distinctly read"
or "the name read according to its letters" (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sifre Numbers 6:23-27</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) Hemephorash means
"distinctly [read]" or "separately [read]" in Hebrew. The early sense of "distinctly read"
is "word by word" or "letter by letter" (see Gesenius 6567 comment on n°2), the sense
"interpreted" or "translated" is a later meaning. In spite of the fact that some cabalists
affirmed that the word </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">mephorash </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">meant "hidden" it is easy to check the correct
meaning of this word in the Bible itself (Neh 8:8; Ezr 4:18). Furthermore, the Talmud
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sanhedrin 101a 10:1</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) forbids the use of the divine Name for magical purposes, and the
rabbi Abba Shaul (130-160?) adds not to use biblical quotations containing the
Tetragram for exorcizing purposes and the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">pronunciation of the Tetragram according to
its letters </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">as a preventive warning that those transgressing this command would forfeit
their portion in the future world. The sentence "to pronounce the Name according to its
letters" means pronouncing the Name as it is written, or according to the sound of its
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">letters, what is different to spell a name according to its letters. Indeed, it was authorized
to spell the name YHWH according to its letters (because the Talmud itself did it), that
is in Hebrew Yod, He, Waw, He (or Y, H, W, H in English); on the other hand, it was
forbidden to pronounce it according to these same letters.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A third witness, always from this epoch, coming from persons who had access to the
priesthood, is that of the translators of the Septuagint. This text had indeed fixed the
vocalization of proper nouns just before that was adopted the custom not to use any
more the Name outside the Temple. Now, one notices that all the theophoric names
beginning in YHW-() in the Hebrew Bible were vocalized Iô-(a) in the Septuagint and
ever in Ia-. So, the divine name, constituting the theophoric name par excellence (that is
to say YHW-H), to be in agreement with all the other theophoric names should have
been vocalized </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iô-a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Greek, or, if one restores the mute H (which did not exist in
Greek) : </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHÔA. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Some authors, as Severi of Antioch (465-538), used the form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IÔA </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in a
chain of comments on the chapter eight of John's gospel (Jn 8:58), by clarifying that it
was God's name in Hebrew. Another book (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Eulogy of John the Baptist 129:30</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) made
also allusion to the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IÔA </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">written in Greek </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">iota, omega, alpha</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. In the codex
Coislinianus dated 6th century, several theophoric names are explained owing to the
Greek word </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aoratos </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">meaning "invisible" is found in the LXX in Genesis 1:2) and which
is read IÔA. The words </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aoratos </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">arretos </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(meaning "unspeakable") are the equivalents
to the Latin word "ineffable".
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A2 - Is there a trace of the pronunciation of the Name in the Talmud or in the Bible
?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">There are several places in the Talmud where it is written not to pronounce the Name
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">as it is written</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">" or "</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">according to its letters</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">". Maimonides, a good Talmudist, quoting
these remarks in his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Guide of the Perplexed </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(1190) concludes that this Name
was pronounced with no difficulty (without giving any vocalization). He said to his
readers that knowing the meaning of this name was more important than knowing its
pronunciation, because the meaning alone can incite to action.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">There are several hundreds of theophoric names in the Bible, which retain the
vocalization of the Tetragram. For example, the usual name "John" comes from the
Hebrew name Yehôhanan, which means "Yehow[ah] has been gracious". In the A third
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">witness, always from this epoch, coming from persons who had access to the priesthood,
is that of the translators of the Septuagint. This text had indeed fixed the vocalization of
proper nouns just before that was adopted the custom not to use any more the Name
outside the Temple. Now, one notices that all the theophoric names beginning in YHW-
() in the Hebrew Bible were vocalized Iô-(a) in the Septuagint and ever in Ia-. So, the
divine name, constituting the theophoric name par excellence (that is to say YHW-H), to
be in agreement with all the other theophoric names should have been vocalized </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iô-a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in
Greek, or, if one restores the mute H (which did not exist in Greek) : </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHÔA. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Some
authors, as Severi of Antioch (465-538), used the form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IÔA </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in a chain of comments on
the chapter eight of John's gospel (Jn 8:58), by clarifying that it was God's name in
Hebrew. Another book (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Eulogy of John the Baptist 129:30</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) made also allusion to the
name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IÔA </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">written in Greek </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">iota, omega, alpha</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. In the codex Coislinianus dated 6th
century, several theophoric names are explained owing to the Greek word </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aoratos
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">meaning "invisible" is found in the LXX in Genesis 1:2) and which is read IÔA. The
words </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aoratos </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">arretos </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(meaning "unspeakable") are the equivalents to the Latin word
"ineffable".
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A3 - What exactly does the expression "the Name read according to its letters"
mean ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In order to contend with cabalistic influences Maimonides, a Jewish scholar and famous
talmudist, gave a whole new definition of Judaism. The central point of his reasoning
was about the Name of God, the Tetragram, which was explained in his book entitled
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Guide of the Perplexed</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, written in 1190, where he exposed the powerful following
reasoning: Maimonides noted that the God of philosophers didn't involve any worship
because it is impossible to establish relations with a nameless God (Elohim), then he
proved that the Tetragram YHWH is the personal name of God, that is to say the name
distinctly read (Shem hamephorash), which is different from all the other names like:
Adonay, Shadday, Elohim (such ones are only divine titles with an etymology), and so
forth, because the Tetragram has no etymology. However, Maimonides knew the
problem about the pronunciation, because the Jewish tradition stated it had been lost. On
the other hand, he also knew that some Jews believed in an almost magical influence of
letters or a precise pronunciation of the divine names, but he informed his reader against
such practices as pure invention or madness. The remarkable aspect of his argumentation
lies in the fact of which he managed to avoid controversy on a subject so ticklish. He
asserted indeed that in fact </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">it was only the real cult that had been lost, and not the
authentic pronunciation of the Tetragram</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">because this one was always possible
according to its letters. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">To support this basic idea (real cult is more important than real
pronunciation), he quoted Sota 38a to prove this name is the essence of God and that is
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the reason not to abuse it, then he quoted Zechariah 14:9 to prove the oneness of this
name, he also quoted Numbers 6:23-27 to show that the priests were obliged to bless by
this name only.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Then, to prove that the pronunciation of the Name did not carry any problem in the past,
and did not contain any magic aspect, he quoted at first Qiddushin 71a, which said that
this name was passed on by certain rabbis to their sons. Furthermore, according to Yoma
39b, this pronunciation was widely used before the priesthood of Simon the Just, what
proves the insignificance of magic conceptions, because in this time if the Name was
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">used it had no supernatural aspect, except the spiritual aspect. Maimonides insisted on
the fact that what it was necessary to find was the spirituality connected to this Name,
and not the exact pronunciation. Well to demonstrate this major notion, to understand
sense and not sound conveyed with this name, he quoted a relevant example. Indeed, in
Exodus 6:3 the text indicates that before Moses, the Name was not known; that is the
exact meaning of this name, and not of the pronunciation, because how can anybody
reasonable believe that a good pronunciation would have been suddenly able to incite
the Israelites to action, unless supposing a magic action of this name, what is
contradictory to the continuation of events? To conclude his demonstration, Maimonides
quoted Exodus 3:14 to show that the expression </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">èhyèh ashèr èhyèh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, that one can
translate into "I shall be who I shall be", is above all a spiritual teaching. Because the
Tetragram had no (linguistic) etymology, this link with the verb "to be (haya)" expressed
above all a religious "etymology", that is a teaching on God, who can be defined as "the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Being who is the being" or "the necessary Being".
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">It is interesting to observe that Judah Halevi, another Jewish scholar, gave almost the
same arguments in his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Kuzari </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">published some years before, in 1140. He wrote
indeed that the main difference between the God of Abraham and the God of Aristotle
was the Tetragram </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Kuzari IV:16</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). He proved also that this name was the personal name
of God (idem IV:1) and that it meant "He will be with you". To prove again that was the
meaning of this name which was important and not the pronunciation, he quoted Exodus
5:2 where Pharaoh asked to know this Name: no the pronunciation which he used, but
the authority of this Name (idem IV:15). He clarified finally that the letters of the
Tetragram have the remarkable property to be </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">matres lectionis</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, that is the vowels
associated to the other consonants, as the spirit is associated to the body and let it lives
(idem IV:3).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">These two scholars gave so convergent information which marked a turning point in the
history of the Name. However, the expression "pronounced according to its letters"
which Maimonides called back (vowel letters as clarified Judah Halevi) is strictly exact
only in Hebrew. Joachim of Flora gave a Greek transliteration of the Tetragram (I-E-U-
E) in his work entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Expositio in Apocalypsim</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, that he achieved in 1195. He also used
the expression "Adonay IEUE Tetragrammaton nomen" in his another book entitled
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Liber Figurarum</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Joachim of Flora gave also the three other names: IE, EV, VE,
whom he associated to the Father, to the Son and to the Holy Spirit!
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The vocalization of the Tetragram (IEUE) connected to the name of Yeshua (EU)
was going to be quickly improved by the pope Innocent III in one of his sermons
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sermo IV, in circumcisione domini</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) written around 1200. Indeed, he noticed that
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the Hebraic letters of the Tetragram Ioth, Eth, Vau (that is Y, H, W) were used as
vowels, and that so the name IESUS had exactly the same vowels I, E and U as the
divine name. As Joachim of Flora, he decomposed the divine name IEUE into IE-
EU-UE, what allowed him to suppose that the name IE-SUS contained God's name
IE. He drew also a parallel between the name written IEVE but pronounced
Adonai and the name written IHS but pronounced IESUS. The link between these
two names will play afterward a determining role in the process of vocalization of
the Tetragram.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In the following years, knowledge of the Hebraic language progressed strongly,
involving notably the role of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">matres lectionis</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. For example, the famous scholar Roger
Bacon (1220-1292) wrote in his Hebraic grammar that in Hebrew there are six vowels
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aleph, he, vav, heth, iod, ain</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) near to the usual masoretic vowel-points. The French
erudite Fabre d'Olivet also explained in his Hebraic grammar the following equivalence:
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aleph = â, he = è, heth = é, waw = ô/ u, yod = î, aïn = wo</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. He said in his work entitled
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">La Langue hébraïque restituée </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(The Hebrew Tongue Restored) published in 1823, that
the best pronunciation of the divine Name according to its letters was </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ihôah/ Iôhah</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">/
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Jhôah. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Moreover, when he began to translate the Bible (Genesis, chapters I to X), he
used systematically the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHÔAH </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in his translation. Antoine Fabre d'Olivet,
renowned polyglot, knew numerous oriental languages, what brought him to privilege
the philological choice rather than theological), that is to say he refused to mix the sound
with the sense of the word. Moreover, Judah Halevi already clarified in his work that the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yod (Y) served as vowel I, the waw (W) served as O, and that the he (H) and the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aleph (‟) served as A. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">According to these rudimentary indications, one already could
read approximately the name YHWH "according to its letters", as </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I-H-O-A </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(because the
letter H is never used as vowel inside words; in that exceptional case the use of the letter
aleph is preferred.) For example, the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YH </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is pronounced according to its letters </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IA
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Hebrew, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IH </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Latin and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IE </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Greek.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Paul Drach, a rabbi converted to Catholicism, explained in his work </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">De l'harmonie entre
l'église et la synagogue </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Of the harmony between the church and the synagogue)
published in 1842, why it was logical that the pronunciation </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yehova, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">which was in
agreement with the beginning of all the theophoric names, was the authentic
pronunciation, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">contrary to the form of Samaritan origin Yahvé</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. He proved the silly
way of criticisms against the form Yehova, as the charge of erroneous reading attributed
to Galatino. He quoted Raymond Martin and Porchetus de Salvaticis to reject this
assertion. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Then he demonstrated the delirious way of the transmutation of vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a,
o, a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of the word Adonay into </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e, o, a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">because this hypothetical grammatical rule (and
against nature concerning a qere / ketib) was already running down with the word
Èlohim which keeps its three vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">è, o, i </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">without needing to change them in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e, o, i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. In
spite of the support of Vatican at this time, these denials had not great effect.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Furthermore, this vocalization has always been considered as the most correct by the
Jews themselves. For example, in the first Jewish translation in French (from 1836 to
1852) the Jewish translator Samuel Cahen systematically used the name Iehovah. He
defended his choice owing to the work of the famous German grammarian W. Gesenius.
The Jewish professor J.H. Levy explained why he preferred the form Y'howah, instead
of Yahweh, in his article published in 1903 in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Jewish Quarterly Review</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. At the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">present time, it can be seen in a book written for the Jews, prefaced by the French Chief
Rabbi Joseph Sitruk, that the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ye.ho.va </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Jéhovah), written with the Hebrew letters
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yod, He Vav, He</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is considered as the genuine name of God.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A4 - Is it frequent in Hebrew to pronounce names as they are written?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In actual fact it is the general case as one can check up on the following board.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">ACCORDING
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">ITS
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">THE
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">THE
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">TO<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1 Ch 3:5
Gn 29:35
Gn 25:19
Gn 25:19
Jr 30:18
2 Ch 27:1
Gn 46:17
1 Ch 2:38
Gn 3:14
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">CONSONANTS LETTERS
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yrwlym </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Irušalim
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yhwdh Ihuda
'brhm 'Abaraham
Ysàq Isaàaq
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Y„qwb I„aqub
Yrwšh Iruša
Yšwh Išua
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yhw‟ Ihu‟
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yhwh Ihua
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">SEPTUAGINT
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iérousalèm
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iouda
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Abraam
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Isaak
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iakôb
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iérousa
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iésoua
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ièou
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Kurios)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">MASORETES
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yerušalaïm
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yehudah
'Abraham
Yisàaq
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ya„aqôb
Yerušah
Yišwah
Yéhu‟
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Adonay)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In Hebrew, the majority of proper nouns, in full writing, can be read according to their
letters. In the first century, one has the equivalence Y = I, W = U, and H = A at the end
of words. Furthermore, one has always alternation consonant - vowel in the reading of
these names, except in the case of a guttural or of a H in final, which are vocalized </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.
When a vowel is not indicated in a name, consonants are vocalized with an </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. This style
of reading is usual in Hebrew, for example with some famous names or a few names
with an orthography close to the Tetragram.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">One notices in the board above a remarkable agreement with the reading of these names
according to the Septuagint and their reading according to their letters (in Hebrew
language). The process of reading according to its letters is, on principle, very
rudimentary, because it contains only three sounds </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I (Y), U (W) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, while Hebraic
language possesses seven </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(i, é, [e], è, a, o, u). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In spite of this intrinsic handicap, this
method of reading gives rather good results on the whole.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The two sounds "e" and "o" are not archaic, because the original vowels in Hebrew, as in
the other Semitic tongues are only </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a, i, u</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, that is to say </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">always arise from an
obscuring or contraction of these three pure sounds (A.E. Cowley - Gesenius' Hebrew
Grammar,1988 Oxford Clarendon Press p. 35). Furthermore, the Hebrew use of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">H </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">for
word-terminal o was anomalous (F.I. Andersen A. Dean Forbes - Spelling in the Hebrew
Bible, 1986 Rome Ed. Biblical Institut p. 324). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Many scholars propose to read the H
letter as a mater lectionis for the sound ô, but this solution is unlikely, because this
abnormal writing resulted from a historical spelling of the pronoun -Hu "him"
which became -Ho </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(see Gn 9:21; 1K 19:23; etc.) that is a defective spelling for -Hô,
moreover Gesenius wrote that a large number of proper names ending in -oh or -ô (like
Shlomoh and Par'oh) used to be classed as nouns originally formed with the affix -ôn
(A.E. Cowley - Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar,1988 Oxford Clarendon Press p.239). To
check that the ending -W-H was read -U-A in Old Hebrew, note: 'Alwah / 'Alua (Gn
36:40); Ishwah / Ishua (Gn 46:17); Puwah / Puua (Nb 26:23); Tiqwah / Tiqua (2K
22:14); 'Iwah / 'Iua (2k 19:13) etc. (Very often the Septuagint kept the sound oua).
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The modern standard transliterating for vowel /consonant is purely conventional. As
professor James Barr wrote "phonetically and acoustically, there is no absolute and
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">objective difference between the sound of the vowel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">i </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and that of the consonant </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">y </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(and
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">similarly with </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">u </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). As Abercrombie puts it, an element like the y in English yet, or
the w in English wet, is a semivowel, but phonological function is a consonantal element
in a syllable pattern." (J. Barr - The Variable Spelling of the Hebrew Bible, The Oxford
University Press 1989 p.147). On the other hand, the y in the name Yehudah is a
consonant, but it becomes a vowel i in the expression Wihudah "and Yehudah". "To
Israel" is pronounced in Ben Asher's tradition "Le-Yisrael", but "L-Israel" in the Ben
Naphtali's tradition (Angel Sàenz-Badillos - A History of the Hebrew language
Cambridge 1996 Ed. Cambridge University Press pp. 94-102). Thus, an initial y
consonant could have been read as i vowel (P. Joüon T. Muraoka - A Grammar of
Biblical Hebrew in: Subsidia Biblica 14/I. Roma 1993 Ed. Pontificio Istituto Biblico p.
94 §26e).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ambiguities exist only in Masoretical Hebrew, because of (later) contraction of letters,
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but these ambiguities did not exist in Old Hebrew. When official Hebrew became in
time rabbinical Hebrew, the main changes concerned precisely the pronunciation of the
letters y and w (ay became e, aw became ô, hû became ô/ w, ehû became aw, etc. - D.N.
Freedman -The Massoretic Text and the Qumran Scrolls: A Study in Orthography. Ed.
Textus 2, 1962 pp. 88-102; D.N. Freedman K.A. Mathews- The Paleo-Hebrew Leviticus
Scroll Ed. A.S.O.R. 1985 pp. 52-54,58,68,79,82; E. Qimron -The Hebrew of the Dead
sea Scrolls in: Harvard Semitic studies n°29 Atlanta 1986 Ed. Scholars Press p. 59).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"e" </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I-eH-oU-Ah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">corresponds to the shewa in the same way the "modern"
Shlomoh is pronounced Shelomoh with its shewa. Moreover, the Name Judah is
correctly pronounced with its shewa, that is </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I-eH-U-dAh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, not I-U-dAh, even if the first
H (which is not a mater lectionis) is very light. One notes that the verbal form yhwh in
Qoheleth 11:3 is vocalized Yehou'[a] (instead of Yihweh) and it means "He will be".
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A5 - Did the name Jehovah come from a wrong reading which mixed together the
consonants of the Tetragram with the vowels of the word Adonay?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The word Yahowah has never been used in any Bibles. The (fanciful) grammatical
pattern which involves a change </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">to </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">has never existed. In actual fact, before 1100 CE,
the Tetragram has been pointed with only the two vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e, a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of the Aramaic word
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Shema </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">which means "The Name".The vowel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">o </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">appeared, after 1100 CE, owing to the
influence of the reading of the word Adonay.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Paul Drach, a rabbi converted to Catholicism, explained in his work </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">De l'harmonie entre
l'église et la synagogue </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Of the Harmony between the Church and the Synagogue)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">published in 1842, why it was logical that the pronunciation Yehova, which was in
agreement with the beginning of all the theophoric names, was the authentic
pronunciation, contrary to the form of Samaritan origin Yahvé. He also demonstrated the
delirious way of the transmutation of vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a, o, a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of the word Adonay into </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e, o, a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">,
because this hypothetical grammatical rule (and against nature concerning a qere /
kethib) was already running down with the word Èlohim which keeps its three vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">è,
o, i </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">without needing to change them in </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e, o, i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A6- Did some Hebrew Believer scholars read the vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e,o,a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of the Tetragram
with its consonants YHWH getting the hybrid form Jehovah (YeHoWaH) ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Of course, Hebrew Believers knew the Masoretic pointing YeHoWaH but they rather
used the remarks from Maimonides, that they frequently quoted, to vocalize the
Tetragram (The variants came from a bad knowledge about the "mothers of reading"
system).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1- </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Period of Discovery (1200-1500)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. Early on Hebrew scholars, such as Joachim of
Flora (1195) and Pope Innocent III (1200), tried to vocalize the name of God and they
used the name IEUE. Why such a vocalization ? The starting point came from the book
of the famous Maimonides, written in 1190, entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Guide of the Perplexed </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in
which he explained that the Tetragram was the true name of God and he asserted that in
fact it was only the true worship which had been lost, and not the authentic
pronunciation of the Tetragram, because this was still possible according to its letters.
That is why Pope Innocent III noticed that the Hebrew letters of the Tetragram Iohdh,
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He‟, Wav (that is </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Y, H, W</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) were used as vowels, and that the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IESUS </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">had exactly
the same vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I, E </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">U </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">as the divine name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IEUE</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. He used the Hebrew/ Greek
equivalencies : </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Y = I, H = E and W = U </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(In the first century, Josephus explained that
the Tetragram was written with four vowels.) Additionally, the French translator Jacques
Lefèvre d'Étaples, obtained the name IHEUHE, because he preferred using the Hebrew/
Latin equivalencies : </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Y = I, H = HE and W = U </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in his comments on the Psalms written
in 1509. However, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa explained in one of his sermon (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sermo
XLVIII Dies sanctificatus</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) written in 1445, that God's name is spelled in Hebrew </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iohdh,
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He’, Waw, He’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">; and these four letters serve as vowels, corresponding to </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I, E, O, A </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in
Greek, because in this language there is no specific vowel for the sound OU (the letter </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">U
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Greek is pronounced as the French </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ü</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). So, in Greek, the transcription IEOUA would
be more exact and would better reflect the OU sound of the Hebrew name Ieoua,
becoming in Latin </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iehova </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">or </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ihehova</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, because the letter </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">H </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is inaudible and the vowel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">U
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">serves as a consonant (V). The best equivalencies would be Y = I, H = A (at the end of
words) and W = O, as explained the Jewish writer Judah Halevi in his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Kuzari
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">written in 1140. That is why, the modern scholar Antoine Fabre d'Olivet said in his work
entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">La Langue hébraïque restituée </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(The Hebrew Tongue Restored) published in
1823, that the best pronunciation of the divine Name according to its letters was </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ihôah/
Iôhah/ Jhôah. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Moreover, when he began to translate the Bible (Genesis, chapters I to
X), he used systematically the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHÔAH </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in his translation (that is to say Y-H-W-H
= </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I-H-Ô-AH</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.) Several scholars preferred the equivalencies Y = I, H = A (at the end of
words) and W = OU, because the sound OU is older than the sound Ô, for example the
name Y-H-W-D-H is read I-H-OU-D-AH, not I-H-Ô-D-AH. They obtained the name I-
H-OU-AH or IOUA because the letter H is inaudible. Strangely, many scholars believed
that this name JOVA has been kept in the ancient name JOVE (Joue-pater that is
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Jupiter).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">2- </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Improvements (1500-1600)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. To set in order the variants of pronunciation of the
Tetragram, Pietro Galatino dedicated a good part of his work entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">De arcanis
catholice ueritatis </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Concerning Secrets of the Universal Truth), published in 1518, to
explain the reasons for this pronunciation. First, he quoted the book of Maimonides </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The
Guide of the Perplexed </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">abundantly, specially the chapters 60-64 of the first part, to
remind that the Tetragram is the proper noun of God which can be pronounced
according to its letters. However, he demonstrated that the pronunciation Ioua, admitted
in his time, was too rough and he gave the reasons for this. He explained for example
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iuda</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, written </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">הדוי </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hdwy (YWDH)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, was an abbreviation of the name
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iehuda </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">written </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hdwhy </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(YHWDH). All the Hebrew proper nouns beginning in YHW-
[why] are moreover always vocalized </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ieh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-. Consequently, if the Tetragram was really
pronounced Ioua it would have be written hW:y (YWH) in Hebrew, which was never the
case. So, because the Tetragram is written hwhy (YHWH), the letter H inside the Name
has to be heard. He concluded that, because this name is pronounced according to its
letters, that the best transcription was the form I-eh-ou-a (Iehoua), rather than the form I-
ou-a used, for example, by Agostino Justiniani, in his polyglot translation of Psalms
published in 1516 (if Galatino had directly transcribed the masoretic form, he would
have obtained Yehouah and not Iehoua). The French translator Pierre Robert Olivétan
also recognized in his </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Apologie du translateur </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Apology of the Translator) written in
1535, that God's name was in Hebrew </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iehouah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">rather than Ioua, because this last form
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">did not express the aspiration of the letter H.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">AUTHOR'S NAME<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Joachim of Flora<br />
Pope Innocent III
Raymond Martini
Porchetus de Salvaticis
Nicholas of Cusa<br />
Marsilio Ficino<br />
Jacques Lefèvres d'Etaples
Sébastien Chateillon
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">DIVINE NAME USED DATE
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IEUE </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1195
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IEUE 1200
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YOHOUA 1278
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YOHOUAH 1303
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IEOA, IHEHOUA </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1455
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">HIEHOUAHI </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1474
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHEVHE 1509
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IOUA 1555
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Most of the time these scholars specified that they tried to pronounce the Name "as it is
written"; only the cardinal Nicolas of Cusa explained the difficulties to get a good
transcription from Hebrew to Greek [</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I-E-O-A</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">] or to Latin [</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I-HE-HOU-A</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">].
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A7 - Is Galatino the first who introduced the name Jehovah in 1518 ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The cardinal Nicholas of Cusa used this name almost one century before (circa 1428). In
actual fact Galatino used this form explaining several important points. All the Hebrew
names beginning by YHW- are vocalized Ieh- in Latin. For example the name Juda
(YWDH) is pronounced </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iouda </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but its whole form is I-eh-ou-d-a (YHWDH). If the
divine name was pronounced Ioua (I-OU-A) the correct writing would be Y-W-H and
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">not Y-H-W-H. Therefore the name Iehoua (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I-eH-OU-A</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) is the best form taking into
account the letter H inside the name, besides this name had no link with the name Iouis
(Jupiter).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A8 - Was the pronunciation Jehovah widely accepted in the 16-th century ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In spite of the remarks of Galatino, numerous Hebrew scholars believed, owing to the
work of John Pic della Mirandola, that the name Iehoua had a pagan origin that is to say
that it came from a change of the name Ioue (Jupiter) into Ioua then Iehoua. Besides
several grammar scholars thought that the Aramaic form "he will be" (yhwh) was
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">pronounced Iehue (or Iahue) and was connected with the Name.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">As Michael Servetus noticed in his treatise against the Trinity </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">De Trinitatis erroribus
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">written in 1531, the name Iehouah is very close to the theophoric name Yeshua which is
Iesua in Hebrew. This link seemed to him more convincing than the grammatical form
supposed by some cabalists of his time -a future </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">piel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(vocalized YeHaWèH and meaning
"He will make to be", "He will constitute" or " He will cause to become"). For example,
this Hebrew form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yehabe </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">had been used by Abner of Burgos, a converted Spanish Jew,
in his work entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Mostrador de Justicia </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(1330). Servetus defended the name Iehouah
against its supposed grammatical form (a future </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">piel</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">!) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yehauue </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">explained as "He will
generate" in the book entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Epistle of Secrets </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of the Believer cabalist Paulus de
Heredia, published around 1488.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The debate of knowing if it was necessary to use Iehoua or Ioua had been a felted
quarrel of Hebraists. However, when the victorious form began to reach the general
public, the debate changed to become much more theological and polemical. The first to
start hostilities was the archbishop Gilbert Genebrard, in his book written in 1568 to
defend the Trinity, in which he dedicated several pages to prove the errors of S.
Chateillon, P. Galatin, S. Pagnin, etc. First of all, he attacked the form Ioua used by
Chateillon reminding that St Augustine had explained according to the writer Varro that
the Jews had worshiped Ioue (Jupiter!), and that the use of Ioua was thus a return to
paganism. He even indicated in his foreword to comments on the Psalms that this name
Ioua was barbarian, fictitious and atheistic! Concerning the testimonies of Clement of
Alexandria (Iaou), Jerome (Iaho), </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Theodoret (Iabe)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, he considered that they reflected
altered forms of Ioue, and apparently these testimonies appeared to him little reliable,
because they were too late and the Jews had not been pronouncing the Name for several
centuries. Finally, he reproached P. Galatin (and S. Pagnin), who had used the form
Iehoua, for not having taken into account the theological meaning: "He is" to find the
right vocalization. Indeed, since the translation of the Septuagint, it was known that the
divine name meant essentially "He is". Genebrard tried to confirm this definition due to
his knowledge of the Hebraic language. Thus, because God indicates in Exodus 3:14 by
the expression "I am", (in Hebrew </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ehie</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), one should say in speaking about God "He is",
that is in Hebrew </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iihie </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(a future </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">qal </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">form). Because of linguistic laws, it was likely that
this form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iihie </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">came from a more archaic form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iehue </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">suggested in 1550 by Luigi
Lippomano, Genebrard pointed out then that the abbot Joachim of Flora had used this
more exact form (Ieue) in his book on the Apocalypse. The demonstration of Genebrard,
while not convincing, impressed a lot by its learning. Moreover, during the century
which followed, biblical commentators often quoted this form Iehue (or Iiheue) near to
Iehoua. However, in spite of the brilliant aspect of the demonstration, this remained
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">speculative because of the absence of testimonies (afterward, to mitigate this gap, the
Protestant theologians rehabilitated the historic testimonies of the first centuries).
Genebrard's major innovation was so to introduce the theological meaning of the Name
into the search for its vocalization (which was in fact a cabalistic concept), a process
which engendered (the knowledge of the Hebrew language and of its history increasing)
a profusion of new vocalized forms.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A9 - Today, is the pronunciation Yahweh widely accepted?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Those who believe that Yahweh is the correct vocalization of the Name
usually quote </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Clement and Theodoret</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. The testimony of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Clement of
Alexandria </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">appeared very late (around 200 CE), furthermore as he explained
that God's name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iaoue </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">may be translated into "the one who is and who will
be", it appears that Iaoue is more a theological pronunciation than philological
(A. Caquot - </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Les énigmes d'un hémistiche biblique </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in: Dieu et l'être 1978
Paris Ed. Études Augustiniennes C.N.R.S. p. 24 note 23). Clement's Iaoue can
not represent an original God's name for the following reason: In spite of his
claim about God's name, Clement did not believe that God had a proper name.
For him Iaoue was only a w</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ord (not a name) which means „the one who is and
who will be.‟ (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Stromateon V:6:34</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), because God is ineffable (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Stromateon
V:10:65</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), without name (Stromateon V:12:81,82). For him the real name of
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">God was the "Son" (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Stromateon V:14:136</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). Another example of the same
confusion comes from Irenaeus of Lyons (130-202) who believed that the
word IAÔ (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ιαω in Greek, [Iah] in Latin) meant „Lord‟ in primitive Hebrew
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Against Heresies II, 24:2) and he esteemed that the use of this Hebrew word
IAÔ to denote the Name of the unknown Father, was intended to impress
gullible minds in worship of mysteries (Against Heresies I, 21:3).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A remark from the book of Theodoret (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Quaestiones in Exodum cap. XV</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) is
very often quoted to support the pronunciation Yahweh, because of the
following sentence: "the name of God is pronounced Iabe". This remark is
true, but </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Theodoret specified that he spoke about Samaritans and he
added that the Jews pronounced this name Aïa. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In another book
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Quaestiones in I Paral. cap. IX</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) he wrote that "the word Nethinim means in
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Hebrew „gift of Iaô‟, that is the God who is". According to Theodoret there
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">were three different forms, but as Theoderet probably ignored that there were
several substitutes for the Name, at his time. The intervening period which
preceded the destruction of the Temple, the Talmud (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sotah 7,6 Tamid 33b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">)
makes it clear that substitutes of the Name were used in Palestinian liturgy.
These substitutes were numerous, as one can notice in the literature of this
time (2M 1:24 , 25; 15:3; Si 23:4; 50:14-19).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Greek Iaô (which comes from the old Hebrew Yahu) and the
Samaritan Iabe (which comes from the Aramaic Yaw) are not the
pronunciation of the only name YHWH. The name Aïa (probably)
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">represents a transcription of ‟ehyeh form.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Even if the name Yahweh is widely used its bases are very uncertain and that
is why most of scholars prefer the form YHWH. At the present time there are
two main trends among scholars. The first ones are those who think that the
form YHWH is equivalent to its etymology "He is" and they obtain the forms
Yahve, Yahwoh, etc. The second ones are those who try to read this name
only owing to the philology. For example, the French erudite Antoine Favre
d'Olivet used </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ihôah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in his translation of the Bible (1823),the Jewish translator
Samuel Cahen used </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iehovah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in whole his Bible (1836), the Jewish doctor J.H.
Levy preferred the name Y'howah (1903), and so on. Strangely, some people
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">put more faith in Professor Freedman than (1) in most other competent
scholars, (2) than the Bible and (3) than Professor Freedman puts in himself.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1) In the note on Exodus 3:14 The Jerusalem Bible (Paris 1986 Éd. Cerf p. 87
note k) recognizes that «at present the causative form "He causes to be" is an
old explanation, but it is more probably a qal form, that is "He is."» According
to the competent Hebrew scholar André Caquot, the name Yahwe or Iaoue is a
theological rather than a philological form of God's name. (Les énigmes d'un
hémistiche biblique in: Dieu et l'être. 1978 Paris Ed. Études Augustiniennes
C.N.R.S. p. 24 note 23). See also the </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Karaites website</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">2) In Exodus 3:14 the Hebrew Bible uses a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">qal </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">form “I shall [prove to] be
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">what I shall [prove to] be” and not a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hiphil </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">form “I cause to become what I
cause to become.” (see </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">http://becomingone.org/gp/gp1b.htm</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">3) Professor Freedman‟s answer to my letter in which I asked him about his
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">amazing assertions, wrote : «</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I was pleased to hear from you and to have your
detailed treatment of this valuable and interesting subject, on which I have
written from time to time. I have never been entirely satisfied with my own
analysis and interpretation of the divine name in the Hebrew Bible, or with
that of others, including my own teacher, W.F. Albright and his teacher (from
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">whom Albright derived his position), Paul Haupt. At the same time, I haven’t
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">seen anything to persuade me of the superior value of another interpretation,
but I will be glad to learn from your study and perhaps discover that you have
finally solved this long-standing puzzle.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">» Despite Professor Freedman‟s
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">reputation as a famous editor, I would say that his arguments are poor. For
example, he stated «</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">However, the name could be a unique or singular use of
the causative stem</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.» This cannot be taken seriously because there is no
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">evidence, because the causative form of the verb “to become, to be” does not
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">exist in Hebrew and it has never existed. Whereas, the dogma of the causative
form «He causes to become» is not in the Bible. Therefore, can we believe in
it ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Furthermore, professor Freedman chose this analysis not for grammatical
reasons but for theological reasons (See his own comment in the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Anchor Bible
Dictionary</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.) Therefore the name Yahweh "He causes to become" is a
theological choice against </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Jehovah, who said that "He will [prove to] be".
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">For example, to prove the causative form Professor Albright (who was
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Professor Freedman's teacher!), in his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">From the Stone Age to Believerity</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">,
supposed that the true name could be rediscovered through names coming
from false religions (Babylonian and Egyptian). He then supposed that the
formula of Exodus 3:14 was modified to fit his first hypothesis. By saying
that, Professor Albright modified the biblical formula. Thus, should we accept
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Professor Albright‟s hypothesis concerning an old modification of Exodus
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">3:14 ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Professor Freedman's theory is only supported by a tiny group of supporters
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Freedman‟s teacher and a few others) but it </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is not based on reliable analysis.
Even in 1906, the Brown, Driver and Briggs dictionary stated: «Many recent
scholars explain as Hiph. of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(...) But most take it as Qal of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.» At
present, competent scholars know (for example, L. Pirot, A. Clamer </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Bible </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ed.
Letouzey et Ané, 1956, p. 83) that the causative form cannot be taken into
account for two main reasons. Firstly, the causative form of the verb "to be" is
not known in Hebrew, furthermore to express a causative sense, the Piel form
was used. Secondly, this philosophical notion did not come from Hebrew (but
from Greek philosophy) and the more natural meaning is: "I shall be with
you" according to Exodus 3:12. Thus, the position taken by several Bible
Translation Committees is based on the Hebrew concept being the omnipotent
One who is the First Cause of the entire universe, but it appears that there is
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">confusion between philosophy and grammar. Furthermore, this "Hebrew
concept" is above all a "philosophical Greek concept". The translators of the
Septuagint made a similar mistake, changing the meaning of Exodus 3:14 "I
shall [prove to] be what I shall [prove to] be" into "I am He who is." In the
same way, the sentence "I shall [prove to] be what I shall [prove to] be" is
sometimes modified into "I cause to become what I cause to become", based
on the same philosophical concept, which is not an additional insight. In
addition, the assertion that the name of God means "He causes to become," is
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in itself a “description” of God. However, there is no evidence except for the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">dogma of the causative form.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The emeritus professor E.J. Revell of the University of Toronto, in an answer
to a letter of mine, wrote: «</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I was very interested to read the copy of your work
which you sent me. Before reading your study, had no particular opinion on
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the pronunciation of the name of God. As a student in the 50’s, I was told that
scholars had determined that “Yahweh” was the ancient pronunciation. I did
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">not find the argument well-grounded, but the view was held almost as an
article of faith by my instructors, and I had no superior argument, so I
ignored the problem. I have occasionally thought about it since, but I have not
acquired any information that you have not noticed in your study. You have
certainly collected more information on the question than any other study I
know, and you are to be congratulated on the production of a valuable work.
Many thanks for sending it to me.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">»
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Moses gave the right explanation "He will [prove to] be" of the name Jehovah
(Ex 3:14). Furthermore, it is written «</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">my people will known my name</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">» (Is
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">52:6) that is, of course, the true name because Jehovah "will guard it"(Ps 12:7)
for his servants (Is 43:10). Yeshua officially declared the name of his Father
to his brothers (Heb 2:12). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The name Yahweh (which is a barbarism) has
only been created to battle with the true name Jehovah</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. (The emeritus
professor C. Perrot, of the Institut Catholique de Paris, wrote to professor
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Gertoux “</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Your arguments are very pertinent, but it would be hard to come
back without yielding to Jehovah's Witnesses.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">” !
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A10 - Does the meaning "He is" of the Tetragram help us to know its
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">First, if God says in Exodus 3:14 "I am who I am" that involves one speaking
of God would say "He is who He is", but most of the Hebrew scholars agree,
at the present time, that God said "I shall be" and therefore one would rather
say speaking of God "He will be who He will be". However the meaning "He
will be" (or "He will prove to be") does not allow finding a vocalization
because this meaning is above all a religious explanation without scientific
purpose (grammatical).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Very early etymology intervened, not to vocalize the divine name again
(which was usefulness) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but „to explain the real sense‟ of this name. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Indeed,
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the Hebraic Bible gives an etymological definition of this name in Exodus
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">3:14 which is “I shall be which (who) I shall be”. Generally the Talmud
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and Targums commented on this sentence by clarifying that God
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">strengthened his servants by saying to them „I shall be [with you]‟. One
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">finds this same notion in the Believer Greek Scriptures «If God is for us,
who will be against us» (Rm 8:31). However, the translators of the
Septuagint (towards 280 BCE), under the influence of Greek philosophy,
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">modified this etymology by translating this sentence into “I am the being”
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that i</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">s „I am He who is‟, God becoming „the one who is‟. Then at the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">beginning of the third century there was a slight development of this
definition. In the Believer environment, Clement of Alexandria explained
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that God's name Iaoue means „the one who is and who will be.‟ In the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Jewish environment the Targum of Jonathan explained that in,
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Deuteronomy 32:29, that God's name means “I am the one who is and
who was and I am the one who has to be”. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">At the end of the twelfth century
Maimonides explained the name as me</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aning: „The necessary being‟. But in no
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">way did these etymologies serve to find the original vocalization of the
Tetragram.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">When the understanding of the Hebraic language rose again in Europe during
the thirteenth century, some scholars tried to vocalize this name YHWH from
an existing verbal form. The choice was only between two possibilities:
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YeHaWèH (piel form 3</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">rd </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">person of masculine singular), </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">which means „He
will make to be‟ or „He will constitute‟ a Hebraic reconstituted form and
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YiHWèH a West Aramaic form (peal imperfect, 3</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 8.000000pt; vertical-align: 6.000000pt;">rd </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">person of masculine
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">singular) which means, „He will be‟. The vocalization </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yehaweh </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">had the favor
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of a few cabalists (see </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the Academy of Jerusalem</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) and the vocalization </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yihweh
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">had the favor of some Hebrew Believer scholars. The vocalization YiHWèH
rather than YèHèWéH (B. Davidson - The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Lexicon) derives from the word YeHU‟a (Qo 11:3) meaning „He will be‟.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">3-rd person
Hebrew
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1st person
Hebrew
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Meaning
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Meaning
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YeHaYèH ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He will constitute
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟ahayèh ?
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I shall constitute
</span><br />
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<td colspan="2" rowspan="6" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(87.919463%, 88.590604%, 78.523490%); border-bottom-width: 3.360000pt; border-left-color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); border-left-width: 0.000000pt; border-right-color: rgb(91.666667%, 92.592593%, 78.703704%); border-right-width: 5.160000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(87.248322%, 87.919463%, 78.523490%); border-top-width: 3.360000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YiHYèH
YaHaYèH ??
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">HÛ‟<br />
YéŠ
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">HoWaH
HaYaH
</span><br />
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<div class="column">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He will come to be
He will cause to be
He [is]<br />
He exists
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Coming to be
He came to be
</span><br />
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</div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(91.411043%, 92.024540%, 77.914110%); border-bottom-width: 5.040000pt; border-left-color: rgb(88.888889%, 88.888889%, 77.777778%); border-left-width: 5.160000pt; border-right-color: rgb(88.888889%, 88.888889%, 77.777778%); border-right-width: 5.160000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(87.058824%, 87.647059%, 77.647059%); border-top-width: 3.360000pt;">
<div class="layoutArea">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟èhyèh
</span><br />
</div>
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</td>
<td style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(91.176471%, 91.764706%, 78.235294%); border-bottom-width: 5.040000pt; border-left-color: rgb(88.888889%, 88.888889%, 77.777778%); border-left-width: 5.160000pt; border-right-color: rgb(84.848485%, 85.606061%, 79.545455%); border-right-width: 3.246000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(86.857143%, 87.428571%, 77.714286%); border-top-width: 3.360000pt;">
<div class="layoutArea">
<div class="column">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I shall come to be
</span><br />
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="6" style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(80.000000%, 86.666667%, 73.333333%); border-bottom-width: 3.360000pt; border-left-color: rgb(85.833333%, 86.666667%, 77.500000%); border-left-width: 3.246000pt; border-right-color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); border-right-width: 0.010000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(86.666667%, 93.333333%, 80.000000%); border-top-width: 3.360000pt;">
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<td colspan="1" rowspan="15" style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); border-bottom-width: 0.000000pt; border-left-color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); border-left-width: 0.010000pt; border-right-color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); border-right-width: 0.110000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); border-top-width: 3.360000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟ahayèh ??
</span><br />
</div>
</div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(91.616766%, 91.616766%, 78.443114%); border-bottom-width: 5.160000pt; border-left-color: rgb(89.090909%, 89.090909%, 77.272727%); border-left-width: 5.160000pt; border-right-color: rgb(85.156250%, 85.156250%, 78.125000%); border-right-width: 3.246000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(91.176471%, 91.764706%, 78.235294%); border-top-width: 5.040000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I shall cause to be
</span><br />
</div>
</div>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(91.411043%, 92.024540%, 77.914110%); border-bottom-width: 5.040000pt; border-left-color: rgb(89.090909%, 89.090909%, 77.272727%); border-left-width: 5.160000pt; border-right-color: rgb(89.090909%, 89.090909%, 77.272727%); border-right-width: 5.160000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(91.304348%, 91.304348%, 77.639752%); border-top-width: 5.160000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟anî
</span><br />
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</div>
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<td style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(91.176471%, 91.764706%, 78.235294%); border-bottom-width: 5.040000pt; border-left-color: rgb(89.090909%, 89.090909%, 77.272727%); border-left-width: 5.160000pt; border-right-color: rgb(84.496124%, 84.496124%, 77.519380%); border-right-width: 3.246000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(91.616766%, 91.616766%, 78.443114%); border-top-width: 5.160000pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I [am]
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-
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<div class="layoutArea">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hayîtî
</span><br />
</div>
</div>
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<td style="background-color: rgb(99.600000%, 100.000000%, 80.400000%); border-bottom-color: rgb(86.857143%, 87.428571%, 77.714286%); border-bottom-width: 3.360000pt; border-left-color: rgb(88.034188%, 88.034188%, 77.777778%); border-left-width: 5.160000pt; border-right-color: rgb(84.328358%, 84.328358%, 76.865672%); border-right-width: 3.246000pt; border-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(91.176471%, 91.764706%, 78.235294%); border-top-width: 5.040000pt;">
<div class="layoutArea">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I came to be
</span><br />
</div>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">3-rd person
Aramaic
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Meaning
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1st person
Aramaic
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YeHaWèH He will constitute
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟ahawèh
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I shall constitute
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YiHWèH He will come to be
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟èhwèh
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I shall come to be
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YaHaWèH ?? He will cause to be
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟ahawèh ??
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">I shall cause to be
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">However, no verbal form (3-rd person) corresponded exactly to the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">biblical definition ‟èhyèh (1</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-st person). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Additionally, the form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yehaweh
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">would come from an Aramaic root HWH (see the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">piel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">form YeHaWèH of the
verb HWH in Psalm 19:3), not from a Hebrew root HYH (see the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">piel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">form
YeHaYèH of the verb HYH in Job 36:6). The normal </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">piel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">form of the verb
HYH would be, according to Hebrew, the form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yehayeh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, not </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yehaweh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. Even
the modern hypothetica</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">l form „I shall cause to become‟or „I shall cause to be‟
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yahayèh </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(hypothetical hiphil form 3-rd person of masculine singular)does not
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">agree with the biblical form „I shall [prove to] be‟ that is: </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">’èhyèh </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Hebrew.
Two explanations have been put forward to try to resolve the differences
between the biblical sense and the grammatical meaning. These were to
suppose </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that either the Masoretes had incorrectly vocalized the form „I shall
be‟ or that the theophoric names which all begin by Yeho</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">- have lost their link
with the Tetragram. For example, Johannes Wessel Gansfort who proposed
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iohauah for the name of the Father in his comment on the prayer called „Our
Father‟ (around 1480), supposed that the sentence “I shall be who I shall be”
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">eheieh azer eheieh </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in his Latin manuscript could be vocalized </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aheieh azer
aheieh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. The Masoretic vocalization had shown itself to be very reliable; some
scholars preferred to reconstruct an archaic vocalization of the Tetragram
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">based on its etymology „He will be‟ or „He is‟. The first </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">to start this process
was probably Gilbert Genebrard in 1568, who proposed the verbal form Iehue
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">or Iihue for the divine name corresponding to the Aramaic </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yihweh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, rather than
Iehoua, the usual Hebrew name. At the present time, the Karaites propose the
same choice, see </span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">this link</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A11 - Do the etymologies found in the Bible allow us to find a primeval
vocalization ?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(etymology: "The origin and historical development of a linguistic form as
shown be determining its base elements, earliest known use, and changes in
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">form and meaning, tracing its transmission from one language to another,
identifying its cognates in other languages, and reconstructing its ancestral
form where possible." - American Heritage College Dictionary)
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Among the 60 etymologies found in the Pentateuch, 15 of them have no link
with their grammatical meaning, in this last case some specialists speak of
"folk's etymology". For example the name Babel means "Gate of God"
(grammatically) but it means "Confusion" according to the Bible definition,
the name Noah means "Rest" but it means " Consolation" according to
Genesis 5:29 and so forth.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The method of identifying a proper noun with its verbal shape is nevertheless
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">contradicted by several cases in the Bible. It can be seen that the Masoretic
spelling is in agreement with the vocalization of the Septuagint, but is not in
agreement with its own grammatical vocalization implied from its etymology.
For example:
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Name M.T.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Etymology
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Meaning
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">LXX
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Joseph YÔSéPh
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YÔSÎPh
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He will add
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ioseph
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Judah YeHÛDaH
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YeHÔDèH
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He will laud
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iouda
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Seth </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ŠéTh
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ŠaTh
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He has set
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sèth
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Jehovah YeHoWaH
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YiHWeH
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He will be
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Kurios)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Therefore, those who want to re-vocalize Jehovah into Yihweh or Yahweh
should also change the names of Joseph into Yosiph, Judah into Yehodeh,
Seth into Shath, etc., </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">which was never done even by the translators of the
Septuagint.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Therefore, as the famous grammarian W. Gesenius acknowledged, according
to the theophoric names, that the name of God could be easily vocalized
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iehouah. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">However, the evident form Iehouah was under attack very soon
because of cabalists then theologians who supposed that God's name was a
verbal form. This assertion is absurd because </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">if God's name was a verbal
form, Moses who spoke Hebrew, would understand its meaning with no
problem, which was not the case (Ex 3:13). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In fact Moses knew God's name,
but he received a religious insight of God's name which means </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"He will
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">[prove to] be" (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yihyeh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) and not a grammatical explanation</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. Furthermore,
the normal way to ask a name is to use the Hebrew pronoun </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">mî </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">( ); as in
Judges 13:17 to use </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">mah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">( ) invites an answer which goes further, and gives
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the meaning („</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">what?’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) or substance of the name. Therefore, this answer "I
shall [prove to] be what I shall [prove to] be" is more a religious explanation
rather than a grammatical remark!
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">To sum up the problem, the pronunciation of God's name, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that is Jehovah, is
easy to find using the theophoric names because </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">without exception</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, all the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">theophoric names beginning in YHW- are vocalized YeHÔ- (IÔ- in the
Septuagint). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Therefore the ultimate theophoric name that is to say YHW-H
must be read as </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YeHÔ-AH. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The meaning of God's name is also easy to
determine, that is "He will [prove to] be" according to Exodus 3:14, which
gives the correct insight. To suppose an additional insight from the Cabal ("He
will make to be"), Hebrew grammar ("He causes to become") or Greek
philosophy ("He is, He exists") introduced serious confusion.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The vital key to avoid confusion is to note that there are not equivalencies
between the religious etymologies in the Bible and the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hypothetical
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">grammatical etymologies.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">GRAMMATICAL
ETYMOLOGY
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Rest Nuah<br />
He will be laud Yudeh (?)
He will [prove to] be Yihweh (?)
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(?)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">For example, the famous name Yehudah means "He will laud" according to
Genesis 29:35, but not according to Hebrew grammar (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yodeh</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). Thus, despite
the biblical explanation, Yehudah is a name and not a verbal form. Not
understanding these differences, many scholars and translators have tried to
harmonize grammatical etymologies and biblical etymologies. For example,
one of the translators of the Septuagint </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">modified </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the biblical etymology "He
will comfort" (Ge 5:29) into a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">better </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">grammatical etymology "He will rest". In
the same way, the Jewish writer, Philo, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">modified </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the biblical etymology
"Father of a crowd" (Ge 17:5) into a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">better </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">grammatical etymology "[chosen]
father of noise" (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">De mutatione Nominum §66</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) that is Abra„am in Hebrew
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">which harmonizes </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">better </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">with the name Abraham than Abhamon. In the past,
many scholars tried to modify the biblical etymology "He will [prove to] be"
into a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">better </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">grammatical etymology "He causes to become", because this last
form (hypothetically vocalized Yahayeh which can hypothetically be derived
from an ancient Yahaweh) could explained the frequent beginning in Yah- of
the Greek testimonies in Iaô of the first century.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A12 - Was the exact pronunciation of the divine name known before
Moses, and if yes why did Moses ask it to God ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Before Moses Abraham called on this Name and even Eve knew it. In actual
fact Moses ignored the true meaning of this Hebrew name Yehowah and that
is why he asked his question in Exodus 3:13, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">because the name (or the fame)
of God did not mean anything for most of Israelites</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. His question is about
the meaning of the name and not about its pronunciation (like in Judges
13:17), besides God's answer is also about the meaning and not about the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Comfort (1Ch 4:19)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He will laud"
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">spelling. (Translators generally modified the question of Exodus 3:13
according to Judges 13:17, however in Hebrew there is a small difference
between "Your name, what is?" [Exodus 3:13] about the meaning, and "Your
name, who is?" [Judges 13:17] about the spelling).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A13 - Did the Jews stop pronouncing the Name because of the prohibition
of rabbis ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The biblical account of the events which occurred before and after the
destruction of the First Temple helps us to understand the process of the
progressive disappearance of the Name. Indeed, some years before 600 BCE,
Pharaoh Necho defeated King Josiah then established Eliakim (God will raise
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">up) as vassal and perhaps as provocation, changed his name to Jehoiakim
(Yehô will raise up). This proves that Necho knew the great name of the God
of the Hebrews (2K 23:34). Some years later, in a similar way and in the same
context, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar would establish as vassal King
Mattaniah (gift of Yah) and change his name to Zedekiah (rightness of Yah).
This proves that he also knew the divine name, but only the more familiar
form Yah, and not the form of the great name (2K 24:17). It is easy to
understand the chain of events after the destruction of the Temple. For the
Hebrew people it was a terrible humiliation to be defeated by pagans. Likely
at this time they took good care in the use of the holy name in order not to
profane it (Ezk 36:20,21; Mal 1:6) and they surely remembered previous
warnings on the subject (Is 52:5; Am 6:10). It is noteworthy that after the
return from exile even the prophets avoided using the Name with non-Jews.
For example, Daniel used the Tetragram (Dn 1:2 9:2-20) but he used several
substitutes with non-Jews: God in the heavens (Dn 2:28), Revealer of secrets
(Dn 2:29), God of heaven (Dn 2:37,44), the Most High (Dn 4:17,24,32), the
heavens (Dn 4:26). In the same way Ezra (-498?-398?) and Nehemiah used
the Tetragram with the Jews (Ezr 3:10,11 8:28,29; Ne 4:14 8:9) but they used
several substitutes with non-Jews: God (Ezr 5:17), the great God (Ezr 5:8),
God of the heavens (Ezr 5:12; Ne 2:4,20), God of the heavens and the earth
(Ezr 5:11). Furthermore, these non-Jews no longer used the Tetragram in their
answers to the prophets. Cyrus was probably the last (just after 539 BCE)
who used the name Jehovah (Ezr 1:2). In the book of Esther there is no
Tetragram, but the last book (Malachi) written for the Jews, contains it.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This prohibition appeared only after the middle of the second century CE and
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">it was given by rabbi Abba Shaül, but long time before this date (circa third
century BCE) the Tetragram was not used anymore due to a mystical
reverence toward the Name. Furthermore the Jews considered the use of the
Tetragram reserved to the Temple and outside of it they preferred sometimes
using the two substitutes Yah and Yahu in Hebrew or Ia and Iaô in Greek
(numerous archaeological and historical witnesses during the period 500 BCE
to 500 CE.)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A14- Are the two names Yah and Yahu, which are found at the end of
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ome Hebrew proper names, abbreviations of the Tetragram ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">There is no obvious link between the short name YH and the great name
YHWH. The vocalization Yah of the short name YH does not prove anything
regarding the vocalization of the great name. For example, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Betty and Liz are
short forms of Elisabeth</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, but the link between the short forms and the full
form is far from obvious. However, there are only four combinations for all
the theophoric names.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">2Sa 7:2
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He has given - Yah
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">1Ch 25:2
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He has given - Yah himself
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The (short) name Yah is considered as a name as a whole in the Bible (Ps
68:4), furthermore it appeared in the same time that the (great) Name (Ex
15:2,3) and it was mainly used in the songs (Ps 150:1). Contrary to the
Tetragram the name Yah has always been used as the word Alleluia proves it
(Rev 19:1-6). The other name Yahû (which is not found in the Bible) is not an
abbreviation of the Tetragram but a hypocoristic made from the name Yah. As
a matter of fact the name Yahû means "Yah hims</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">elf" (Yah hû‟). On the other
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hand Yô- in the beginning of some names is an abbreviation of Y(eh)ô- which
is itself an abbreviation of the full name Yehow-(ah). One can notice that in
the Bible there is no name beginning by Yah- or Yahû- and none ending by -
yô or -yehô.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">There is a confusion between the short name YH and the great name YHWH.
The reading in Ya- is favored by a confusion between the two names of God:
the full name YeHoWaH (Ps 83:18) and the short name YaH (Ps 68:4). The
Jews reserved a different treatment for these two names because they always
agreed to pronounce the short name, contrary to the great name, which was
replaced around the third century BCE by its substitute Adonay (Lord). Thus,
the short name Yah is found in the Believer Greek Writings in the expression
Alleluia (Rev. 19:1-6), which means "Praise Yah." Moreover, in the Qumran
writings, the Tetragram was sometimes written in paleo-Hebrew inside the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Hebrew text, which was not the case for the name Yah. It is also of note that
this name Yah was especially used in songs (Ex 15:2) and in psalms.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">- The short name YH is vocalized Yah (Hallelu-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Hebrew and Allelou-
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ia </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Greek).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">- The pet name YHW alone (not found in the Bible, but found in Elephantine
for example) is vocalized Yahû in Hebrew and Iaô (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ΙΑΩ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) in Greek (found in a
first-century-BCE copy of the Septuagint). This name Yahû means in Hebrew
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"Yah He" (Yah Hû‟). The name Yahû is different from the name Jehu (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ye</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hû
in Hebrew and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ie</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ou in the Septuagint) which means Yehow[ah-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">h]û‟ that is to
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">say "Yehow[ah] He" and not Yah-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hû‟ that is "Yah He" (in which case the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Septuagint would have kept the form Iaou instead of Ieou).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The cuneiform transcriptions in Akkadian are syllabic transcriptions which
have only a single sign to represent the following sounds: ya, ye, yi, yu, wa,
we, wi, wu. In fact, there is only a single specific sign to specify the sound ia,
and none for the sound h. So, the name Yehudah can be transcribed, at best,
only by Ia-u-da or Ia-hu-da; etc. The logical consequence of this is that, if the
Tetragram was pronounced Yehowah in Hebrew, the Akkadian transcription
of this name could be, at best, that Ia-u-a or Ia-hu-a. We notice moreover that
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the name Yehu1 was transcribed Ia-u-a (and Ia-u) in Shalmaneser III's texts,
dated 9th century BCE because of the lack of vowel e in Akkadian. Therefore
the name Ia-u-a could be read as Iu-u-a (or even </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ie-u-a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) see:
</span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">http://www.achemenet.com/pdf/nabu/nabu1997-019.pdf
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In addition to the initial part Yehô- which was abbreviated to Yô-, the final
part </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-yah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">also had a diminutive </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-yahu</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, this last term means in Hebrew "Yah
himself." This term appeared for two reasons. First, the Hebrew term </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">hu’
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">means "himself" (implied God) began to play a big role in worship. For
example, to distance himself from the other gods and to mark his durability,
God often expressed himself by using the Hebraic expression </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">’ani hu’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, that is
"myself" or more exactly "I, himself" or "It is I." (Dt 32:39; Is 52:6; etc.)
Although human beings can use this expression in speaking of themselves
(1Ch 21:17), generally when one used "He" or "Himself" it was in relation to
God. (2 Kings 2:14)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Hebrews did not delay in integrating this divine name into their own
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">names, as into the following names Abihu‟ (my father [is] He), Elihu‟ (my
god [is] He), or Yehu‟ (Ye[huah is] He). Later, the final letter of these names
being mute, it was not written any more. For example, the name Elihu‟ is very
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">often written Elihu. The names Abiyah (my father [is] Yah), and Eliyah (my
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">god [is] Yah) existing also, there was a mixture of Yah and Hu‟ to obtain
names like Abiyahu‟ (my father [is] Yah Himself), or Eliyahu‟ (my god [is]
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yah Himself).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This association provoked the appearance of a new divine name, which one
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">does not find in the Bible, except at the end of some theophoric names: the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">name Yah hu‟, abbreviated as Yahu. The assonance of this expression with the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Tetragram doubtless favored the emergence of this abbreviation. Moreover,
one finds this name alone (YHW), written next to the Tetragram (YHWH), in
Kuntillet Ajrud's writings, dated from the ninth century before our era. Some
specialists object that the ending in U could be a residue of an archaic
nominative. However, this would be a unique occurrence. Furthermore, this
explanation is all the less convincing as it does not apply to the name Elihu.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">- The great name YHWH is vocalized </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yehowah </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in Hebrew and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Iôa </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in the
beginning of numerous Greek names. In the same way, as there were
theophoric names elaborated from the great name, that is names beginning
with Yehô- or its shortened form Y(eh)ô-, there were also theophoric names
elaborated from Yah. However, a major remark is necessary in the Bible,
Greek or Hebraic. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Hebrews took care of making either their names
begin with Yehô- or Yô-, or to end their names with -yah, but never the
opposite, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">without exception. So, in the Bible, it is impossible to find, among
hundreds of existing theophoric names, a single name beginning with Yah-.
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">So, those who vocalize YHWH in Yahweh are obliged to admit that the
Tetragram, the theophoric name by excellence, does not belong to its
family of theophoric names, what is the height of irony. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This nonsense is
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">clearly apparent when one opens a dictionary, where the name Yahve is
completely isolated from the other theophoric names like: Joshua, Jonathan,
Yeshua, John, etc. For example, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the name YHWHNN (John) is vocalized
Yehôha-nan in Hebrew and Iôa-nan in Greek (not Iaô-nan). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">For example,
Severi of Antioch (465-538) wrote in his comments on John chapter eight that
the Hebrew name of God is IOA (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ΙΩΑ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). Furthermore, this name IOA (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ΙΩΑ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) is
found in the sixth-century Codex Coislinianus.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">It is possible to verify that, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">without exception</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, the theophoric names beginning
in YHW- are vocalized YeHÔ- (IÔ- in the Septuagint), and those ending in -
YHW are vocalized -YaHÛ (IA or IOU in the Septuagint). In addition, the
vowel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">very often follows the sequence YeHÔ-, that is to say the "normal"
sequence is YeHÔ-()a. This sequence is so universal in the theophoric names
that some names have been "theophorized" by assonance in the following
names of the Septuagint: Iôa-tam (Jg 9:7, 57; 2K 15:5, 32), Iôa-kéim (1Ch
4:22), Iôa-s (1Ch 23:10,11), Iôa-sar (1Ch 2:18), Iôa-kal (Jr 37:3), etc. To sum
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">up, the name Yehu‟ results from a contraction of YeHoWaH Hu‟ to YeHoW</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-
[aH]-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">u‟ that is YeHoWu‟ or YeHU‟. On the other hand, YaHu results from the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">contraction of the two names YaH-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Hu‟.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A15 - Did the name Yehowah come from an older form Yahowah or
Yahwoh ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The form Yahowah is impossible because it may be read in Hebrew as
"Yah [is] howah". </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Now the Hebrew word HoWah (found in Isaiah 47:11 or
Ezekiel 7:26) means "disaster" ( "ruin", "adversity", etc.). However, there is
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">also a homonym of the word HoWaH which means "coming to be". So, in
order to avoid an eventual blasphemous misinterpretation, the expression
YeHoWaH HoWaH (in Exodus 9:3) meaning "Yehowah coming to be" was
modified into YeHoWaH HOYaH. The name YeHoWaH read as YeHoWaH
may be undestood as "Ye [is] disaster" (and also as "Ye [is] coming to be"),
but Ye is not a short name for God like Yehô, Yô or Yah, therefore, the
expression "Ye [is] disaster" means nothing in Hebrew, that this is not the case
with the name Ya which is the short name of God (Hallelu-Ya means "Praise
Yah"), which involves a potential risk of blasphemous misinterpretation which
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the reading Yahowah.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Furthermore there is no evidence of the hypothetic change Yahô- into
Yehô-, because the first vowel </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">probably dropped out during the third
century BCE, that is to say the epoch when the Septuagint were made.
That is why the LXX has kept the older forms: Nathaniou, Salomon,
Samuel, Sodoma, etc., but it never kept a form in Iaô- with the theophoric
names (but only in Iô-).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The fall of the first vowel does not apply to the great name YHWH. If
theophoric names were still pronounced Yaho- (in Hebrew) at the beginning
of the 3-rd century before our era, translators of the Septuagint should have
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">preserved these names as Iaô- because they generally kept the first vowel of
proper nouns (Zakaria, Nathania, Qahath, instead of Zekaria, Nethania,
Qehath, etc.). Now, among thousands of theophoric names in the Greek Bible,
there are none which remained in Iaô- (or even in Ia- only). This should have
happened frequently if these names began with Yahow- (or Yaw-). For
example, all the "theophoric" names of the god Nabu (beginning in Nebu- in
Hebrew) are written Nabou- in the Septuagint. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">So the beginning in Iô- of
theophoric names gives evidence of the vocalization Y(eh)o</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">- and not
Y(ah)o-.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">So, to suppose that all the Hebrew theophoric names presently vocalized
Yehô- would have resulted from an "archaic" form Yahû- is indefensible from
the point of view of linguistic laws. On the other hand, the fusion of the group
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">u-a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">into a simple </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">u </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is often seen especially inside a word.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Name Meaning
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Hebrew form
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Reference
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ge‟û‟el </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">majesty of God
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ga‟(a)w(ah)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟el
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Nb 13:15
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Mitswot commandments
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Mitsw(ah)-ôt
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Nb 15:22
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yisra‟el </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">He will contend, God
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yisra(h)‟el
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Gn 32:28
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟Elohim </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Gods/ God
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟Elo(a)h</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-im
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">2K 1:12
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Thus, the name Ga‟aw(ah)‟el became Ga‟ow‟el that is Ga‟û‟el then Ge‟û‟el.
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">More generally there were contractions in the theophoric names. For example,
Yehowah-nathan became Yehow(ah)nathan that is Yehônathan, sometimes
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">there was a double contraction like Yehowah-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">‟el which became
Y(eh)ow(ah)‟el that is Yô‟el, in the same way that the name Ga‟(a)w(ah)‟el
became Ga‟û‟el (then Ge‟û‟el), or Mitsw(ah)ot became Mitswot. Even the
name Zeru(„a)babel meaning "seed of Babel" in Hebrew became Zerubabel.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">At present, the oldest likely theophoric name is Yôhanan (ywhnn), written in
paleo-Hebrew and dated 11-th century BCE. However, the influence of the
name Yahû is so powerful that the name Yôhanan is rather read Yawhanan.
Furthermore, there is a trend to vocalize as Ya- all the former names, this
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">being favored by the belief that all Semitic names followed a general
evolution Ya>Yi>Ye, according to a relatively well verified linguistic law
(Barth-Ginsberg's law). However, this law is often applied back to front, that
is Ye< Yi< Ya, which is manifestly false. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">For example, the name Yisra‟él
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">should have been spelt Ia-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aš</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-ra-il in this time</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">; but at Ebla, in documents
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">dated from the end of the third millennium before our era, the name Iš</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-ra-il,
was found, the exact equivalent of Yisraél. In fact, some studies proved that
some verbal forms and names could become vocalized Yi- rather than Ya- at
Ebla. In addition, in the Mari's texts, dated from the same period, specialists
arrived at the same conclusion regarding the vocalization Yi- rather than Ya-
in numerous cases. For example, the name I-krub (He blessed) is very often
written Ia-krub. Thus, among the oldest known texts, this law (Ya >Yi >Ye)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">has numerous exceptions.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Numerous linguists have postulated that, even though this name was
pronounced Yehowah in the first century, it would have actually resulted from
an "archaic" Yahowah or Yahwoh with a classic fall (because of the stress) of
the initial vowel, that is the first syllable Ya- became Ye-. Now, if this change
is well attested for numerous names (although the influence of the Aramaic
language on Hebrew can also explain this modification), there is not a trace of
this phenomenon for the divine name. For example, the modern names
Zekaryah, Nethanyah, Sedôm, etc., had to have been pronounced Zakaryah,
Nathanyah, Saduma, etc., in "ancient times", because the Septuagint kept the
former forms with their initial vowel (Zakaria, Nathania, Sodoma, etc.). Thus
it kept numerous traces of this process which took place in 3-rd century BCE
(see: S.A. Kaufman - The History of Aramaic vowel reduction. in: Arameans,
Aramaic and the Aramaic literary Tradition. Ramat-Gan 1983 Ed. Bar-Ilan
University Press pp.47-55. A. Dupont-Sommer - La tablette cunéiforme
araméenne de Warka. in: Revue d'Assyriologie XXXIX (1944) pp.60-61). If,
according to the hypothesis of the previously mentioned linguists, the
theophoric names were still pronounced Yaho- (in Hebrew) at the beginning
of 3-rd century BCE, the translators of the LXX should have kept these names
as Iaô-. Now, among thousands of theophoric names in the Greek (or Hebrew)
Bible, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">there are none which remained as Iaô- or even in Ia- </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">only.
Linguistic laws do not explain why the Septuagint did not keep any trace of
this term Iaô-, which should have nevertheless been very widespread if the
Name had been Yahwoh.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A second explanation is then proposed: there was a transformation of the
name Iaô for theological reasons (i.e., the protection of God's name). This
second assertion, which is based on a well admitted fact, is still refutable.
Indeed, if the Tetragram was pronounced Yahwoh </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(the form Yahowah is
absurd, because in Hebrew it means "Yah [is] howah", that is disaster),
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the complete name (which is already surprising) would have been integrated at
the beginning of theophoric names, and all these names into Yaho- would
have became Iô- (noted form in the LXX except rare exceptions such as Ié-
zikar, Ié-zébouth [2 K 12:21]; Iè-soué [1Ch 7:27]; -iarib [1Ch 24:7]). This
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">transformation is illogical, because when finales with -yahû were modified,
one notices that the final choice was shared among -ia and -iou; Now the
transformation Iaô- into Iô- would have been unanimous (which is already
difficult to believe, because even when the Believer copyists exchanged the
divine name by the title "Lord" some preferred the title "God") and in
disagreement with the previous choice of -ia for the end of theophoric names
(this theological choice of ia- was the most logical because it kept the short
form (Yah) of the divine name). Not only does the vocalization of these names
remains very hypothetical, but even their meanings, or their etymologies,
reflect more closely the convictions of current experts, rather than actual
proof. This remains true in spite of philosophical justifications that are
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">sometimes put forward.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The most reasonable explanation is so to consider that the Greek term Iô-
simply results from a Hebrew<br />
Y(eh)o-.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A16 - Is the oldest potential witness for the Tetragram found at Soleb
(which is written </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,BoldItalic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yhw3 </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in hieroglyphs) pronounced Yahwe ?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The oldest archeological testimony favors the pronunciation Jehovah. A short
inscription dated of the time of Amenophis III (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">circa 1400 BCE </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">has been
found at Soleb. This writing is easy to decipher. Indeed, one can transcribe
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">this sentence written in hieroglyphs by: "t3 š3</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-sw-w y-h-w3-w". This
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">expression is vocalized in the conventional system by "ta‟ sha‟suw yehua‟w",
which one can translate by: "land of the bedouins those of yehua‟".
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">These inscriptions contain enough short writings to withstand cross
examination. Furthermore, this Bedouins </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Shasu </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">usually indicates for the
Egyptians some Bedouins living with their bundles, in the region in the North
of the Sinai. Some specialists prefer to identify Yehua with an unknown place-
name. Anyway, this distinction is impossible to prove, as in the cases of
biblical place-names like: "land of Judah" (Dt 34:2); "land of Rameses" (Gn
47:11); or with the Egyptian place-names of Thutmosis III's list "[land of]
Jacob-El"; "[land of] Josep-El".
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">However, one notices bad will in the vocalization of this name Yhw3, because
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the totality of dictionaries indicate either yhw‟, what is illegible, or Yahweh,
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">what is not in agreement with the conventional vocalization, but never
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yehua‟. Some special</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ists object that one badly knows the vowels of Egyptian
words, what is true. However, for foreign words, which is the case here,
Egyptians used a sort of standard alphabet with </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">matres lectionis</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, that is of
semic consonants which serve as vowels. In this system one has the
equivalencies: 3 = a, w = u, ÿ = i, and that is exactly why the reading by the
conventional system gives acceptable results. For example, in Merneptah's
stele dated 13-th century before our era, the name Israel is transcribed in
hieroglyphs Yÿsri3l, which one can read: Yisrial (conventional system), what
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">is not too bad. Nevertheless, some specialists who refuse the classic system,
read this name Yasarial because of its old age. Nevertheless, almost a
millennium before, at Ebla, one read thi</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">s name Išrail, what contradicts the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">reading Yasarial. So, in the current state of our knowledge, the conventional
system of reading of hieroglyphs is the best alternative, and in this system the
name (or place-name) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yhw3 is read "technically" Yehua‟</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A17- Did Yeshua never pronounce the divine name or did he rather use
the title "Lord" (Adonay) ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">When he read the text of Isaiah in a loud voice (Luc 4:16-20) he met this
Name (In the translation of C Tresmontant (Catholic) one reads the name
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yhwh. In that of A. Chouraqui (Jewish) IhvH and in that of J.N. Darby
(Protestant) *Lord, that is to say Jehovah according to the note on Matthew
1:20, [broken link] ). As he vigorously opposed against human traditions it is
very unlikely that he accepted this one. Furthermore, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">there was no
prohibition about the use of the Name at this epoch and the vocalization
was still known because it has been used in the Temple until 70 CE for the
blessing of the Yom-Kippur.
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A18- Did early Believers pronounce the divine name ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The trial of Stephen is a good example to prove that early Believers
pronounced the Name. First of all Stephen was accused of
blasphemous sayings and thus was brought before the Sanhedrin
(Ac 6:11,12). Stephen was considered to be a blasphemer, because
he was accused of apostasy (Ac 6:14), which charge he attempted to
refute. His argumentation should have exonerated him, but in his
defense he quoted the episode of the burning bush (Ex 3:1-15) with
the revelation of the Name (Ac 7:30-33) which led him to use the
divine name three times (Ac 7:31,33,49). On the other hand,
refusing to name God could have convinced the audience that
Stephen implicitly recognized that he spoke blasphemous sayings.
The fact of using the divine name was not reprehensible in itself,
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">because prohibition on its use would appear only by the middle
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of the second century, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but to use it when on trial for blasphemy
before the final verdict meant execution by stoning (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sanhedrin </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">7:5),
which indeed occurred (Ac 7:58). A few Judeo-Believers were
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">executed in this „legal‟ way (Ac 26:10). There were not simply
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">vigilante killings because of two reasons, first, it was an official
(and not a popular) trial, secondly, Saul, who was a legal expert,
approved of Stephen's execution (Ac 22:20). Some Bible scholars
propose the idea that it was the last sentence about Yeshua, which
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">condemned Stephen. This is impossible for two reasons. The first is
that the proceedings were dealing with blasphemy against the Name
and not the charge of apostasy which would have only entailed a
prison sentence (Ac 8:3; 22:4) and exclusion from the synagogue
(Jn 12:42), not capital punishment. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Secondly, the prohibition on
the use of the name of Yeshua did exist (Ac 4:18; 5:28), but the
penalty in that case was flogging (Ac 5:40) not death. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This
penalty was often applied (Mt 10:17; Ac 22:19) on Believers of
Jewish origin but not on Believers of heathen origin.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The crime of blasphemy is clearly codified in the Law of Moses and
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the culprit was to be stoned to death outside the camp (Lv 24:14-
16). For example, this procedure was unjustly applied to execute
Naboth (1K 21:13,14). The chief priests tried to apply this charge
against Yeshua, but several elements made their plan fail. First of all
the false witnesses did not agree among themselves (Mt 26:59,60),
and secondly the charge of blasphemous sayings was a matter of
interpretation.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In order for that charge to be valid the accused person must have
cursed God's name, with two conditions, that is to blaspheme God
and to use his name, or more rarely to directly blaspheme God's
name. Apostasy being considered as blasphemous sayings, could
entail the death penalty (Jn 10:33) if the accused person also used
God's name before the final verdict of the court (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sanhedrin</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">56a, 7:5).
In this particular case, Yeshua did not so use the divine Name and
he demonstrated that the charge of blasphemous sayings was untrue
(Jn 10:31-39). In the time of Yeshua there existed blasphemous
sayings and blasphemy against God (Mt 12:31). If blasphemous
sayings (generally apostasy) were proved, the accused person was
excluded and cursed by the community. It was this threat which
hung over the Jews who became Believer (Jn 9:22; 12:42). They did
not risk death, but rather exclusion or excommunication (Ac 8:1).
However, to satisfy the Jewish religious leaders, the civil authorities
did put some Believers of Jewish origin to death (Jn 16:2) on vague
charges of sedition (Ac 12:1-3; 19:40; 24:5) or disturbing public
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">order (Ac 16:20; 17:6).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">While the trial of Yeshua is the most famous, certain elements
appear contradictory as to the motive for his condemnation and the
procedure followed by the authorities. To understand these
difficulties we must remember that the Jewish Supreme Court, the
Sanhedrin, was a body officially recognized by the occupying power
and endowed with competence in judicial and administrative matters
and in legal exegesis, existing as a single institution under the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">presidency of the High Priest (After the destruction of Jerusalem in
70 CE, the Sanhedrin ceased to exist in its previous form). The
Sanhedrin in the time of Yeshua was restricted to the eleven
toparchies of Judaea proper. It consequently had no judicial
authority at all over Yeshua whilst he remained in Galilee. He came
directly under its jurisdiction only in Judaea (Lk 23:7). In a sense, of
course, the Sanhedrin exercised such moral jurisdiction over all the
Jewish communities throughout the world (Ac 9:2: 22:5: 26:12), and
in that sense over Galilee too. The Sanhedrin judged civil and
religious crimes, but it had authority only over Jewish citizens and
being under the Roman authority, the execution of its judgments had
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">to be overseen by these authorities (Ac 22:30). For example, the
Talmud of Jerusalem (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sanhedrin</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">18a) tells us that 40 years before
the destruction of the Temple, that is in 30 CE, the Romans had
deprived the Jews of capital punishment. With the trial of Yeshua
taking place in 33 CE, the Jews could indeed tell Pilate that they
could not put Yeshua to death (Jn 18:31). However, this limitation
concerned only civil crimes, because the Romans did not want to
take charge of religious crimes (Ac 18:14-16; 23:29; 25:19).
Moreover, Pilate pointed out that he had full authority to judge civil
crimes (Jn 19:10) yet, he did not want to judge a religious crime (Jn
18:31) even though this crime was punishable by death (Jn 19:7).
With reference to Judaea, Josephus states explicitly that the emperor
delegated to Coponius, Judaea's first Roman prefect (from 6 to 9
CE), the power to rule on his behalf, and exercise his authority,
including the right to inflict capital punishment (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Jewish
War</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">II:117). In Jewish law the only religious crimes which were
punishable by death, at this time, were profanation of the Temple
(Nb 4:15) and blasphemy against God's name (Lv 24:16), which
explains why the chief priests tried at first to condemn Yeshua on
these grounds (Mc 14:55). For example, in a extract from a letter to
Agrippa I(-10 to 44), Philo asserted that entry into the Holy of
Holies by a Jew, even a priest, or even the High Priest when not
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">expressly ordered, constituted a crime punishable by „death without
appeal‟. Literary and epigraphic evidence indicate that a non</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-Jew,
even if a Roman citizen, was to be put to death if apprehended in the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">inner Temple court (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Jewish War VI:126</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">).
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The chief priests who wanted to eliminate Yeshua (Mt 26:4) tried to
put him to death (Mt 26:59) by using the only charge which allowed
for capital punishment (Jn 19:7), the charge of blasphemy (Mt
26:65). Since there had obviously been no direct blasphemy against
God, in order for that charge to work it was also necessary that
Yeshua use the divine name before the final verdict, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">which he did
not do, using substitutes such as Power (Mt 26:64)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, Above (Jn
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">19:11), God (Mk 15:34). So, the charge remained potential -</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">“He is
liable to death” but could not become actual </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">“he is condemned to
death”, because, although the high priest ripped his outer garments,
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">he asked «What is your opinion?» (Mt 26:65-66). Furthermore the
high priest alone ripped his garments proving that the other
members of the Sanhedrin did not fully agree. Having failed, the
chief priests then changed the charge of blasphemy (religious
crime), into a crime of lese-majesty (civil crime), </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">but for this, the
approval of Roman authorities was necessary (Lk 23:1,2). </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This
charge of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">crimen laesae majestis</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">was perfectly understood by Pilate,
but he did not retain it (Lk 23:13,14). The law called </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">lex Julia
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">majestis </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">promulgated in 48 BCE recognized as a crime any activity
against the sovereign power of Rome. Finally, Pilate accepted
unwillingly to execute Yeshua but simply to restore law and order
and to protect his career (Lk 23:22-24). It was mainly for this last
reason that Believers of pagan origin would be put to death. Roman
historian Tacitus, wrote that to silence rumors about the fire of
Rome in 64 CE, Nero put to death Believers who were already the
object of popular hatred (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Annals XV, XLIV</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). Pliny the Younger,
the governor of Bithynia around 111 CE, expressed his perplexity
over the absence of any legal motive for the execution of Believers
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Letters of Pliny X:96,3-5; 97,1</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">).
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Romans easily accepted new religions with the express
condition (at the risk of death) that they be licit i.e. authorized by the
State according to the ancient law called </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">lex superstitio illicita</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. At
the beginning of our era, since Believers were mainly of Jewish
origin, the Romans did not easily distinguish between the two
groups. The Jewish religion being a licit religion, the Judeo-Believer
should have been able to use the divine name without risk of being
pursued for blasphemy by the Roman authorities. Whereas it was
legal for a Roman to become Jewish, the law on superstitions was
nevertheless invoked to condemn Judeo-Believers (Ac 16:21).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">This charge seems paradoxical, because it was possible only if a
new god had been introduced, but certain philosophers believed this
was the case in hearing talk about Yeshua (Ac 17:18). A second
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">possibility is that, as in the first century, since the Romans knew that
the Jews worshiped a god who was not named, the use of a name
unknown to them, would have led to belief in the introduction of a
new religion (Ac 18:13). For that reason, Paul carefully avoided
using the Tetragram, in his defense, but preferred substitutes such as
God, Lord of the heaven and earth, the Divine Being (Ac 17:21-31).
The proconsul Gallio considered that a quarrel on names (Ac 18:15)
did not come from the law on superstitions, but from the Jewish law
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">alone. Theoretically, the law on superstitions could apply to the
Jews or to the Judeo-Believers only if they mentioned the divine
name, a god unknown to the Romans. However even in that case,
the penalty was not necessarily death but expulsion. For example,
historian Valerius Maximus relates that around 139 BCE Praetor
Cornelius Hispalus sent back Jews who had tried to convert Romans
to the worship of Jova Sabaoth (Sabazi Jovi). However, under
pressure from the crowd which hated Believers, historian Suetonius
wrote «that punishments were inflicted on the Believers, a class of
men given to a new and mischievous superstition» (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Lives of
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Caesars -Nero, XVI, 2</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The procedure followed in the trial of Paul was still the same. The
Jews, around 58 CE, wanted to eliminate Paul (Ac 22:22) who was
then brought before the Sanhedrin (Ac 22:30). However, knowing
perfectly well what had happened to Stephen (Ac 22:20) and
knowing that in any case the crowd would molest him (Ac 21:31,35)
after his judgment, Paul skillfully transformed a likely charge of
sedition, profanation of the Temple (Ac 21:28) and apostasy (Ac
21:21) into a charge concerning different faiths (Ac 23:6), which
definitively held up his trial. (A few years before, around 50 CE, a
Roman soldier who heedlessly tore up a Torah scroll was put to
death for profanation of the Temple by Procurator Cumanus (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The
Jewish War II:231</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">)). It would seem that Paul in a previous trial had
not acted as skillfully, since he was indeed stoned and left for dead
outside the city (Ac 14:19). There is no record in the Scriptures of
James' death. The secular historian Josephus, however, says that
during the interval between the death of Governor Festus, about 62
CE, and the arrival of his successor Albinus, the high priest Ananus
(Ananias), «conveyed the judges of the Sanhedrin and brought
before them a man named James, the brother of Yeshua (Ga 1:19)
who was called the Christ, and certain others. He accused them of
having transgressed the law and delivered them up to be stoned»
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Jewish Antiquities XX: 200</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). The stoning of James, a Believer of
Jewish origin, appears to be the last to be recorded.
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A19- Does the New Testament give us a new teaching because it
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">shows that God has changed his name YHWH to "Lord" for
Believers ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Most of the early Believers were (until 70 CE) Jews and this change
has never be explicitly explained in the Bible. The early Believers
used and copied the Septuagint and it is interesting to note that
among all the copies which have been found (less than 10) dated
before 150 CE, none has the name "Lord" (Kyrios in Greek). Before
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">150 CE only one piece of the Gospel has been found (with no
dispute, it is the P52 dated of 125 CE) and it is an exception because
there is no </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">nomina sacra </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in it (holy names, this process consisted to
change a name, mainly the Tetragram, by its abbreviation). The
rabbi Tarphon related, between 90 and 130, the problem of the
destruction of heretic (believer) writings with the Tetragram. The
substitution of the Tetragram was not uniform because numerous
copyists preferred the word "God" (Theos in Greek) instead of
"Lord". Lastly, the apostle John, who was a Jew, still used the name
Yah, in 96 CE, when he wrote his book of the Revelation in which
he used the Hebrew expression Allelu-ia that is "Praise Yah" (Rev
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">19:1-6), not "Praise the Lord", that is Allelu-Adonay.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Usually, Adonay was used as the main substitute (but not as the
permanent substitute) in the Palestinian liturgy (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sotah 40b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">; 7,6) and
sometimes Elohim (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Damascus Document XV,1</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). For example, in
the oldest text of Isaiah (from 150 to 100 BCE) found at Qumrân
(1Q</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 5.000000pt; vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), sixteen times 'Adonay' took of the Tetragram. In daily life
many occasional substitute (the Heavens, Father, the Almighty, the
blessed One, Power, the Name, etc.) were used as seen in the
Talmud or in the New Testament. The only exception seems to have
been in greetings, since the Talmud (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Berakot 63a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">; 9,9) noted that
the divine name was to be used in this case, however this was likely
the name Yah (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Berakot 9,1</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">). During the period which preceded the
destruction of the Temple, the Talmud (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Sotah 7,6; Tamid 33b</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">)
makes it clear that occasional substitutes of the Names were used in
Palestinian liturgy. These substitutes were numerous, as one can
notice in the literature of this time (2M 1:24,25; 15:3; Si 23:4;
50:14-19). some of them, used as proper names, are exceptionally
found in the Septuagint or in the New Testament like : God (Theos),
Iaô (Fouad 266), Sabaôth (1S 1:3; Rm 9:29; Jm 5:4), etc.
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A20- Is "Lord" (Kyrios) the name of God in the Greek
Scriptures ?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The papyrus P52 is dated 125 CE, and contains the verse of John
18:31-33. Owing to the shape of this piece of sheet (red part) it is
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">possible to reconstruct the whole codex to which it belonged
(around 130 pages of 18 lines per page with an average of 33
characters per line, and 29/30 on the verso).
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<span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">OI.IOUDA</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">OI.</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">HME</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IN.OUK.EXESTIN.APOKTEINAI
</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">OUDENA. INA.O.L</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">OGOS.TOU.</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHSOU</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.PLHRWQE.ON.EI
</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">PEN.SHMAINW</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">N.POIW.QANATW.HMELLEN.APO
</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">QNHSKEIN.IS</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">HLQEN.OUN.PALIN.EIS.TO.PRAITW
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<span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">RION.O.P</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ILATOS.KAI.EFWNHSEN.TON.</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHSOUN
</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">KAI.EIP</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">EN.AUTW.SU.EI.O.BASILEUS.TWN.IOU
DA</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IW</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">N.APEKRIQH.</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">IHSOUS</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.APO.SEAUTOU.SU
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">(John 18:31-33)
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">[Above was originally entered using inaccessible font that does not
map accurately to Roman. Shorter passage below has been
recovered as best as I can, although I do not know Greek -- Stan
Jones, author of Lifespurpose website.]
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In the papyrus P90 dated 150 CE which contains the verses of John
18:36-19:7, the name of Yeshua is this time shortened into JS
according to the process of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">nomina sacra</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, like the word </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Kurios
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Lord) which is written KS. So, when the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">sacred name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">was absent
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the word „Lord‟ had to be written without abbreviation. For
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">example, in this codex the verse of John 12:38 have appeared:
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">INA.O.LOGOS.HSAIOU.TOU.PROFHTOU.PLHRW
QH.ON.EIPEN.</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">KURIE</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.TIS.EPISTEUSEN.TH.AKOH
HMWN.KAI.O.BRACIWN.</span><span style="color: rgb(100.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">KURIOU</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">.TINI.APEKALU
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">(John 12:38)
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">However this part of the gospel of John quoted a verse from the
book of Isaiah and in all the Septuagints of this period (before 150
CE) there are none with the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Kurios </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Lord) instead of the
Tetragram. For example:
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">INA.O.LOGOS.HSAIOU.TOU.PROFHTOU.PLHRW
QH.ON.EIPEN
.TIS.EPISTEUSEN.TH.AKOH
HMWN.KAI.O.BRACIWN.
.TINI.APEKALU
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΙΝΑ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Ω</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΛΩΓΩ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΗΑΙΟΤ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΣΟΤ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΠΡΩΦΗΣΟΤ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΠΛΗΡΩ
ΘΗ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΟΝ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΕΙΠΕΝ
</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΣΙ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΕΠΙΣΕΤΕΝ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΣΗ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΑΚΟΗ
ΗΜΩΝ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΚΑΙ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Ο</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΒΡΑΧΙΩΝ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.
.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΣΙΝΙ</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">ΑΠΕΚΑΛΤ
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">(Isaiah 53:1 [LXX])
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">There are only two ways to explain this modification, where the
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Tetragram was exchanged by the word „Lord‟. Either the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Believers
changed this name after 150 CE(more exactly between 70 and 135)
because they did not understand it anymore, or they changed it
before 150 CE (more exactly before the previous period) for
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">theological reasons but </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">without there being any archaeological
witnesses</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. The first explanation seems more logical because if the
Believers (Judeo-Believers) had changed this name during the first
century (before 70 CE) this teaching would have been seen in the
NT especially among a Jewish environment, what is never the case.
For example, Yeshua should have said «I have made you known to
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">them under your new name „Lord‟» but as a Jew he said nothing
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">new on this very important matter (John 17:6, 26). It should be
remembered that the book of John (who was a Jew) was written
around 98 CE and he kept the short name Yah rather than Lord in
his book of Revelation (Rv 19:1-6) when he wrote the Hebrew word
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Allelu-ia instead of Allelu-adonai. Even in 129 CE, Aquila who was
a Believer converted to Judaism kept in his translation of the
Septuagint the Tetragram embedded in a Greek text. It is interesting
to note that Rabbi Tarphon (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Shabbat 116a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), between 90 and 130
CE, related the problem of the destruction of heretical (Believer)
texts that contained the Tetragram.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Dan Jaffé, a Jewish scholar (Ph.D at Bar-Ilan University, teaching at
the present time at the Institut d'études et de culture juives of Aix-
en-Provence), published a new study entitled le judaïsme et
l'avénement du believerisme (Cerf, 2005). In his chapter about the
books of minim he explained that the Hebrew name guilyonim came
from the Greek word euaggelion "Gospel". The Gospel was used by
the Believers from Jewish origin, called Judeo-Believers. Professor
Jaffé published several new old Jewish manuscripts (Tosefta
Sabbath XIII,5; Sifre Nasso 16; Sabbath XVI,1,15c in the Talmud
of Jerusalem; Korah 1 in the Midrash Tanhuma; Sabbath 116a in the
Babylonian Talmud) which were not censored by catholic
authorities. It clearly appears according to these manuscripts that the
name of God was written in the Gospel.
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Thus, between 70 and 135 CE, the Believer copyists (most of them
were heathens who had become Believers, furthermore they were
strongly influenced by some antic Trinitarian philosophies, see
</span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">http://www.socinian.org/Numenius2.html</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) simplified the „strange‟
writing YHWH [KURIOU] into a „sacred name‟
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, consequently
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the expression KURIOS YHWH [O THEOS] became
o
, and
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">KURIOU IESOU XRISTOU became in the same way<br />
time, many other sacred names appeared. However, Symmachus
still used the Tetragram written in Paleo-Hebrew in his Greek
translation (165 CE), and according to Eusebius (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Ecclesiastical
History VI:17</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), he was an Ebionite, that is a Judeo-Believer, who
also wrote a comment on the book of Matthew.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. In
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The replacement of YHWH may explain the inexplicable number of
errors leading to confusion </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">between the terms „Lord‟ and „God‟ in
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">the Gospel. As we have seen, the expression Kurios YHWH posed a
difficult problem for the translators of the Septuagint. This
expression is much rarer in the Gospels; on the other hand, the title
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">„Lord‟ (Kurios) is fr</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">equently applied to Yeshua, which could lead to
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">confusion with the other „Lord‟, the translation of YHWH. So, some
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">copyists, to avoid this confusion, preferred to translate YHWH by
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">„God‟ (Theos) or simply to omit this name, as noted in the following
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">passages: Lk 1:68; Ac 2:17; 6:7; 7:37; 10:33; 12:24; 13:5,44,48;
15:40; 19:20; 20:28; Rm 14:4; Col 3:13,16; 2 Tm 2:14; Jm 3:9; Jude
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">5; Rv 18:8. The list of variants is considerable for these few verses.
Why did translators stumbled over the reading or understanding of
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">such simple and well known words as „God‟ and „Lord‟? Some
specialists admit that several times „Lord‟ or „God‟ took the place of
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">YHWH. These replacements were done early, since after the second
century of our era no more traces of the writing and pronunciation
of the Name are found, except among a few Believer scholars.
Paradoxically, a Believer reader might even believe that the God of
the Bible was called Sabaôth, because this name is found in the
expression Lord Sabaôth (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Κυριων Σαβαόθ</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) in Romans 9:29 and in
James 5:4.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Finally those who would like to keep the Jewish tradition, which
appeared only from the third century BCE, by replacing the divine
name with YHWH (not pronounced) should act in the same way
with the name of Yeshua replacing it with JS as was done during the
three first centuries of Believerity!
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A21- Did the Jews use the name Jehovah in their Bible
translations ?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Jews at present use the term Adonay, Lord, Eternal, and so
forth,in their translations of the Bible; on the other hand, some
museums in Israel use the name Yahve (or Yahweh ), but religious
authorities favor the name Ye.ho.va. Additionally non-superstitious
Jewish translators always favored the name Jehovah in their
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">ranslations of the Bible. On the other hand one can noted there is no
Jewish translation of the Bible with Yahweh.
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IN:
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RENDERED
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Immanuel Tremellius
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Baruch Spinoza
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Samuel Cahen
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Alexander Harkavy
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Joseph Magil (see below)
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Rabbi L. Goldschmidt (see
below)
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">*(Bible partly translated) Ex 6:2;3; Ex 15:11; 18:11; Is 58:14; Jr
9:24; 22:16; Ezk 20:26
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">**Gn 22:14 Ex 6:3; 17:15; Jg 6:24; Ps 83:18; Is 12:2
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Deuteronomy 6:4
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Left : </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Joseph Magil - Magil's Linear School Bible (1910 reprint)
1899 New York, Ed. J. Magil's Publishing Co.<br />
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Right : </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Rabbi Lazarus Goldschmidt - Die heiligen Bücher des alten
Bundes übertragen durch Vol. 1 (The Holy Books of the Old
Covenant, translated by Berlin, Ed. Rosenthal & Co. 1925)
</span><br />
<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A22- Do the Jews have some good reasons not to use the Name?
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">They agree themselves there is no biblical prohibition, furthermore
the Talmud gives valuables information because they know that
before the second century CE the high priest used this Name inside
the Temple and before the priesthood of Simon the Just (before 200
BCE) Jews were able to use this Name with no restriction. It is
written in the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Encyclopædia Judaica </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(second edition, Keler 1973,
volume 7 page 679) «</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">If the divine name YHWH is avoided to be
pronounced it is (...) because of a wrong comprehension of the third
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">1579
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">1670
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Jehova*
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">French
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">1836
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Iehovah
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">English
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">1936
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">Jehovah**
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">1910
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 11.000000pt;">1925
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">commandment (Ex.20:7; Deut.5:11) as it meant “you must not take
up the name of YHWH in vain”, when it meant “you do not swear
falsely by the name of YHWH your God”</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">», furthermore the Rabbi
A. Cohen in his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Le Talmud </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Payot edition 1991, pages 69,70)
wrote that «</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">this habit appeared progressively but in the past the use
of the Tetragram was absolutely not prohibited. However, in the
former times of the rabbinical period it was only pronounced inside
the Temple</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">», the Rabbi A. Marmorstein adds in his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Old
Rabbinic Doctrine of God </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">that this interdiction was partially
observed from the third century BCE until the third century CE.
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A23- Did early Muslims use and pronounce the supreme name?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Severi of Antioch (465-538) who lived in Syria, used the form IÔA
(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Ιωα</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) in a chain of commentaries on the Gospel of John chapter
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">eight (Jn 8:58), explaining that it was the Hebrew name of God.
Commenting one of the work of Severi of Antioch, the famous
scholar James of Edessa (633-708) specified near 675 in his
commentary, that the copyists of the Septuagint (at his time) was
shared between two attitudes to write the divine name Adonay,
either to keep it in the text under the form </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14.000000pt;">Π Ι Π Ι</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 5.000000pt; vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">(1) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(corresponding
to the Hebrew name YHYH as he mentioned), or to translate it by
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Kurios </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">and to write it in the margin of the manuscript. Therefore,
these famous scholars of Syriac tongue knew the name of God.
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 5.000000pt; vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">1</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">note, these are the Greek letters "P I P I", which look most like the
Hebrew letters, but sound completely different.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In the Arabic Bible of Yefet ben „Eli (920</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">-1010), which appeared
around 960CE, the Tetragram was (seldom) punctuated Yahwah in
the Arabic text (Yahuwah in some other editions). According to the
book entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Meira Polliack, the name </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 5.000000pt; vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">2(</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 18.000000pt;"> ע יוי</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 5.000000pt; vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">) </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">was used by Yefet ben „Eli.
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 5.000000pt; vertical-align: 3.000000pt;">2</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"ywy ay" in Gertoux's document, tagged as "Hebraica" font; what
he meant was unclear.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">„Eli's Bible
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In the work entitled </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Codices hebraicis litteris exarati quo tempore
scripti fueriut exhibentes </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">written by Colette Sirat, the Babylonian
manuscript 9 of a Codex dated 953/4 (page 82 plate 27) has the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Psalm 92:8,9 in Yefet ben
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Tetragram punctuated in the Tyberian system </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 18.000000pt;">יהוה</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">. This
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 18.000000pt;"> ד י</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">( </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">exceptional punctuation comes from the qere ‟aDoN</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">aY
which can also be found in some old manuscripts punctuated in the
Babylonian system as the manuscript B15_1 of Cambridge.
However all the other manuscripts of the 12th century and before,
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">are only punctuated with the Aramaic qere SheMa‟ ( </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) which
can be found (that is the vowels </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e, a</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), for example, in the B.H.S.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(Despite the tetragrammaton is punctuated YeHWaH (</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 18.000000pt;">יהוה</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">) it is
always vocalized Adonay by the Jews). It is possible, seeing the
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">country (Irak) and the time (10th century), that this seldom
Babylonian vocalization YaHoWaH could influenced in time the
vocalization Yahuwah of the modern Arabic versions (Fares
Chidiaq & William Watts -The Holy Bible London, 1857 (Yahuwah
in Ex 6:3, 6, 8, etc.) The Dominican Fathers -The Dominican Bible
Iraq, 1875 (Yahuwah footnote of Ex 3:14 and Yahwah in footnote
of Ex 6:3)]. In a surprising way, several Imans of this time as Abu-l-
Qâsim-al-Junayd (?-910), Fahr ad-Din Râzî (1149-1209), etc.,
mentioned in their writings that the supreme name of God was Yâ
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Huwa (O He), not Allah (Ibn „Ata‟ Allâh </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">- Traité sur le nom
ALLÂH (traduit par Maurice Glotton) Paris, Les Deux Océans 1981
pp.145-147). A follower of al-Junayd, the Soufi Husayn ibn Mansur
al-Hallâj (857-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">922) asserted : “Here are the words of which sens</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">e
seemed ambiguous. Know that temples hold by His Yâ-Huwah and
that bodies are being moved by His Yâ-Sîn. Now Hû and Sîn are
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">two roads which end into the knowledge of the original point.” </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(L.
Massignon - Akhbar al-Hallâj Paris 1975 Ed. Vrin p. 113 de la
traduction française, p. 26 du texte arabe). Yâ-Sîn is a reference to
the Sura 36 and Yâ-</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">huwah wrote y„hwh in Arabic, makes reference
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">to the Hebrew Tetragram. Al-Hallâj was rejected as madman by his
teacher, al-Junayd, and died crucified in Bagdad as a heretic.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The below manuscript, found at Muraba'at and dated 10th century
CE (P. Benoit, J.T. Milik, R. de Vaux - Les grottes de Murabbaât
Oxford 1961 Ed. Clarendon Press pp. 286-290) has probably been
written by a mystic Muslim (that is a Soufi) and this text seems to
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Yâh Huwa<br />
The use of the _expression </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yah yah yah huwa huwa huwa </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">(literally,
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">"Oh Oh Oh, He He He!") is a magic way of pronouncing the divine
name. At the present time, the whirling dervishes (Soufi Muslims)
use to sing many times the _expression </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">yah hu', yah hu', yah hu' </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">in
order to get ecstasy (R.A. Nicholson -Studies in Islamic Mysticism
1921 Cambridge p. 96/ I. Goldziher -Die Richtungen der
Islamischen Koranauslegung 1952 Leiden pp.260-2)
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<span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 50.200000%, 0.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman,Bold'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">A24- Is the doubt about its pronunciation the main reason
which prevents the use of the Name and Is the use of the
Tetragram really important, or is it just a question of taste?
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">The pronunciation of the name Yeshua is widely accepted in spite of
its </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">genuine pronunciation Yeshua‟. On the other hand the beginning
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">of the name Yehow-ah is in agreement with all the other theophoric
names (Yehô-natan, Yehô-zabad, Yehô-hanan, etc.). In actual fact
the main reason which prevents the pronunciation of the Name is
above all affective, that is to say that one who does not love another
person also does not use his name. For example, when Yeshua
spoke with Satan (Mt 4:1-11) he systematically used the Name (In
the translation of C Tresmontant (Catholic) one reads the name
"yhwh". In that of A. Chouraqui (Jewish) "IhvH" and in that of J.N.
Darby (Protestant) "*Lord", [that is to say, Jehovah, according to the
note on Matthew 1:20,]
</span><span style="color: rgb(0.000000%, 0.000000%, 100.000000%); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">http://www.nazarene.net/hrv/sacredname.html </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">), but Satan only used
the anonymous title "God". In his book </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">Proverbs of the Jewish
Wisdom</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">, Victor Malka explains that, according to the Jewish
popular wisdom only the names of those who are not loved are
forgotten, therefore the name of God cannot be forgotten. In
addition, «</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman,Italic'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">only the very name of the wicked ones will rot</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">» (Prov
10:7).
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">In the Bible, refusing to mention the name of a god means refusing
to worship this god (Ex 23:13) and that is why Satan incited the
Israelites, by means of the prophets of Baal, not to use the Name
(Jer 23:27). In actual fact refusing to use the Name means refusing
to be saved (Rom 10:13 quoting Joel 2:32).
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Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-19224287029531978012019-06-02T01:12:00.004-07:002019-06-02T01:23:03.813-07:00JEWISH WRITTINGS ON LUNAR SHABBATBefore starring I will mention that there are some that do not believe the Jewish Encyclopedia to be correct, and I accept it.<br />The Torah tells us; By 2 or 3 witness a matter is established.<br />
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<a href="verseid:5.19.15" id="5.19.15" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;"><span class="verse" style="color: #228855; font-size: 17.25px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Deu 19:15</span> </a> <span class="highlight_5_19_15">One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.</span></div>
What is a witness?<br />
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<b style="font-weight: bolder;">BDB Definition:</b></div>
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1) witness</div>
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1a) witness, testimony, evidence (of things)</div>
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1b) witness (of people)</div>
A Witness is a person who is present in the moment of the action and can confirm with his own mouth or by written record that he is confirming what is assumed.<br />
I will present witnesses from the first century and later who have seen with their own eyes when and how the shabbat was kept. This is not against any true seekers but against those who constantly accuse and mock others. <br />
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<b>Jewish Writings PROVE Lunar Sabbaths</b><br />
Everyone agrees that the Messiah kept the right day for the Sabbath during his time on earth. The<br />
Jews of that day kept the right day as well because there was never any kind of disagreement on this<br />
during that time. So we need only to figure out what day the Jews kept in that time period to<br />
determine how to reckon the 7th day Sabbath today. So lets look at the historical record and how the<br />
Jews observed the Sabbath in that time period. <br />
"The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle . . . ."<br />
("Holidays," Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410.)<br />
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6099-festivals<br />
<br />
-The Sabbath, as marking the end of the week, reveals its lunar origin; the phases of the moon<br />
having taught the shepherds, whose weal or wo depended so largely upon the benevolence or<br />
malevolence of the night season, to divide the period elapsing between two new moons into four<br />
equal groups (weeks), the last day of each—in imitation of the moon's coming to rest, as it were—<br />
becoming the day of rest. Indications are not wanting that at first the New Moon festival was not<br />
counted among the seven days of the week; but after 7✗4 (=28) days had elapsed, one or two days<br />
were intercalated as New Moon days, whereupon a new cycle of four weeks began, so that the<br />
Sabbath was a movable festival. Later the week and the Sabbath became fixed; and this gradually resulted in taking away from the New Moon festival its popular importance.<br />
-Classification of Feastivals<br />
(2) Those connected with the moon: (a) Sabbath;<br />
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12962-sabbath#anchor11 -<br />
Probable Lunar Origin.—Critical View:<br />
-The origin of the Sabbath, as well as the true meaning of the name, is uncertain...<br />
-It was probably originally connected in some manner with the cult of the moon, as indeed is suggested by the frequent mention of<br />
Sabbath and New-Moon festivals in the same sentence...<br />
-The Sabbath depending, in Israel's nomadic period, upon the observation of the phases of the moon, it could not, according to this<br />
view, be a fixed day. When the Israelites settled in the land and became farmers, their new life would have made it desirable that the<br />
Sabbath should come at regular intervals, and the desired change would have been made all the more easily as they had abandoned<br />
the lunar religion.<br />
It's amazing that these confessions come straight from the Jewish encyclopedia. It specifically says that the Sabbath was originally by<br />
the phases of the moon and was not a fixed day like it is today. They try to justify this by saying the Israelites were coming out of a<br />
moon cult and that when the Sabbath was turned into a fixed day, that was the proper intent by God. That is an amazing confession.<br />
The moon cult spin, is obviously false as God taught the Israelites the true lunar Sabbath and lunar calendar from the beginning of its<br />
journey out of Egypt. <br />
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14813-week<br />
WEEK Connection<br />
with LunarPhases.<br />
-A<br />
division of time comprising seven days, thus explaining the Hebrew name. There are indications of the use of another system of reckoning time, in which the month was divided into three parts of ten days each, the decade being designated in Hebrew by the term "'asor" (Gen.xxiv. 55; comp. The commentaries of Dillmann and Holzinger ad loc.;<br />
Ex.xii. 3;<br />
Lev. xvi.29, xxiii. 27, xxv. 9). This apparently represented one-third of the solar month, while the week of seven days was connected with the lunar month, of which it is, approximately, a fourth. The quadripartie division of the month was evidently in use among the Hebrews and other ancien peoples; but it is not clear whether it originated among the former. It is unnecessary to assume, how ever, that it was derived from the Babylonians, for it is equally possible that observations of the four phases of the moon led the Hebrew nomads spontaneously and independently to devise the system of dividing the interval between the successive new moons into four groups of seven days each. There is ground, on the other hand, for the assumption that both among the Babylonians and among the Hebrews the first day of the first week of the month was always reckoned as coincident with the first day of the month.The emphasis laid on the requirement (Lev. xxiii. 15) that the weeks of Pentecost should be "complete" ("temimot") suggests that weeks<br />
might be reckoned in such a way as to violate this injunction. This was the case as long as the first day of the first week of the<br />
month was made to coincide with the new moon. At the end of four weeks an interval of one or two days might intervene before<br />
the new week could begin. At an early date, however, this intimate connection between the week and the moon must have<br />
been dissolved, the chief cause of the fixed week of seven days being, in all probability, the predominance of the seventh<br />
day as the Sabbath.<br />
Wow, wow, and let me just say WOW! It's unbelievable that all of this is in the Jewish Encyclopedia. The Jews, in the know, actual<br />
admit this stuff. They know the Sabbath was never a continuous weekly cycle. They tell you out in the open that the Sabbath was<br />
originally by the phases of the moon. <br />
"Declaring the new month by observation of the new moon, and the new year by the arrival of spring, can only be done by the<br />
Sanhedrin. In the time of Hillel II [4th century A.D.], . . . the Romans prohibited this practice. Hillel II was therefore forced to institute his<br />
fixed calendar . . . ." ("The Jewish Calendar; Changing the Calendar," www.torah.org.)<br />
ttRabbi Louis Finklestein, a well-known scholar from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, emphatically stated: "The present<br />
Jewish calendar was fixed in the fourth century."<br />
Maimonides, a Medieval Jewish scholar, and most other Jewish chronologers agree that the modern Jewish calendar is based upon<br />
the "mean motions of the sun and moon, the true [calendar] having been set aside." (Maimonides, Kiddusch Ha-hodesch.)<br />
Philo of Alexandria<br />
Traduire<br />
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Philo of Alexandria was a prominent Jew that lived from approximately 20 BC to 50 AD. So not only did he live before the Messiah, he<br />
lived during and after as well. We know that Philo's writings and beliefs are consistent with the Jews beliefs because he was hand<br />
picked by the Jews of that time to head a Jewish delegation to represent the Jews in a massacre that had occurred against the Jews in<br />
39 AD. We know that Sabbath observance is a staple in Jewish belief. The Jews would not have selected someone to represent them<br />
had that person not kept the correct day for the Sabbath. If Philo kept the lunar Sabbath while everyone else kept the Sabbath<br />
according to a continuous weekly cycle, then Philo would be an outcast among his people and would never be considered for such a<br />
prominent position to represent them. So how did Philo reckon the 7th day Sabbath?<br />
Philo is very clear in the fact the he observed lunar Sabbaths. He never once mentions anything about a continuous weekly cycle or a<br />
Saturday Sabbath. He observed the New Moon and emphasized its importance as well. We are also able to gain much information and<br />
confirmation of the scriptures from his writings about the finer details about how God's calendar works. We should not ignore eye<br />
witness testimony from prominent Jewish leaders of that time period that very plainly explain to us from recorded history how things<br />
were done. This is excellent corroborative evidence to the scriptures and further PROOF of the lunar Sabbath.<br />
In Allegorical Interpretation, 1 IV (8), it says…<br />
“Again, the periodical changes of the moon, take place according to the number seven, that star having the greatest sympathy<br />
with the things on earth. And the changes which the moon works in the air, it perfects chiefly in accordance with its own<br />
configurations on each seventh day. At all events, all mortal things, as I have said before, drawing their more divine nature from the<br />
heaven, are moved in a manner which tends to their preservation in accordance with this number seven. … Accordingly, on the<br />
seventh day, Elohim caused to rest from all his works which he had made.” …<br />
Notice that Philo says the moon is perfect in its shape or appearance at seven day intervals. Had a Hebrew speaking Israelite written<br />
this he would have said “it perfects chiefly in accordance with its own configurations on each Sabbath day instead of each “seventh”<br />
day because elsewhere in his writings, Philo identifies that when he mentions the seventh day [of the week] he is speaking of the<br />
Sabbath. Above, he tells us that the moon perfects its own configurations on each seventh day. It was understood, that at the end<br />
each period of six work days there would be a weekly Sabbath. The Greek speaking Jews referred to the Sabbath as the seventh day<br />
or the sacred seventh day, while in the language of the Hebrews it was termed Shabbat, or the Sabbath.<br />
The Decalogue XXX (159),<br />
“But to the seventh day of the week he has assigned the greatest festivals, those of the longest duration, at the periods of the<br />
equinox both vernal and autumnal in each year; appointing two festivals for these two epochs, each lasting seven days; the one which<br />
takes place in the spring being for the perfection of what is being sown, and the one which falls in autumn being a feast of thanksgiving<br />
for the bringing home of all the fruits which the trees have produced”…<br />
Let’s look carefully at what Philo is saying. To the seventh day of the week He [the Father above] has assigned the greatest festivals,<br />
in other words the greatest (longest) festivals have been assigned to the seventh day of the week. Philo, keeping the same luni-solar<br />
calendar established in Scripture, calls the first day of each of these seven day feasts the “seventh day of the week”. Scripture says<br />
that both of the seven day feasts (Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles) begin on the 15th day of their respective months.<br />
The seventh day of the week is the Sabbath, is it not? It is the seventh day of the week EVERY year. If the 15th is the weekly Sabbath,<br />
so are the 8th, 22nd and 29th days of the month. Notice Philo did not say they would receive two holydays of festivals, but one, the<br />
15th. Satyrday Sabbath keepers insist that there will be a satyrday Sabbath that interrupts these seven day feasts, and indeed, if the<br />
Gregorian calendar were the calendar of Scripture that would be true. But Scripture says nothing of a [satyrday] Sabbath in the middle<br />
of these 7 day feasts. <br />
To prove the seventh day of the week is the same as the 15th, elsewhere Philo states, “And this feast is begun on the fifteenth day<br />
of the month, in the middle of the month, on the day on which the moon is full of light, in consequence on the providence of Elohim<br />
taking care that there shall be no darkness on that day.”<br />
In other words, Philo is saying the weekly Sabbath begins these feasts, and is on the 15th. This proves the Sabbaths by the lunar<br />
calendar because there is no way the weekly Sabbath (the 15th) can begin these two festivals on the 15th in the 1st and 7th month<br />
each year, on a continuous seven day cycle presented by the Gregorian calendar we have today. <br />
Speaking of “lunar” intervals, in Special Laws I. (178), Philo writes…<br />
“…there is one principle of reason by which the moon waxes and wanes in equal intervals, both as it increases and diminishes in<br />
illumination; the seven lambs because it receives the perfect shapes in periods of seven days—the half-moon in the first seven<br />
day period after its conjunction with the sun, full moon in the second; and when it makes its return again, the first is to half-moon,<br />
then it ceases at its conjunction with the sun.” [All emphasis supplied by author/complier of this study.] <br />
The half-moon (first quarter moon) announces the first Sabbath of the month. It is the seventh day of the week, naturally, but this is the<br />
8th day of the month. New moon day is not counted against the week. The full moon rising at the end of the 14th day of the month<br />
announces the 15th as the second Sabbath of the month. If the new moon was counted, the quarter phases (or as Philo describes<br />
them, the moon as it perfects in its own configurations on each seventh day) would not come at the end of the week, disconnecting the<br />
perfection of the lunar cycle from the Sabbath. What God has joined together, let not man put asunder. <br />
Philo gives a second witness in On Mating with the Preliminary Studies, XIX (102)…<br />
“For it is said in the Scripture: On the tenth day of this month let each of them take a sheep according to his house; in order that from<br />
the tenth, there may be consecrated to the tenth, that is to Elohim, the sacrifices which have been preserved in the soul, which is<br />
illuminated in two portions out of the three, until it is entirely changed in every part, and becomes a heavenly brilliancy like a full<br />
moon, at the height of its increase at the end of the second week”.<br />
Please let what Philo just said sink in. His readers in those days understood that the weeks were by the moon, same as in Scripture,<br />
and that at the end of the second week there would be a full moon. This statement needs no interpretation and is impossible to<br />
misunderstand.<br />
The sacred seventh day of the week, which comes at the end of the second week of each month, is a full moon Sabbath (Psalms 81:36).<br />
People would like for us to believe that the months were originally by the moon but the weeks were not. Philo was making a simple observation of how a person can be spiritually illuminated to a full brilliance just like a full moon at the height of its increase at the end<br />
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of the second week. Friend, is there a Sabbath at the end of that second week? Philo did not count the new moon when counting out<br />
the weeks as calendars do today. This statement is very easily proven from the writings of Philo because he states in other places<br />
throughout his book that the full moon is on the 15th each month and he also separates the new moon from the weeks as a separate<br />
feast day. Writers today would instead count the new moon day in counting their weeks, but it is obvious from Philo that he did not.<br />
Philo recognized the same order of the month as is described in Scripture. Ezekiel 46:1 and verse 3 proves that the new moon and<br />
Sabbaths cannot fall on any of the six working days. See also Amos 8:5, II Kings 4:23 and Isaiah 66:22-23 for corroborating<br />
witnesses.If the new moon was counted as the first day of the first week, at the end of the second week the full moon would rise before<br />
the 14th instead of the 15th as Philo plainly declares many times. In other<br />
words you have your new moon worship day, then six work days and then the weekly Sabbath on the 8th day of the moon (Ezekiel<br />
46:1). You then have six more workdays and a full moon on day 15 or at the end of the second week or second seven.This proves the<br />
new moon was not counted in counting out the weeks same as YHVH did not count it in Exodus the 16th chapter when he made the<br />
Sabbath known to Moses. If the new moon was ever counted in counting out the weeks in Scripture, there would be pinpointed weekly<br />
Sabbaths on the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th etc. Yet, you cannot find these days pinpointed as the weekly Sabbath anywhere in Scripture<br />
because these days are always preparation days for the weekly Sabbath. When Philo spoke of the 10th or 15th day of the month, he<br />
was counting the new moon day in his count, but it is an absolute that when he counted out the week, he did not count the new moon,<br />
which in itself proves lunar weeks. Remember Philo is just stating “how” things were done in his day.<br />
Clement of Alexandria<br />
Clement lived between 150 AD and 215 AD. So well into the 2nd century, the lunar Sabbath was still kept.<br />
In vol. 6, chapter 16 of The Stromata, Clement plainly writes that “in periods of seven days the moon undergoes its changes. In the<br />
first week she becomes half moon; in the second [week], full moon; and in the third [week], in her wane, again half moon; and in the<br />
fourth [week] she disappears.”<br />
Clearly these are lunar weeks that are tied to the phases of the moon.<br />
In The Stromata ch.5 says “[Peter] inferred thus: ‘Neither worship as the Jews...[for] if the moon is not visible, they do not hold the<br />
Sabbath, which is called the first; nor do they hold the new moon, nor the feast of Unleavened Bread, nor the Feast, nor the Great<br />
Day’”<br />
Again, the moon is tied to the Sabbath. <br />
Other Accounts<br />
The first is found in the Talmud the Steinsaltz Edition”, Volume XIV Tractate Ta’anit Part II (1995 by Israel Institute for Talmudic<br />
Publications and Milta Books), pages 205-206. It says the following regarding the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem by<br />
Nebuchadnezzar’s army:<br />
Page 205: “Then late on the day of the ninth, close to nightfall, they set the Temple on fire, and it continued to burn the entire next day,<br />
on the tenth.” Page 206: “When the Temple was destroyed for the first time at the hands of Nebuzaradan [the captain of the guard],<br />
that day was the ninth of Av, and it was the day following Shabbat, and it was the year following the Sabbatical Year.... And similarly<br />
when the Temple was destroyed a second time at the hands of Titus, the destruction occurred on the very same day, on the ninth of<br />
Av.” <br />
Guess what day the ninth day of Av was when Titus destroyed the temple? (The day after the weekly Sabbath, naturally.) If I’ve done<br />
the math right, the ninth day of the month follows the 8th day of the month. Correct? If the 8th day of the month is the Sabbath, so are<br />
the 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month.<br />
The historian Josephus records Sabbaths that can be pinpointed and they are on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th and the New moon<br />
was not counted as one of the six workdays. Josephus records an interesting type of strategy by General Pompey and the Romans.<br />
The Roman’s saw that the Hebrews did not fight on the Sabbath unless attacked. So, the Romans simply moved their engines and<br />
battering rams up to the walls on the Sabbath day, which otherwise they could not do, and on the next day, they battered the city. See<br />
page 369-370. Antiquities of the Jews Book 14, Chapter 4, section 3.<br />
“...For although the city [Jerusalem] was taken on the third month, on the day of the fast...” (c) Antiquities of the Jews Book 14,<br />
Chapter 4, section 3, p. 370<br />
Footnote c: Antiquities of the Jews Book 14, Chapter 4:3, page 370: “That is on the twenty-third of Sivan, the annual fast for the<br />
defection and idolatry of Jeroboam, ‘who made my people Israel to sin,’or possibly some other fast might fall into that month, before<br />
and in the days of Josephus.”<br />
How many fasts do YOU know of in the third month? I did not even know of this one. I find this fascinating because Jeroboam is the<br />
one who introduced satyrday worship to Israel. If memory serves me, the 23rd day of the month follows the 22nd day of the month.<br />
Correct? If the 22nd day of the month is the Sabbath, so are the 8th, 15th, and 29th days of the month.<br />
This is not an exhaustive list of historical writings that prove the lunar Sabbath. There is most<br />
certainly much more. But if you're not<br />
convinced by now, there is not enough evidence to ever convince you. The historical record from the Jews themselves proves lunar<br />
Sabbaths. <br />
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TraduireDaniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-87291322298537970122019-04-12T23:15:00.000-07:002020-04-30T05:33:38.144-07:0030 PARASHA ACHAREI MOT - KEDOSHIM<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="tlid-translation translation" lang="fr"> <b>- </b><span title=""><b>Leviticus 16:1 | The Day of Atonement<br /> - Leviticus 17:1 | The Slaughtering of Animals<br /> - Leviticus 17:10 | Eating Blood Prohibited<br /> - Leviticus 18:1 | Sexual Relations<br /> - Leviticus 19:1 | Ritual and Moral Holiness<br /> - Leviticus 20:1 | Penalties for Violations of Holiness<br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The twenty-ninth reading from the Torah and sixth reading from Leviticus is named <em>Acharei Mot</em>
(אחרי מות), two words that mean "after the death." The title comes from
the first words of the first verse of the reading, which say, "Now Yehovah spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron" (Leviticus
16:1). Leviticus 16 describes the Tabernacle ceremony for the holy
festival of the Day of Atonement. Leviticus 17 establishes general rules
for sacrifice and sanctuary. Leviticus 18 lays down specific laws about
permitted and forbidden sexual relationships.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">The thirtieth reading from the Torah and seventh reading from Leviticus is named <em>Kedoshim</em>
(קדושים), which mean "holy." The title comes from the words in
Leviticus 19:2, which says, "You shall be holy, for I Yehovah your God
am holy." Leviticus 19 describes the holy community through a series of
specific commandments. Leviticus 20 warns against the snares of sexual
immorality and idolatry, mandating a death penalty for certain sins.
Except in biblical leap years, <em>Kedoshim</em> is read on the same Sabbath as the previous reading, <em>Acharei Mot</em>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Today “parasha’ is again divided in two parts, so be patient in study and read to the end. There are a lot of things to discover and see what יהוה our Elohim want us to know. Remember “the entrance of thy words gives light, it gives understanding to the simple” (Psalm 119:130). I discussed with a sister concerning the lack of Torah in many brothers and sisters life. Torah is the core of our life as Elohim’s children. It is the Torah that makes difference in our life. Sha’ul “do not be conformed to this world, but be you transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you prove what is that good and well-pleasing and perfect desire of Elohim” (Romans 12:2). How can we be transformed?<br /><b>Mind: </b>Strong’s G3563: Greek nous nooce.....Probably from the base of G1097; the intellect, that is, mind (divine or human; in thought, feeling, or will); by implication meaning: - mind, understanding. Compare G5590.G1097 ginōskō ghin-oce'-ko<br />A prolonged form of a primary verb; to “know” (absolutely), in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as shown at left, with others not thus clearly expressed): - allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) known (-ledge), perceive, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.<br />If you have read others “parasha” I wrote before, you will remember that I explain that the only way to renew our mind, our intellect, it is to remove what it has been put inside in order to replace with something new. The renewing is a simple process of removing something by putting something new instead in order to nullify the old. We all had a wrong way, in our former life. We must make every effort to attain the new way of life by training ourselves in the Torah. Ya’acov (James) calls it the “Torah of liberty”, and says that we must be doer of the words (Torah or Mitzvot/commandments) and not hearer only (Jam1:22). Action speaks greater than words. Ya’acov is here making the connection with the well known verse of the Torah: <br />Deu 6:4 Hear (sh’mah), O Israel: YHWH is our Elohim, YHWH is one (echad):<br />Sh’mah in Hebrew carries the notion of listening and doing what we hear and not only to listen to something! <br />Jas 1:23 for if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: Jas 1:24 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. Jas 1:25 but whoso looketh into the perfect law (Torah) of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.<br />Today the “parasha” is called “After death” as it start with a reminder of the death of Aharon’s sons.<br />The connection between the death of Aharon’s sons and the sacrifice he is called to make is for Yom Kippur, the tenth days of the seventh month. We know that Yom Kippur is a double sacrifice, fulfilled in Messiah for those who are in Him (Messiah) and still to come, as it belongs to the “Fall Feast” of יהוה. Yom Kippur is part of the last step of redemption, accomplished by יהושע as we are going to see. יהושע died between the two evening in the fourteen day of Aviv, the first month in the Hebrew calendar, He was the lamb slain for our redemption, to deliver us from our spiritual Egypt. יהושע is also our High Priest......<br />Heb 3:1 Therefore, set-apart brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, closely consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession, Messiah יהושע, Heb 9:11 But Messiah, having become a High Priest of the coming good matters…………,<br />The Anti-Messiah today has blinded the man of many Christians and given them the deceitful doctrine of “osas” (One Save Always Save). I have read also among messianic, those who also believe that our salvation can’t be lost…..<br />Php 3:11 if somehow I might attain to the resurrection from the dead. Php 3:12 Not that I have already received, or already been perfected, but I press on, to lay hold of that for which Messiah יהושע has also laid hold of me. Php 3:13 Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold of it yet, but only this: forgetting what is behind and reaching out for what lies ahead,<br />Php 2:12 So that, my beloved, as you always obeyed – not only in my presence, but now much rather in my absence – work out your own deliverance with fear and trembling, <br />Work out: Strong’s #G2716 katergazomai kat-er-gad'-zom-ahee....From G2596 and G2038; to work fully, that is, accomplish; by implication to finish, fashion: - cause, do (deed), perform, work (out) ..If it is to “finish” it is not complete yet! <br />Rev 2:26 “And he who overcomes, and guards My works until the end, to him I shall give authority over the nations,........<br />“I shall give” not “I give”, this is a future statement meaning, “when I come back I will”!<br />Aharon could not enter the Most Qadosh place during the year (verse 2) where the ark was, but only at a specific time during the day of Yom Kippur . <b>Aharon the “earthly High Priest” was foreshadowing יהושע’s work in the future: </b><br /><b>Heb 9:7 </b>but into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,.....<br />The reason is also mentioned in the book of Hebrew: <br /><b>Heb 9:8 </b>the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent Tabernacle) has a standing, Heb 8:4 for if indeed He (Messiah) were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the Torah,<br />Why was it so that Messiah couldn’t have been a priest? Because he was not a Levite, but from the tribe of Yehudah! <br />Heb 8:5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly, as Mosheh was warned when he was about to make the Tent. For He said, “See that you make all according to the pattern showed thee in the mount................<br /><b>Verse 2: </b>……..because I appear in the cloud above the lid of atonement. <br />In the English translation we miss the meaning of “lid of atonement”, also called “mercy seat” in the King James: <br />Lid of atonement: Strong’s #H3727 כּפּרת kappôreth kap-po'-reth written; qaf (20), peh (80), resh (200), Tav (400), (700).........From H3722; a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark): - mercy seat. <br />H3722 kâphar kaw-far'....... A primitive root; to cover (specifically with bitumen see b'reshit/Gen. 6:14 "shall pitch); figuratively to expiate or condone, to placate or cancel: - appease, make (an) atonement, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, pardon, to pitch, purge (away), put off, (make) reconcile (-liation). ....<br />B’reshit 6:14, speaking during the building of the arch, Noach was to “pitch” the ark outside and inside, meaning to “kaphar”, protect, inside and outside. This was foreshadowing the coming of salvation (see “parasha” Noach)...an I will appear in the cloud above the lid of atonement...Once again we see that יהוה will appear. יהוה is Spirit (Ruach) and therefore his presence is not physical, although real.....<br /><b>Verses 3-4.</b> Aharon shall enter the Qadoshin after having offer sacrifices, and put on the Set apart (Qadosh) linen, which is the righteousness of the Saints (Rev.19:8).<br />Remember “saints” is the Hebrew word “Qadosh”. Apostle Sha’ul understood the spiritual signification and explains it in the book of Hebrew (9:6-14). <br />Heb 9:6 and these having been prepared like this, the priests always went into the first part of the Tent, accomplishing the services. Heb 9:7 But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for sins of ignorance of the people,1 Footnote: 1Num. 15:15-28. Heb 9:8 the Set-apart Spirit signifying this, that the way into the Most Set-apart Place was not yet made manifest while the first Tent has a standing, Heb 9:9 which was a parable (shadow) for the present time in which both gifts and slaughters are offered which are unable to perfect the one serving, as to his conscience, Heb 9:10 only as to foods and drinks, and different washings, and fleshly regulations imposed until a time of setting matters straight. Heb 9:11 But Messiah, having become a High Priest of the coming good matters, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, Heb 9:12 entered into the Most Set-apart Place once for all, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, having obtained everlasting redemption. Heb 9:13 for if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the defiled, sets apart for the cleansing of the flesh, Heb 9:14 how much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the everlasting Spirit offered Himself unblemished to Elohim, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim? <br /> <b>To cleanse: </b>(Hebrew 9:14) Strong’s #G2511 katharizo, to cleanse, purify, make clean.......<br />Conscience: (Heb.9:15) Strong’s #G4894 suneidēsis soon-i'-day-sis ....... From a prolonged form of G4894; co-perception, that is, moral consciousness: - conscience. G4894; suneidō soon-i'-do From G4862 and G1492; to see completely; used (like its primary) only in two past tenses, respectively meaning to understand or become aware, and to be conscious or (clandestinely) informed of: - consider, know, be privy, be aware of. We could write for the verse 14: “purify (clean) your perception senses, your moral consciousness to make you understand, and become aware, informed of what He (יהושע) has done”. <br />Shaul says that it is יהושע Messiah who cleanses, makes us understand, become aware, inform our inner man, from dead works in order that we can serve the living Elohim (vese14). This is a very important point to understand only Messiah can make us aware of our “dead works”. We know that “dead works” are those outside the Torah (Chapter 6:1). The blood of goats and calves couldn’t change the conscience of men under the first covenant (see the “midrash” “Walking after the flesh versus walking after the Ruach”). To enter the Set apart place once a year and so every year was a rehearsal until the time will come for the final act through Messiah יהושע).<br />I have a question: Do we actually realize that year after year we also celebrate the feast of יהוה, why do we do it, is it not a rehearsal, in order to be train in the truth until the day of the real one has come?<br />Do you think like many do, that all be over when Messiah comes? Do not be deceive, the Haftorah from today shows something different:<br /><b>Isa 66:22</b> “For as the new heavens and the new earth* that I make stand before Me,” declares יהוה, “so your seed and your name shall stand. Isa 66:23 “And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares יהוה. <br />*Here an explanation need to be done concerning the verse 22: “For as the new heavens and the new earth*”<br />The Hebrew make a difference as will see. Many think that there will be a “new heaven and a new earth”. <br />In the verse above from Yeshayahu/Isaiah 66:22, the Hebrew word “HaChadashim” and “HaChadasha” share the same root “chodesh” used to mention the « New Moon » which is not « new » in the sense having never existed prior the time, but rather be simply renewed month after month.<br />The text from Yeshayahu must be aslo understood in this context of renewing as we can read also in Yrmeyahu 31 :31: <br />Here we see the same word “HaChadash” which mean to “rebuild”. Nothing new, but renewed or rebuild. <br />The conclusion is given us in the book of Revelation: (Rev 21:1 [KJV])<br />And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.<br /> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Zec 14:16</b> And it shall come to pass (future), that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, YHWH of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.<br /><b>Zec 14:17 </b> And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, YHWH of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. Zec 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith YHWH will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. Zec 14:19 this shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.<br />We see here clearly that it has not yet happen until today that all families of the earth or from Egypt has come from year to year to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacle in Yerushlayim! When will it be?<br />The blood of goats and calves could only “cover” but not remove sin. Today Christianity proclaims his faith in “Jesus” and seems to have the conscience sealed, because they reject the truth: <br />Joh 14:15 IfG1437 ye loveG25 me,G3165 keepG5083 myG1699 commandments.G1785 ....<br />What is love?: <br />1Jn 5:3 For this is the love for Elohim, that we guard His commands,1 and His commands are not heavy Footnote: 1See 5:2, 2 John v. 6, John 14:15.<br />2Jn 1:6 and this is the love, that we walk according to His commands.1 This is the command, that as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it.<br />Hebrew 10:22 we read: “let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our heart (set apart place) sprinkled from an evil conscience (understanding) of our dead works, and our bodies (Tabernacle, tent, Mishkahn) washed with pure water (Torah). <br />Vayiqrah. 16:4 He (Aharon) shall put…..<br />these are Set apart Garments, therefore shall he wash his flesh (tent, tabernacle) in water. In Hebrew 10:22, the water is the Word of the Torah, in Vayyiqra (Lev.) it is the natural or literal water. In 1st Corint.6:11 we see the spiritual aspect of Messiah’s work in the life of believers:<br />1Co 6:11 and such were some of you (drunkard, adulterer, swindler, effeminate…). But you were washed (by the Word), but you were set apart, but you were declared right in the Name of the Master יהושע and by the Spirit of our Elohim. <br />Verses 5-6. Aharon had to make offering for sin and burnt offering before entering the Set Apart Place. Aharon like Moshe was not without sin. יהושע was perfect in all his way and without sin (2nd Corint. 5:21, 1 Kefa 2:22) Remember sin is “transgression of the Torah” (1st Yochanan 3:4)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>5 …two male goats</b> for a sin offering, and one ram for burnt offering. <br />Two in Hebrew understanding is the number for division. We are now in the Yom Kippur sacrifice. There are many opinions and teaching as regarding the two goats. <br />Verses: 7-29. The two male goats, the first is for sin offering, the second is called “Azazel” (scapegoat in the King James Version and some others)……… <br />Scapegoat: Strong’s #H5779 עזאזל written ayin (70), zayin (7), aleph (1), zayin (7), lamed (30) (115) ăzâ'zêl az-aw-zale' From H5795 and H235; goat of departure; the scapegoat: - scapegoat. H5795 ‛êz aze From H5810; a she goat (as strong), but masculine in plural (which also is used elliptically for goats' hair): - (she) goat, kid. H235 'âzal aw-zal' A primitive root; to go away, hence to disappear: - fail, gad about, go to and fro [but in Eze_27:19 the word is rendered by many “from Uzal,” by others “yarn”], be gone (spent)..............<br /><b>I want you to see that the word for “scapegoat” , “Azazel” means To go away, to disappear, fail....</b><br />I will give here some explanation for other sources in order at the end to compare: From Keil and Delitzsch defending that Azazel is a picture of Satan:<br />The lot for Azazel fell alive before Jehovah, עָלָיו לְכַפֵּר, “to expiate it,” i.e., to make it the object of expiation (see at Lev_16:21), to send it (them) into the desert to Azazel. עֲזָאזֵל, which only occurs in this chapter, signifies neither “a remote solitude,” nor any locality in the desert whatever (as Jonathan, Rashi, etc., suppose); nor the “he-goat” (from עֵז goat, and עָזַל to turn off, “the goat departing or sent away,” as Symm., Theodot., the Vulgate, Luther, and others render it); nor “complete removal” (Bähr, Winer, Tholuck, etc.). The words, one lot for Jehovah and one for Azazel, require unconditionally that Azazel should be regarded as a personal being, in opposition to Jehovah. The word is a more intense form of עָזַל removit, dimovit, and comes from עֲזַלְזֵל by absorbing the liquid, like Babel from balbel (Gen_11:9), and Golgotha from gulgalta (Ewald, §158c). The Septuagint rendering is correct, ὁ ἀποπομπαῖος; although in Lev_16:10 the rendering ἀποπομπή is also adopted, i.e., “averruncus, a fiend, or demon whom one drives away” (Ewald). We have not to think, however, of any demon whatever, who seduces men to wickedness in the form of an evil spirit, as the fallen angel Azazel is represented as doing in the Jewish writings (Book of Enoch 8:1; 10:10; 13:1ff.), like the terrible field Shibe, whom the Arabs of the peninsula of Sinai so much dread (Seetzen, i. pp. 273-4), but of the devil himself, the head of the fallen angels, who was afterwards called Satan; for no subordinate evil spirit could have been placed in antithesis to Jehovah as Azazel is here, but only the ruler or head of the kingdom of demons. The desert and desolate places are mentioned elsewhere as the abode of evil spirits (Isa_13:21; Isa_34:14; Mat_12:43; Luk_11:24; Rev_18:2). The desert, regarded as an image of death and desolation, corresponds to the nature of evil spirits, who fell away from the primary source of life, and in their hostility to God devastated the world, which was created good, and brought death and destruction in their train.<br />Let us compare with the opinion from Nathan Lawrence from Hoshanah Rabba: The Azazel Goat is the scape goat or goat of departure. Spiritually this represents the entire removal of sin’s defilement from the Tabernacle and camp of Israel out into the wilderness. (Ps. 103:12—YHVH removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west.) The Azazel goat is not Satan. Lev. 16:10 says that this goat “makes atonement for our sin.” It is blasphemy to say that Satan makes atonement for our sin. Only Yeshua did this, not Satan!<br />There is some difference of opinion as to the symbolic meaning of the Azazel Goat. Some say it is a picture of Satan who initially tempted man to sin or rebel against Elohim, and has been doing so ever since. Since he was the first sinner and rebel against Elohim and has constantly incited man in this sin and rebellion ever since, he must consequently bear the responsibility for his actions, which he will do when he is bound and thrown into the bottomless pit at the beginning of the millennium. The Azazel Goat being dismissed into the wilderness is a picture of this. On the other side, there are those who teach that the Azazel Goat is a picture of Yeshua who bore our sins upon himself and died alone in our place. Which view is correct? Well, both. Sort of... <br />The most important key to determining who this goat represents is found in Leviticus 16:10: But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before YHVH, to make atonement over him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness. Note the italicized portion. Who made atonement for our sins? Satan or Yeshua? Scripture does not reveal the devil as the redeemer of mankind. Only Yeshua was our atonement as Scripture reveals: Furthermore, the act of laying on of hands (Lev. 16:21) onto the Azazel Goat symbolizes the transference of sins from the guilty party (the children of Israel) to the innocent Azazel Goat. The innocent becomes the sin-bearer. Of course, who can deny that this is a perfect picture of Yeshua and not Satan! <br />Spiritually, the Azazel Goat represents the entire removal of sin’s defilement from the camp of Israel into the wilderness. In Psalms 103:12 Elohim removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west. YHVH does this, not Satan! In Leviticus 16:22 we read, “And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.” Throughout Scripture there are numerous references to Yeshua bearing our sins.<br /><b>He “Judaism” say</b> that offering was to be made to Satan, in order to appease him?<br />There are some questions we can ask which come to complete the view of Nathan Lawrence:<br />The Goat is a clean animal: Can it represent HaSatan?<br />There is also one question to ask which has been overlooked: Where is Azazel to be sent is it not into the wilderness?<br />Were not the children of Israel, during 40 years in the wilderness? Do you know that the Torah is the shadow of things to come (Hebr. 10:1)? What the wilderness represent? If you have read my “midrash” “One hundred twenty years”, you will know that the forty years in the wilderness are a picture of the Two thousand years from Messiah first coming until today for those following Yeshoshua HaMoschiach, exactly from the day the children left Ramses, until the day they entered the Promise Land. The wilderness was also a microcosm of the world today. So now again we can turn back to the question, who is Azazel? Was not יהושע through the eternal Spirit sent into the all world bringing salvation to those who believe in his Name? Like Azazel we know that יהושע is alive and seat at the right hand of the Father? Keil and Delitzsch quote from Yeshayahu to explain that Azazel is HaSatan, but we know that before making conclusion we also must see the spiritual meaning of things. In Hebrew understanding animals in particulars reflect human beings’ characters and behaviours (as we read in the last parasha sh’mini with the examples from the Epistle of Barnabas). Clean animals for the children of light, unclean animals for “wicked”. Azazel seems to be more the sacrifice send into the world (wilderness)to remove the sin of those scattered in the four corners of the earth (wilderness) and proclaim “sin has been removed and has been borne by יהושע”?<br />1Jn 2:2 and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. <br />Pe 2:24 who Himself bore our sins in His body on (to) the timber (stake), so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness1 – by whose stripes you were healed. Footnote: 1Rom. 6:2, 1 Peter 4:1-2. <br /><b>Moshe a shadow of Messiah</b> was sent by Elohim to deliver the children of Israel (carnal man) from Mitzaryim, or Egypt, and so יהושע came to deliver us from our spiritual Mitzaryim, or Egypt (world system). Moshe brought the children of Israel into the wilderness and they spent forty years before entering the Promise Land. יהושע after having redeemed us from slavery brought us also into the wilderness (the world) in order to be refined and make like gold. Both under Moshe and from יהושע’s first coming many died because of rebellion, only a remnant will be saved! <br />Isa 1:9 Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Soḏom, we would have been made like Amorah (Gomorrah). <br />Isa 10:21 A remnant shall return, the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ, to the Mighty Ěl. <br />Isa 11:16 and there shall be a highway for the remnant of His people, those left from Ashshur, as it was for Yisra’ĕl in the day when he came up from the land of Mitsrayim. <br />Isa 46:3 “Listen to Me, O house of Yaʽaqoḇ, and all the remnant of the house of Yisra’ĕl, who are borne from the belly, who are carried from the womb: <br />Eze 6:8 “But I shall leave a remnant, in that some of you shall escape the sword among the gentiles (nations), when you are scattered throughout the lands. <br />Mic 5:7 and the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ shall be in the midst of many peoples, as dew from יהוה, as showers on the grass, which do not wait for man nor delay for the sons of men. <br />Rom 9:27 and Yeshayahu cries out on behalf of Yisra’ĕl, “Though the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved. <br />Rev 12:17 and the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to fight with the remnant of her seed, those guarding the commands of Elohim and possessing the witness of יהושע Messiah. <br /><b>Verses 18-19</b>……,and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about. 19 and shall sprinkle of the blood……seven times; and cleanse it……from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.<br />Heb 9:23 It was necessary, then, that the copies of the heavenly ones should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly ones themselves with better slaughter offerings than these. Heb 9:24 For Messiah has not entered into a Set-apart Place made by hand – figures of the true – but into the heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Elohim on our behalf, Heb 9:25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters into the Set-apart Place year by year with blood not his own. Heb 9:26 for if so, He would have had to suffer often, since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself. Heb 9:27 and as it awaits men to die once, and after this the judgment, Heb 9:28 so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to those waiting for Him, unto deliverance. <br />The earthly sacrifices were made for the remission of sins. Shaul says that it was also necessary to purify the heavenly things (Hebr.9:23). Sin affects the heavenly places and therefore the wrath of Elohim will fall upon the ungodly (Psalm 1:6, 34:21, Rev.14:15-20, Yoel 3:13. <br />27…………….is brought outside the camp. And they shall burn their skins, and their flesh, and their dung with fire. <br />Compare with:<br />Heb 13:11 For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the Set-apart Place by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Heb 13:12 and so יהושע also suffered outside the gate, to set apart the people with His own blood. Heb 13:13 Let us, then, go to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. <br />Another point came to my mind while reading again this year 2011; I give it as it come to my mind:<br />If we read carefully we will see the procedure commanded to Aahron concerning the two goats:<br /><b>The first Bullock (Vayyiqra 16:14:20) must FIRST be sacrificed in order that the blood may be used for atonement</b><br />Lev 16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: <br />Lev 16:16 and he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. <br />Only after that Aaron the High Priest had made RECONCILIATION he went to take the second Goat to lay his hands on its head:<br />Lev 16:20 and when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: <br />Lev 16:21 and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: <br />Now we can compare with Yehoshua work: <br />Heb 9:3 and after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; Heb 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid roundabout with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; <br />Heb 9:5 and over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. Heb 9:6 now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service. Heb 9:7 but into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: Heb 9:8 The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: Heb 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; Heb 9:10 which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. Heb 9:11 But the Messiah being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Heb 9:12 neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. Heb 9:13 for if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: <br />Heb 9:14 How much more shall the blood of the Messiah, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to Elohim, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Elohim?<br /><br /><b>Verses 29-31</b>.This is Yom Kippur (verse 29), “you shall afflict (Strong’s #6031 anah) your soul, and do now work at all”. Fasting is recognized as action tot afflict the soul. On Yom Kippur throughout the world we join ourselves to fast as member of the body of Messiah.........<br />Psa 35:13 But I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; I humbled my being with fastings; and my prayer would return to my own bosom. <br />Humbled: Strong’s #H6031 ענה ‛ânâh aw-naw'...........A primitive root (possibly rather identical with H6030 through the idea of looking down or browbeating); to depress literally or figuratively, transitively or intransitively (in various applications). (sing is by mistake for H6030.): - abase self, afflict (-ion, self), answer [by mistake for H6030], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing [by mistake for H6030], speak [by mistake for H6030], submit self, weaken, X in any wise.<br />Isa 58:3 They say: “Why have we fasted, and you have not seen? Why have we afflicted (String’s #H6031 anah) our beings, and you took no note”?’ “Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your laborers………..<br />In Yeshayahu 58. יהוה through the mouth of the prophet reject the fast of the people, because it is a fast of Hypocrisy (verse 1), in no case is that the Fast from Yom Kippur as taught by some, nullified by doing good to the poor (verses 6-7)......... <br />Isa 58:4 behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. The problem has been always been hypocrisy among the children of Israel, later in יהושע’s time we can read: Mat 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin,1 and have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the belief. These need to have been done, without neglecting the others. <br /><b>Verse 34</b>………this shall be for you a law forever……….<br />Compare: Heb 9:26 for if so, He would have had to suffer often, since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the offering of Himself.<br /><b>Lev 16:1</b> and יהוה spoke to Mosheh after the death of the two sons of Aharon, as they drew near before יהוה, and died.... Lev 16:34 “And this shall be for you a law forever, to make atonement for the children of Yisra’ĕl, for all their sins, once a year.” And he did as יהוה commanded Mosheh. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The law of the blood. The slaughtering of a bull or a goat or lamb, must be done outside the camp and after that been brought to the door of the tent of meeting..This law is extended to the stranger (verse 10) that sojourned among the children of Israel, a sign that stranger could be accepted, if they also followed the Torah. It is amazing that today people refuse to join themselves to the Torah keepers seeking always excuse by misinterpreting the scriptures. If somebody breaks the Torah, they shall be cut off…….<br />Cut off: Strong’s #H3772 karath; to destroy or consume. The reason is given verse 11……For the life is in the blood……it is the blood that makes atonement for the life ..And the children of Israel and the stranger shall not eat the blood (verse 12). The reason is clear: <br />Life is in the blood<br /><b>Blood is to make atonement.</b><br />This is pointing to יהושע who will give is Life by bringing His blood before the heavenly Altar, for the remission of our sins.<br />Rom 5:9 much more then, having now been declared right by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. <br />Mat 26:28 “For this is my blood, that of the renewed covenant, which is shed for many for the forgiveness of sins. <br />Eph 1:7 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of trespasses, according to the riches of His favour, <br />Eph 2:13 But now in Messiah יהושע you who once were far off (stranger) have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah. <br />Col 1:14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, Col 1:20 and through Him to completely restore to favour all unto Himself, whether on earth or in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of His stake. <br />It is amazing to see that today in many countries, blood is eaten by many people, they even call it “delicacy” “bloodwurst” (blood sausage), or even as I have seen in Asia, as a kind of soup (“dugo dugo”). In my country in France bloods consume is popular among people. The rules of the blood are very important for those turning back to the truth there are four requirements to begin to leave as redeemed people: <br />Act 15:20 but that we write to them to abstain from the defilements of idols, and from whoring, and from what is strangled, and from blood.1 Footnote: 1See v.29. <br />Act 15:29 that you abstain from what is offered to idols, and blood, and what is strangled, and whoring.1 If you keep yourselves from these, you shall do well. Be strong! Footnote: 1See v. 20. To understand what Ya’acov (James) was saying in the Halacha (way of interpreting the Torah) coming upon the believers turning back to the truth, we must understand that it was these specifics sins from Ephraim which needed to be forsake in order to reverse the curse: Hos 4:13 “They slaughter on the mountaintops, and burn incense on the hills, under oak and poplars and terebinth, because its shade is good. Therefore your daughters commit whoring(1), and your brides commit adultery. Hos 4:17 “Ephrayim is joined to idols(2), let him alone. <br />Hos 9:3 They shall not dwell in the land of יהוה, but Ephrayim shall return to Mitsrayim, and eat unclean food(3) in Ashshur. <br />Eze 18:6 if he has not eaten on the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yisra’ĕl, nor defiled his neighbour’s wife, nor comes near a woman during her uncleanness (4), <br />There is a very good “midrash” from Eddie Chemney who explains the “Reverse of the curse”.<br />Lev 17:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,...<br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />Verses 1-5. …..and you shall guard my commands and my right ruling which man does and live by them … <br />Shaul explaining that outside the Torah there is no righteousness quoting the Torah: <br />Rom 10:5 For Mosheh writes about the righteousness which is of the Torah, “The man who does these shall live by them.” <br />Which is by faith in the blood of Messiah יהושע. Sha’ul when contending with the Galatians concerning the “work of Torah” called “Ma’aseh HaTorah” writes: <br />Gal 3:11 and that no one is declared right by Torah (oral Torah of the Pharisee) before Elohim is clear, for “The righteous shall live by belief.” Gal 3:12 and the Torah is not of belief, but “The man who does them shall live by them.” Ma’aseh HaTorah were rule called “takanot” established by the rabbis (Pharisee). <br />Mat 15:3 But He answering, said to them, “Why do you also transgress the command of Elohim1 because of your tradition (takanot)? Takanot as explained by Aviv Mordechai from Milenium 7000, are “canonized pharisaic takanot or traditions”........ Verse 5…….which a man does and lives by them. I am יהוה. Compare with what יהושע answered to the man asking what to do to enter eternal life:<br />Mat 19:16 and see, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good shall I do to have everlasting life?” <br />Mat 19:17 And He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except One – Elohim. But if you wish to enter into life, guard the commands.”1 It is amazing it seems that to keep the commands brings life?<br />Pro 6:23 for the command is a lamp, And the Torah a light1, And reproofs of discipline a way of life, Footnote: 1Ps. 119:105. <br />Verses 6-30…………….There is a list of ordinances given by יהוה to his people, to protect them from been cut off from among Israel. Today we heard in the TV, news from Germany: “a man married his sister and they had four children, they make appeal to the European court to keep their marriage”. In Austria, a man had sex with his daughter during more then 30 Years and got 6 children from her. Nobody is shock; people just take mention of it. Women have sex with animals and many enjoy watching such dirty perversion. There are no limits anymore, but יהוה tells His people “be you Qadosh for I am Qadosh”. Qadosh is to be Set apart from all this worldly abominations. We have to choose either the way of יהוה and get life, following יהושע Messiah, or to follow the way of the world and be destroyed with the ungodly when יהוה will pour out His Wrath upon the nations. <br />Verse 28….. ‘So let not the land vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. The nations that were before you! Do you remember, Kenites, Kenizittes, Hittites, Cana’anites, Perizittes, Jebuzittes, Girgashittes, Kadmonites, Rephaims, Amorites…….<br />These nations were descendants from Ham, and had many evil practice before יהוה, like, offering child sacrifices, cutting the flesh, whoring to their gods for the women, beside idolatry. The land vomited out the nations because of defiling. <br />Jer 9:19 “For a voice of wailing is heard from Tsiyon, ‘How we are ravaged! We are greatly ashamed, because we have forsaken the land, because we have been thrown out of our dwellings.’ ” ....<br />The Torah tells us that all this abominations are customs (traditions) among pagans (verse 30)….<br />Lev 18:30 therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am YHWH your Elohim. Lev 18:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,... </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">יהוה is contending with His people and compare them to the people of Kush, descendants from Ham the son of Noach who were immoral and idolaters. “All the sinners of my people are going to dye by the sword” (verse 10). There exists a very common saying that put the blame on other when Yehovah’s people are punished by breaking the Torah. Do you think it is different today? If we make enquiry, in the last 150 Years, millions upon millions of people have died of wars and plagues. One of the greatest plague happened with Justinian in the 6th century and run throughout the seventh and eighth centuries. It is said that this plague killed more than one hundred millions people (100 millions), alone in Constantinople 5000 people died daily! People call it “fatality”, what do you think is not יהוה our Elohim Omni potent and Omni present? Why then so many people die, if not because of what יהוה foretold? There are many verses spoken of the prophets who tell us that many will die and only a remnant will be saved. Today many people do not know the “fear of יהוה”, they boast about “been free from the law”, even among those pretending to have accepted the Torah, I have seen some who keep “half Shabbat” only some few hours during the Shabbat, although Shabbat is said to be from sunset to sunset. One day last twenty four hours, in Hebrew understanding the day start at sunset. Shabbat is the foundation or the First of our demonstration of Torah acceptance. If we break this first commands, how can we accept others?<br />Amos 9:12 …….all the gentiles (Goyim/nations) on whom my name is called……<br />Compare with:<br />Act 15:17 so that the remnant of mankind shall seek יהוה, even all the gentiles (nations) on whom My Name has been called, says יהוה who is doing all this,’<br />The Apostles were aware of the prophecies concerning returning Ephraim, today again people begin to see what יהוה is doing and some, the remnant on whom the Name of יהוה is, are turning back to the Torah.<br />Jas 1:1 Ya’acov, a servant of YHWH and of the Master Yehoshua the Messiah, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. <br />Actually the word “gentile” is in Greek the word “ethnos” meaning “tribe, nation, and heathen, pagan). My question is: Are we pagan? Or are we Israelites? The answer is obvious that we are no more pagans, so please do not let any man call you “gentile” rather Israelite! <br />Eph 2:12 That at that time (in the past) ye were without the Messiah, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without Elohim in the world:Eph 2:13 but now in the Messiah יהושע ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of the Messiah.Eph 2:14 For he (Messiah) is our peace, who hath made both one (Yehudah and Ephraim), and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;Eph 2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances (takanot); for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace.Eph 2:16 and that he might reconcile both unto YHWH in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: Eph 2:17 and came and preached peace to you which were afar off (strangers, Ephraim), and to them that were nigh (Yehudin).<br />Eph 2:18 for through him (Messiah) we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Eph 2:19 Now therefore (because of what Messiah did) ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of YHWH; <br />1Pe 1:1 Kepha, an apostle of Yehuoshua the Messiah, to the strangers (see Eph;2:12) scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, <br />יהוה through the prophet Yechezk’el is proclaiming the punishment on the House of Israel for all evil done.<br />Shaul follow, explaining the believers in Corinth that there is no change and that all evil doers will be also cut off, will not enter the Kingdom of Elohim. Can you imagine, if you go to Christianity, today, nobody make any difference, a homosexual or effeminate can go in a congregation, pastors will not rebuke him, sin is rampant among Christians, because of the lack of Torah knowledge. <br />Amo 9:7 “Are you not like the people of Kush to Me, O children of Yisra’ĕl?” declares יהוה. “Did I not bring up Yisra’ĕl from the land of Mitsrayim, and the Philistines from Kaphtor, and Aram from Qir? Amo 9:8 “Look, the eyes of the Master יהוה are on the sinful reign1, and I shall destroy it from the face of the earth, except that, I do not completely destroy the house of Yaʽaqoḇ,” declares יהוה. Footnote: 1Isa. 34:2, Jer. 30:11, Jer. 46:28, Dan. 2:44, Zeph. 3:8, Hag. 2:22, Lk. 4:5-6.<br />Amo 9:9 “For look, I am commanding, and I shall sift the house of Yisra’ĕl among all the nations, as one sifts1 with a sieve, yet not a grain falls to the ground. Footnote: 1Or Shake - shakes. Amo 9:10 “All the sinners of My people are going to die by the sword, those who are saying, ‘Evil does not overtake us nor meet us.’ <br />Amo 9:11 “In that day I shall raise up the booth of Dawiḏ which has fallen down. And I shall repair its breaches and raise up its ruins. And I shall build it as in the days of old (as it was under David’s reign), <br />Amo 9:12 so that they possess the remnant of Eḏom1(Adam), and all the goyim (nations) on whom My Name is called2,” declares יהוה who does this. Footnotes: 1The vowels which the Massoretes added later on makes this read Eḏom, but it was probably a mistake. It should be Aḏam, meaning mankind. 2Acts 15:16-17.<br />Amo 9:13 “Look, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “that the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows seed. And the mountains shall drip new wine, and all the hills melt. <br />Amo 9:14 “And I shall turn back the captivity of My people Yisra’ĕl. And they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them, and shall make gardens and eat their fruit. Amo 9:15 “And I shall plant them on their own soil, and not uproot them any more from their own soil I have given them,” said יהוה your Elohim! ……………<br />Eze 22:1 and the word of יהוה came to me, saying, ...<br />Eze 22:19 “Therefore thus said the Master יהוה, ‘Because all of you have become dross, therefore see, I am gathering you into the midst of Yerushalayim. …………………………..<br />1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the reign of Elohim? Do not be deceived. Neither those who whore, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,(Sha’ul making references to Vayyiqra/Lev.18-20) <br />1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor greedy of gain, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers shall inherit the reign of Elohim.1 <b>Footnote:</b> 1Gal. 5:19-21, Eph. 5:3-5.1</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heb 9:11 But Messiah, having become a High Priest of the coming good matters, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,...<br />19:3.To fears his mother and Father is together with keeping the Shabbat. Here the sense of fear is reverence to mother and father. It seems that both mitzvoth (commands) work together, the one who fear his mother and father, that is who respect them, has them in high esteem will also keep the Shabbat! In the deeper meaning of the “fear of the Mother and the Father” is directly connected with Sh’mot:Ex.20:12 a commandment with promise and with another verse which is very mystical: b’reshit/Gen. 1:26:<br /> <b>Gen 1:26 </b>and Elohim said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness…………..</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gen 1:27 so Elohim created man in his own image, in the image of Elohim created he him; male and female created he them. ….It is not obvious in the literal text to see but in the sod the mystery of the Torah we can see it! Eloim is a Father and He is also a Mother, we shouldn’t forget that unlike the belief in Christianity, Ruach (Spirit) is feminine in Hebrew! Knowing this should raise questions in our heart! The teaching of Torah’s commands was upon the parents and therefore the reward was to the mother and father when their children kept the Shabbat: Deu 6:6 “And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, Deu 6:7 and you (both parents) shall impress (teach) them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, <br />Verse 6 It is eaten the same day you slaughter it, and on the next day. And that which is left on the third day is burned with fire….Here we have a beautiful truth hidden behind the “p’shat” or literal level. First the peace offering was a “shelem” made of a clean animal according to the Torah (Vayyiqra chapter 3: 1-17). The animal had to be without blemish. This animal pointed to יהושע who himself told us to be partaker of “eating his flesh” (Yochanan 6:53-56). Now you will ask, “yes I know that but why then eating on the same day and on the next day, but on the third day it become abominable and shall not be accepted”.<br />The answer should come to your mind, as we know that “one day is like thousand years” (2nd kefa 3:8, Psalm 90:4). This “shelem” or peace offering was to be eaten the same day, that is when Messiah came to be partaker of His life, then remain the “shelem” is still valid during the second day, that is the year two thousand, but on the third day, it is too late and those who think they will be accepted when already Messiah comes on the third day, it will not be acceptable. Can you see the meaning behind the letter? The verse 8 tells us that those doing that shall be cut off from among the people. Can you see the consequences of “profaning the Set apart peace offering (shelem)? <br /><b>Verse 10……</b>..do not glean your vineyard or gather every grape of your vineyard, leave them for the poor….May be it is not common to you in your country, but in France when I was around 15 in the 60ies, it was common practice to left grapes and others fruits or grain which were not harvested. After the regular harvest time, strangers or neighbors were allowed to go into the field and the vineyard to collect what was not harvested (a remaining from Torah tradition??). If you in historical records, you will learn that the Yehudin had a great influence in France, especially South-France where they were in high position during centuries and let the people a legacy! Today with the mechanical harvest, nothing is left over and no man goes into the vineyard or into the field to collect the left over. One of the consequences we can see is that since the time of mechanical harvest, fertilizer has been used more then before! This is amazing to me as we know that he who gives to the poor, יהוה will repay him! <br />Pro 19:17 He who shows favour to the poor lends to יהוה, and He repays his deed.<br />This is why some do not worry to be generous because they know that the one that give reward is Elohim.<br />Verse 12. Do not swear falsely by my Name and so profane the Name of your Elohim.<br />To swear is the Hebrew word: Strong’s H7650 שׁבע shâba‛ shaw-bah'..........A primitive root; properly to be complete, but used only as a denominative from H7651; to seven oneself, that is, swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times): - adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full [by mistake for H7646], take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear. <br />Profane is the Hebrew word: Strong’s #H2490 חלל châlal khaw-lal'...........A primitive root (compare H2470); properly to bore, that is, (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one’s word), to begin (as if by an opening-wedge); denominatively (from H2485) to play (the flute): - begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound. From the verse one to verse 18, it is called: to love your neighbour as yourselves! This mitzvoth or commands should be taught in congregations today, I have seen how children of Yehovah are hurt and feel hatred, against brethren because of the lack of understanding, and they don’t know that breaking this “mitzvoth” is “sin”!<br />Do not oppress your neighbour, ; Do not rob him pay him his wage the same day of his work, <br />Do not put a stumbling block before the blind, Do not be partial to the poor or show favour to the rich, <br />Do not go slandering among your people, Do not hate your brother in your heart, reprove your neighbour for certain and bear no sin because of him, Do not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people. Seven commandments follow on another! This is a long list of things pertaining to “love your neighbour as yourselves”. It is easy to understand that to rob his neighbour is breaking the eighth commandment. Do not lie (verse 11), do not deceive one another.<br />Today many people don’t even distinct between the truth and lie, because they don’t know what is the truth. If you look around you will see people lying with a nice smile in their face, just to look good they will use lie. Have you ever tried and ask יהוה to make it know to you when you lie, you may be surprised. We must accept correction of the Ruach HaQodesh and work for purity. This is possible when we earnestly put our love in serving יהוה in Spirit and in Truth. <br /><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Slandering;</b> Strong’s #H7400 רכיל râkîyl raw-keel'...........From H7402; a scandal monger (as travelling about): - slander, carry tales, talebearer.<br />Slandering goes with “gossip”. People love to carry stories from houses to houses. It seems that they don’t know that by doing this, they destroy love and bring suffering among those who are not strong to stand. King David write: <br />Psa 41:9 Even my own friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.......<br />This should not be, but unfortunately, even when people today are taught in the Torah, they still like to “gossip” and been “talebearers”. I hope and pray that יהוה will have mercy on us and bring restoration of the truth. Reprove your neighbour and do not bear sin because of him! How it is that people today, even among believers have no courage to speak to brethren when it is needed, how comes that leaders in the Assembly are not able to reproof those who do wrong, and so bring sin upon the all Assembly. They wilfully ignore the sin of their members and let the “system” go bringing strife and offending many. The command is to reproof our neighbour, and it is directly connected with the fact that if we don’t do that, we will bear his sin. We will be partaker of his sin.<br />Reproof is strong’s #H3198 יכח yâkach yaw-kakh'<br />A primitive root; to be right (that is, correct); reciprocally to argue; causatively to decide, justify or convict: - appoint, argue, chasten, convince, correct (-ion), days man, dispute, judge, maintain, plead, reason (together), rebuke, reprove (-r), surely, in any wise........</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you know what יהושע says concerning rebuking his brother?<br />Mat 5:39 but I say to you, do not resist the wicked. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also...................<br />Christianity and Roman Catholic teach that if somebody gives you a “blow” on one side you shall be so generous as to present your other side to him! Do you think it is the right meaning? In Hebrew thoughts it has nothing to do with beating somebody, but with correcting somebody when one is doing wrong. The reaction of the one who is corrected is to be ready to receive another correction. <br />Pro 24:28 do not witness against your neighbour without cause, and do not deceive with your lips. Pro 24:29 Do not say, “Let me do to him as he did to me; I repay each according to his work.”.<br />You can see it is with “lips” and not with hands or else. Right story or false story, this does not change the fact of gossiping: <br />Pro 18:8 The wordsH1697 of a talebearerH5372 are as wounds,H3859 and theyH1992 go downH3381 into the innermost partsH2315 of the belly.H990<br />Pro 20:19 He that goeth aboutH1980 as a talebearerH7400 revealethH1540 secrets:H5475 therefore meddleH6148 notH3808 with him that flatterethH6601 with his lips.H8193 <br />Pro 26:20 Where noH657 woodH6086 is, there the fireH784 goeth out:H3518 so where there is noH369 talebearer,H5372 the strifeH4066 ceaseth.H8367 <br />Pro 26:22 The wordsH1697 of a talebearerH5372 are as wounds,H3859 and theyH1992 go downH3381 into the innermost partsH2315 of the belly.H990<br />I have been in many places, unfortunately, many times it is to meet talebearers. Myself I was also confronted with this evil sin, until יהוה corrected me, and make me stop. Brethren let us stop and think of the damage we can bring in the body of Messiah.<br /><b>Eph 4:31</b> Let allG3956 bitterness,G4088 andG2532 wrath,G2372 andG2532 anger,G3709 andG2532 clamour,G2906 andG2532 evil speaking,G988 be put awayG142 fromG575 you,G5216 withG4862 allG3956 malice:G2549 <br /><b>Tit 2:7</b> InG4012 all thingsG3956 shewingG3930 thyselfG4572 a patternG5179 of goodG2570 works:G2041 inG1722 doctrineG1319 shewing uncorruptness,G90 gravity,G4587 sincerity,G861 Tit 2:8 SoundG5199 speech,G3056 that cannot be condemned;G176 thatG2443 heG3588 that is ofG1537 the contrary partG1727 may be ashamed,G1788 havingG2192 noG3367 evil thingG5337 to sayG3004 ofG4012 you.G5216 <br />When people speak evil or go as talebearer it is because of their heart. They are of the evil one. We should read what יהושע says in this parable: <br /><b>Mat 13:24</b> another parable He put before them, saying, “The reign of the heavens has become like a man who sowed good seed in his field, ...<br />Mat 13:30 ‘Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I shall say to the reapers, “First gather the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my granary.” ’ ” <br />To understand this parable, we must know what a “darnel” or “tare” looks like. The tare or darnel is an evil grass growing wild in the field. They look like wheat and in the beginning you cannot make a difference between darnel or tare and wheat. Only at the Harvest time you can discern the head of the wheat full of corn while the darnel or the tare looks “fake”. If we understand this parable we will understand that until the harvest, that is the time when Messiah יהושע will come to establish יהוה’s Kingdom, there will be darnel or tare among wheat, in other words, there will be “fake brethren” among us. .... If we have been talebearer as I said I did before, it is not too late, it takes repentance, if possible to acknowledge to the one we did wrong and ask for forgiveness and train ourselves to be a doer of the word. <br />14. …….putting a stumbling block before a blind……<br />Deu 27:18 ‘Cursed is he who misleads the blind in the way.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amĕn!’ <br />Who is the blind?<br />Luk 4:18 “The Spirit of יהוה is upon Me,1 because He has anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away crushed ones with a release, Footnote: 1Isa. 61:1-3……<br />Here it is not a question of healing, it is written “recovery to the blind”!<br />Luk 6:39 and He spoke a parable to them, “Is a blind able to lead a blind? Shall they not both fall into a pit? <br />Joh 9:40 and those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind, too?” Joh 9:41 יהושע said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin, but now you say, ‘We see,’ therefore your sin remains. …………….<br />Again we see that the blindness here refers to the attitude of the heart . …..<br />Rom 2:17 See, you are called a Yehuḏite, and rest on the Torah, and make your boast in Elohim, ; Rom 2:18 and know the desire of Elohim, and approve what is superior, being instructed out of the Torah,Rom 2:19 and are trusting that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, .................<br />To put stumbling block happen today with all these false pastors who give doctrines of demons to the sheep leading them in the way of unrighteousness, following the anti-messiah. <br />You shall not hate. There is need of repentance bad attitudes come from the heart........:<br />Verse 19. Do not let your livestock mate with another kind. Do not sow your field with mixed seed. And do not put a garment woven of two sorts of thread upon you.<br />This verse needs explanation. Once again it is literal for spiritual. I know at this time and even today it is practiced, but the deeper meaning in the “sod” is more than what we read. Shaul gives us the understanding: <br />1Co 15:33 Do not be led astray, “Evil company corrupts good habits.” 2Co 6:14 Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? <br />The Torah give a natural command with livestock from other kind, mixed seed in the field and garments woven of mixed thread, to point to the spiritual relationship between believers and unbelievers. A yoke forced animals to walk together and so it should be understood with unbelievers, to agree with them in their manners of life and not after the Torah! <br />23-25. When you come into the land…..and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall reckon their fruit as uncircumcised. For three years…..in the fourth year all its fruit is set-apart – praises to יהוה; in the fifth year you eat its fruit,<br />I have seen in France also the planting of trees which have not been harvested during the first years. I think this came from all “Jews” living among us in France. Fruits in the first years have no good taste and the trees do not produce so much fruits. If they are left after three years they begin to multiply and the quality of the fruits become more and more appreciated. In the fifth year, you may think how was it possible? </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Josephus in his book “Antiquities of the Jews” explain: </b><br />Book IV Chapter 8, 19. He that plants a piece of land, the trees of which produce fruits before the fourth year, is not to bring thence any first-fruits to God, nor is he to make use of that fruit himself, for it is not produced in its proper season; for when nature has a force put upon her at an unseasonable time, the fruit is not proper for God, nor for the master's use; but let the owner gather all that is grown on the fourth car, for then it is in its proper season. And let him that has gathered it carry it to the holy city, and spend that, together with the tithe of his other fruits, in feasting with his friends, with the orphans, and the widows. But on the fifth year the fruit is his own, and he may use it as he pleases.<br />Where is here the spiritual aspect?<br />Questions: How long where the disciple following Messiah, was it not three years and the half of the fourth? Is it not in during the fourth year that the fruits become Set apart, and in the fifth that the fruits are eaten? Is not a tree recognized by its fruits? Can you see that it was the time needed for the disciple to become mature and acceptable to Aba יהוה! How it is with you, how long are you planted in the courtyard of Elohim, are you now in the fourth year and Set apart, or even in the fifth and bring fruits which are pleasing?........<br />26 Horoscope. יהוה do not want his children to be like pagans who search the stars to know what is going on in their life, but as it is written: “the just shall live by his faith, his trust in his Elohim”.<br />Do not eat meat with the blood Do not practise divination or magic. Here we see the difference, Keil and Delitzch stretch out that it is not a mere repetition, but to make also clear that meat is to be eaten without blood. If you came to France, people like to go in restaurants to eat meat called “blue” this mean almost not cocked, red with blood in it, especially when it is bull or cow meat or even unclean horse meat.<br />Divination and Magic are pagans practice known in many countries all around the world. This is the world of darkness, where demons play with people. Keil and Delitzsch go on explaining these practices:<br />They were also “to practise no kind of incantations.” נִחֵשׁ: from נָחַשׁ to whisper (see Gen_44:5), or, according to some, a denom. verb from נָחָשׁ a serpent; literally, to prophesy from observing snakes, then to prophesy from auguries generally, augurari. עֹונֵן a denom. verb, not from עָנָן a cloud, with the signification to prophesy from the motion of the clouds, of which there is not the slightest historical trace in Hebrew; but, as the Rabbins maintain, from עַיִן an eye, literally, to ogle, then to bewitch with an evil eye<br />Lev 19:27 ‘Do not round the corner of your head, nor destroy the corner of your beard. Lev_19:27 from Keil and Delitzsch. “Ye shall not round the border of your head:” i.e., not cut the hair in a circle from one temple to the other, as some of the Arab tribes did, according to Herodotus (3, 8), in honour of their god Ὀροτάλ, whom he identifies with the Dionysos of the Greeks. In Jer_9:25; Jer_25:23; Jer_49:32, the persons who did this are called פֵאָה קְצוּצֵי, round-cropped, from their peculiar tonsure. “Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard,” sc., by cutting it off (cf. Lev_21:5), which Pliny reports some of the Arabs to have done, barba abraditur, praeterquam in superiore labro, aliis et haec intonsa, whereas the modern Arabs either wear a short moustache, or shave off the beard altogether (Niebuhr, Arab. p. 68)......<br />28. do not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor put tattoo marks on you. I am יהוה. Once again these were pagan traditions from Babylon and are still seen in some countries today when people cut their own flesh at the dead of their relatives. Keil and Delitzsch give us more details: The first refers to passionate outbursts of mourning, common among the excitable nations of the East, particularly in the southern parts, and to the custom of scratching the arms, hands, and face (Deu_14:1), which is said to have prevailed among the Babylonians and Armenians (Cyrop. iii. 1, 13, iii. 3, 67), the Scythians (Herod. 4, 71), and even the ancient Romans (cf. M. Geier de Ebraeor. luctu, c. 10), and to be still practised by the Arabs (Arvieux Beduinen, p. 153), the Persians (Iran) (Morier Zweite Reise, p. 189), and the Abyssinians of the present day, and which apparently held its ground among the Israelites notwithstanding the prohibition (cf. Jer_16:6; Jer_41:5; Jer_47:5), - as well as to the custom, 29. Do not profane your daughter by making her a whore,........<br />The Hebrew word “zanah” indicate the falling to adultery remember that Balam will teach Balak how to make the children of Israel to fall. 31. Do not turn to mediums, and do not seek after spiritist…….<br />Here it is about necromancy (i.e.spirit of the glass, turning table, reading in the ashes……), to search contact with the dead and invocations of spirits. Today it is rampant in modern countries, if you open a news paper you will found advertising from many people, saying that they can come in contact with the dead and tell the future. This is by work of darkness and יהוה forbid His children to practice it because it defiles the one who do it.<br />Act 16:16 And it came to be, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of Puthon, did meet us, who brought her masters much profit by foretelling. Act 16:17 Having followed Sha’ul and us, she cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High Elohim, who proclaim to us the way of deliverance.” Act 16:18 and she was doing this for many days. But Sha’ul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the Name of יהושע Messiah to come out of her.” And it came out that same hour. And so the woman lost her power!........<br />32. ‘Rise up before the grey-headed……..<br />Today it is in vain that people will move to make place for an older man in the bus or the train, young generation do not care anymore. I remember when I was a young boy, my father taught us how to behave with elder people, and no bad report was to be heard in our house. Today it is sad to see that seldom young people will show respect for elder people. <br />1Ti 5:1 RebukeG1969 notG3361 an elder,G4245 butG235 intreatG3870 him asG5613 a father;G3962 and the younger menG3501 asG5613 brethren;G80 .......<br />34. ‘Let the stranger who dwells among you be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself………….<br />The stranger were living among the Children of Israel were to be considered like native. Stranger is the Hebrew word “ger”, a foreigner, an alien. Unfortunately, even today, when Israelites or Jews are confronted with “ger” they keep distance from others and so cannot fulfil what was expected from Elohim: To be light unto others. How it is with us are we light to other and are we loving those strangers who come to us? <br />35-36. Read: Pro 11:1 A falseH4820 balanceH3976 is abominationH8441 to יהוה:H3068 but a justH8003 weightH68 is his delight.H7522 <br />Deu 25:13 “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light. <br />And in the Brit Chadasha it was explain of Ya’acov: <br />Jas 2:2 for if there should come into your meeting a man with gold rings, in a splendid robe, and there should also come in a poor one dressed in rags, Jas 2:3 and you pay attention to the one wearing the splendid robe and say to him, “You sit here in a good place,” and say to the poor one, “You stand there,” or, “Sit here by my feet,” <br />Jas 2:4 have you not discriminated among yourselves, and become judges with wicked thoughts? <br />In this chapter we find seven times “I am YHWH your Elohim” and seven times ‘I am YHWH”. This is after יהוה say to Moshe verse 2 “speak unto the children of Israel and say to them , you shall be Qadosh (set apart) for I YHWH your Elohim am Qadosh. This is a very strong command from יהוה who teach His people how to be Qadosh. We should take this chapter to our heart and pray over it again and again, to become what our heavenly Father wants us to be, read what Shaul write the Corinthians: <br />1Co 9:24 Do you not know that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way as to obtain it (the price). 1Co 9:25 and everyone who competes controls himself in every way. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we for an incorruptible crown. <br />1Co 9:26 Therefore I run accordingly, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, not as one who beats the air. <br />1Co 9:27 But I treat my body severely and make it my slave, so that when I have proclaimed to others, I myself might be rejected. .............<br />This is a very serious matter, so my brothers and sisters let us be like Shaul running the race in order to obtain the prize..............<br />Lev 19:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,.... Lev 19:37 ‘And you shall guard all My laws and all My right-rulings, and do them. I am יהוה.’ ” <br /><b>Chapter 20.: </b>1-7.Here we find the Hebrew mind for adultery, to offer offspring to moloch, a concept often misunderstood. The fact to go to other “g-ds” is also adultery this will bring יהוה to give a bill of divorce to the House of Israel (Yrmeyahu 3:8).<br />It is amazing how people look only to the literal adultery of a man with a woman, while they follow their own way, being adulterer having rejected the Covenant of יהוה which is the Torah. To turn to medium and to spiritists is also spiritual adultery for it is to rely on the power of what is forbidden by Elohim. 9.To curse Mother and Father is sin that bring death to somebody. We have in this chapter sins with heavy consequences: to commit adultery with a married woman brought death, a man who lies with the woman of His Father<br />Keil and Delitzsch write: The cursing of parents was a capital crime (see at Lev_17:4, and for the plural דָּמָיו Exo_22:1 and Gen_4:10), which was to return upon the doer of it, according to Gen_9:6. The same punishment was to be inflicted upon adultery (Lev_20:10, cf. Lev_18:20), carnal intercourse with a father's wife (Lev_20:11, cf. Lev_18:7-8) or with a daughter-in-law (Lev_20:12, cf. Lev_18:17), sodomy (Lev_20:13, cf. Lev_18:22), sexual intercourse with a mother and her daughter, in which case the punishment was to be heightened by the burning of the criminals when put to death (Lev_20:14, cf. Lev_18:17), lying with a beast (Lev_20:15, Lev_20:16, cf. Lev_18:23), sexual intercourse with a half-sister (Lev_20:17, cf. Lev_18:9 and Lev_18:11), and lying with a menstruous woman (Lev_20:18, cf. Lev_18:19). The punishment of death, which was to be inflicted in all these cases upon both the criminals, and also upon the beast that had been abused (Lev_20:15, Lev_20:16), was to be by stoning, according to Lev_20:2, Lev_20:27, and Deu_22:21.; and by the burning (Lev_20:14) we are not to understand death by fire, or burning alive, but, as we may clearly see from Jos_7:15 and Jos_7:25, burning the corpse after death. This was also the case in Lev_21:9 and Gen_38:24.<br />Sodomy verse 13. It is here spoken of homosexual. It is now rampant in the all world and even promoted in the US and other western countries (including France since 2014). It goes so far that some school teaches how to behave when two boys have intercourse. The wrath of Elohim will come soon over the nations. <br />11-22. יהוה gives again statutes and judgments to His children, verse 23 יהוה explain why He will give the Land. 24 The Land that flows with milk and honey (sweetness), that is the Torah and the benefit of it (Milk): <br />Psa 19:10 More desirable than gold (that is the Torah), Than much fine gold; And sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.<br />Isa 28:9 whom would He teach knowledge? And whom would He make to understand the message? Those weaned from milk (Torah), those taken from the breasts! <br />1Pe 2:2 as newborn babes, desire the unadulterated milk (Torah) of the Word, in order that you grow by it, <br />Heb 5:12 for indeed, although by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first elements of the Words (Torah) of Elohim. And you have become such as need milk and not solid food.<br />Pro 24:13 My son, eat honey, for it is good, And the honeycomb, sweet to your taste;<br />25. The law of clean and unclean makes the difference between יהוה’s people and the nations. The spiritual approach is seen in the behaviour of those eating everything. They cannot discern, even Christians their mind is blinded by the “g-d” of this world. We shall pray for those who are still in bondage, that יהוה open their eye to the truth (Torah). </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Isa 66:1 </b>Thus said יהוה, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this house that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest?.... </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Isa 66:24</b> “And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me1. For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!” Footnote: 1See 24:6, 34:2-3, Ps. 110:6, Jer. 25:33. <br /><b>Eze 20:2</b> And the word of יהוה came to me, saying,...Eze 20:20 ‘And set apart My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, to know that I am יהוה your Elohim.’<br />1Pe 1:13 Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, set your expectation perfectly upon the favour that is to be brought to you at the revelation of יהושע Messiah, 1Pe 1:14 as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts in your ignorance, 1Pe 1:15 instead, as the One who called you is set-apart, so you also should become set-apart in all behaviour, 1Pe 1:16 because it has been written, “Be set-apart, for I am set-apart.”…..<br />May יהוה bless you and keep you through Messiah יהושע as you keep the way of the Torah!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-68571096451155370752018-11-06T07:32:00.002-08:002022-11-26T08:15:32.849-08:006 Parasha Toledo – Generations<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The genealogy <i>(toledo)</i>
of <i>Ytshaq</i>: The <i>Parasha</i> begins with the genealogy. Let us see if we can learn
something concerning <i>Ytshaq</i>
genealogy. <i>Brown, Driwer, Briggs</i> give us following: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">תּלדה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> / </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">תּולדה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">tôledâh BDB
Definition: </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1) <b>descendants</b>, results, proceedings, generations, genealogies 1a) <b>account
of men and their descendants </b>1a1)
genealogical list of one’s descendants 1a2)
one’s contemporaries 1a3) <b>course of history</b> (of creation etc) 1b) begetting or account of heaven
(metaphorically) <b>Part of Speech:</b>
noun feminine plural</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s
Number:</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> from </span></i><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H3205 </span></u></i><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Same Word by TWOT Number: </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">867g</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Let us see what this Strong’s # 3205 means: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ילד</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">yâlad</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>yaw-lad' </i><i>A primitive root; <b>to bear young</b>;
causatively <b>to beget</b>; medically to act
as midwife; specifically <b>to show lineage</b>: - bear,
beget, birth ([-day]), born, (make to) <b>bring
forth</b> (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a
child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife,
declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail (-eth, -ing
woman).</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">there is a record from the well know <b><i>Jew </i>historian <i>Josephus</i></b><i> </i>who write: <i>"by this book are to be understood
certain records kept in some safe place on purpose, giving an account of what
happened among the Hebrews from year to year, and called Yasher or the upright,
on account of the fidelity of the annals." </i>It’s up to the reader to chose either to
follow the world tendency or to believe what the scriptures say, e.g the <i>book of Yasher </i>teaches us that <i>Noach</i> and <i>Abraham</i> were contemporary (lived at the same time although Noach
died before Abraham), that Abraham knew </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> from his third year, that Shem
is <i>Melkitzedek </i>and many other
chronological events which are not mentioned in the Torah, the death of Nimrod,
the age when Ya’acov married Leah and Rachel can be easily calculated and many
other questions have their answer in this book. <i>Yasher</i> for example tells us that <i>Ribqah </i>was ten years old when she left her family following <i>Eliezer, </i>and has we have read already
that <i>Itzahq</i> was not the not the <i>“sweet little boy” </i>as it is taught in
the <i>Christian</i> circles when he was
brought as sacrifice to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> but was 37 seven years old and obedient to his father Abraham
and fully devoted to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">! </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">So we could write: “and this is the account of Abraham
and <b>his descendants</b> <b>whom he begat</b>” This is written in the Torah so that the
following generation may know who their forefathers are. Even today we can
follow the generation by reading the Torah four thousand years later. I know that many today oppose the fact that
many believers are direct descendants from Abraham by the flesh. This doesn’t
make somebody better, but it is fact! To deny it, is to make </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> to be a liar: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 17:6</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>and I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and
I will make <b>nations/Goyim (plural)</b>
of thee, and <b>kings</b> <b>(plural)</b> shall come out of thee. </i></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 17:7</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and
I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in <b>their generations (plural)</b> for an
everlasting covenant, to be an Elohim unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Everlasting: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Strong’s
#H 5769 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">עולם</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> ‛<b>ôlâm</b> <i>o-lawm',</i> From </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H5956</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">;
properly <i>concealed</i>, that is, the <b><i>vanishing</i>
point</b>; generally time <b><i>out</i> <i>of</i>
<i>mind</i></b> (past or future), that is, (practically) <b><i>eternity</i></b>; frequentative adverbially (especially with
prepositional prefix) <i>always</i>: - always (-s), ancient (time), any more,
continuance, eternal, (for, [n-]) <b>ever</b>
(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at
any time, (beginning of the) <b>world (+
without end).</b> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Compare </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H5331</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H5703</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">... </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">There
is no doubt that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> promise to <i>Abraham</i>
was not limited to his generation but for an unlimited time, thus reaching to
our generations today and those after us. Many times when reading in our own
language (French, English, Tagalog, Spanish, German…..) we miss the deeper meaning.
It is good to search the word and have a concordance e.g. Strong or another, to
find out what <i>Elohim</i> really say. This
will remove errors and doctrine builds on sand.
Once again we will help ourselves with the <i>Book of Yasher (book of the just) </i>to see what is not written in the
Torah. Christian teachers and Pastors build their teaching on falsehood
following false spirits. In ten years I have spent among Christians I never had
one <i>Pastor </i>searching to establish
their teaching on the truth or fact, but had always <i>“revelation from the L-rd”</i>. In the beginning many times was I
speechless when the spoke, because I didn’t had anything to get proof of their
false <i>revelations. </i>Although mentioned in <i>Yohushua 10:13 and 2<sup>nd</sup> Shamu’el
1:18</i> the <i>Book of Yasher </i>is ignored
by the <i>“Jews”</i> who prefer to build
their tales on traditional Judaism and by Christians for the same reason
building their own stories depending on what they want you to believe. It times
to restore the truth! It is amazing that
Christian Commentators like <i>Keil and
Delitzsch</i>, <i>Barnes</i>, <i>Jamieson</i>, <i>Brown</i> <i>and Fausset</i>, <i>Adam Clarke</i> and the <i>ISBE (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia</i>) ignore information
concerning this book! </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“His
name was <i>Ya’acov</i>”: Hebrew: H3290 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יעקב</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ya’acov </span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">written:
yod, ayin,q of, beth.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ya‛ăqôb </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">BDB
Definition: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yacob</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> = “heel holder” or “<b>supplanter</b>”</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:19</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and this is the genealogy (Toledo) of Yitsḥaq, Aḇraham’s son. Aḇraham
brought forth Yitsḥaq. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:20</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yitsḥaq was forty years old</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> when he took Riḇqah as wife, the daughter of
Bethu’ĕl the Aramean of Paddan Aram,
the sister of Laḇan the Aramean. Yitshaq</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
was forty years old. We have seen many times already that the number forty is
the number for divine change for test and trials, as we can see what happen
with the children of Israel
in the wilderness. Yitshaq is not free
from trials, when he begets Ya’acov and Esau. Every generation has its own
trials and test. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Bethu’el
the Aramean: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">'ărâm </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">BDB Definition: </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Aram </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">or Arameans = “exalted”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1) Aram or Syria the
nation 2) the Syrian or Aramean people 3) <b>fifth
son of Shem </b>4) a grandson of Nahor</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">5) a descendant of Asher...................<b>Part of Speech:</b> noun
proper masculine. <b>A Related Word by
BDB/Strong’s Number:</b> from the same as </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H759 ..</span></u><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Same
Word by TWOT Number: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">163</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We see here that <i>Bethu’El</i>
was the fifth son of <i>Shem</i> (see chart
at the end of the <i>Parasha</i>), son of <i>Noach</i> (B’reshit 6:10). We are still in
the direct lineage of <i>Noach</i>, as <i>Shem</i> the teacher of righteousness was
still alive in <i>Ya’acov</i> days as we
will see.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Have you somebody whom you follow the teaching to help
you in your journey? <b>Shem was teacher to
Abraham and also to Yitzhak and to Ya’acov</b> as we are going to see.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Aram</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> the
fifth son of Shem: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 10:22</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> The sons of Shĕm: Ěylam, and Asshur, and Arpaḵshaḏ,
and Luḏ, <b><u>and Aram</u></b>. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">From <i>Aram</i>
came the <i>Aramean</i> or <i>Syrian</i>. It is amazing when we see today
the position of <i>Syriah</i> toward Israel! We remember that when Abraham sent his
servant <i>Eliezer</i> to take a bride for
his son, who in the “sod” is a picture of the <i>Ruach HaQodesh</i> going throughout the world looking for the bride of
Messiah. <i>Ribqah</i> leaved in a family
who were idolater. <i>Ribqah</i> (a picture
of the righteous assembly) left her family turning her back to idolatry <b>to follow her husband she never met before. </b>Have you ever wondered that you are
following the <i>Ruach HaQodesh</i> to meet
the Bridegroom you never saw before? Just
read what <i>Kefa</i> says: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Pe 1:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
in order that <b>the proving of your belief</b>
– much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire – might be
found to result in praise and respect and esteem <b>at the revelation of </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Messiah,</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Pe 1:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b><u>whom having not seen, you love</u></b>; in whom you exult with
unspeakable and esteemed joy, yet <b><u>not
seeing, but believing</u></b>, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Can you see that we all walk in the steps of our
forefathers and like <i>Ribqah</i> run to be
with the bridegroom we have not seen? </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:21</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
And Yitsḥaq prayed to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for his wife, because she was
barren. and </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">answered his prayer, and Riḇqah
his wife conceived</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><b>T</b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><b>he problem came from <i>Ribqah’s</i> side? </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Let see now how it is in the <i>Brit Chadasha (N.T)</i>: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 1:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and they had no child, because <b>Elisheḇa was barren</b>, and both were advanced in years. </span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gal 4:27</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for it has been written, “Rejoice, <b>O barren, you who do not bear</b>! Break
forth and shout, you who do not have birth pains! For the deserted one has many
more children than she who has a husband.” Sha’ul</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> refers
here to the words of the prophet <i>Yeshayahu</i>,
when he was speaking to the believers in Galatia, making a spiritual connection
between <i>Hagar</i> and <i>Sarah </i></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gal 4:28</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and we, brothers, as Yitsḥaq was, are children of
promise. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Kefa</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
goes further in his understanding turning it to the knowledge of the Torah. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Pe 1:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for if these things are in you and increase, they
cause you to be neither inactive nor without fruit (barren) in the knowledge of
our Master </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Messiah. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We
see that in all this situations the answer come by praying to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> either for physical or spiritual fruits.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:22</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and within her the children
struggled together, and she said, “If all is right, why am I this way?” So she
went to ask </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“She went to ask” where does <i>Ribqah</i> went? <i></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We are going to see that she got the answer from <i>Abraham, Shem</i> and <i>Eber</i> as we read in verse 23 “and </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">said to her”: <i>12. And <b>they
all</b> (Abraham, Shem and Eber) inquired of </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> concerning
this matter, and <b>they brought her word
from </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and told her</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, Two children are in thy womb,
and two nations shall rise from them; and one nation shall be stronger than the
other, and the greater shall serve the younger. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">This is
how </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">answered Ribqah. We can also learn from this process by
asking those we know to be “close” to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. This requires humility and trust. <i>Ribqah</i> knew that she was living among <i>QaDosh</i> (set apart) people. The vision of
the twins was given to <i>Ribqah</i> for a
purpose, later she will have to take a decision concerning <i>Ya’acov</i>. This decision will be because of what </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> spoke to her while she was in her
pregnancy. We see here clearly that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> reveal himself also to a woman the
same way he does with man. Did </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> spoke, or reveal things already to you as woman? Before
answering search your heart, I am sure that at one moment or another he did.</span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Two nations are in your womb and two peoples. Nations: Strong’s#
H1471 </span></i></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">גּוי</span><b><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">gôy
</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">go'ee,</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Apparently from the same root as </span></i><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H1465</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> (in the sense of massing); a <b>foreign nation</b>; hence a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: - <b>Gentile</b>, <b>heathen</b>, nation, people. </span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Peoples:
Strong’s #H3816 </span></i></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">לאם</span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> l<sup>e</sup>'ôm </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">leh-ome',</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> From an unused root meaning to gather; <b>a community</b>: - <b>nation</b>, people....... </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gentiles (Goyim) and a community (le'om) of people </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">are
in the womb of <i>Ribqah</i>! It is amazing
to see how things developed. Beside all pagan nations living around <i>Abraham</i> and his children, <i>gentile heathen (goy) </i>and a <i>community of people </i>were in <i>Ribqah</i> womb. I am amazed when I read
that <i>Strong</i> translates the Hebrew
word with <i>Gentile </i>and the <i>Brit Chadasha</i> (N.T.) call believers <i>Gentile. </i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We can understand that in <i>Ribqah</i> womb were a foreign nation, later called <i>Edomites </i>and a community of people later
called <i>Israel</i><i>. </i>There is more to find out, today Rome
is called <i>Edom,</i> <i>and the older (Esau or Edom)
shall serve the younger (Ya’acov, the House of Israel)</i>! </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:23</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">said to her, “<b>Two nations (Goyim) are in your womb</b>,
and <b>two peoples (le'om)</b> shall be
separated from your body. And one people shall be stronger than the other, and
the older serve the younger.” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:24</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and when the days were filled
for her to give birth, and see, twins were in her womb! </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:25</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and the first came out red all
over, like a hairy garment, so they called his name Ěsaw. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:26</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and afterward his brother came
out, with <b>his hand holding on to Ěsaw’s
heel</b>, so his name was called Yaʽaqoḇ. And <b>Yitsḥaq was sixty y</b>ears old when she bore them. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“<i>Esau</i> a deceitful man”: Deceitful is directly linked to “hunter”</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Part
of Speech:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> noun proper masculine. <b>A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number:</b>
from </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H6117</span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H6117 </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">‛âqab <b>BDB Definition: </b>1) to supplant, <b>circumvent</b>, take by the heel, follow at the heel, <b>assail insidiously</b>, overreach</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1a) (Qal) <b>to supplant,</b>
overreach, <b>attack at the heel </b>1b) (Piel) to hold back. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">So
we could say: </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ya’acov</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> was supplanting his brother Esau from the womb by <b>circumventing</b> his position<b>, assailing insidiously</b> Esau by <b>attacking him at the heel</b> in order <b>to supplant him?</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">before coming to such a conclusion we should a</span><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;">sk, what did <i>Esau </i>did asking the red stuff to his brother <i>Ya'acov</i>. How did hereacted when Ya'acov ask for the birth right? Was he outrages or standing for the birth right? The answer is obvious, to feed his belle was more important than keeping his first born right.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt 18pt;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="verseid:1.25.27" id="1.25.27" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0071ee; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 28px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="verse" style="color: #238554; font-size: 21px; text-decoration: underline;">Gen 25:27</span> </a><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 28px;"> </span><span class="highlight_1_25_27"><span style="color: #202638; font-family: Helvetica Neue;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); font-size: 28px;">And the boys grew up. And Ěsaw became a man knowing how to hunt, a man of the field, while Ya‛aqoḇ was a </span></span><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 28px;">complete (</b><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande; font-size: large;"> tam </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> </b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">תָם</span></span><b style="caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 28px;">) </b><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 28px;">man, dwelling in tents.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Hebrew word <i>Tam </i>comes from </span><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><i>tamim </i></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202638; font-family: Helvetica Neue;">complete, morally innocent, having integrity.See bereshit 10:9, Palm 37:27, Palm 64:4... Seems the word has been deluded in many translation</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 3pt 18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">“Sixty years old”: The Torah gives us details through
many ways. Here we see that the birth of <i>Ya’acov</i>
and <i>Esau</i> is the way of man, even been
</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">’s will. The
physical must be fulfilled in order that the spiritual comes.</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Co 15:46</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
The spiritual, however, was not first, but <b>the
natural, and afterward the spiritual.</b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Today m</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">any Christians accuse “<i>Paul</i>” to make up his own doctrines! Judge yourself if <i>Shaul</i> was doing his own teaching or
either was led by the <i>Ruach HaQodesh</i>
(Set Apart Spirit). </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:27</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and the boys grew up. And Ěsaw
became <b>a man knowing how to hunt, a man
of the field</b>, while <b>Yaʽaqoḇ was a
complete man, dwelling in tents</b>.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Here we have the two types of men. The first is a hunter
from the field the second is complete dwelling in tents. The first man to be called a “hunter” was
Nimrod. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 10:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> He (Nimrod) was a mighty<b> hunter </b>before </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, therefore it is said, “Like
Nimroḏ the mighty hunter before </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.” </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We have seen in the <i>Parasha Noach</i> that Nimrod the hunter was
a man drawing people away from following </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Jacob acted wisely with Esau in this matter, and Esau sold
his birthright to Jacob, for <b><u>it was
so brought about by YHWH. </u></b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“<i>Ya’acov</i> perfect dwelling in tents”: Perfect is directly linked with
“dwelling in tents”. This is the place where the sages ‘<i>Shem, Eber, Abraham</i> were dwelling, teaching </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">’s Torah. We see that the fact to dwell in tents is
directly connected with perfection. The
tent is also an allusion to the <i>body </i>the
temporary dwelling place of the <i>nephesh
(soul) </i>until we receive the <i>glorify
body</i> at the resurrection. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Pe 1:13</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>but I think it is right, as long as I am in <b>this tent</b>, to stir you up by a
reminder, </i></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Pe 1:14</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>knowing that the putting off of <b>my
tent</b> is soon, even as our Master </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Messiah
made clear to me. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Tent</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">: Strong’s #G4638 </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">σκη</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">́</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">νωμα</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> skēnōma </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">skay'-no-mah
</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">From </span></i><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">G4637</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">; an <b>encampment</b>, that is,
(figuratively) the Temple (as <b>God’s residence</b>), the body (as a <b>tenement for the soul</b>): - tabernacle. </span></i><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">G4637:</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">skēnoō skay-no'-o
From </span></i><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">G4636</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">;
to <b>tent</b> or encamp,
that is, (figuratively) to occupy
(<b>as a mansion</b>) or (specifically) to reside (as God did in the Tabernacle
of old, a symbol for protection and communion): - dwell.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">To dwell in tent demonstrate
also that we are ready to move wherever the <i>Ruach
HaQodesh </i>lead us, it is also the confirmation of the temporal (limited in
time): </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 11:13</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>These all died in faith, not
having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded
of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims
on the earth. --- </i></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 11:14</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">for they that say such things declare plainly that
they seek a country. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 11:15</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>and truly, if they had been
mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had
opportunity to have returned. </i></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 11:16</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">but now they desire a better country,
that is, an heavenly: wherefore YHWH is not ashamed to be called their Elohim:
for he hath prepared for them a city.</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Today you have the one going
after his own desire the “hunter” and the one dwelling in the house feeding on
the Torah. <i>Ya’acov</i> was “feeding the
flock”</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Act 20:28</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all <b>the flock</b>, among which the Set-apart
Spirit has made you overseers<b>, to
shepherd the assembly</b> of Elohim which He (</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">) has purchased with His own
blood.</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Pe 5:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> neither as being masters over those entrusted to you,
but being examples to <b>the flock. </b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I add a comment from Nathan
Lawrence: --- </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Esau was a man of the field. Field in Scripture is a metaphor for the world (Matt. 13:38). Esau was a profane (unhallowed,
worldly, ungodly) man (Heb. 12:16). He had no esteem for things of eternal
value. That is why he sold his birthright. He lived for the present or the
moment and had no eye for, hope in, or faith toward the future. He sought
instant gratification of his sensual nature. His god was his belly. He
disdained and dishonoured his family heritage and those things that were highly
esteemed by his father and grandfather. In 26:34-35, we see, to the great grief
of his parents, Esau marrying one of the “local girls” of the land who was <b>outside of the family</b>. He did not honour
his parents or respect their wishes. Do these traits describe some unbelievers
that you know, and <b>even some Believers</b>?
Perhaps you were like this before you were saved. Do we see many Esau-types
running around among the younger generation today? </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:28</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Yitsḥaq loved Ěsaw because
he ate of his wild game, but Riḇqah loved Yaʽaqoḇ. ………………</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">It is amazing to see that <i>Yitshaq</i> loved <i>Esau</i> because of what he brought him to eat! Could it be that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">want us to see how the carnal man delights on physical
and the inward man, rejoice in the spiritual?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The love of <i>Yitshaq</i> is the Hebrew word: </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">'âhab / 'âhêb ....BDB Definition:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) <b>human love for another</b>, includes
family, and sexual 1a2) <b>human appetite for objects such as food</b>,
drink, sleep, wisdom</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Brown, Driver, Briggs, point that <i>“ahab”</i> can be for affection to somebody as well as for appetite for
food. <b>Esau was feeding his father’s
carnal appetite</b>?..... <br />Comment from FFZ (First Fruits of Zion)</span><br />
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Jacob
has a bad reputation for cheating Esau out of his birthright.
Preachers scold Jacob as a deceiving trickster, but is that really
the Torah's point? Let's examine this story more carefully.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Jacob
made a stew. Esau returns from hunting, exhausted and famished. When
he sees the stew he exclaims, "Please let me have a swallow of
that red stuff there, for I am famished!" The Hebrew is even
more comical. He uses a verb more appropriate to describe "slopping
the pigs." In his desperation, he cannot quite formulate the
word for soup, so he stammers around calling it, "red, red
stuff." "Quick, slop me some of that red, red stuff!"
he begs.</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Jacob,
on the other hand, replies calmly and deliberately and in clear legal
terms, "Sell me as this day (from this day on) your birthright."
There are no hidden terms, no fine print, and no deceitful
bait-and-switch. It is a straightforward and honest offer.</span></span>
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Esau
should have refused. He should have been insulted that Jacob would
suggest such a sacrilege. Jacob asked him to forfeit everything that
Abraham and Isaac had cherished—the entire covenant, the land of
Canaan, the blessings and the promises, the future destiny of the
nation, all for the price of a bowl of soup.</span></span>
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Instead
of refusing the offer, Esau briefly considered it and accepted the
terms. He said, “Behold, I am about to die; so of what use then is
the birthright to me?” This was hyperbole. His life was not in
danger; he was not about to die. He let his appetite dictate his
will. His desire for red, red stuff, at the moment, outweighed the
value of being Isaac’s firstborn.</span></span>
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Whenever
we allow our appetites to rule us, we follow in the footsteps of
Esau. A disciple of Yeshua should not let his desire for “red, red
stuff” dictate his decisions. Opportunities to honor or despise his
birthright in the kingdom pass before him on a daily basis. He is
constantly placed in positions where he must decide between what he
craves and what is right. A man controlled by his appetites is a
godless man. All forms of materialism and greed fall into the same
category. Some people desire power, control, and prestige. Others
will find that physical addictions and substance abuse dictate their
decisions in life. For many men and women, sexual temptation is the
“red, red stuff” for which they are willing to compromise their
spiritual birthright. All of these are signs of the spirit of Esau.
The writer of the book of Hebrews warns us:</span></span>
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Let
there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own
birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when
he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no
place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears. (Hebrews
12:16-17)</span></span></div>
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<span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Disciples
of Yeshua are children of Jacob, not children of Esau. Our animal
nature does not rule us. We belong, not to our appetites, but to the
Master. Our heads must rule our hearts: “Food is for the stomach
and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them.
Yet the body is not for immorality, but for Yehovah, and Yehovah is
for the body” (1 Corinthians 6:13).</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span face="Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face=""Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;">Esau
accepted Jacob’s offer. The Hebrew of the Torah artfully describes
Esau’s cavalier exit with a succinct series of one-word verbs: “He
ate; he drank; he rose; he left, and he despised his </span></span>birthright.”</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Thoughts for the week: </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Esau</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> represents the carnal nature in each of us, who want to
follow its own way and appetites, deceiving its own owner and speaking big
words while no action follow. He likes to argue, to debate on vain things in
order to promote his own “talent”:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Let there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold
his own birthright for a single meal. For you know that even afterwards, when
he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for
repentance, though he sought for it with tears. (Hebrews 12:16-17)</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ya’acov</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> represents the inner man who long after the Torah
teaching, to develop a pure character, listening to those who have gain higher
standard by experience and learning. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We have to choose the one we will follow, knowing that we
cannot have two masters, or we will love one and ate the other. Have you make
your choice whom you will follow?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Whenever we let our appetite control our steps, we follow
the <i>Esau, the carnal man </i>in each of
us. For some men it can be sexual desires, for other their own agenda in <i>“serving YHWH” </i>when they should care for
the family, for other natural desires, possession of worldly materials, looking
for the <i>“red lentil soup”. </i>One who
let his carnal desire control his senses is not a <i>Qadosh one </i>but sensual, fleshly and without spiritual discernment.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Throughout the <i>parasha</i>
we should fix our attention on <i>Ya’acov </i>behaviour the man who lived in tents and
compare ourselves to see how far we are from a godly life (or not!). </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:29</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Yaʽaqoḇ cooked a stew, and
Ěsaw came in from the field, and he was weary. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Why
does Esau was “weary” when he cam from the field?</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">It is amazing to see in some books that Nimrod in the beginning was
following <i>Elohim</i> and gave sacrifices!
We may be amazed to see that Adam’s <i>garment
</i>was given to Nimrod although we have learned that this <i>garment</i> was Adam’s earthly body. Yes there is no confusion in this
point when we know that in the <i>p’shat
(literal) </i>the both can be linked to one another. We come now to a point
which has been discussed, written about by many and we are going to try to
found out the “sod” of this account. The
<i>P’shat</i> tells us what <i>Ya’acov</i> was doing, just cooking food.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:30</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And Ěsaw said to Yaʽaqoḇ,
“Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” That is why his name
was called Eḏom. </span></i></div>
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">This place was where the
bones of Sarah and all members of Abraham’s children should be kept, the place
where resurrection will take place. In other words, Esau didn’t realize that he
was selling his soul to the world system, where there is no place for
resurrection to eternal life!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">This is why <i>Sha’ul</i>
explains that a child shall obey his parents. The Character of a person is
fashioned in his youth: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The verb used here gives us more details: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Strong’s # H 2102</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">זיד
זוּד</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">zûd</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> zîyd </span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">zood</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>zeed</i> written zayin, yod, daleth A primitive root; to <i>seethe</i>;
figuratively <b>to <i>be</i> <i>insolent</i></b><i>:
<b>- </b></i><b>be proud</b>, <b>deal proudly</b>, <b>presume</b>, (come) presumptuously, sod.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We see that there is more in <i>Ya’acov’s</i> action, remember that he is call <i>suplanter</i>. He will use this stew to take the birthright from his
brother by <b>deceit, ruse, or subterfuge</b>. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:31</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> but Yaʽaqoḇ said, “Sell me your
birthright today.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“<b>Birthright” Strong’s</b> # H 1062 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">בּכורה </span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">b<sup>e</sup>kôrâh</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> written Beth, Qof, vav, resh, He. </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">bek-o-raw',</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>bek-o-raw'
</i>Feminine of </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H1060</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">; the <i>firstling</i> of man or beast; abstractly <i>primogeniture:
- </i>birthright, firstborn (-ling).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“The firstling of man or beast” Esau in his carnal
appetite didn’t realized that his action will forever change his position, <b>for
him and his primogeniture</b>. A simple
act will transform his life forever. This didn’t happened in one day, for the
book of <i>Yasher </i>tells us that Esau was a deceitful since he was fifteen: </span></div>
</span><span style="font-size: large;">
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Col 3:20</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Children, obey your parents in
all things</b><i>: for this is well
pleasing unto YHWH. </i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ya’acov</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> was always with his father learning from him, not so for
<i>Esau</i> who was a man of the field.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><i>Esau was a </i><b>designing and deceitful man, one <u>who
hunted after the hearts of men</u> </b><i>and inveigled them, and Esau was a valiant man in the field, and in the
course of time<b> </b>went as usual to
hunt; and he came as far as the field of Seir, </i><b>the same is Edom</b>.<i> </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We
see here that the action of hunting is directly connected with deceiving people
<i>“hunted after the heart of men”</i>. <i>Esau</i> and his descendants are a group of
people who act like their ancestors to <i>hunt
the heart of men </i>in order to deceive them. Today this people are known by
the name <b><i>“Edomites”</i>. </b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:32</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and Ěsaw said, “Look, I am going
to die, so why should I have birthright?” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:33</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Then Yaʽaqoḇ said, “Swear to me
today.” And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Yaʽaqoḇ. Ya’acov</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> took the matter very seriously; the details from the
book of <i>Yasher</i> give us a better
understanding . </span></div>
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:28</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and (<b>Ya’acov blessings sevenfold): </b></span></i></div>
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Today it is more convenient for many people to incinerate
(cremate) their dead. If we look at the process of incineration the bodies are
burned to ashes and many times the ashes are scattered like for sea men in the
sea. This process is by fire, and fire is throughout scriptures many time
directly related to <b><i>judgment</i></b>! Can it be a resurrection for those who have been
incinerated? <i>Esau</i> is also called <b><i>Edom</i></b> and we can see the final state
of Edom
spoken by the prophets: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 32:29</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “There is Eḏom, her sovereigns and all her princes,
who <b>shall be given up</b> in their
might, with those slain by the sword. With the uncircumcised they lie, and with
those going <b>down to the Pit</b>. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Joe 3:19</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
“Mitsrayim shall become a ruin, and <b>Eḏom
a ruin</b>, a wilderness,</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Amo 1:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Thus said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, “For <b>three transgressions of Eḏom</b>, and for
four, I do not turn it back, because <b>he
pursued his brother with the sword</b>, and cast off all compassion. And his
displeasure tore incessantly, and he kept his wrath forever. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Oba 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>The vision of Oḇaḏyah: This is what the
Master </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">said <b>concerning Eḏom</b>. We have heard a report from </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, and a
messenger has been sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let us rise up
against her for battle!” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Oba 1:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
“In that day,” declares </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, “<b>I shall destroy the wise men from Eḏom</b>, and discernment from <b>the mountains of Ěsaw</b>! </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
If Eḏom says, “We have been beaten down, let us return and build the ruins,” </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts said thus: “Let them
build, but I tear down. And they shall be called ‘Border of Wrongness’, and <b>the people against whom </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><b><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is enraged forever</span></u></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We have seen here the fate of <i>Edom</i>. <i>Amos</i> tells us that
it is because he didn’t have compassion with his brother <i>Y’acov</i>. Compassion is the Hebrew word <i>“Racham”</i> meaning “love” in form of affection.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Let us read what <i>Shaul</i> write: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Co 13:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
and now belief, expectation, and love remain – these three. But <b>the greatest of these is love. </b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Co 13:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> love is <b>patient</b>,
is <b>kind</b>, love <b>does not envy</b>, love <b>does not
boast</b>, is <b>not puffed up, </b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Co 13:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>does not
behave indecently</b>, does <b>not seek its
own</b>, is <b>not provoked</b>, <b>reckons not the evil</b>, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Co 13:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
does <b>not rejoice over the
unrighteousness</b>, but <b>rejoices in the
truth</b>, </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Co
13:7</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> it <b>covers all</b>, <b>believes all</b>, <b>expects all</b>,
<b>endure all</b>. ..... </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Was <i>Esau</i> like what <i>Shaul</i>
write; how is it with us? </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 25:34</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Yaʽaqoḇ then gave Ěsaw bread
and stew of lentils. And he ate and drank, and rose up and left. <b>Thus Ěsaw despised his birthright</b>. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><b>By giving <i>Esau</i> the stew, and <i>Esau</i> accepting it, the “deal” was sealed forever. </b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">How many in the world act foolishly as Esau did, just
to fulfil their carnal appetite. Esau is
the perfect image of those today following the world in their appetite for
material, chasing after power and fame. As
descendants of <i>Ya’acov</i> physically or
spiritually, we should find in your heart appetite for spiritual matters,
trusting </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> to bring us to eternal life, the
inheritance which cannot be reached by man’s power. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa
49:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Those
who are trusting in their riches and who are boasting in their great wealth? </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa 49:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
<b>a brother does not redeem anyone at all</b>
neither gives to Elohim a ransom for him;
</span></i></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Chapter
26</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>and <b>there
was a scarcity (famine) of food in the land</b>, besides <b>the first scarcity (famine) of food</b> which was in the days of
Aḇraham. And Yitsḥaq went to Aḇimeleḵ, sovereign of the Philistines, in
Gerar. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ten famines can be counted
in the Torah, this was the second one. The last one is given us by the prophet
Amos: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Amo 8:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “See, days are coming,” declares the Master </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, “that I
shall send a hunger (famine) in the land, not a hunger(famine) for bread, nor a
thirst for water, but <b>for hearing the
Words of </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Amo 8:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And they shall wander from sea
to sea, and from north to east – they shall diligently search, seeking the Word
of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, <b>but they shall not </b></span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">find it</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Hebrew word used here
for “hunger” is the word” ra’ab” which mean to hunger as during a famine, a
lack of something. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Hos 8:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
“Since <b>Ephrayim has made many altars for
sin</b>, they have been altars for sinning to him. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Hos 8:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “I have written for him numerous matters of My Torah
– they were regarded as strange. </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Where is Ephraim today? </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:1</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and the
word of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><b><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">came to me, saying, </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “Son of man, <b>prophesy against the shepherds of Yisra’ĕl</b>,
prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus said the Master </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><b><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">to the shepherds, “Woe to the </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">shepherds<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> of Yisra’ĕl who have been
feeding themselves! <b>Should not the
shepherds feed the flock</b>? </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>See Jer. 10:21. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “You eat the fat and you put on
the wool. You slaughter the fatlings <b>–
you do not feed the flock. </b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “You have not strengthened the
weak, nor have you healed the sick, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back
the straying, nor sought what was lost; but you have ruled them with might and
harshness. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And <b>they were scattered because there was no shepherd</b>. And they became
food for all the beasts of the field when they were scattered. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “My sheep wandered through all
the mountains, and on every high hill. And <b>My
sheep were scattered <u>over all the face of the earth</u></b>, and no one was
seeking or searching for them.” </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> ‘Therefore, you shepherds, hear
the word of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">: </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “As I live,” declares the Master
</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, “because My flock became a prey,
and My flock became food for every beast of the field, from not having a
shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but <b>the shepherds fed themselves and did not
feed My flock,” </b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> therefore, O shepherds, hear the
word of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">! </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eze 34:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> ‘Thus said the Master </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, “See, I am
against the shepherds, and shall require My flock at their hand, and shall make
them cease feeding the sheep, and the shepherds shall feed themselves no more.
And I shall deliver My flock from their mouths, and they shall no longer be
food for them.” ……</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Is not what </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">says
quoting the prophet Ezekiel?</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mat 26:31</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Then </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> said to
them, “All of you shall stumble in Me this night, for it has been written, ‘I
shall strike the Shepherd, and the </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">sheep of the flock
shall be scattered.’<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Footnote:<sup>1</sup>Mk. 14:27, Zech. 13:7.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Zec 13:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
“O sword, awake against My Shepherd, against the Man who is My Companion,”
declares </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts. “Smite the Shepherd,
and let the sheep be scattered. But I shall turn My hand upon the little ones. </span></i></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">was
accusing the Pharisee to have neglected to feed </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">’s flock. The famine in <i>Yitshak’s</i> time is very interesting to
study and see what <i>Yitshak</i> was doing.
We all never forget to feed our natural
man, because it remind us when our stomach is empty, looking for food to
satisfy the flesh. Every day we drink water to satisfy the need of the body.
The spiritual man needs also the water of the word in order to be fed!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">This is why it is good to fast, in order to put the
flesh down and search for spiritual food.
</span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">says that
the last famine in the world will be the famine of hearing the Torah! …..</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
and </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">appeared to him and said, “Do not
go down to Mitsrayim, live in the land which I command you. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The word <i>Mitsrayim</i>, mostly translated with “Egypt” a world of oppression and
confinement. Jamieson, Fausset and
Brown give us following explanation: </span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And
there was a famine in the land ... And Isaac went unto ... Gerar</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> — The pressure of famine in Canaan forced Isaac with
his family and flocks to migrate into the land of the Philistines, where he was
exposed to personal danger, as his father had been on account of his wife’s
beauty; but through the seasonable interposition of Providence, he was
preserved (</span></i><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa_105:14</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,
</span></i><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa_105:15</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">). </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa 105:14</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> He allowed no one to oppress them, and He reproved
sovereigns for their sakes,</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa 105:15</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
Saying, “Do not touch My
anointed ones, And do My prophets no evil.” </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Matthew Henry</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> add: </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">If
God engage to be with us, and we are where he would have us to be, nothing <b>but our own unbelief and distrust can
prevent our comfort</b>. The obedience of Abraham to the Divine command, was
evidence of that faith..........</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “<b>Sojourn in this land. And I shall be with you and bless you, for I give
all these lands to you and your seed. </b>And I shall establish the oath which
I swore to Aḇraham your father. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yitshak</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
followed the way of his father, <i>Elohim</i>
had to <i>intervene</i> in order for him to
stay in the land </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">want to give to him and his descendants. In Hebrew
teaching of the tree of life, we learn that <i>Yitshak</i>
represent the side of strictness, the side of <i>“Gewurah”,</i> judgment. If we
go deeper we can see that <i>Shaul</i> says
that In <i>Yitshak</i> is the promise. He
was the sole of Abraham” son who didn’t went to “Egypt”.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And I shall increase your seed
like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed.
And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, “to your seed”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Hebrew word is Strong’s #
2233 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">זרע</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">zera</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">‛ written Zayin, resh, Ayin <b>BDB Definition: --- </b>1) seed, sowing,
offspring 1a) <b>a sowing</b> 1b) seed
1c) <b>semen virile</b> 1d)
offspring, descendants, posterity, children
1e) of moral quality. 1e1) a
practitioner of righteousness (figuratively) 1f) sowing time (by metonymy)</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Part of Speech:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> noun masculine. <b>A
Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number:</b> from </span><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H2232</span></u></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">If we refer to B’reshit chapter
one we found out: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 1:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
and Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the plant that yields seed,
and <b>the fruit tree that yields fruit
according to its kind, </b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">whose seed (zara) is in itself</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, on the earth.” And it came to be so. .....</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Hebrew word for seed used here is the same and
represent the semen which will bring fruits. Man in the scriptures is also
referred as “tree”. The semen of <i>Abraham,
Yitzak</i> and <i>Ya’acov</i> will bring blessing
to the all world through the nations. We know that later the children of Israel will be
scattered in the four corners of the earth.
Do you know how much idolatry is in the world today? I have been
watching reportage in India
and was shocked by the number of “gods” this country has. This is only one
example, the same is to be found in many place in Africa.
Don’t think that the other places in the world are free. In Europe
and US they follow after “mammon” the “god” of wealth which is in the hand of
the deceiver “<i>HaSatan</i>”. I remember
one day I was talking with a brother and told him that if he wanted to become
rich, he should have to worship <i>HaSatan</i>!
He was upset at me before I was finished. I don’t say that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is not able to make somebody rich, because he is. I say
that if somebody wishes to be rich at any price, he will have to worship <i>HaSatan</i>. If you don’t believe me, I will
show you according to the scriptures. Please do not make the error of the
Christians who look at the Torah only to try to give proof that our forefathers
were rich in material things. Yes this is true, but it is the mirror of the
spiritual condition of those today following Messiah. (Ephesian 1:3).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Now to show you what I pretend
let us look what <i>HaSatan</i> says: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:5</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>and the devil, taking him (Yeshua) up into
an high mountain, shewed unto him <b>all
the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. </b></i></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:6</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and
the devil said unto him, all this power will I give thee, and the glory of
them: for that is delivered unto me; and <b>to
whomsoever I will I give it</b>. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:7</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b><i><u>If thou therefore wilt worship me, all
shall be thine</u>. </i></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> answering him, said, “Get
behind Me, Satan! For it has been written, ‘You shall worship </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> your
Elohim, and Him only you shall serve.’ ” </span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> HaSatan</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> showed </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">the splendor of the world and the Kingdoms of the world.
Do you know that today as many as you can see that have tremendous riches they
all are part of an occult group, worshippers of <i>HaSatan</i> whom they called “Lucifer” the <i>“light bearer</i>”.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Just think why our forefathers
were so rich? Once again we have the natural for spiritual. Messiah was not yet
come and the people around our forefathers were idolaters. They increased their
wealth by making war. <i>Abraham</i> and all
our forefathers had great possession by </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">’s will to demonstrate His goodness
toward His people. Today riches are not a proof of <i>Elohim’s</i> presence in somebody’s life. Christians still believe this doctrine: pay
your tithe and “G-d” will bless you, if you don’t pay don’t be surprised if you
lack!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Can we empress <i>Elohim</i> with our money? Just read in the
next verse, what </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">says concerning <i>Abraham</i>
and look if he speaks from Money when He says that all nations will be blessed
through Yitshak’s seed! </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> because Aḇraham </span></i><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">obeyed My voice</span></u></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and </span></i><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">guarded My Charge</span></u></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">: </span></i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">My <b>commands</b></span></u><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, </span></i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">My <b>laws</b></span></u><i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,</span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and <u>My </u></span></i><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Toro</span></u></i></b><i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">t<sup>1</sup></span></u></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.” </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Torot
- plural of Torah, teaching </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Yitsḥaq dwelt in Gerar. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and when the men of the place
asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say,
“She is my wife,” thinking,
“lest the men of the place should kill me for Riḇqah, because she is
good-looking.” </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and it came to be, when he had
been there a long time, that Aḇimeleḵ (father of Kings) sovereign of the
Philistines looked through a window, and he watched and saw Yitsḥaq playing
with Riḇqah his wife. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> so Aḇimeleḵ called Yitsḥaq
and said, “See, truly she is your wife! So how could you say, ‘She is my
sister’?” And Yitsḥaq said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of
her.’ ” </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The word "guarded" in
verse 5 is the Hebrew word "shamar":</span></div>
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<span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">H8104 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">שָׁמַר</span><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="HE"> </span><b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">shamar</span></b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> (shaw-mar') </span><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">v</span><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">.</span></div>
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<b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">1. </span></b><b><i><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(properly)</span></i></b><b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard</span></b></div>
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<b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">2. </span></b><b><i><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(generally)</span></i></b><b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> to protect, attend to, etc</span></b></div>
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<span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">[a primitive root]</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The idea here is to handle the
word like a shepherd hedge is flock with thorn during night to protect them
from predators.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Lack of trust in </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, How is It with us, when do we lie
to hide something from our enemies forgetting to trust </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">! </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Aḇimeleḵ said, “What is
this you have done to us? One of the people had almost lain with your wife, and
you would have brought guilt on us.” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Aḇimeleḵ commanded all his
people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to
death.” </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Let us read to what happened to <i>Abimelech</i> before with <i>Abraham</i>: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 20:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Aḇraham said concerning Sarah his wife, “She is
my sister.” and Aḇimeleḵ sovereign of Gerar sent and took Sarah......</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We know that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">delivered Sarah from the hands from <i>Abimelech</i> and now he was warned not to repeat the same mistake.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And Yitsḥaq sowed in that land,
and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">reaped in the same year a
hundredfold</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, and </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">blessed him. ……………</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The hundred fold blessing is
taught by </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">in the parable of the sower: </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mar 4:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And other fell on good soil and yielded a crop that
came up, grew and yielded a crop, some thirtyfold, and some sixty, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and some a hundred</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.”</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mar 4:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and He said to them, “</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">He who has ears to hear,
let him hear!”</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">was explaining the different soil (heart) on which the
seed has been planted. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and the man (Itzkah) grew great
and went forward </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">until he became very great</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Can you see that it was </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">who prospered <i>Yitshak</i>.
Jealousy filled the heart of the Philistines that they envied him, stopped the
wells, filling them with dirt. This is a
picture of the world today trying to fill the spiritual wells from believers
with the dirt of the world because of envy, immorality, lies, sex, doctrines of
demons preached by false pastors, Wells
are a pictures of the place we get the spiritual <b><i>water of life</i></b>, the Torah.
The natural wells were places where they could water the flocks. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Isa 12:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “See, Ěl is my deliverance, <b>I trust</b> and am not afraid. For Yah, </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, is my
strength and my song; and He has become my deliverance.”</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Isa 12:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and you <b>shall draw water with joy from the wells of salvation</b>. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Isa 12:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and in that day you shall say,
“Praise </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, call upon His Name; make known His
deeds among the peoples, make mention that His Name is exalted. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Joh 4:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Yaʽaqoḇ’s fountain was there. So </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, being
wearied from the journey, was sitting thus at the well. It was about the sixth
hour. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Joh 4:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> a woman of Shomeron (Samaria) came <b>to draw water</b>. </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> said to her, “Give Me to drink.”</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Joh 4:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהושע</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> answered and said to her, “If you
knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you
would have asked Him, and </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">He would have given
you living water. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Jer 2:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
“For My people have done two evils: they have forsaken Me, <b>the fountain of </b></span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">living waters<sup>1</sup></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked
cisterns, which do not hold water</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Jer 17:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
O </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, the mikveh* (hope) of Yisra’ĕl,
all who forsake You are put to shame. “Those who depart from Me shall be
written in the earth, because they have forsaken </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, <b><u>the </u></b></span></i><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">fountain of living waters.”</span></u></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol";">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The
Hebrew word <i>“mikveh” </i>means also a
collection of water, in English also translated with <i>“baptism”......... </i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol";">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">In
the verse 13 from Yrmeyahu we can see the connection with Abraham who was the
friend of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה </span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "symbol";">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:14</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and he came to have possessions
of flocks and possessions of herds and a great body of servants, and <b>the Philistines envied him</b>. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:15</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and <b>the Philistines had stopped up all the wells</b> which his father’s
servants had dug in the days of Aḇraham his father, and <b>filled them with dirt</b>...</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:22</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and he moved from there and dug
another well, and they did not strive over it. And he called its name <b><u>Reḥoḇoth</u></b> (hebr: street plural,
<b><u>wide place</u></b>, avenue) and said,
<b>“For now </b></span></i><u><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span></u><u><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></u><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">has</span></u></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <u>made room</u></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for us, <b>and we shall bear fruit in the land.” </b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">To dig a well is connected with
bearing fruit.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Co 9:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for
food, shall supply and increase the seed you have sown and <b>increase the fruit of your righteousness, </b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:23</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and from there he went up to
Be’ĕrsheḇa. …… </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Be’ersheba</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">:
Strong’s # H884 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">בּאר שׁבע</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
be'êr sheba‛ written Beth,aleph,resh, shin,beth,ayin</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">BDB Definition: </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Beer-sheba = “<b>well
of the sevenfold oath</b>” 1) a city at
the south edge of Israel</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Part of Speech:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> noun proper locative
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:24</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and<b> </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">appeared to him</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> the same night and said, “I am
the Elohim of your father Aḇraham. Do not fear, for I am with you, and shall
bless you and increase your seed for My servant Aḇraham’s sake.” </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Does <i>Abraham</i>
saw <i>Elohim</i>? </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Joh 1:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
</span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">No one has ever seen Elohim</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The only brought-forth Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He did
declare. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Joh 5:37</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And the Father who sent Me, He bore witness of Me. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">You have neither heard His voice at any
time<b>, nor seen His form</b></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Ti 6:16</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable
light, <b>whom no one has seen or is able
to see,</b> to whom be respect and everlasting might. Amĕn. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:25</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and he built an altar there, and
called on the Name of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, and he pitched his tent there, and
the servants of Yitsḥaq dug a well there. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:26</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Aḇimeleḵ came to him from
Gerar, with Aḥuzzath, one of his friends, and Piḵol the commander of his
army. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:27</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Yitsḥaq said to them, “Why
have you come to me, seeing you have hated me and have sent me away from you?” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:28</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> but <b>they said, “We have clearly seen that </b></span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is with you</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. and we said, ‘Please, let there
be an oath between us, between you and us. And let us make a covenant with you,
</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Do people around you see that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is with you and how do they react? </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:29</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> that you do no evil to us, as we
have not touched you, and as we have done only good toward you, and have sent
you away in peace. You are now blessed by </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.’ ” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:30</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and <b>he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.</b> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:31</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and they rose early in the
morning and swore an oath with one another. And Yitsḥaq let them go, and they
departed from him in peace. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:32</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and on the same day it came to
be that the servants of Yitsḥaq came and informed him about the well which
they had dug, and <b>said to him, “We have
found water.” </b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">They found water, so they found
life for the flock and for themselves. How can we survive without water?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">How can we survive in this world
without the Torah and the presence of the <i>Ruach
HaQodesh</i> in our life? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">In this people around us will see
tat </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is with us, when they see the living water in us. --- </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:33</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> so he called it Shiḇah <b>(meaning seven</b>). Therefore the name of
the city is Be’ĕrsheḇa<b> (well of
sevenfold oath)</b> to this day. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:34</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and <b>when Ěsaw was forty years old</b>, he took as wives Yehuḏith the
daughter of Be’ĕri the Ḥittite, and Basemath the daughter of Ělon the
Ḥittite. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 26:35</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and <b>they were a bitterness of spirit to Yitsḥaq and Riḇqah</b>. ……….</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heth</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
the son of <i>Canaan</i>, the son of <i>Ham</i> the son of <i>Noach</i>!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Do you remember that <i>Noach </i>cursed <i>Canaan </i>and
his progenitors? …….. </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Chapter
27 </span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:1</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and it came to be, when <b>Yitsḥaq was old</b> and his eyes were too dim to see, that he called
Ěsaw his elder son and said to him, “My son.” And he answered him, “Here I am.”...</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:46</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And
Riḇqah said to Yitsḥaq, “I am disgusted with my life because of the daughters
of Ḥĕth. If Yaʽaqoḇ takes a wife from the daughters of Ḥĕth, like these who
are the daughters of the land, what is my life to me</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">?”</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></div>
</span><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> ----Elohim gives you of the dew of the
heavens, </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> --- -of the fatness of the earth, </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> --- -and plenty of grain and wine</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><i>...</i></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:29</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">- ---<b>let peoples
serve you,</b> <b>and nations bow down to
you. </b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">---</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">-<b>Be master over your brothers, </b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">----<b>and let your
mother’s sons bow down to you. </b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">--- </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">-<b>Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you!” </b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:30</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> ad it came to be, as soon as
Yitsḥaq had finished blessing Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yaʽaqoḇ had hardly left the
presence of Yitsḥaq his father, that Ěsaw his brother came in from his
hunting. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:31</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and he too had made a tasty dish
and brought it to his father, and said to his father, “Let my father rise and
eat of his son’s wild game, so that your being might bless me.” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:32</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and his father Yitsḥaq said to
him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">your first-born, Ěsaw.”</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:33</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Then Yitsḥaq trembled
exceedingly, and said, “Who was it then who hunted wild game and brought it to
me? And I ate all of it before you came, and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I have
blessed him. Yea, he is blessed</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> (No return!)</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Gen 27:34</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> When Ěsaw heard the words of his
father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his
father, “Bless me, me too, O my father!” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:35</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">he
(Esau) said, “<u>Your brother came with deceit</u> and took your blessing</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.”</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:36</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Ěsaw said, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“<u>Was his name, then, called
Yaʽaqoḇ?</u> For he has caught me by the heel these two times. He took my
birthright, and see, now he has taken my blessing</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">!” and he said, “Have you not
reserved a blessing for me?” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:37</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Then Yitsḥaq answered and said
to Ěsaw, “See<b>, </b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Question: Was it the faut of Ya'acov or the lack of interest for the firstborn right from <i>Esau</i>? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The word for "deceit"
in Hebrew is:</span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H4820 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">מִרמָה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">mirmah</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> (meer-maw') </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">n-f</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1. fraud</span></b></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">[from </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H7411</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> in the sense of deceiving]</span></div>
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<i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">KJV: craft, deceit(-ful, -fully),
false, feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery.</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H7411</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">H7411 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">רָמָה</span><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="HE"> </span><b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">ramah</span></b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> (raw-maw') </span><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">v</span><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">.</span></div>
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<b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">1. to hurl</span></b></div>
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<b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">2. specifically, to shoot</span></b></div>
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<b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">3. </span></b><b><i><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(figuratively)</span></i></b><b><span face=""tahoma" , "sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> to delude or betray (as if causing to fall)</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Esau blessing:</span></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I have
made him your master</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, and all his brothers I have
given to him as servants</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And I have sustained him with
grain and wine. And what, then, shall I do for you, my son?” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:38</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Ěsaw said to his father,
“Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me, me too, O my father!” And
Ěsaw lifted up his voice and wept. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:39</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and Yitsḥaq his father answered
and said to him, “</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">-</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">See, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">your dwelling is of the
fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the heavens from above (carnal life).</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:40</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> -</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and by your sword you are to
live</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, </span></i></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and serve your brother. </span></u></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">-</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And it
shall be, when you grow restless, that you shall break his yoke from your neck</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.”.... </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 27:41</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ěsaw
hated Yaʽaqoḇ because of the blessing with which his father blessed him,</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and </span></i><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ěsaw said in his heart</span></u></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, “The days of mourning for my
father draw near, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">then I am going to kill my
brother Yaʽaqoḇ.” </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Chastisement is the proof of
</b></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">’s interest in your life, don’t worry when you are chastised,
but endure with patience: </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The chapter 27 recalls the account of how <i>Yitzhak</i> got the blessing from <i>Esau</i> and left to go to <i>Paddan</i> <i>Aram</i> to the House of <i>Bethu’el</i>
to get a wife. There are many points in this chapter which have a deep
spiritual meaning. First of all we
should be amazed hat </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">does
not intervene as <i>Ribqah</i> tells <i>Ya’acov</i> to do what she say, knowing that
it is wrong to deceive. Many times in the Torah there are these kinds of
actions. Was </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">not able
to fulfil what he told <i>Ribqah</i> when
she was still bearing the kids in her womb? For sure he was. <i>Ya’acov</i>
mother say to him: <i>“let the curse be on
me”</i> verse 12. If we read the <i>book of
Yasher</i>, we will learn that <i>Ribqah</i>
never saw <i>Ya’acov</i> again after his
departure to <i>Paddan Aram</i>. <i>Ya’acov</i>
followed his mother counsel and got his father’s blessing. From now on <i>Ya’acov</i> way will not be easy, from his
brother who want to kill him up to his uncle who will try to abuse him ten
times, <b><i>Ya’acov</i> will learn how to put his soul upright before </b></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Are you wondering of what happen to you in your life?
Don’t worry because </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">chastise
those he loves</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa 94:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> blessed is the man You discipline (chastise), O Yah, and
instruct out of Your Torah, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa 94:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> To give him rest from the days of evil, until the pit
is dug for the wrong (wicked). </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Psa 94:14</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">does not leave His people, Nor
does He forsake His inheritance. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 12:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for whom </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">loves, He disciplines, and </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">flogs (chastise) every
son whom He receives.”</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 12:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
<b>If you endure discipline</b>, Elohim is
treating you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline? </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 12:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> But if you are without discipline, of which all have
become sharers, then you are illegitimate (bastard) and not sons. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 12:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Moreover, we indeed had fathers of our flesh
disciplining us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be subject
to the Father of spirits, and live? </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 12:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
for they indeed disciplined us for a few days as seemed best to them, but <b>He does it for our profit, so that we might
share His apartness</b>. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb 12:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and indeed, <b>no
discipline seems pleasant at the time, but grievous</b>, </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">but <b><u>afterward</u></b>
it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness <b>to those who have been trained by it</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">mother’s brother. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ěl Shaddai bless you, and make you bear fruit and
increase you, and you shall become an assembly of peoples</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
(qahal am)</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Th 1:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> so that we ourselves boast of you among the
assemblies of Elohim for your endurance and belief in </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">all your persecutions and
afflictions which you are bearing</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,
</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Th 1:5</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b><u>clear
evidence of the righteous judgment of Elohim, in order for you to be counted
worthy of the reign of Elohim, for which you also suffer</u></b>,........ </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">With this in mind we can read again Hebrew chapter 12</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Heb
12:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for whom
</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">loves, He disciplines, and </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">flogs every son whom
He receives.” ….. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Another comment from Nathan Lawrence: ---- </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Jacob paid a hard price for his trickery and deceit.
YHVH did not let him off the proverbial hook. Jacob received none of the
material inheritance of Isaac and had to start from scratch <b>under Laban, the taskmaster and a deceiver
himself. </b>Jacob came out a humbled and changed man. </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Are you
presently paying a dear price for your past mistakes? Are you “taking your
medicine” and learning your lessons well so that YHVH can mature and bless you
in the end? </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ya’acov
was abused by his uncle Laban as he also abused (supplanted) his brother Esau.
In Hebrew there is a word for that:” midah kneged midah” or “measure for
measure”. What Ya’acov did to Esau, Laban did with Ya’acov.<br />
No matter what call we ahev in our life, Yehowah will give us in a measure
according to what we have done.</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Chapter
28</span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:1</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
and Yitsḥaq called Yaʽaqoḇ and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to
him, “<b>Do not take a wife from the
daughters of Kenaʽan</b>.(son of Ham) ... </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yitshak</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
follow the teaching of his father Abraham</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Seir: </span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H8165 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">שֵׂעִיר</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Se`iyr</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> (say-eer') </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">n/p</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Many translations will give the word “multitude” for
“assembly”. If we look in the Hebrew text we will find the word <i>“ qahal”</i> an assembly; in Greek the word
is <i>Ekklesia</i>; falsely translated with
“church” instead of <i>“call out”, “assembly”</i>.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
and give you the blessing of Aḇraham, to you and your seed with you, so that
you inherit the land of your sojournings, </span></i><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">which Elohim gave to
Aḇraham</span></u></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> so Yitsḥaq sent Yaʽaqoḇ away, and he went to Paddan
Aram,
to Laḇan son of Bethu’ĕl the Aramean, the brother of Riḇqah, the mother of
Yaʽaqoḇ and Ěsaw. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ěsaw saw that Yitsḥaq had blessed Yaʽaqoḇ and
sent him away to Paddan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he
blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “Do not take a wife from the
daughters of Kenaʽan,”</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and that Yaʽaqoḇ had obeyed his father and his
mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
</span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> so </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ěsaw saw that the daughters of Kenaʽan did not
please his father Yitsḥaq</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,
</span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Gen 28:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and </span></i><b><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ěsaw went to Yishmaʽĕl and took Maḥalath the
daughter of Yishmaʽĕl</span></u></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,
Aḇraham’s son, the sister of Neḇayoth, to be his wife, besides the wives he
had. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Esau
is the man of the flesh following is animal instincts and will have no heritage
in </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">’s kingdom:</span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1. rough</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2. Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one
in Israel</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">From the root word:</span></b></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H8163 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">שָׂעִיר שָׂעִר</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">sa`iyr</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
(saw-eer') (or sabir {saw-eer'}) </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">adj</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1. shaggy</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2. as noun, a he-goat</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">3. by analogy, a faun</span></b></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">[from </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H8175</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">]</span></div>
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<i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">KJV: devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough,
satyr.</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Root(s): </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H8175</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">H8175 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">שָׂעַר</span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">sa`ar</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> (saw-ar') </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">v</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1. to storm</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2. <i>(by implication)</i> to
shiver, i.e. fear</span></b></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">[a primitive root]</span></div>
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<i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">KJV: be (horribly) afraid, fear,
hurl as a storm, be tempestuous, come like (take away as with) a whirlwind.</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1Co 15:50</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood is
unable to inherit the reign of Elohim, neither does corruption inherit
incorruption. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Are you concern with your children that they will not
take a wife or a husband outside the <i>Family
</i>which consist of members of the covenant, or do you let them go as I have
seen many times, after their fleshly desire? Deception many times comes from
the flesh when our carnal nature blind us from following </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> people living after the flesh will end up like Esau, even
trying to <i>copy </i>Ya’acov taking one
woman from <i>Hagar</i> forgetting that the
promise was in <i>Itzhak</i> and not in <i>Ishmael</i>. Go and talk with those
Christians and invite them to your Shabbat and to follow the Torah, you will
see their reactions, if they agree with you or will <i>accuse </i>you of <i>legalism </i>telling
you that you are <i>under curse</i> because
you follow the Torah. Sometime this experience is necessary for us to
understand that we cannot associate with those outside the Torah without
compromising and thus been in danger for our own life. Another important point
to be considered is that <i>Esau</i> trying
to please his parents went to get the daughter of <i>Ishamel, </i>thus making alliance with what we call today the <i>Muslim. </i><b>Knowing this fact will help
us today to understand some man made “coalition” between descendants from Esau
and from Ishamel (Arabs).</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">HAFTORAH</span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <i>The message of the word of </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">to Yisra’ĕl</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> by Mal’aḵi. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “I have loved you,” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span>. “But you
asked, ‘In what way have You loved us?’ “Was not Ěsaw Yaʽaqoḇ’s brother?”
declares </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span>. “</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And I
love Yaʽaqoḇ</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:3</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>but I have hated Ěsaw</b>, and <b>have laid waste his mountains and his
inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”</b></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> If </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Eḏom
(which is Esau) says</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “We have been beaten down, let
us return and build the ruins,” </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts said thus: “Let them
build, but </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">I tear down</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. And they shall be called
‘Border of Wrongness’, and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">the people against whom </span></b><i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is
enraged forever</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and your eyes shall see, and you
shall say, ‘Great is </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">beyond the border of Yisra’ĕl!’ </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “A son esteems his father, and a
servant his master. And if I am the Father, where is My esteem? And if I am a
Master, where is My fear? said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts to you priests who
despise My Name. But you asked, ‘In what way have we despised Your Name?’ </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">You
are presenting defiled food on My altar</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">But you asked, ‘In what way have
we defiled You?’ Because you say, ‘The table of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is despicable.’ </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And when </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">you
present the blind as a slaughtering</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, is it not evil? And when you
present </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">the lame and sick</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, is it not evil? Bring it then
to your governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you
favourably?” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts. </span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And now, entreat the face of Ěl
to show favour to us. This has been done by your hands. Would He show favour to
you?” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “Who among you who would shut
the doors, so that you would not kindle fire on My altar for naught? I have no
pleasure in you,” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts, “Nor do I accept an
offering from your hands. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “For from the rising of the sun,
even to its going down, My Name is great among nations and in every place
incense is presented to My Name, and a clean offering. For My Name is great
among nations,” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “But you are profaning Me, in
that you say, ‘The table of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is defiled, and its fruit, its food,
is despicable.’ </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And you said, ‘Oh, what
weariness!’ and you sneered at it,” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts. “And you brought in
plunder, and the lame, and the sick – thus you have brought in the offering!
Should I accept this from your hand?” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 1:14</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “But cursed be the deceiver who
has a male in his flock, and makes a vow, but is slaughtering to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">what is blemished. For I am a
great Sovereign,” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts, “and My Name is feared
among nations. </span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The prophet <i>Malachi</i>
speaks of <i>Ya’acov</i> and <i>Edom</i> to make the difference between the
right and wrong behave before <i>Elohim</i>.
He makes the relation with the priest in the second chapter who were acting
wickedly with </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span>’s people. <i>Esau </i>will never success against <i>Ya’acov,</i>
his judgment is already proclaimed! This is the book used by many “teachers” to
explain that if we don’t pat tithe we are robbing <i>Elohim</i>. In the <i>Parasha</i>
concerning tithe we are going to see that this doctrine is based on lack of
knowledge and understanding. This is
dangerous and brings people in bondage, using the name of <i>Elohim</i>. The second chapter shows clearly that </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is
talking to the priest, the <i>Levite</i>
only and nobody else if we keep going we will see that it goes to the end of
the book from Malachi. The <i>Levites</i> were under the <i>Levitical</i> priesthood, which is no more
today, and were serving in the Tabernacle later in the Temple, both having been removed…………</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 2:1</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “</span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And now, O priests, this command is for you</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 2:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to
heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts, “I shall send a curse
upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed them,
because you do not take it to heart. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 2:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “See, I shall rebuke your seed,
and scatter dung before your faces, the dung of your festivals. And you shall
be taken away with it. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 2:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “And you shall know that I have
sent this command to you, as being My covenant with Lĕwi,” said </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 2:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “My covenant with him was life
and peace, and I gave them to him, to fear. And he feared Me, and stood in awe
of My Name. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 2:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “The Torah of </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">truth<sup>1</sup></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> was in his mouth, and
unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and
straightness, and turned many away from crookedness. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Neh.
9:13.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Mal 2:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">For
the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his
mouth, for he is the messenger of </span><i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span></i><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of hosts</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">. …… </span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Shaul</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
makes the difference in <i>Abraham</i>
descendants because only <i>Yitshak</i> seed
shall be called. The children of the flesh! Who are they? <i>Abraham</i>
got <i>Ishmael</i> by following what his
wife <i>Sarah</i> was telling him; to take <i>Hagar</i> her servant, because she sought
that she was not able to bear a child anymore. She reacted after the flesh and
so <b><i>Ishamel</i>
was the son after the flesh</b>! “At this time I shall come and Sarah shall
have a son”. This was <i>Yitshak, </i>the
son of the promise. <i>Shaul</i> goes further by telling that the promise is in <i>Ya’acov</i> and not in Esau by Him who calls
“Ya’acov I have loved, but Esau I have hated”…. </span></div>
<b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:6</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> However, it is not as though
the word of Elohim has failed. For </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">they
are not all Yisra’ĕl who are of Yisra’ĕl, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:7</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">neither are they all children because they
are the seed of Aḇraham, but</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, “<b><u>In
Yitsḥaq your seed shall be called.”</u></b></span><b><i><u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></u></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:8</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the
children of Elohim</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">, <b>but
the children of the promise are reckoned as the seed.</b></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> for this is the word of promise, “At this time I shall come and Sarah
shall have a son.” </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and not only so, but Riḇqah
having conceived by one, our father Yitsḥaq. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> yet, before they were born or had done any good or evil – in order that
the purpose of Elohim, according to choice, might stand, not of works but of
Him who calls – </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> it was said to her, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“The
greater shall serve the lesser,”</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rom 9:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> as it has been written, “Yaʽaqoḇ I have loved, but Ěsaw I have hated.”
....Sha’ul</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> make it clear only the
descendants from <i>Itzhak</i> and from <i>Ya’acov</i> are Israel excluded are the descendants
from <i>Ishmael</i> and from <i>Esau</i>. Today you can see the Muslim claiming to be
children of Abraham who is true for the Arabs, they go so far as to teach that <i>Abraham</i> took <i>Ishmael</i> and brought him as sacrifice to <i>Allah</i>! This is the reason of the <i>Alijah feast</i> when they slaughter lambs to share with those who have
not money. Do not forget that salvation has appeared to all men, and that
everyone can be saved and joined to <i>Israel</i>
through <i>Messiah Yeshua</i>! <i>May </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">bless you all through Yeshua, as you follow his steps and walk in the
light of the Torah.</span></i></span><br />
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Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-84354975730178296422018-09-19T04:05:00.000-07:002018-09-19T04:05:18.481-07:00YOM KIPPUR THE DAY OF ATTONEMENT. <div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b>Midrash Yom Kippur</b></div>
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<b>Daniel ben Ya’acov Israel</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 10:1</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>For the Torah, having a shadow of the good </b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>matters</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>to come</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>offerings</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">which they offer continually year by year. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yom Kippur is a special appointed “Moed” time, during the fall feast. It is significant not only for believers but for the all world, by this I mean the nations of the world.</span></div>
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As I was listening to the radio, the speaker was speaking with an alarming voice concerning the crash in the “bank world”.</div>
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It came to my mind a strange but lasting thought. It was just before Yom Teruah and this crisis increases since this first day.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">I began to meditate on the meaning of Yom Kippur and the return of our Master Yehoshua HaMoschiach. I pray and asked Father Yehowah for insight and understanding in this matter.</span></div>
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Today I am convinced that this is the beginning of a time of trouble for the all world.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement! Atonement for those who are in Moschiach, and under His blood, waiting for the final redemption which will be the redemption of our body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Eph 5:23</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Because the husband is head of the wife, as also </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the Messiah</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">is head of the assembly, and </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>He is Saviour of the body</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The body is again a double meaning: The body as our personal abode and the body which is the Assembly of the believers.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yom Kippur this is the day when the “Great Trump” will be sounded, the day after the great tribulation, when Yehoshua will gather His servants from the four corners of the earth:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat 24:29</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">“And immediately after the distress</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">1</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars* shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. Footnote:</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">1</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Or</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>pressure</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="24.31.35"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #228855;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>Jer 31:35</b></u></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Thus said </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Ezra SIL;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the laws of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, and its waves roar – </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Ezra SIL;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB">of hosts is His Name:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="24.31.36"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="24_31_36"></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: #228855;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>Jer 31:36</b></u></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u></u></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB">“</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>If these laws vanish from before Me,</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB">” declares </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Ezra SIL;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">יהוה</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, “t</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>hen the seed of Yisra’ěl shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.”</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #292f33;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>he sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light, and the stars* shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Mat 24:30 “And then the sign of the Son of Aḏam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Aḏam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Mat 24:31 “And He shall send His messengers with a</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>great sound of a trumpet</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">We see verse 31 that after the tribulation (verse 29) the sound of a trumpet will be heard. This is the Trump which will announce the gathering of the chosen ones </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>and</b></span><span lang="en-GB">the judgment of the nations.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Can we found confirmation in the Torah to make sure that we don’t make our own doctrine?<br /><br />I was reading and studying the Torah in the 2007 cycle when I came to the Parsha “Noach”. This time praise be to Elohim of Israel, I got something wonderful.<br />The peshat text gives us the account of Noach and his family; how they got “saved” by favour of Elohim.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">If we dig a bit in the “sod”, we can see wonderful revelation.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">We should go to check the Hebrew words to be able to see that there is no coincidence with Abba Yehowah.</span></div>
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The word for “pitch” is the Hebrew word</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Strong’s #3722 Kaphar </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL">כּפר</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">kâphar</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>kaw-far'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">A primitive root; to </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>cover</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(specifically with bitumen); figuratively to </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>expiate</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">or </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>condone</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, to </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>placate</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">or </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>cancel: - </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">appease,</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>make (an) atonement</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>pardon</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, to pitch, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>purge (away)</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, put off, (make) </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>reconcile</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(-liation).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">If we go the book of Vayiqra chapter 16 we read about the Yom Kippur sacrifice which is for the High Priest and for the children of Israel (carnal man).</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The Hebrew word for atonement in the sacrifices, not only for this chapter is the word</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>“Kaphar”.</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><br />Now let us look the meaning and the connection between:</span></div>
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Yom Kippur and the other sacrifices</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Noach was informed by Yehowah that he will destroyed the inhabitants of the world because of their wickedness. Noach was commanded to build an Ark and to enter it with his family because he was found righteous before Elohim.</span></div>
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Euphemism and explanation:</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The Ark is a picture of Yehoshua HaMoschia, we are in Him (Yehoshua) because we have found favour before Elohim as we accepted the sacrifice Yehoshua underwent for us. </span></div>
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Noach was in the Ark and was saved from the destruction.</div>
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The water from the flood is a picture of the Torah.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Eph 5:26</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">in order to set it apart and cleanse it with </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>the washing of water by the Word</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>,</b></i></span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>1</b></i></span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b></b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Footnote:</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">1</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Rev. 19:8-9.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Torah is the judge of all men</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joh 12:48</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">“He who rejects Me, and does not receive My Words, has one who judges him: </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the Word</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">that I have spoken shall judge him in the last day.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">In the day of Noach as I have explained before in another midrash, the “Tanak” (scriptures) is a progressive revelation and open itself when we seek.</span></div>
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Noach is a prototype of a believer today. </div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The water which carries the ark is a type of Torah which carries believers through the trials of life.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">- The Torah bring believers to salvation when they are in Yehoshua HaMoschiach</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">- The water destroyed the life of the wicked when it covered the all world.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">- The Torah, represented by the water in the time of Noach will be the final judgement of the wicked who will be destroyed for their rejection of the truth.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">- Two kinds of animals in the Ark: </span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">An euphemism for the house of Israel seven by pair represented by the clean animals, and the nations represented by the unclean animals, two by two. Two been the number for division which is a demonstration that unity will never be possible in the pagan world.</span></div>
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Now let us go back to the construction of the Ark.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><br />Yehowah informed Noach to “pitch” the ark, within and without.<br />We have seen that the Hebrew word used here is the same word used for “atonement”. The ark was able to endure the destruction of the life on earth because it was “covered” and those inside where under this protection, expiation, annulation, or forgiveness.</span></div>
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Pitched inside ( the soul) and outside (the body).</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen 8:4</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">And in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. </span></span></div>
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The deluge was finished in the seventh month, which is the month of Yom Kippur! Is that a coincidence? No! I don’t think.</div>
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He staid in the ark until the Tenth month! Ten in Hebrew teaching is the number for perfection of all sums.</div>
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Artur W.Pink in his commentary explain that the number ten is also the number of man tied to the ten commandments. In Hebrew it is also the number for a congregation called a”myniam”</div>
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Seven is the number for Divine perfection on earth and Five for Torah and mercy.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (covering, expiation, pardon, cancel, appease, (reconcile) is found for us in Yehoshua who is our “ark” the one who “carry” us through the storm of life. He covered us with His blood until our mortal body, the one which decease like the ark, will be made immortal at the resurrection.</span></div>
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There is more to see in Noach “salvation”</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Gen 6:14</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Make</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H6213</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">thee an ark</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H8392</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">of gopher</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H1613</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">wood;</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H6086</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">rooms</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H7064</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">shalt thou make</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H6213 (H853)</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">in the ark,</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H8392</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">and shalt pitch</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H3722</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">it within</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H4480 H1004</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">and without</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H4480 H2351</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">with pitch.</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H3724</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span></div>
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“<span lang="en-GB">make thee and ark……… </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>rooms shall thou make in the ark</b></span><span lang="en-GB">.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">This is very interesting when we read what Yehoshua says to his Talmidin:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joh 14:2</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">in my Father's house are many mansions: if </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>it were</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">not </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>so,</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua says: “in my Father’s house are many mansions (rooms, or abode). Can you see the relation between Noach’s ark and Yehoshua speaking to his disciples? The rooms are not physical in Yehoshua’s midrash.<br />I have explained before in another place that the Torah is so important because it tells us about the physical redemption of our forefathers and also it represent the “carnal man ‘in each of us:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Co 15:44</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Co 15:45</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">and so it has been written, “The first man Aḏam became a living being,” the last Aḏam a life-giving Spirit. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The first man: Our forefathers were living “under” the first Adam nature the carnal man. We are living “under “the last Adam Yehoshua HaMoschiach the life giving spirit. Can you see?</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Therefore as we read the Torah we should always see our carnal nature in what happened to our forefathers. All those above twenty who left Egypt were destroyed, because of unbelief, as it is written somewhere in the book of Hebrew. </span></div>
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More about Yom Kippur:</div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><b>Money for atonement was required</b></span><span lang="en-GB">: Sh’mot (Exodus 30:11-16)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Exo 30:12</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“When you take the census of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to register them, then each one shall give an </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>atonement (Kopher </b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="he-IL">כּוֹפֶר</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>)* for his life</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>, when you register them, so that there is no plague among them when you register them. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo 30:13 “Everyone among those who are registered is to give this: half a sheqel according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, twenty gĕrahs being a sheqel. The half-sheqel is the contribution to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo 30:14 “Everyone passing over to be registered, from twenty years old and above, gives a contribution to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo 30:15 “The rich does not give more and the poor does not give less than half a sheqel, when you give a contribution to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>, to make atonement for yourselves.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Exo 30:16 “And you shall take the silver for </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>the atonement</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>(Kippur</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span lang="he-IL">כִּפּוּר</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>)</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>from the children of Yisra’ĕl, and give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. And it shall be to the children of Yisra’ĕl for a remembrance before </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>to make atonement (</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL">כָּפַר</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>kaphar</b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>)</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>for yourselves.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Something amazed me which is not visible in the English language or other languages:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Ve have three time the word "atonement" verse12,and 16 with no difference in English, not so in Hebrew where we have the word "Kaphar" written Kaf, Peh, resh, while the two others words</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>"Kopher"</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">and </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>"Kippur"</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">have a "vav" add in two different places.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">The letter "vav" in ancient-Hebrew, the form of writing used in Moshe's time was: </span></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">a picture of a tent peg. The tent pegs were made of wood and may have been Y-shaped to prevent the rope from slipping off.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">As the pictograph indicates, this letter represents a peg or hook, which is used for securing something. The meaning of this letter is to add or secure. (Jeff Benner, Anciennt-Hebrew.org)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">The letter Kaph is </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">, the meanings of this letter are bend and curve from the shape of the palm as well as </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>to tame or subdue as</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>one who has been bent to another's will</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The letter Peh is </span><span lang="en-US"></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">The Semitic word "pey" means </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>a "mouth",</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">this pictograph closely resembles </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>a mouth</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">and is similar to the later Semitic letters for the letter "pey".</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">This pictograph has the meanings of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>speak and blow</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">from the functions of the mouth as well as the edge of something, as the lips are at the edge of the mouth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">The letter </span></span><span lang="en-US">*</span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">the head of a man. This letter has the meanings of head or man as well as chief, top, beginning or first.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">*All pictographs and explanation are from Jeff Benner, Ancient-Hebrew.org</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The word "Kaphar" according to the pictographs can mean:" I am the head and with my mouth I will subdue". By adding the letter "vav" we can add the meaning of "secure" of what my mouth as said!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">You may say, "brother Daniel where do you get all these meanings"? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Is not Yehowah who say:</span></span><span lang="en-US"></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Yeshayahu 49:</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span lang="en"><b>16</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">Behold, I have graven thee upon the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><u><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">palm</span></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">s of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Look is not Yehowah who says"I am the beginning and the End", the Alef and the Tav!</span></span><span lang="en-US"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Is not Elohim who speak: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Yeshayahu 46:9</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Remember the former things of old: for I am El, and there is none else; I am Elohim, and there is none like me,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>10</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">And why the "vav" </span></span><span lang="en-US">? Is not Moschiach Yeshua who secures our salvation and stand as our propitiation before our Father in heaven? </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></div>
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I would like to add a commentary I read from Nathan Lawrence from Hoshana Rabbah concerning atonement and the half shekel</div>
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<span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">Nathan Lawrence ask the question, in brackets ( ) my comments:</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Do these passages in the Torah imply that YHVH grants man absolution based on something other than the shedding of blood, and by logical extension, does this call into question our redemption from sin through our faith in Yeshua the Messiah’s blood atonement?</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>In the Apostolic Scriptures (New Testament(Brit Chadasha)), there is no question that when the concept of </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>atonement</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>(i.e., to make ransom for or to cover over man’s sins) is presented it is related to the blood of Yeshua/Yehoshua, the Lamb of YHVH, being shed for the remission of man’s sins, which is the means through which reconciliation between Elohim and man occurs. In the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament/Tanak), however, the idea of atonement is somewhat broader and at times more generalized in scope. Herein lies the confusion and the misconceived disparity between the Former (Old) and Latter (New) Testaments/Covenant. Are they in opposition to one another, or is the latter the logical outgrowth of the former and compliments or elucidates the former?</i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>When sin occurs, a price must be paid. The sinner must give something of value to the one sinned against as a penalty for breaking the laws or dictates of the superior authority or lawgiver. This is how justice is maintained in the universe. The same system holds true in secular societies. Governments establish laws by which its citizens are governed. When those laws are violated, the governing body exacts a penalty against the offender (e.g., community service, a fine, a prison sentence, or even death). Biblically, where atonement was involved, humans had to pay or give something. </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>In the Torah, there are examples of men buying themselves temporary covering for sins committed by sacrificing animals, giving offerings and oblations, making interceding prayers, paying a half-shekel in support of the Temple sacrificial system, negating themselves by repentance and humbly looking upon a brazen snake on a pole, or by burning incense, which is symbolic of the prayers of YHVH’s people (Rev. 8:4). But in the long term, an intercessory prayer, the paying of a half shekel </i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(see Exod.30:12-16 above)</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>, the waving of incense, the giving of war booty, etc. was not sufficient to ransom a man’s soul from the grip of eternal death. Even the innocent animals sacrificed under the Levitical system were in themselves powerless to do this. Since the soul that sins shall die (Ezek. 18:4) and all humans have sinned, or violated the Torah-law of YHVH and all were conceived in sin (Ps. 14:1-3; 51:5; Jer. 17:9; </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>The death of some innocent animal and the shedding of its blood was the very basis of the sacrificial and atonement system in the Torah. And this all pointed to Yeshua/Yehoshua the Redeemer who would die once and for all for all men (Heb. 10:10).</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Job/Yov knew that he needed a Redeemer (Job 19:25). David also knew that animal sacrifices could not redeem man in the ultimate sense nor could a man redeem another man. He knew that the price of man’s redemption was costly (Ps. 49:7-8 </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Psa 49:7 A brother does not redeem anyone at all, Neither give to Elohim a ransom for him;</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Psa 49:8 for the redemption of their lives is costly, And it shall cease forever</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>) and this led him to the conclusion that only Elohim could redeem man from the power of the grave through bodily resurrection </i></span><span lang="en-GB">(</span><span lang="en-GB"><i></i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Psa 49:15 But Elohim does redeem my being From the power of the grave, For He does receive me. </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Selah)</span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></div>
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<i>Isaiah spoke of one who would take man’s sins upon himself making his soul an offering for sin (Isa. 53:10). Jacob historically and prophetically spoke of his Redeemer who redeemed him from “all evil” (Gen. 48:16) and related it to the Messenger of YHVH (Gen. 31:11-13). </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>So why do some scriptures seem to speak of a bloodless atonement? The atonement for the soul mentioned in Numbers 31:50 </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">“So we have brought an offering for </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">, what every man found of ornaments of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>(</i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">In the Roman Catholic doctrine, people pay money to the priest when somebody dies in order that he “intercede” for the death, and so make him able to “go to heaven”. Of course death will not see the resurrection before Messiah comes back, either for the first resurrection to reign with Messiah or for the second resurrection for judgment. Money given to the priest cannot affect man’s destiny)</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>was but a temporary spiritual bandaid in a specific time and situation for certain individuals. The mention of atonement in these verses is a subset of the greater concept of atonement as presented in the Hebrew Scriptures. But beyond that, the portion of the war booty the Israelites paid to make atonement for their lives went directly to the priests who used it to fund the Tabernacle sacrificial system (Num. 31:54). Therefore, through the war booty, Israel was helping to purchase animals for sacrifice. So, their donation of war booty was directly tied to sacrificial system, which involved the shedding of blood for expiatory purposes.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Another Torah passage that seems to suggest the possibility of a bloodless atonement is Exodus 30:11–16 </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(as we have seen above).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>(Exo 30:11</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">and </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">spoke to Mosheh, saying, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Exo 30:12 “When you take the census of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to register them, then each one shall give an atonement for his life to</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">, when you register them, so that there is no plague among them when you register them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Exo 30:13 “Everyone among those who are registered is to give this: half a sheqel according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, twenty gĕrahs being a sheqel. The half-sheqel is the contribution to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Exo 30:14 “Everyone passing over to be registered, from twenty years old and above, gives a contribution to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Exo 30:15 “The rich does not give more and the poor does not give less than half a sheqel, when you give a contribution to </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">, to make atonement for yourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Exo 30:16 “And you shall take the silver for the atonement from the children of Yisra’ĕl, and give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. And it shall be to the children of Yisra’ĕl for a remembrance before </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="ar-SA"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">, to make atonement for yourselves.”)</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Where the Israelites were instructed to pay a half-shekel, which during the Second Temple became an annual Temple tax (Neh. 10:32; Matt. 17:24). This money went, in part, toward, the service (verse 16) and constructing of the Tabernacle of Moses (e.g., </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the OT, </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Vol. 1, p. 459; Exod. 38:21–31) and later toward the purchase of the animals the priests sacrificed (</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The Temple and Its Service</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>, by Alfred Edersheim, p. 48). In this way, the people were participating vicariously in the act of sacrificing an innocent animal as an offering or atonement for their sins. Again, the Scriptures reveal that this sacrificial system merely pointed the way to the Greater Sacrifice that would come later in the Person of Yeshua, the Redeemer of Israel (Read Isa. 53.). On the point that paying the half-shekel was a merely a temporary solution to the problem of man’s sin, Keil and Delitzsch say in their commentary on this passage,</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>As expiation [atonement] for souls, it pointed to the unholiness of Israel’s nature, and reminded the people continually, that by nature it was alienated from God, and could only remain in covenant with YHWH and live in His kingdom on the ground of His grace, which covered its sin (</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Ibid</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>.)</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>.</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Keil and Delitzsch’s point is further strengthened in Exodus 30:16, which says,</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>And you shall take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>memorial</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>unto the children of Israel before YHVH, to make atonement for your souls. (emphasis added)</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The giving of the half-shekel was </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>a memorial </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to what? The Hebrew word for </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>memorial</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>is “</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>zikrown”</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Strong’s</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>H2146) meaning </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>reminder, token, record</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>. According to the </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>TWOT</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>, a “</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>zikrown”</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>is an object or act which brings something else to mind or which represents something else. As used in Scripture, it may be a reminder of a historical fact or event, or it may remind a person of their Creator. </b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>How was the giving of the half-shekel a memorial for the Children of Israel? First, it reminded them of their sinfulness, of the fact that their sin would cost them something, and that the silver they paid for their sin would be used to purchase an innocent lamb, bull or goat to be sacrificed on their behalf. They furthermore could not escape the fact that sin was ever with them and that no matter how they tried not to sin, they still sinned, and they had to pay a price or penalty for that sin, and there was no escaping this vicious cycle. Something had to be done for man to break him out of this place of no escape. </b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Only YHVH, the Lawgiver and Judge had the power and authority to find a permanent solution. Man did not have the power to redeem himself (Psalm 49:7,15), or to grant himself clemency from his sin, or to change his heart so that he would not sin. Therefore, among those who were earnestly endeavouring to walk in righteousness, to live without sinning, the paying of the half-shekel doubtless was a constant reminder or memorial of their helplessness, and of their need of help from above. In retrospect, we now know that that help came in the person of the Messiah, Redeemer of Israel. Prior to this, Isaiah prophesied that the “Arm of YHVH” (Isa. 53:1) would be extended toward sinful man in the personage of a messianic figure who would come to earth and redeem man from sin through his own sacrificial death (e.g., Isa. 53, entire chapter). </b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Long before the prophets of Israel penned their scrolls, Job/Yov, one of the most ancient figures in Scripture and whose name is on what is thought by many to be the oldest book in the Bible, knew that sacrificing animals could not permanently atone for man’s sin. Though he made sacrifices for him and his children (Job 1:5), he came to the place of crying out to YHVH for a permanent solution to the high cost of sin, when he declared in Job 19:24–27,</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see Eloah, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me.</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Yeshua/Yehoshua the Messiah and Redeemer of Israel is the only one who has fulfilled this prophecy in the entire history of the people of Israel. The half-shekel the Israelites paid along with the daily sacrifices reminded them of their perpetual sinfulness and of their need for a permanent Redeemer who would once and for all atone for their sins and free them from the penalty, guilt and grip of sin. That person was Yeshua/Yehoshua.</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Let’s continue exploring some other aspects of the half-shekel as it relates to the subject of atonement.</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Beyond Israel’s contribution toward the construction and upkeep of the sacrificial system that the paying of the half-shekel afforded, we need to ask, as does Arthur W. Pink in his commentary on Exodus 30:11–15, why does the Torah place the command about the half-shekel between the instructions for building the Golden Altar (Exod. 30:1–10) of Incense and the Bronze Laver (Exod. 30:17-21)? Furthermore, he asks what was the significance of the amount of silver given, why was this tax levied on those twenty years of age and older, what is the link between the census of Israel and Israel’s paying of the Temple tax, why was it paid annually and what do all these things have to do with atonement or ransom for their souls? Additionally, doesn’t Scripture tell us that the Israelites had already been redeemed at the Red Sea (Exod. 15:13)? If so, why did they need to be redeemed again (</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Gleanings in Exodus</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>, p. 289ff)? Understanding the answers to this question will perhaps help us to understand the deeper purpose of the half-shekel, its prophetic implication and how paying it made atonement for their souls. </b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>To answer these questions, we need to first understand that, in Hebraic thought, redemption is not a one-time event that happens at the beginning of one’s spiritual journey as one comes into relationship with the Elohim of Israel. Redemption or salvation in the typical Christian paradigm is viewed as a one-time event that happens when one “gets saved” or is “born again.” This is not the Hebraic or biblical model. Redemption or salvation is more than </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>an event</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>, it is </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>a process</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>. It is true that one is </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>initially</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>saved at the beginning of one’s conversion </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>from</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the kingdom of spiritual darkness </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the kingdom of Elohim’s light, but Scripture teaches us that redemption is </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>also</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>a life-long and ongoing process, and that there is even a </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>future</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>redemption. Redemption in the future will culminate in what is known in Hebraic thought as “The Final Redemption” when captive and scattered Israel will be liberated and returned to the land of its promised inheritance, when the resurrection of the righteous dead will occur, when Messiah will defeat all of Israel’s enemies and will rule the earth from Jerusalem. The Apostolic Scriptures reveal that after this occurs, the resurrected and glorified Qedoshim (Saints) will rule as kings and priests under the kingship of Messiah Yeshua.</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">I explained in another Midrash the four steps of redemption as it is written in the Torah and confirm what Nathan Lawrence write:</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Exo 6:6 “Say, therefore, to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">, and </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">, and </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>shall deliver you from their enslaving</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">, and </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>shall redeem you</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">Exo 6:7 and</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>shall take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">. And you shall know that I am </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">your Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites:</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Passover</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">I shall deliver you from their enslaving: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Giving of the Ruach HaQodesh to follow the Torah (Shavuot)</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">and shall deliver you: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>This is Yom Kippur when Messiah will come back to establish Yehowah’ Kingdom and judge the nations.</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">and shall take you as My People and I shall be your Elohim. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>This corresponds to the last great day of the Feats of Tabernacle, pointing to the Olam aba, eternal life.)</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>The next thing that we need to understand is this: The Tabernacle of Moses was a prophetic picture of this past-present-future redemptive process. What Israel did with respect to the Tabernacle is the spiritual model or pattern that all Believers in the Elohim of Israel must follow to have a spiritual relationship with Elohim.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(The tabernacle is also a picture of Yehowah’s Kingdom in this world and how Yehowah through the building 'details of the tabernacle unveil what He is about to do. See the midrash on the Tabernacle)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Now with these things in mind, let’s answer the questions we asked earlier about the relevance of the half-shekel and how Israel’s paying it served to atone for their souls.</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Israel’s sins were atoned for at their first Passover in Egypt, which was the first step in the process of redemption. This initial process culminated in Israel’s baptism in the waters of the Red Sea (Exod. 15:13). This is a prophetic picture of the Believer being baptized for the remission of sins (Mark 16:15–16 and Acts 2:37–41 cp 1Cor. 10:2). This initial process is modelled in the Tabernacle of Moses. The Altar of the Red Heifer, which stood just outside the Tabernacle, modelled the Passover lamb whose blood was smeared on the Israelites’ doors. It was a picture of atonement being made at the</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>beginning</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>of one’s spiritual walk with the Elohim of Israel. Nothing sinful or unclean (unatoned for or unredeemed) could enter the Tabernacle. In the future, Yeshua/Yehoshua, the Redeemer of Israel—of which the red heifer was a prophetic type, would be crucified outside the walls of Jerusalem (Heb. 9:11–14 and 13:8–13) fulfilling the prophetic shadow-picture of the red heifer. Once a priest or individual was spiritually or ritually purified by the ashes of the red heifer, the priest (or individual, hypothetically) was allowed to enter the Tabernacle to minister to and enter into spiritual relationship with the Elohim of Israel. Once inside, the priest (or individual, hypothetically or in a spiritual sense) would first come to the Altar of Sacrifice—a picture of the Passover meal. This altar reminds us of the fact that even after </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>initial</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>redemption (at the Altar of the Red Heifer), we are still mortal sin-prone beings. We will sin again and will still need the atoning grace and mercy of the Elohim of Israel as we progress along our spiritual journey. It was on this altar that the continual twice daily offerings were made. The purpose of these sacrifices was to atone for Israel’s sins that she would commit </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>after</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>her initial atonement and redemption at the Passover in Egypt and at Red Sea.</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Next, one would come to the Bronze Laver, which is a picture of spiritual cleansing. It was here that the priests washed their hands and feet daily before ministering to YHVH. This not only speaks of initial immersion for the remission of sins, but ongoing cleansing of our actions (hands) and direction/walks (feet) by the water of YHVH’s Word (Eph. 5:26 cp. Heb. 10:22) and by his Spirit (Tit. 3:5), which the Gospel and Book of Acts accounts show often came upon man at the time of water baptism.</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Now, why is the passage in Exodus 30 about the half-shekel positioned between the Scriptures that command the construction of the Bronze Laver and the Altar of Incense, which sat in front of the veil to the Holy of Holies—the inner most part of the Tabernacle’s sanctuary? It was at the Altar of Incense that the deepest worship of Elohim occurred. This is a picture of the Saints’ prayers going up to heaven as sweet smelling incense before the throne of Elohim (Rev. 8:4). In the Tabernacle of Moses, the Altar of Incense was positioned just in front of what is commonly called the Mercy Seat or </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Kapporet</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>. The term </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Mercy Seat </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>as found in many of our English Bibles derives from </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the Hebrew word </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>kapar</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>(</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Strong’s</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>G3722) (see previous explanation),</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>which according to the </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>TWOT</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>1023) means </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>to make an atonement, make reconciliation, purge. </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The Mercy Seat or the golden “lid” covering the Ark of the Covenant located in the Holy of Holies or </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>D’veer</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(i.e., the inner shrine of the Tabernacle of Moses), is the Hebrew word</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>kapporet</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Strong’s</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>G3727,</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>TWOT</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>1023c) meaning </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the place of atonement </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>or</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the place where atonement was made</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>. The </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>TWOT</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>defines what happened at the </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>kapporet</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>as follows:</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>It was from the … Mercy Seat that [YHVH] promised to meet with the men [of Israel] (Num. 7:89). The word, however, is not related to mercy and of course was not a seat. The word is derived from the root “to atone.” The Greek equivalent in the LXX (Septuagin) is usually</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>hilasterion</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>, “place or object of propitiation,” a word which is applied to [Messiah] in Rom. 3:25. The translation “mercy seat” does not sufficiently express the fact that the lid of the ark was the place where the blood was sprinkled on the Day of Atonement. “Place of atonement” would perhaps be more expressive.</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>What is the message here? Why does YHVH’s Torah position the command for Israel to pay the silver half-shekel </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>between</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the instructions to build the Bronze Laver and the Altar of Incense? Simply this, YHVH was trying to teach his people that man </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>cannot</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>enter into an intimate spiritual relationship with his Creator, his Heavenly </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>Father</b></u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>until</b></u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><u><b>he has had his sins atoned for</b></u></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>, been spiritually cleansed by the “washing” of the Word of Elohim and by the work of the Spirit of Elohim in one’s heart and mind. Only then, can one enter into the holy (set-apart) Tabernacle or sanctuary, stand before his Creator and offer up to him prayer and praise.</b></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">(The bronze laver as described in the midrash on the building of Tabernacle is very interesting compare to gold and silver which are pure metals. In Hebrew the word for brass is: Strong’s # 5178 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL">נחשׁת</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">n</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">e</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">chôsheth</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>nekh-o'-sheth, written nun,chet,shin, Tav;</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">For</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H5154</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>copper</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">; hence, something made of that metal, that is, </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>coin</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, a </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>fetter</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">; figuratively </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>base</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(as compared with gold or silver): - brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H5154</span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL">נחוּשׁה</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">n</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">e</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">chûshâh n</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">e</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">chûshâh</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>nekh-oo-shaw',</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>nekh-oo-shaw'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Feminine of </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H5153</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>copper</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">: - brass, steel. Compare </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H5176</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">H 5176 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">נחשׁ</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">nâchâsh</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>naw-khawsh'</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">The same as </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H5175</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Nachash</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, the name of two persons apparently non Israelites: - Nahash.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">H 5175 </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">שׁ</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">nâchâsh</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>naw-khawsh'</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">From </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H5172</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">;</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>a</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>snake</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(from its </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>hiss</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">): - </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>serpent</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">So we see that the word “</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">n</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">’</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">chôsheth” comes from the word “nachasch” which mean “serpent” or “snake”. Remember that HaSatan is also called that” Old serpent “(Revel.12:9). Where now is the relationship between the Brass laver, HaSatan and the serpent and the washing of the hands and feet?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">HaSatan is pictured by the serpent who is the father of lie! The brass laver was located outside the Qadosh place in the Tent of meeting, in the Tabernacle courtyard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">In the Qadosh Place could only enter the priests who were taught in the Torah belonged the tribe of Levy. Outside in the courtyard the children of Israel came to bring sacrifice to the Priest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">The Priest had to wash his hands and sometime feet when entering the Qadosh place, before doing the service. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Brass is an impure metal which contain many other particle which make it impure. Brass is a picture of the impure nature of man. The Priest has to wash his hands and feet in the brass laver representing the removal of impurity (by washing with water) in action and walk outside Messiah. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Brass unlike gold and silver is a compounded alloy of different metals which represent</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>the imperfection or impurity of our flesh.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-GB">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>The half shekel was made of silver, which represents redemption or Elohim’s ransom price for man’s sin. In fact, the entire Tabernacle rested on a silver foundation. The vertical boards of the Tabernacle itself were set in posts of silver (Exod. 26:15–30) made from the half-shekels that came from the people (Exod. 38:25–27). This teaches us that the redemption of humanity is at the very foundation of the whole Tabernacle system</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>All, both rich and poor were to give a half-shekel. This teaches us that all men are equal before Elohim, that he is not a respecter of persons, that all equally need redemption from sin, and that no man’s sin is greater or less than that of another. A shekel, which was a unit of measure, was comprised of twenty </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>gerahs</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>(Exod. 30:13). The half-shekel was ten </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>gerahs</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>. Albert W.Pink points out that ten is the biblical number of human responsibility and points to the Ten Commandments, which represent man’s legal responsibility before YHVH. In sinning, man has violated these Ten Commandments and brought upon himself the resulting death penalty. Paying the ten </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>gerahs</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>of silver was an object lesson to teach the Israelites the important principle that there is a price to pay when we break Elohim’s laws (</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Gleanings in Exodus</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>, p. 291). Those ten “</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>gerahs”</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>went, in part, toward purchasing the animals used in the on-going sacrifices on the Altar of Sacrifice in the Tabernacle. </b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The paying of the half-shekel annually shows that even after Israel had been redeemed initially at the beginning of their spiritual walk, they still sinned, a price still had to be paid for that sin, and an atonement of blood had to still be paid for each and every sin. That was under the Levitical sacrificial system. Since Yeshua/Yehoshua came and died on the cross/stake paying for our sins once and for all, we now have only to confess our sins, repent of them and YHVH will cleanse us of unrighteousness and forgive us of our sins on the merit of Yeshua/Yehoshua’s having paid the price for our sins by his blood atonement (1 John 1:9; Heb. 10:1–22).</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>We will now answer the question why the command to give the half-shekel was tied to the numbering of Israel. Scripture teaches us that the numbering of something indicates ownership (Pink, p. 290). A person counting his money, or a shepherd his sheep is a sign of possession. YHVH’s numbering of Israel was his way of saying, “These are mine. These redeemed people are my treasured possession!” (Exod. 19:5–6). Only a redeemed people can be the people of YHVH. They have been called out of the world to be his special people.</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Finally, only those of age twenty and above were subject to paying the half-shekel. Why age twenty? The Torah reveals that this is the age of accountability. At this age, a man was old enough to go to war (Num. 1:3). Furthermore, YHVH held all those who were twenty and above accountable for the sins of Israel in the wilderness (Num. 14:29; 32:11). YHVH reckoned that by age twenty a person should have the maturity to know the difference between good and evil and be able to make right choices. This was also the age when an Israelite male should take full accountability for his sins and those of his household, assuming he was married. In other words, by age twenty, a person should be walking as a fully redeemed Israelite before YHVH.</b></i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Again, there are those who would lift from Scripture a single passage like Exodus 30:15–16 or Numbers 31:50 and attempt to formulate doctrines inconsistent with the rest Scripture. For example, some have attempted to use these passages to “prove” that one can atone for one’s sins through other means than the shedding of blood. This, frankly, is a weak attempt to circumvent some very prominent Scriptures and biblical patterns that teach that only through the shedding of blood can atonement be made. Eventually, it is an attempt to invalidate the Messiahship of Yeshua/Yehoshua, the Lamb of Elohim slain from the foundation of the world who came as the arm of YHVH to take away the sins of the world (Rev. 13:8; Isa. 53:1; John 1:29).</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>If one takes a single passage from the Torah that speaks about atonement being made for souls, and does not consider the broader meaning and spiritual context of the Hebrew word “</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>kaphar”</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>or</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>atonement</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>and the context in which that word is used, then one may well fall into the trap of snipping a twig from the tree and calling it the trunk </b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Numbers 31:50 and Exodus 30:11–16 cannot be taken as doctrinal statements defining the </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>whole</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>concept of atonement, or in some way inferring that Scripture teaches that atonement can occur </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>without</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>the shedding of blood. Scripture nowhere implies that one can do an “end run” around the shedding of blood for the atoning or remission of one’s sins. </b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b><span style="background-color: red; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If the shedding of blood is not necessary to atone for man’s sins then YHVH lies when he clearly states in Leviticus 17:11, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life that makes atonement” (NAS)</span></b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>. Do we make void a foundational truth of Torah from the lips of YHVH by our misunderstanding of a few obscure (to us) verses in the Torah? Elohim forbid! May it never be so!</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Adobe Caslon Pro, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Make no mistake about it, the sinner has two choices: namely, to pay or atone for his sin with his own blood (Ezek. 18:10-13, 20), or for someone else to step in, to die in his place thus redeeming, atoning, or ransoming him from the guilt and penalty of his own sin, which is eternal death. Job knew he needed a redeemer and that his own righteousness could not save him from eternal death (Job 19:24-27).</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i><b>Do you know this? Who is your Redeemer?</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Moshe makes atonement for the sins of the children of Israel (carnal man)</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Sh’mot 32:30 Compare with Hebrew 7:25</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Animals used for atonement Vayiqra 1:3-4 Compare Hebrew 1 Kefa (Peter) 1:10, Ephesians 5:27</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Atonement to be made by the priest Vayiqra 4:20 Compare: Hebrew 4:14, 9:14-15</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Atonement made by sprinkling of the blood and burning ( annihilation) of the flesh Vayiqra 4:25-26 Compare: Hebrew 9:13-14</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Sacrifice represents the sweet and pleasant odour to Abba Yehowah Vayiqra 4:31 Compare: Romans 12:1</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Atonement for the sins of the High Priest Vayiqra 5:10</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua was WITHOUT sin: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 4:15</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">For</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G1063</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">we have</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G2192</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">not</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G3756</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">an high priest</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G749</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">which cannot</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G1410 G3361</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">be touched with the feeling of</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G4834</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">our</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G2257</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">infirmities;</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G769</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">but</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G1161</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">was in</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G2596</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">all points</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G3956</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">tempted</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G3985</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">like as</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G2596 G3665</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>we are, yet</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">without</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G5565</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">sin.</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">G266</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span></div>
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Yom Kippur personal atonement as also corporate Isarel</div>
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for the priest first concerning his ignorance: Vayiqra (Leveticus) 5:18</div>
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For the priest and the people: Vayiqra 9:7</div>
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For the assembly: Vayiqra 16</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Scapegoat = Hebrew “</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Azazel</b></span><span lang="en-GB">”, meaning the goat of departure</span></div>
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The incense = Hebrew “Quetoreh”, meaning fumigation, perfume.</div>
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Compare with: Revelation 8:3-4</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua the supreme sacrifice (Hebrew 10:10) pointing to the death on the stake which point to the red heifer on the altar.</span></div>
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The High priest sprinkled the mercy seat with blood during Yom Kippur (Vayiqra 16:14)</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua sprinkled many nations with his blood ( YeshaYahu 52:15)</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><b>(Isa 52:15 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>So shall he sprinkle many nations</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.</span></span></div>
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The high priest had to wash his clothes after performing the sacrifice (Vayiqra 16:23)</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua’s garment was stained with blood, and he was wearing pure white robe of righteousness (Rev. 3:4-5, 7:9, 13-14)</span></div>
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The two goats of Vayiqra 16:</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Azazel represents the entire removal of sin’s defilement from the tabernacle and the camp of Israel, out into the wilderness</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 103:12</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">As far as east is from west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.</span></span></div>
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Azazel was sent into the wilderness alive to make atonement for our sins:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 53:6</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>We all, like sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>has laid on Him (Yehoshua) the crookedness of us all. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Isa 53:12</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Therefore I give Him (Yehoshua) a portion among the great, and He divides the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His being unto death, and He was counted with the transgressors, and </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
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There is may be another aspect of the two goats of Yom Kippur:</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">First we see the sacrifice of Moschiach and his work in the first Goat who through HIS Blodd make atonement for all those who believe in His Name</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:7 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And he shall take </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>the two goats</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">, and present them before YHWH at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:8 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for YHWH, and the other lot for the scapegoat.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:9 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which YHWH's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:10 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">But </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before YHWH, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:11 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:12 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before YHWH, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:13 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And he shall put the incense upon the fire before YHWH, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:14 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:15 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:16 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:17 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:18 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And he shall go out unto the altar that is before YHWH, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>and of the blood of the goat</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:19 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:20 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And when he hath made an end of</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>Now let us look at Azazel if we can find an explanation:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><b>(Lev 16:21 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:22 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>(midbar in Hebrew, an open field not a desert)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:23 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:24 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:25 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:26 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:27 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:28 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:29 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:30 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before YHWH.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><b>(Lev 16:31 [RNKJV])</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and </b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><u><b>ye shall afflict your souls</b></u></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>, by a statute for ever.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">The Goat was left alive in the wilderness, is it not also a picture of Moschiach Yeshua who is alive for ever more, the wilderness been a picture of the world we are living today, scattered in the four corners of the earth! Is not Yeshua who bear our sin? "</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The wilderness in Hebrew is not a desert place as it is often understand, but a land of pasture; It is the Hebrew word "midbar" from the word "dabar" (words).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We shall mediate upon this aspect to gain more understanding of the scapegoat.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB"><b>Yom Kippur the great and terrible day</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yom Teruah the first day of the seventh month correspond to the last trump (1</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">st</span></sup><span lang="en-GB">Corinthians 15:51 and Rev. 11:15-18, also Matt. 24:31 at the end of the great tribulation Mattityahu 24:21 prior the wrath of Elohim and the seven bowl (Rev. Chapters 15 -16) and the coronation of the Great King.</span></div>
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- The day of restitution of all things:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Act 3:20</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and that He sends </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah, pre-appointed for you, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Act 3:21 whom heaven needs to receive until the times of restoration of all</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>matters</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>, of which Elohim spoke through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old. </i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Azazel a euphemism for Yehoshua who has become our scapegoat, and also for the all world.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Some scholars say that Azazel is a picture of HaSatan, as it is written in the book of Enoch (quotation from Eddie Chemney on “The Feats of YHWH”:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><i>The Hebrew word for scapegoat is </i></span><em><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">azazel</span></span></em><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span><em><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Azazel</span></span></em><span lang="en-US"><i>was seen as a type of satan (</i></span><em><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Ha satan</span></span></em><span lang="en-US"><i>) in the intertestamental Book of Enoch (8:1). The sins of the people and thus the punishment of the people were laid upon </i></span><em><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">azazel</span></span></em><span lang="en-US"><i>the scapegoat. He would bear the sins of the people and the punishment of the people would be upon him. </i></span><em><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Azazel</span></span></em><span lang="en-US"><i>being sent into the wilderness is understood to be a picture of satan (</i></span><em><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Ha satan</span></span></em><span lang="en-US"><i>) being cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:20). </i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">HaSatan is a Hebrew word meaning: “the adversary”.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">There is controversy wither Azazel is a picture of HaSatan or a picture of Yehoshua who carry our sins away!</span></div>
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Shaul says that the god of this world is HaSatan:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>2.Co 4:4</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Messiah, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The scriptures tell us that it is Yehoshua who took our sins away and it is he who has been made propitiation for our sins:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom 3:24</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">being declared right, without paying, by His favour through the redemption which is in Messiah </span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US">,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom 3:25</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>whom Elohim set forth as atonement, through belief in His blood</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His tolerance Elohim had passed over the sins that had taken place before, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Jn 2:2</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">and </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>He Himself is an atoning offering for our sins</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">, and not for ours only but also for all the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">2Co 5:21 for He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>in Him we might become the righteousness of Elohim.</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">In 1</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">st</span></sup><span lang="en-GB">Kefa (Peter) 4:18, Kefa speaks of three kind of people: righteous, ungodly, and sinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1.Pe 4:18</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And if </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the righteous</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>one</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>is scarcely saved, where shall </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the wicked</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the sinner</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>appear?</i></span></span></div>
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It is said in Judaism that three books are open according to Daniel 7:10 (books is plural).</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Dan 7:10</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">“A stream of fire was flowing and coming forth from His presence, and a thousand thousands served Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him, the Judge was seated, and the books were opened. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Php 4:3</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and I also ask you, true companion, help these women who laboured with me in the Good News, with Qlemes also, and the rest of my fellow workers, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>whose names are in the Book of Life</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Rev 13:8</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and all those dwelling on the earth, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>whose names have not been written in the Book of Life</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world shall worship him. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Rev 17:8</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the pit of the deep and goes to destruction. And those dwelling on the earth, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>whose names are not written in the Book of Life </b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>from the foundation of the world, shall marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. </i></span></span></div>
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The book of life:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Rev 3:5</b></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“He who overcomes shall be dressed in white robes, and I shall by no means blot out </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>his name from the Book of Life,</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>but I shall confess his name before My Father and before His messengers. </i></span></span></div>
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■<span lang="en-GB">The resurrection of the death corresponds to the end of the tribulations according to Shaul (1</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">st</span></sup><span lang="en-GB">Corinthians 15:52), and the catching up of the saints in the air:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Co 15:52</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>at the last trumpet</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Th 4:17</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Then we, the living who are left over, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>shall be caught away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air – and so we shall always be with the Master</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 11:15</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and the seventh messenger sounded, and there came to be loud voices in the heaven, saying, “</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>The reign of this world has become </b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the reign</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>of our Master</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>,</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>and of His Messiah</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>, and He shall reign forever and ever!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:14</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And I looked and saw a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was One like the Son of Aḏam, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:15</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place, crying with a loud voice to the One sitting on the cloud, “Send Your sickle and reap, because the hour has come for You to reap, because </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>the harvest of the earth is ripe</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.”</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:16</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and the One sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:17</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place which is in the heaven and he too held a sharp sickle. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:18</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and another messenger came out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, “</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Send your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.”</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:19</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of Elohim.</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:20</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about three hundred kilometres. </i></span></span></div>
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■<span lang="en-GB"><b>The saints (Qadosh one) are not appointed to wrath</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Th 1:10</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He raised from the dead, </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>,</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>who is delivering us from the wrath to come.</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Th 5:9</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>because</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Elohim did not appoint us to wrath</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>, but to obtain deliverance through our Master </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah,</i></span></span></div>
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■<span lang="en-US">The fall harvest: This time period, from Yom Teruah to Succoth last fifteen days. Revelation 14 speaks of two ends time’s harvest of which the fall harvest are a shadow picture.</span></div>
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●<span lang="en-US">Harvest of the saints for their rewards</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:4</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>They are those who were not defiled with women, for they are maidens. They are those following the Lamb wherever He </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>leads</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>them on. They were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to Elohim and to the Lamb. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Rev 14:5</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and in their mouth was found no falsehood, for they are blameless before the throne of Elohim. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat 24:30</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And then the sign of the Son of Aḏam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Aḏam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">Mat 24:31</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And He shall send His messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. </i></span></span></div>
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●<span lang="en-GB"><b>Harvest of the wicked</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:15</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place, crying with a loud voice to the One sitting on the cloud, “Send Your sickle and reap, because the hour has come for You to reap, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:16</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and the One sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth and the earth was reaped. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:17</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place which is in the heaven and he too held a sharp sickle. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:18</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And another messenger came out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.” </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:19</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>and the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of Elohim. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 14:20</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about three hundred kilometres. </i></span></span></div>
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■<span lang="en-GB"><b>The seven bowls of judgement on Babylon</b></span><span lang="en-GB"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 18:23</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And the light of a lamp shall not shine in you any more at all. And the voice of bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you any more at all. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your drug sorcery all the nations were led astray. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 19:2</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Because true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great whore who corrupted the earth with her whoring. And He has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.”</i></span></span></div>
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<b>THE FAST of YOM KIPPUR</b></div>
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Today many people are fasting. We can see a fast for the Muslim during their Ramadan.</div>
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We see also fasting in the world for people, some to lose weight.</div>
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Fasting exist since the ancient time.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">What is the difference for Yehowah’s people to fast?</span></div>
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What is the difference here during Yom Kippur?</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">We know a fast cannot impress Elohim. Yehowah do not delight in a fast which is done by tradition:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 58:3</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>They say</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>, ‘Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?’ “Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your labourers. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 58:4</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make your voice heard on high. </i></span></span></div>
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●Individual fast shall be kept secret:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat 6:16</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And when you fast, do not be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces so that they appear to be fasting to men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat 6:17</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Mat 6:18</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly. </i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">●</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>Yom Kippur is a day of corporate fasting for all Israel</b></span><span lang="en-GB">:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Lev 16:29</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">And </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>this</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">shall be</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H1961</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">a statute</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H2708</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">for ever</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H5769</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">unto you: </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>that</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">in the seventh</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H7637</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">month,</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H2320</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">on the tenth</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H6218</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>day</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">of the month,</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H2320</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">ye shall afflict</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H6031 (H853)</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">your souls,</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H5315</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">and do</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H6213</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">no</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H3808</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">work</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H4399</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">at all,</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H3605</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>whether it be</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">one of your own country,</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H249</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">or a stranger</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H1616</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">that sojourneth</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H1481</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">among</span></span><sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">H8432</span></span></sup><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">you: </span></span></div>
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There is no mention of fasting in this verse!</div>
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To afflict the soul is understood in Hebraic thought that one should fast:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 58:5</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Is it a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his being? Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>?</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Ezr 8:21</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>I then proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahawa, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>to humble(afflict/ani Heb.) ourselves</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>before our Elohim, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 35:13</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>But I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>I humbled(afflicted) my being with fastings</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>; And my prayer would return to my own bosom.</i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Afflict: Strong’s # H6031 </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL">ענה</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">‛</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">ânâh</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>aw-naw' written: Ayin,nun,he.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">A primitive root (possibly rather identical with </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H6030</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">through the idea of </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>looking</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">down or </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>browbeating</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">);</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>to</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>depress</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">literally or figuratively, transitively or intransitively (in various applications). (</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>sing</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">is by mistake for </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H6030</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">.):</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>- abase self, afflict</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">(-ion, self), answer [by mistake for </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H6030</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness,</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>humble (self),</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">hurt, ravish, sing [by mistake for </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H6030</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">], speak [by mistake for </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H6030</u></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">], submit self, weaken, X in any wise.</span></span></div>
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To depress, to abase self, chasten elf, deal hardly, humble, force, submit self.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">When we look at this fast which is for all Israel at the time of Yom Kippur, knowing that Yom Kippur is the time of Judgment; we understand that Yehowah is showing His people that they should remember that the day will come to mourn and afflict the soul for the sins of the all house of Israel and there will be the intervention of Elohim to remove sins.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">During the fast of Yom Kippur we acknowledge that our salvation is not in us but only by Elohim’s favour.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">David writes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 25:18</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Look upon mine affliction (was David fasting?) and my pain; and forgive all my sins.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 51:9</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 69:5</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>O Elohim, You Yourself know my foolishness; And my guilt has not been hidden from You.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Psa 103:10</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>He has not done to us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our crookednesses.</i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">This time came when Yehoshua gave his life by taking our sin upon himself at Passover.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua fulfilled the requirement of Passover but also the requirement of Yom Kippur. Those who are in Messiah, are no more under the Judgment of Elohim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>1Th 5:9</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Because Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah,</i></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">How do we know that Yehoshua has fulfilled the requirement of Yom Kippur?</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua is our High Priest and has entered the Holy of Holy in the heavens with his own blood once for all. Yom Kippur is the only day when the High Priest enter the Holy of Holy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 9:11</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>But </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Messiah, having become a High Priest </b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>of the coming good </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>matters</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 9:12</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>entered into the Most Set-apart (Holy of Holy) Place once for all</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood,</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>having obtained everlasting redemption</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 10:10</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>By that desire we have been set apart through the offering of the body of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Messiah once for all. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Heb 10:11</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>And indeed every priest stands day by day doing service, and repeatedly offering the same slaughter </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>offerings</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>which are never able to take away sins. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Heb 10:12</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>But He, having offered </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>one slaughter </b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>offering</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>for sins for all time,</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>sat down at the right hand of Elohim, </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Heb 10:13</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>waiting from that time onward until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Heb 10:14</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being set apart. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Heb 10:1</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for the Torah, having a shadow of the good </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>matters</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>offerings</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>which they offer continually year by year</i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">We need Messiah Yehoshua to make us acceptable before Elohim!</span></div>
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●<span lang="en-GB">Yom Kippur will be the day at the End of the great tribulation</span><span lang="en-US">the day of the sounding of the great trump.(Matt.24:31)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joe 1:14</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i></i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Set apart a fast</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>. Call an assembly, gather the elders, </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>all the inhabitants of the land</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>, into the House of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>your Elohim, and cry out to </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joe 1:15</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Alas for the day! For the day of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>is near, and it comes as destruction</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Joe 2:1</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>blows a ram’s horn (shofar) in Tsiyon, and sound an alarm in My set-apart mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>is coming, for it is near: </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joe 2:2</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="en-US"><i>a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains – a people many and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be again after them, to the years of many generations. </i></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_PictureBullets"></a><span lang="en-GB">May Yehowah bless all His children who have chosen the way of life in Messiah Yehoshua. Amen!</span></div>
Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-38137343440906491892018-09-15T00:19:00.000-07:002018-09-26T08:31:34.912-07:00PARASHA VAYELECH - AND HE WENT<div align="CENTER" lang="en-GB" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Parsha Vayelech, and He went, D’varim 31:1-30, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>YeshaYahu 55:6-56:8, Rom.7:7-12</b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Moshe is at his last day with the children of Israel. He has been faithful to YHWH during all this last eighty years, when Yehovah took him from among the Egyptians and made him to be the "saviour" of his people the children of Israel.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Moshe is a picture of Yehoshua Messiah, both are prophet and follow </span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yehowah</span></span><span lang="en-GB">. What is then the difference between following Moshe and following Messiah?</span></div>
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Our forefathers followed Moshes in their own strength outside the faith and failed. All those who try to please Elohim in this context will fall. There are many groups in the world pretending to follow G-d, Allah,….</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Unfortunately they do it outside the way. Yehoshua is the only way to come to the Father Yehowah Elohim, by fallowing the Torah in the Ruach and not the letter.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;">The understanding of Moshes and Yehoshua is to understand that the WORD, the "dabar" in Hebrew or "logos" in Greek is Yehovah and SAVE!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Jas 1:21</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><i>Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness </i></span><span lang="en-US"><b>the engrafted* word (logos)</b></span><span lang="en-US">, </span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>which is able to save your souls</b></u></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">*Let us look at the word “engrafted” in Greek:</span><span lang="en">G1721</span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="el-GR"><b>ἔμφυτος</b></span></span><span lang="en"></span><span lang="en"><b>emphutos</b></span><span lang="en">(em'-foo-tos) </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en">adj</span></span><span lang="en">.</span></div>
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<span lang="en"><b>1. implanted (figuratively)</b></span></div>
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<b>From</b><span lang="en">G1722 </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="el-GR"><b>ἔν</b></span></span><span lang="en"></span><span lang="en"><b>en</b></span><span lang="en">(en) </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en">n</span></span><span lang="en">.</span></div>
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<b>1. "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.</b></div>
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<span lang="en">G5453 </span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="el-GR"><b>φύω</b></span></span><span lang="en"></span><span lang="en"><b>phuo</b></span><span lang="en">(foo'-o) </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en">v</span></span><span lang="en">.</span></div>
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<b>1. to germinate or grow (sprout, produce)</b></div>
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<span lang="en-US">This is really amazing to me to see that the WORD that save us is to « germinate or grow » in us after having been “implanted”.<br />Sha’ul says: “Mashiach in us (the Word) the hope of glory” (Col.1:27). Mashiach in us is the Word who live in us the Ruach of Yehowah and change us from glory to glory. This is not our work but the work of the One who has called us into His Kingdom.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB" style="background-color: #6fa8dc;">How can Ya'acov write that the WORD is able to save our souls, is there any discrepancy with what Yochanan says?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh 1:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with YHWH, and the Word was YHWH. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Joh 1:2</span></span><span lang="en-US">The same was in the beginning with YHWH. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Joh 1:3</span></span><span lang="en-US">All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Joh 1:4</span></span><span lang="en-US">In him was life; and the life was the light of men....................................... </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh 1:14</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span lang="en-US">Now let us compare with the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Bishop version from 1568 C.E.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh 1:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Joh 1:2</span></span><span lang="en-US">The same was in the begynnyng with God. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Joh 1:3</span></span><span lang="en-US">All thynges were made </span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>by it </b></u></span><span lang="en-US"><b>(not</b></span><span lang="en-US"><i><b>him)</b></i></span><span lang="en-US">: and without </span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>it</b></u></span><span lang="en-US">, was made nothyng that was made. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Joh 1:4</span></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>In it</b></u></span><span lang="en-US">(the WORD) was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Joh 1:14</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">And </span><span lang="en-US"><b>the same word</b></span><span lang="en-US">became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory </span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>of it,</b></u></span><span lang="en-US">as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span lang="en-US">Bishops like </span><span lang="en-US"><i>William Tendale</i></span><span lang="en-US"><i><u></u></i></span><span lang="en-US">use the pronoun "it" for "the Word", the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>"dabar"</i></span><span lang="en-US">having taken the text from the Septuagint as foundation for their translation instead of the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Latin Vulgate from Jerome </i></span><span lang="en-US">as the majority of others translators did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span lang="en-US">So was </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Ya'acov </i></span><span lang="en-US">wrong when he says that </span><span lang="en-US"><i>the engrafted Word is able to save</i></span><span lang="en-US">? The answer is obviously NO, as we read in Yochanan chapter 1, but also what </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Moshe</i></span><span lang="en-US">write:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Deu 30:16</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><i>In that I command thee this day to love YHWH thy Elohim, to walk in his ways, and</i></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><b>to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live</b></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><i>and multiply: and YHWH thy Elohim shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it</i></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehovah </i></span><span lang="en-US">speaks by the mouth of the prophet </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Yeshayahu</i></span><span lang="en-US">heralding the coming of the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>"Word made flesh)" (Yeshua).</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Isa 55:10</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 55:11</span></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><b>So shall my word (the Torah)</b></span><span lang="en-US">be that goeth forth out of my mouth: </span><span lang="en-US"><b>it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Yochanan </i></span><span lang="en-US">confirms that it was the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Word </i></span><span lang="en-US">and that </span><span lang="en-US"><i>"The Word" </i></span><span lang="en-US">is</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Yeshua </i></span><span lang="en-US">the</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Prophet like Moshe:</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Rev 19:10</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><i>And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Yehoshua: worship YHWH: for the testimony of Yehoshua is the spirit of prophecy. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Rev 19:11</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Rev 19:12</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Rev 19:13</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: </i></span><span lang="en-US"><u><b>and his name is called The Word of YHWH.</b></u></span></span></div>
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Moshe died as he was 120 years old. Today we see that there is no man dying at this age. Many die between 70 to 90 this is common, but not 120.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">In the book of B’reshit chapter 6 </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehovah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">says that His Ruach will not strive with men forever but his life will be 120 years:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Gen 6:3</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>And </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever in his going astray. He is flesh, and his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” </i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The Hebrew word for year is the word strong’s# H8141</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">שׁנה</span></span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>shâneh</b></span><span lang="en-GB"></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>shaw-neh',</i></span><span lang="en-GB"></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>shaw-naw' written Shin, nun, He;</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">(The first form being in plural only, the second form being feminine); from </span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H8138</u></span></span><span lang="en-GB">; a </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>year</i></span><span lang="en-GB">(as a </span><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>revolution</b></i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>of time</b></span><span lang="en-GB">): - + whole age, X long, + old, year (X -ly).</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The word means also a revolution of time. This is very interesting. This word is the same used for Moshe who was 120 years (shanah). Moshe could be the prototype of those following </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehovah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">in the mortal nature?</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">At the end of this Parasha I will give a short explanation concerning the 120 cycle of life on earth.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Deu 31:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB">And Mosheh went and spoke these words to all Yisra’ĕl, </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB">Deu 31:2</span></span><span lang="en-GB">and he said to them, “I am one hundred and twenty years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. And </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">has said to me, ‘You do not pass over this Yardĕn.’ </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">You do not pass over this Yarden! Again we will find some help in the Hebrew word for Yarden:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>Stong’s</b></span><span lang="en-US"># H3383 </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">ירדּן</span></span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">yardên </span><span lang="en-US"><i>yar-dane' writte,: yod,resh,dalet, nun final.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">From</span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H3381</u></span></span><span lang="en-GB">; a </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>descender</i></span><span lang="en-GB">;</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Jarden</i></span><span lang="en-GB">, the principal river of Palestine: - Jordan.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">H3381:</span><span lang="en-GB">yârad </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>yaw-rad'</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">A primitive root; to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>descend</i></span><span lang="en-GB">(literally to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>go</i></span><span lang="en-GB"></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>downwards</i></span><span lang="en-GB">; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>fall</i></span><span lang="en-GB">); causatively to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>bring</i></span><span lang="en-GB"></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>down</i></span><span lang="en-GB">(in all the above applications): - X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come (-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go (-ing) down (-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.</span></div>
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In order to enter the promise land the children of Israel will have to “descend”. This is an interesting concept. It is taught in the Judaism that we must first descend before ascending to a higher level.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Remember the promise land behind the Yarden is the place where the Torah will take rule over the people, a place in a Land which shall remain Qadosh. We also must descend to a lower spiritual condition, acknowledging that only Messiah will bring us up to a higher level, by studying the Torah and so become Qadosh.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">The Natural man, the flesh needs a frame to live. This frame is for the people of Elohim, His Torah. By following Messiah in his step, we acknowledge Yehowah righteous way.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Now is not Moshe who will lead the children of Israel, “YHWH” is passing over before you. The leader will be now Yehoshua written in Hebrew </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">יהושׁוּע</span></span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Both are written yod, he, vav, shin,ayin. May be we should say for both Yehoshua?</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">If you read the book of “Joshua” (Yehoshua) you will see and understand why he was chosen to bring the children of Israel (carnal man) into the promise land. Remember it is Moshe who changed the name </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Oshea</i></span><span lang="en-US">unto </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehoshua</i></span><span lang="en-US">. Oshea meaning deliverer and adding the letter Yod and He from </span><span lang="en-US"><u>Ye</u></span><span lang="en-US">hovah:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>Strong</b></span><span lang="en-US">’s # H1954 </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">הושׁע</span></span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-GB">hôshêa‛ </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>ho-shay'-ah written He,vav,shin,ayin</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">From</span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H3467</u></span></span><span lang="en-GB">;</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>deliverer</i></span><span lang="en-GB">;</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Hoshea</i></span><span lang="en-GB">, the name of five Israelites: - Hosea, Hoshea, Oshea.</span></div>
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So making the name’s meaning to be: Yah save or deliver.</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Yehoshua following Moshe walked in the same steps of the carnal man. The time was not yet for the Messiah to come. This is for us to understand how it is without or outside Messiah. We can’t do nothing. The flesh will bring us to destruction.</span></div>
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The land will be taken by force, by destroying the nation who lived in this place. This is for us a spiritual battle. We also have to fight against all this spiritual forces of darkness and put the flesh to obey Messiah.</div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:3</span></span><span lang="en-US">“</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">your Elohim Himself is passing over before you. He shall destroy these nations from before you and you possess them. Yehoshua (Joshua) himself is passing over before you, as </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">has spoken. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:4</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">shall do to them as He did to Siḥon and to Oḡ, the sovereigns of the Amorites and their land, when He destroyed them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:5</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">shall give them over to you, and you shall do to them according to all the command which I have commanded you. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:6</span></span><span lang="en-US">“be strong and courageous, do not fear nor be afraid of them. For it is </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">your Elohim who is going with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you.” </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">We should be aware that we are not alone. The Fight is won when we trust YHWH to deliver us and give us the victory. Many times we keep the things in our own hands, thinking we can help! We cannot and YHWH want us to let Him work in our life what He want:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Php 2:13</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i></i></span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>for it is Elohim who is working in you</i></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><sup><span lang="en-GB"><i>1</i></span></sup></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>both to desire (will) and to work (do) for </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>His</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>good pleasure.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">How do believers today are empower to live a Qadosh life unto Yehovah will be explain at the end of the </span><span lang="en-US"><i>midrash</i></span><span lang="en-US">(teaching)</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:7</span></span><span lang="en-US">And Moshe called Yehoshua (Joshua) and said to him before the eyes of all Yisra’ĕl, “Be strong and courageous, for you are going with this people to the land which </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you are to let them inherit it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:8</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And it is </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">who is going before you, He Himself is with you. He does not fail you nor forsake you. Do not fear nor be discouraged.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Pro 3:5</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Trust in </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Again and again we will find that to walk the Torah is not in our own strength but by letting the Ruach HaQodesh lead us. Remember that we must be willing. To be willing is to refuse to chose our own way, and be patient in our daily life when things do not turn like we expect. Yehowah is at hand. He is always with us. Yehoshua will bring us to the promise Land, the eternal salvation if we trust Him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:9</span></span><span lang="en-US">And </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Mosheh</i></span><span lang="en-US">wrote this Torah and gave it to the priests, the sons of Lĕwi, who bore the ark of the covenant of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, and to all the elders of Yisra’ĕl. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:10</span></span><span lang="en-US">And </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Mosheh</i></span><span lang="en-US">commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Booths, </span></div>
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The end of the seven years, the year of release; at the Festivals of booth.</div>
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Here there is a special instruction, connecting the number seven, the year of release which is the sh’mitta the seven time period of the Yovel every seven sh’mitta period.</div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>Strong</b></span><span lang="en-US">’s # H8059 </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="he-IL">שׁמטּה</span></span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-GB">sh</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">e</span></sup><span lang="en-GB">miṭṭâh</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>shem-it-taw'written: shin;mem,tav,he.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">From</span><span style="color: green;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>H8058</u></span></span><span lang="en-GB">;</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>remission</i></span><span lang="en-GB">(of debt) or </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>suspension</i></span><span lang="en-GB">(of labor): - release.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">H 8058 </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>shâmaṭ</b></span><span lang="en-GB"></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>shaw-mat'</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">A primitive root; to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>fling</i></span><span lang="en-GB">down; incipiently to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>jostle</i></span><span lang="en-GB">; figuratively to </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>let</i></span><span lang="en-GB"></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>alone</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,</span><span lang="en-GB"><i>desist</i></span><span lang="en-GB">,</span><span lang="en-GB"><b>remit:</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>- </i></span><span lang="en-GB">discontinue, overthrow, </span><span lang="en-GB"><b>release</b></span><span lang="en-GB">, let rest, shake, stumble, throw down.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">This period of time is absolutely important to understand as it was commanded by </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehowah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">for His children. </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehowah</i></span><span lang="en-GB">is an </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>Eloha</i></span><span lang="en-GB">of justice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Deu 15:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“At the end of every seven years you make a </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>release (sh'mittah) </b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>of debts</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB">Deu 15:2</span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And this is the word of </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>the release (sh'mittah)</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>: Every creditor is to release what he has loaned to his neighbour, </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>he does not require it of his neighbour or his brother, because it is called the release of </b></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL"><i><b>יהוה</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><b>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Lev 25:8</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The feast of the booth is the last feast which conclude the Feats of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehowah</i></span><span lang="en-US">, after that come </span><span lang="en-US"><i>shemini atzeret.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The feats of the booth is also called the Feats of ingathering. Which ingathering? Remember all Feast are pictures from the salvation which is in Messiah </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehoshua</i></span><span lang="en-US">. The last feast of tabernacle will be when Messiah will come to gather the people of </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehowah</i></span><span lang="en-US">from the four corners of the earth at His second advent.</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:11</span></span><span lang="en-US">when all Yisra’ĕl comes to appear before </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">your Elohim </span><span lang="en-US"><b>in the place which He chooses</b></span><span lang="en-US">, read this Torah before all Yisra’ĕl in their hearing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:12</span></span><span lang="en-US">“Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your sojourner who is within your gates, so that they hear, and so that they learn to fear </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">your Elohim and guard to do all the Words of this Torah. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The fear of Yehovah is the beginning of wisdom </span><span lang="en-US"><b>Psalm 111:10</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:13</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And their children, who have not known it, should hear and learn to fear </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">your Elohim as long as you live in the land you are passing over the Yardĕn to possess.” </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Remember what Shaul write: Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of Yehowah. </span><span lang="en-US"><b>Romans 10:17</b></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The children who were born after this time will learn to fear Yehowah by hearing the Word, they will so become doer of the word.</span></div>
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Lawrence Nathan (Hoshanna Rabba) gives following commentary:</div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">31:10-13</span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">,</span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">You shall read this Torah before all Israel. </span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">Verses like this tend to expose the theological confusion that occurs in the minds of many Messiahian Bible teachers. Messiahian commentator Matthew Henry on this verse writes about the need to read the word of Elohim and that doing so will “help us to keep his commandments.” Yet elsewhere he says in the same commentary about the same laws that the commandments or laws of YHVH “are done away with.” This is representative of split and incongruous, double-speak thinking on the part of many Messiahian leaders. Is it possible to have it both ways? If it can be both ways, then what is the meaning of such phrases as “forever, for a thousand generations, the same yesterday today and forever, till heaven and earth pass away, I change not, think not that I came to destroy the Torah-law” that Scripture uses with respect to the Torah-laws and covenants YHVH gave to Israel? Is YHVH’s Word inconsistent and contradictory or is the mind of man? Is YHVH’s immutable character flawed with regard to keeping his Word, promises and standards or is man’s? Do we have a high enough view of YHVH Elohim and fear him and tremble at his Word (Isa. 66:2), or have we tried to demote him by forming him into the image of changeable and inconsistent man (which Scripture defines as idolatry)? Have we bought into the lie of the serpent proffered at the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden when he told the man and the woman that YHVH really does not mean what he says and that humans can take the “have it your own way” and “pick and choose” approach when it comes to obeying the Word of YHVH (which forms the basis for the religious movement called</span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB">secular humanism</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #221e1f; text-indent: -0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">)? How many aspects of Messiahian theology are no more than a thinly veiled version of the religion of humanism in disguise? These are tough questions that we as Messianic Israelites need to ponder seriously. Remember the words of Yeshua in John 14:15, “If you love me, keep my [Torah] commandments” and the words of the Apostle in 1 John 2:2-3, “He that says, ‘I know him,’ and does not keep his [Torah] commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. But whosoever keeps his word in him truly is the love of Elohim perfected: hereby know we that we are in </span><span style="font-family: adobe caslon pro bold, serif; font-style: italic;">him.” </span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:14</span></span><span lang="en-US">And </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">said to Mosheh, “See, the days have drawn near for you to die. Call Yehoshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, so that I command him.” And Mosheh and Yehoshua went and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:15</span></span><span lang="en-US">And </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">appeared at the Tent in a column of a cloud, and the column of a cloud stood above the door of the Tent. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:16</span></span><span lang="en-US">And </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">said to Mosheh, “See, </span><span lang="en-US"><b>you are about to sleep with your fathers</b></span><span lang="en-US">. And this people shall rise and whore after the mighty ones of the strangers of the land into the midst of which they shall enter, and forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:17</span></span><span lang="en-US">“Then My displeasure shall burn against them in that day, and I shall forsake them and hide My face from them, and they shall be consumed. And many evils and distresses shall come upon them, and it shall be said in that day, ‘Is it not because our Elohim is not in our midst that these evils have come upon us?’ </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:18</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And I shall certainly hide my face in that day, because of all the evil which they have done, for they shall turn to other mighty ones. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:19</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And now write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Yisra’ĕl. Put it in their mouths, so that </span><span lang="en-US"><b>this song is to me for a witness against the children of Yisra’ĕl.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:20</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And I shall bring them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they shall eat and be satisfied and be fat, then they shall turn to other mighty ones, and they shall serve them, and scorn Me and break My covenant. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:21</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And it shall be, when many evils and distresses come upon them, that this song shall answer before them as a witness. For it is not to be forgotten in the mouths of their seed, for I know their thoughts which they are forming today, even before I bring them to the land of which I swore to give them.” </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">We know that Yehowah speaks the End from the beginning. </span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 46:9</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Remember the former </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>events</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>of old, for I am Ěl, and there is no one else – Elohim, and there is no one like Me, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 46:10</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>declaring the end from the beginning, and from of old that which has not </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>yet</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>been done, saying, ‘My counsel does stand, and all My delight I do,’ </i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Moses and Joshua attended the Divine Majesty at the door of the tabernacle. Moses is told again that he must shortly die; even those who are most ready and willing to die, need to be often reminded of its coming. The Master tells Moses, that, after his death, the covenant he had taken so much pains to make between Israel and their God, would certainly be broken. Israel would forsake Him; then God would forsake Israel. Justly does he cast those off who so unjustly cast him off. Moses is directed to deliver them a song, which should remain a standing testimony for God, as faithful to them in giving them warning, and against them, as persons false to themselves in not taking the warning. The word of God is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of men's hearts, and meets them by reproofs and correction. Ministers who preach the word, know not the imaginations of men; but God, whose word it is, knows perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:22</span></span><span lang="en-US">And Mosheh wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Yisra’ĕl. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:23</span></span><span lang="en-US">And He commanded Yehoshua son of Nun, and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you are to bring the children of Yisra’ĕl into the land of which I swore to them, and I Myself am with you.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:24</span></span><span lang="en-US">And it came to be, when Mosheh had completed writing the Words of this Torah in a book, until their completion, </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:25</span></span><span lang="en-US">that Mosheh commanded the Lĕwites, who bore the ark of the covenant of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, saying, </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:26</span></span><span lang="en-US">“Take this Book of the Torah, and you shall place it beside the ark of the covenant of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">your Elohim, and </span><span lang="en-US"><b>it shall be there as a witness against you</b></span><span lang="en-US">,</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">How can we today hear from the mouth of Messiahians that the Torah is no more, that we are under “grace” not under the law?</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Just read what Shaul said to the Yehudin from Rome:</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Rom 7:12</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>So that the Torah truly is set-apart(Qadosh, Holy), and the command set-apart (Qadosh, Holy), and righteous, and good. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom 3:31</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB">Do we then nullify the Torah through the belief? Let it not be! </span><span style="color: blue;"><span lang="en-GB">On the contrary, we establish the Torah.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">We establish the Torah by believing Yehoshua as to be Messiah! To keep the commandment is to love Yehowah and Yehoshua.(Yoch. 14:15, 15:10 1</span><sup><span lang="en-GB">st</span></sup><span lang="en-GB">Yoch. 5:3)</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Deu 31:27</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">for I myself know your rebellion and your stiff neck. See, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, then how much more after my death? </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Moshe knew that the rebellion will have the upper hand after his departure. Today rebellion has become apostasy and the doctrines of demons prevail in the all world. Many “so call believers” do not even believe the resurrection as it is written in the scriptures, they prefer to escape in the fake world of their doomed pastors, who teach heresy, instead to bring them back to obey the Torah.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Money and well being has become the focus of many pastors in Messiahianity. The Roman Catholics Assembly who preach humility and dedication, live in luxury and extreme riches. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">From the scriptures we can read concerning the deception in the last days:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">Deception: The opposite of truth is “lie” or “falsehood,” but so is “deceit” and “deception.” Satan, the devil, is the father of all lies (Yn. 8:44). He is also the great deceiver (Rev. 12:9), deceiving the whole world. He started his work of deceiving in the garden of Ěḏen, and he has been doing it ever since, even coming as a messenger of light, even through his ministers who present themselves as ministers of righteousness (2 Cor. 11:13-15). In Mt. 24, speaking about the days prior to His return, </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">warns us no less than four times against the deception (or leading astray) during the last days (vv. 4, 5, 11, 24). Sha’ul reveals this to us as well in 2 Thess. 2, and explicitly warns us about “lawlessness” taking over in the Worship! This lawlessness is associated with “deceit”, “falsehood” and “delusion” (2 Thess. 2:9-11). </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:28</span></span><span lang="en-US">“Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, so that I speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Deu 31:29</span></span><span lang="en-US">“</span><span lang="en-US"><b>For I know</b></span><span lang="en-US">that after my death you shall do very corruptly and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And </span><span lang="en-US"><b>evil shall come to you in the latter days</b></span><span lang="en-US">*</span><span lang="en-US"><b>,</b></span><span lang="en-US">because you do what is evil in the eyes of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, to provoke Him through the work of your hands.” </span></div>
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Evil shall come to you in the latter days! Moshe is here speaking of the last days short before the coming of Messiah. These days are know has tribulations and many will be deceived because they have rejected the Torah.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">*</span><span lang="en-US"><b>Later days: </b></span><span lang="en-US">The Hebrew word bring an interesting insight of the meaning:</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">H319</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span style="color: maroon;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="he-IL">אַחֲרִיתּ</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span lang="he-IL"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>'achariyth</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">(akh-ar-eeth') </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">n-f</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>1. the last or end</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>2.</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span lang="en"><i><b>(hence)</b></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>the future</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The days that come at the end (last days). Humm, at the end of what? The word in Hebrew is written alep, chet, resh, yod and tav. The construction of the Word is like the Alep-beth, the first and the last letter of the alep-beth, in other word it began with rebellion and this will go on until the last moment. Evil was in the beginning and brought death with Adam, and this evil will only be abolished when HaSatan will be thrown in the pit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Deu 31:30</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">So Mosheh spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Yisra’ĕl the words of this song till their completion: </span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 7:13</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>And one of the elders responded, saying to me, “Who are these dressed in white robes, and where did they come from?” </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rev 7:14</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>And I said to him, “Master, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those coming out of </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>the great distress</b></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>, having washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">In order to enter the Kingdom many believers will have to “wash” their dirty garments of rebellion, going through the great tribulation. To be dressed in white is to be walking in the Torah:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-GB">I would like to look at the term used here: “great tribulation” and compare with another place:</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Tribulation</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>G2347</b></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="el-GR"><b>θλίψις</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>thlipsis (thlip'-sis)</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">n</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">.</span></span></span></div>
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So it means that those whith the white robe came throught the “great pressure” in order to be clothed in white. Now let us see a passage where Yehoshua speak, and is often misinterpreted:</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="RichViewCheckpoint0"></a><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Matt.7 :</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span lang="en"><b>14</b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">“Because the gate is </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>narrow</b></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">and the way is hard pressed</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #ff8040;"><sup><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en"><i>1</i></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">which leads to life, and there are few who find it.</span></span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><br />The word “narrow” in Greek is:</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">G2346</span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="el-GR"><b>θλίβω</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>thlibo</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">(thlee'-bo) </span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">v</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Where we get the Greek word </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Tribulation</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>G2347</b></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="el-GR"><b>θλίψις</b></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>thlipsis (thlip'-sis)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Bereshit 42:</b></span></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><span lang="en"><b>21 </b></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>distress</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">come upon us.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">We see here the direct connection between Hebrew “tsarah” (distress/tribulation), and the Greek “Thlibo” (crowed) from “thlipsis” (tribulation).<br />If we search in the TaNaHK we will find connection which demonstrate the the Children of Ysrael our fore fathers have gone through tribulation many times.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_FOOTER_SECTION_"></a><span lang="en-US"><b>Is.8:</b></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span lang="en"><b></b></span></sup></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span lang="en-US"><b>2</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span lang="en"><b>2</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">And they shall look unto the earth; and behold </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>trouble</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>(tsarah)</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Is.33 :</b></span></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span lang="en"><b>2 </b></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">O YHWH, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>trouble</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>(tsarah)</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US">Now let us see that it is really connecting to the same meaning as we have read in Rev.7:14 </span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>And I said to him, “Master, you know.” And he said to me, “These are those coming out of </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>the great distress (</b></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en"><b>thlipsis</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><b>/distress, trouble)</b></span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><b>........<br />Jerem.30:</b></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span lang="en"><b>7</b></span></sup></span><span style="color: maroon;"><sup><span lang="en"></span></sup></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en"><b>the time of Jacob's trouble</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-US"><b>(tsarah)</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en">; but he shall be saved out of it</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "tahoma" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Rev 19:8</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>And to her it was given to be dressed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the set-apart ones. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Isa 51:7</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My Torah: do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">The prophet is encouraging the people to turn back to the Torah (seek YHWH), to let the wrong forsake his way, to seek Yehowah’s mercy. The word of</span><span lang="en-US"><i>Yehovah</i></span><span lang="en-US">doesn’t change, it has been spoken and will do what he says. </span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 55:6</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB">Seek </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 55:7</span></span><span lang="en-US">Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for He pardons much. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 55:8</span></span><span lang="en-US">“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 55:9</span></span><span lang="en-US">“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 55:10</span></span><span lang="en-US">“For as the rain comes down, and the snow from the heavens, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Isa 55:11</b></span></span><span lang="en-US"></span><span lang="en-US"><b>so is My Word that goes forth from My mouth – it does not return to Me empty, but shall do what I please, and shall certainly accomplish what I sent it for. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Isa 55:12</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">“For with joy you go out, and with peace you are brought in – the mountains and the hills break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field clap the hands. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><b>Isa 55:13</b></span></span><span lang="en-US">“Instead of the thorn the cypress comes up, and instead of the nettle the myrtle comes up. And it shall be to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">for a name, for an everlasting sign which is not cut off.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Isa 56:1</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB">Thus said </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, “Guard right-ruling, and do righteousness, for near is My deliverance to come, and My righteousness to be revealed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 56:2</span></span><span lang="en-US">“Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it, guarding the Sabbath lest he profane it, and guarding his hand from doing any evil. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 56:3</span></span><span lang="en-US">“And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">speak, saying, ‘</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">has certainly separated me from His people,’ nor let the eunuch say, ‘Look I am a dry tree.’ ” </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 56:4</span></span><span lang="en-US">For thus said </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, “To the eunuchs who guard My Sabbaths, and have chosen what pleases Me, and hold fast to My covenant: </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 56:5</span></span><span lang="en-US">to them I shall give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters – I give them an everlasting name that is not cut off. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 56:6</span></span><span lang="en-US">“Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, to serve Him, and to love the Name of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, to be His servants, all who guard the Sabbath, and not profane it, and hold fast to My covenant – </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 56:7</span></span><span lang="en-US">them I shall bring to My set-apart mountain, and let them rejoice in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their slaughterings are accepted on My altar, for My house is called a house of prayer for all the peoples.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US">Isa 56:8</span></span><span lang="en-US">The Master </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, who gathers the outcasts of Yisra’ĕl, declares, “I gather still</span><span lang="en-US"><i>others</i></span><span lang="en-US">to him besides those who are gathered to him.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Rom 7:7</b></span></span><span lang="en-GB">What, then, shall we say? Is the Torah sin? Let it not be! However, I did not know sin except through the Torah. For also the covetousness I knew not if the Torah had not said, “You shall not covet.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB">Rom 7:8</span></span><span lang="en-GB">But sin, having taken the occasion through the command, did work in me all </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>sorts of</i></span><span lang="en-GB">covetousness. For apart from Torah sin is dead. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB">Rom 7:9</span></span><span lang="en-GB">And I was alive apart from the Torah once, but when the command came, the sin revived, and I died. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB">Rom 7:10</span></span><span lang="en-GB">And the command which was to result in life, this I found to result in death. </span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB">Rom 7:11</span></span><span lang="en-GB">For sin, having taken the occasion through the command, deceived me, and through it killed </span><span lang="en-GB"><i>me</i></span><span lang="en-GB">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB">Rom 7:12</span></span><span lang="en-GB">So that the Torah truly is set-apart, and the command set-apart, and righteous, and good. </span></div>
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Messiah in you, the hope of Glory.</div>
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The Messianic Scriptures contain two important messages:</div>
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<span lang="en-GB">(1) To come to</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span>(Yehoshua)<span lang="en-US">, to believe in Him and accept Him, and also acknowledge and accept the tremendous price He paid on Golgotha for your sins. For He is the only perfect offering for your sins, for the forgiveness of your sins.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">(2) Secondly and subsequently, the message of the blessing, the privilege, of having Messiah in you, </span><span lang="en-US"><b>also called the Word in you</b></span><span lang="en-US">(Ya'acov. 1:21), and in other places called the Set-apart Spirit or Spirit of Truth in you (Yn. 14:23). This fact appears in no less than 32 texts in the Messianic Scriptures! This all-important teaching has been sadly neglected in most denominations. Why is it so important? Simply because it is the only way to overcome the wicked one, that one who is the ruler of this present age (world). 1 Yn 4:4 greatly encourages us and says, “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">says in Yn. 15:5, “Because without Me you are able to do naught”! However, there is a condition Messiah laid down for Him (or the Spirit) to live in us: We have to guard (keep) His Words (Commands), which are the same as the Words (Commands) of His Father (7 texts in Yoḥanan prove this to us). </span><span lang="en-US"><b>He, or the Spirit, only lives in us if we guard His Words</b></span><span lang="en-US">(Commands) – </span><span lang="en-US"><b>Yn. 14:23</b></span><span lang="en-US">,</span><span lang="en-US"><b>1 Yn. 3:24.</b></span><span lang="en-US">This fact is repeated for us in </span><span lang="en-US"><b>Acts 5:32</b></span><span lang="en-US">: the Set-apart Spirit is given “to those who obey Him.” This second message of “Messiah in you,” which we find in the Messianic Scriptures, is nothing else but the life of obedience, to be set apart, as we sit at the feet of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">and learn from Him, feeding on the manna (the Word), in order to grow to maturity and bear the fruit of righteousness! This obedience to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">is not optional, no, it is imperative, for without this life of set-apartness (set apart from the sins of this world), NO ONE SHALL SEE HIM (Iḇrim. 12:14). If we truly love Him, we shall indeed obey Him (</span><span lang="en-US"><b>Shem. 20:6, Yn. 14:15, 1 Yn. 5:2-3, 2 Yn. v. 6</b></span><span lang="en-US">). This obedience to </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">is sadly neglected, yet a vital prerequisite (</span><span lang="en-US"><b>Yn. 3:36, Acts 3:22-23, 2 Cor. 10:5, Iḇrim. 5:9</b></span><span lang="en-US">). Obeying </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US">results in, and is the same as obedience to the Commands of </span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US">, and is an essential condition for everlasting life – Mt. 19:17, Lk. 10:28, Yn. 12:50, Rev. 22:14. Those who hear the Words (Commands) of</span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהושע</span></span><span lang="en-US">, but do not do them, shall fall, greatly (</span><span lang="en-US"><b>Mt. 7:24-27, Lk. 6:46-49</b></span><span lang="en-US">). We are listing these texts of “Messiah in us” (or the Spirit in us) for your convenience:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">In this short study I will refer to an excellent article from a man whose name is Joseph Dumond (even if I don't agree with all his teaching) who wrote a long study concerning the Yovel year and how it works in the calculation of the return of Yehoshua.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><br />first of all we have the scriptures which must be always the foundation of our research. Many theories are running among Messiahianity which are not based on the scriptures and therefore cannot hold with the truth. They will only bring deception.<br />Today Messiahians do not even know when our Master will come back. They claim the false rapture doctrine and will be deceived when the great tribulation will come upon them.</span></div>
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We have seen many times in our different studies that the number seven is a divine number for perfection on earth as everything was created in six days and the seven days is the perfect day of rest.</div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Lev 25:8</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>‘And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years. And the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Deu 15:1</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“At the end of every seven years you make a release </i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>of debts</i></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Deu 15:2</i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And this is the word of the release: Every creditor is to release what he has loaned to his neighbour, he does not require it of his neighbour or his brother, because it is called the release of </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Deu 31:10</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>And Mosheh commanded them, saying, “At the end of seven years, at the appointed time, the year of release, at the Festival of Booths, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Exo 21:2</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“When you buy a Heḇrew servant, he serves six years, and in the seventh he goes out free, for naught. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Exo 23:10</i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“And for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its increase, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Exo 23:11</i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>but the seventh year you are to let it rest, and shall leave it, and the poor of your people shall eat. And what they leave, the beasts of the field eat. Do the same with your vineyard and your oliveyard. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Exo 23:12</i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Six days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner be refreshed. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>Lev 25:1</b></i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>And </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>spoke to Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lev 25:2</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath to </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lev 25:3</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>‘Six years you sow your field, and six years you prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruit, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lev 25:4</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>but in the seventh year the land is to have a Sabbath of rest, a Sabbath to </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>. Do not sow your field and do not prune your vineyard. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lev 25:5</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>‘Do not reap what grows of its own of your harvest, and do not gather the grapes of your unpruned vine, for it is a year of rest for the land. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Lev 25:6</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>‘And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, for you and your servant, and for your female servant and your hired servant, and for the stranger who sojourns with you, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Jer 34:13</i></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><i>“Thus said </i></span><span style="font-family: "tahoma";"><span lang="he-IL">יהוה</span><span lang="he-IL"></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I Myself made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim, out of the house of bondage, saying, </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Jer 34:14</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>“At the end of seven years each one should set free his Heḇrew brother, who has been sold to him. And when he has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you.” But your fathers did not obey Me nor incline their ear. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: teal;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Jer 34:15</i></span></span><span lang="en-US"><i>‘And you recently turned and did what was right in My eyes, each man proclaiming release to his neighbour. And you made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My Name. </i></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">We see that the number seven is connected with the Torah. The time factor seven shall be also understood in the counting. For example the sh’mitta is a period of seven years. The Yovel is a period coming after seven sh’mittah. Joseph Dumond based on the research from HaQadesh publishing, that the year after the seven Sh’mittah is the 50</span><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup><span lang="en-US">, the year of Yovel but also the First year of the new coming cycle of SH’mittah, also part of the Yovel cycle. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Why it is so important to understand that? The reason is simple if we count based on a cycle of fifty years we will have a different result as, if we count with a cycle of forty nine years.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">My Ruach shall not strive forever with man, his life shall be 120 years. B’reshit chapter 6. We have seen that the word for “years” can also means revolution of time. The Yovel cycle is a revolution of time coming every 40 years. The 50</span><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup><span lang="en-US">one being the year of Yovel and also the First of the next cycle.<br />If we take 50 to count as many scholars have done we are already in the Millennium of Messiah! Fifty times 120 (the revolution time) is six thousand. The first millennium began with the counting of zero to one the first year part of the first Yovel cycle, part also of the first century, part of the first millennium.</span></div>
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So we know from the scriptures that Messiah shall come back to establish the Kingdom of Elohim on the seven day. Why is he not returned if we have already passed the seven days?</div>
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Because the approach has been based on a wrong counting.</div>
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If we take the cycle with 49 years we will have a different perspective.</div>
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49 X 120 = 5880. So we should write the year 5880 and not the Year 2009 plus 4000 years before Messiah = 6009, but the year 5880.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">The last Yovel was celebrated in Jerusalem in 1996. This mean we are now at the end of the second Sh’mittah cycle of the 120</span><sup><span lang="en-US">th</span></sup><span lang="en-US">Yovel’s cycle. In the theory it should remain now 35 years before the last cycle is finished! This mean it should be the year 2044.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">It seems very easy but, Yehoshua says in Mattitiyahu 24 that if the time were not shortened nobody would survive! He was speaking about the tribulations before his coming.(Matt.24:21-22).</span></div>
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How much it will be shortened, we do not know, but it will be for the elect’s sake.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">Joseph Dumond goes in much detail concerning the plague coming before the coming back of Messiah. The time period of the opening of the seals from revelation is a seven years period, in which the opened seals will remain in action, while the new one will take place. Since 1996 things have begin to change on earth.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">First Terrorism has taken place all around the world, since 2002 the price in the world are out of balance. We are now entering in 2009 the next Sh’mittah cycle and with it a new seal will open adding a new pressure on the world inhabitants.</span></div>
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Joseph Dumond says that people, even believers, followers of the Torah, have become lazy and do not make research, following what other write.</div>
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<span lang="en-US">Who are the one following the Lunar calendar? Many today even messianic follow the calendar build after the computer calculation not the sighted moon calendar. They have chosen the easy way. Does Yehowah change?</span></div>
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Below the text from Joseph Dumond to go in depth. Take time to read it and you will discover more hen you may have found in the last years.</div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Introduction</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />This study presents the evidence from ancient biblical and secular sources for the dating of the Shabbat year and Jubilee cycle.<br />There has been a long standing debate over exactly which Shabbat and Jubilee cycle system represents the one actually practiced by the ancient Israelites. To the novice this dispute may at first glance seem trivial. Nevertheless, there are two reasons that its solution is extremely valuable. First, this cycle is an essential tool for any reconstruction of the chronological framework of ancient Israelite history. The strong foundation it provides, in turn, acts as a guide for other contemporary dynasties and events. (See our forthcoming books titled Israelite Chronology and Old World Chronologies.)<br />Second, once the correct cycle is ascertained, it allows us to “clock in” and discover which years are presently Shabbat and Jubilees. This possibility holds great significance for students of biblical eschatology. The book of Hebrews, for example, notes that, “The Law,” of which the Shabbat and Jubilee years are a part, is “a shadow of the coming good things.” (Hebrews, 10:1) The Shabbat day, to demonstrate, was reckoned as a type of the great Shabbatism and rest into which the people of Yahweh will one day enter. (Hebrews, 3:7-4:13)<br />Likewise, the prophetic character of the Jubilee year is strongly attested to. The ancient book of Jubilees, for instance, notes that the Shabbat and Jubilee cycle would continue “until the sanctuary of the sovereign (Yehowah) is created in Jerusalem upon Mount Zion.” The text of 11Q Melchizedek, found in the caves at Qumran, explains the Jubilee statutes of Leviticus, 25, by stating:<br />1. [saying to Zion] `your eloahim reigns.’ . . . [<br />2. [ ] . . . and where it says, `in [this] year of Jubilee you shall return, each man to his possession.’<br />3. [and where it says, `Let] every holder of a debt [let drop] what he loans [to his neighbour. Let him not exact payment from his neighbour nor from his brother, for there is proclaimed a] remission<br />4. [of el.’ Its interpretation concerns the end of days as regards `those taken captive’ who [. . . etc.]. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“<span lang="en-GB">Those taken captive” is a reference to the future captivity of the Israelites among the nations during the end of days. The prophets foretold that out of this captivity a remnant of Israel and Judah would return to the Promised Land and eternally dwell with Yehowah. This return was symbolized by the Israelites regaining their liberty during the Jubilee year. The coming of the messiah during the end of days, at which time he will save Israel and Judah from their captivity and return them to their homeland, was, by extension, understood as occurring in one of these future Jubilee years.<br />In either case, whether for an accurate Israelite chronology or for eschatological purposes, a precise knowledge of this ancient cycle is required. Therefore, we must take the utmost care in uncovering the true and original Shabbat year and Jubilee cycle.<br />There are four possible Shemittah cycle systems we must consider. For simplification purposes, this study shall utilize the following labels for these four systems. Our “key” or “example” date will be the Shemittah year in each system which is either on or nearest to the year that Jerusalem and Herod’s Temple (the second Temple) were destroyed (the summer of 70 C.E.).</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>System “A”:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Abib (March/April) 1, 70 C.E. until Abib 1, 71 C.E. The month of Abib was also called Nisan. System “A” is advocated by this study.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>System “B”:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Tishri (Sept./Oct.) 1, 68 C.E. until Tishri 1, 69 C.E. The Zuckermann-Schürer system.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>System “C”:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Tishri 1, 69 C.E. until Tishri 1, 70 C.E. The Marcus-Wacholder theory.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>System “D”:</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Abib 1, 69 C.E. until Abib 1, 70 C.E. A possibility based upon the evidence of an Abib 1 beginning for the year coupled with the claim of Rabbi Jose and other Talmudic writers that the year before the fall of Jerusalem was a Shabbat year.<br />Today the most popular of these theories is system “B.” This system has been advocated since the time of the Mishnah (formed at the end of the second century C.E.). It only differs from system “D” in that system “D” would start the Shemittah year in the spring rather than in the fall. System “C” has also been advocated since the Gemara portion of written Talmudic times, but it has been the lesser sister to system “B.” It has again gained some popularity in recent years due to the work of Ralph Marcus and Zion Wacholder. System “A,” on the other hand, is the conclusion based upon the in-depth research into the ancient evidence provided in this study. In reality, system “A” has merely allowed the evidence to present its own case.<br />It is the contention of this study that the Jews who supported system “B,” beginning in the late second century C.E., lost touch with the accurate chronology and the true Shemittah year and Jubilee cycle. They, in turn, incorrectly calculated the Shemittah year for more ancient times so as to make it fall one year prior to the destruction of Jerusalem rather than during that event. System “D” is merely a modified form of “B.” System “D” takes notice of the fact that the earlier Israelites actually began their Shabbat year in the spring and not with the fall (the Jewish reckoning of fall as the official beginning of the Shemittah year taking place at a relatively late date). System “C” takes into account that the year Jerusalem fell (70 C.E.) was a Shabbat year but it errs in that it continues the late and, what we shall prove to be, false practice of reckoning the beginning of a Shabbat year from the fall.<br />All three systems (”B,” “C,” and “D”) are faced with important obstacles. Advocates of these various theories have often been forced to harshly criticize ancient records, like those from Josephus and the Maccabean books, because the historical data is inconsistent with present theory. Robert North, for example, takes Josephus to task by challenging his historical year as exhibiting “internal inconsistencies which invalidate their use for chronology.” North concludes, “It should be abundantly clear that the Shabbat (shemittah) year dates of Josephus are either palpably incommensurate, or else insolubly obscure.”<br />This study disagrees. It is not Josephus or any other pre-second century C.E. ancient report that is the source for the confusion. Indeed, we find them all remarkably accurate. Rather, it is the attempt to force these early records to conform with one of the three erroneous Shabbat cycle theories now prevalent which has created an illusion of historical error.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>System “A,”</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">on the other hand, does not start from the premise of an existing theory which is built upon the interpretation of one or two dates or upon a late tradition, as the three other systems do. Instead, it allows the evidence to build its own structure. The results of this method reveal that the ancient sources are in perfect harmony and reflect an entirely different Shabbat cycle than heretofore presented. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">As is to be expected, the fact that system “A” is a new and radical departure from the three established theories demands that it must submit in every detail to very close scrutiny. Yet, there is no doubt in this researcher’s mind that system “A” not only survives meticulous scrutiny but its solution is compelling.<br />As part of our Preliminary Discussion we shall review some major flaws in the system “B” chronology. These observations will be followed by some initial comments with regard to the question about which month served as the beginning of the ancient Shabbat year during the post-exile period. These two chapters will set the stage for other numerous proofs presented throughout which shall conclusively show that the first day of the Hebrew month of Abib (later called Nisan) was the true New Year date for the Jews up and until the time of the Bar Kochba revolt (133-135 C.E.). The month of Abib, which began with the new moon whose cycle contained the first full moon after the spring equinox, therefore, finds its start sometime during the Gregorian (Roman or Julian) month-names of either March or April.<br />With this preliminary discussion accomplished, we shall begin a detailed look at the evidence for the Shabbat and Jubilee years. This study has divided this examination into five Sections, each representing the evidence for a specific historical period:<br />In Section I of our text the records for a Shemittah (Shabbat) year and a Jubilee year which occurred during the pre-exile period (before 587 B.C.E.) shall be thoroughly discussed. It shall be demonstrated that a Shemittah (Shabbat) year and a Jubilee year were observed in the fifteenth and sixteenth year of the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah (701/700 and 700/699 B.C.E., </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>spring reckoning</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">). The complexities of this evidence demand a full investigation of the conflict between the Assyrian king Sennacherib and the Judahite king Hezekiah, as well as the important involvement of the Kushite king Tirhakah. The results of this study will in turn lay the groundwork for what will prove to be the true and correct Shabbat and Jubilee cycle, which for our study has been dubbed system “A.” This conclusion will be amply supported by the remainder of our work.<br />In Section II we shall examine the records of the Jewish post-exile period (538-40 B.C.E.). These documents will reveal the observance of a Shabbat year in the eighth year of the Persian king Arta-xerxes I; in the 150th Seleucid year; in the 178th Seleucid year; and, finally, in the year following the fifth consulship of Gaius Julius Caesar.<br />Section III will delve into the evidence for two Shabbat years observed during the reign of King Herod of Judaea (40-4 B.C.E.). In these chapters we shall provide an in-depth examination of which year and season Herod conquered Jerusalem. This conquest is very important for our study since a Shabbat year occurred around that time. Systems “B,” “C,” and “D” all make their interpretations of this Shabbat year the heart of their arguments. The evidence from Herod’s thirteenth through seventeenth years adds further definition as to which of the four possible Shabbat cycle systems can plausibly work.<br />Section IV will deal with the evidence for the Shabbat years in the post-Herod period, extending up until the end of the First Revolt and the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. This investigation will include the proof that there could not have been a Shabbat year in 40/41 C.E.-which will verify that system “B” (Zuckermann’s view) and system “D” are inaccurate. We shall also show proof of a Shabbat year in the second year of Emperor Nero (56/57 C.E., </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Abib reckoning</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">) and shall demonstrate that a Shabbat year could not have occurred in the winter of 68/69 C.E. (which again disproves systems “B” and “D”). These records will reveal that the year Jerusalem fell to the Romans (i.e. 70/71 C.E</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>., spring reckoning</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">) was a Shemittah (Shabbat) year.<br />Section V shall analyze the evidence for the Shemittah (Shabbat) year of 133/134 C.E., during the Bar Kochba revolt, and the references to an upcoming Shabbat year in 140/141 C.E. The Shabbat year of 133/134 C.E. was the last official Shabbat year observed by the Judaean state. With the traumatic defeat of the Jews by the Romans in the summer of 135 C.E., the practice of observing the Shabbat years by the Judaean state was thereafter suppressed. It was abolished altogether as a requirement for Judaism by its leaders during the third century C.E. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">But this paper is not just to show you when the Jubilee and Land rest years are. As it says in Colossians 2: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">16 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or</span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>regarding a festival or a new moon or Shabbath, 17 which are a shadow of things to come,</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">but the substance is of Messiah.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />The Sabbath Day, each of the Holy Days, the Land Rest years and the Jubilee year are all shadow pictures of good things to come. But unless we are obedient and keep this time Holy we will miss the events that occur during these days and years, just as the Jews missed the Messiah and the events that happened during Passover, at that time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The years we know to be Land Rest years and Jubilee Years are as follows. From Qadesh La Yahweh Press.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">: A land rest year occurred in 701 BC and a Jubilee in 700 BC as written in the Bible in 2 Kings 19:29, Isaiah 37, and 2 Chronicles 32<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 456 BC Nehemiah 8:18<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 162 BC 1 Macc 16:14 Jos Antiq<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 134 BC 1 Macc & Jos Antiq<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 43 BC as issued by Gaius Julius Caeser And Jos Antiq<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 36 BC Jos Antiq 14:16:2<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 22 BC Jos Antiq 15:9:1<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 42 CE Jos Antiq 18:<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 56 CE<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 70 CE<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 133 CE<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 140 CE</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Qadesh La Yahweh Press goes to great detail to prove these dates are correct and shows how the other theories go astray. A most enjoyable read.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Qadesh La Yahweh Press also proves that the 50th year was the year after the 49th and also it was the first year in the follow count. Or in other words 49, 50, then year two would be next. I myself always believed it was 49, 50 then 1, 2 etc. But when these facts are laid out as they are, I am forced to concede my wrong thinking. my wrong theory. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This counting method is also shown to us every year at Pentecost. We count seven Shabbat and on the day after the seventh Shabbat is the fiftieth day. This day is also the first day of the week or the day one as we count to seven again.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Many of the Jubilee authors know of these dates in history. But in order for their own interpretation of the Jubilee cycle to work they must prove that the author in the bible or in history was wrong on certain occasions when recording events. And they go to elaborate explanations to prove they are right. On the other hand Qadesh La Yahweh Press shows how the original author in History used the correct calendar for the area they were talking about, and they cross reference that historian with other historians known at the same time using different calendars to pin point the accuracy of the dating of the events in question.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">What does it all mean and why should I be concerned?</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">The first time I have been able to find any mention of the jubilee is in Genesis 6: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><br /></i></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">3 And YHWH said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.”</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />I have found nowhere in history that the average age of man was 120 years. Before the flood they were up to 962 years. After the flood the bible records many patriarchs well into the hundreds. Today our average life span is about 80. So what was it that Yahweh was saying here when He said “his days shall be one hundred and twenty years”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The word for years is Strong’s Word # 08141 spelled hnX and pronounced Shaneh (Shaw-neh). It has four meanings which are: a)as division of time ; b) as measure of time ; c) as indication of age ; d) a lifetime (of years of life).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">This passage then could be read one hundred and twenty periods of time. That would be 120 Jubilee cycles. Right away many conclude this to be 120 X 50 and arrive at 6000 years. This is wrong as has been explained above. It is 120 X 49 which gives us 5880 years. On the Jewish Calendar they state this year as 5766. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">This is very misleading to the average person. The Jewish calendar fails to mention that </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>they have removed 76 years from the calendar.</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">This was done in Mathew 1:8 where the names of Ahaziah, who reigned 1 year, and Athaliah who reigned 6, and Jehhoash who reigned 40 and Amaziah who reigned 29, are all missing from the chronology. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>76 years in total</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">. On The Jewish New year which is on September 23 in 2006 the year will be 5767</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>. If we add the 76 years to this date we get 5843</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">. But because the Year according to Yahweh was to start in the Spring in the month of Nisan we can go back 6 months and get 5842 as this year until the 1st of Nisan in 2007 which will then be 5843.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">What was it that these kings did to anger Yehowah so? We can read in Duet. 29:20 where Yehowah threatened to blot out the names of those who served other mighty ones. And in Exodus 20:5 it says that the sins of the people will be visited to the 3rd and 4th generations of those who hate Him. What wicked King could this be? 2 Chron 24:7 For the sons of Athalyahu, that wrong woman, had broken into the house of Yehowah; and had also all the dedicated vessels of the house of Yehowah bestowed upon Baalim. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Because of this blasphemy, the city of Libnah revolted against Yeh’oram (2 Kings 8:22). Libnah was one of the cities of the Aaronic Preists (Joshua 21:13). Obviously they objected violently to Yeh’oram’s desecration of the Solomon’s temple. For Yah’oram’s blasphemy, Yahweh judged not only his wife Athaliah, but his son Ahaziah, and grandson Jehash, and great grandson Amazaih.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">2 Kings 8: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">24 So </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Yeh’oram</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">rested with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David. Then Ahaziah his son reigned in his place.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><br /></i></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">25 In the twelfth year of </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Yeh’oram</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Yeh’oram</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, king of Judah, began to reign. 26 Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri, king of Israel. 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of YHWH, like the house of Ahab, for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />2 Kings 11: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal heirs. 2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king’s sons who were being murdered; and they hid him and his nurse in the bedroom, from Athaliah, so that he was not killed. 3 So he was hidden with her in the house of YHWH for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land. </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">20 So all the people of the land rejoiced; and the city was quiet, for they had slain Athaliah with the sword in the king’s house. 21 Jehoash was seven years old when he became king. </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />2 Kings 12: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash* became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">2 Kings 14:</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 In the second year of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, became king. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem…….. 19 And they formed a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. 20 Then they brought him on horses, and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the City of David. 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king instead of his father Amaziah.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />This Azariah was also called Uzziah in 2 Kings 15:13 and is the Ozias of Mathew 1:8</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Having now shown where the 76 year went missing, the question arises, ‘Are we in the year 5766 or is it really 5842 leaving us 38 years to the conclusion of the 120th Jubilee cycles? The answer is I do not know for sure. Not 100% for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But as I watch the signs I see a pattern which is leading me to conclude this is the last Jubilee Cycle. Time will prove me right or wrong. But one of the proofs I have has already been stated. It was 2 kings 19:29.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">The Jubilee is mentioned in the Bible</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">When I first read this at Qadesh La Yahweh Press I was stunned at how plainly it was stated and at how many scholars had overlooked it and or discarded it. In 2 Kings 19:29 it reads </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>‘This shall be a sign to you: You shall eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Did you get it.? Did you see what Yehowah said to Hezekiah? Read it again. It is so simply put, and so obvious. Read it again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">“</span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">This shall be a sign to you</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">” Why did Hezekiah need a sign? Isaiah 37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">“Thus says YHWH Elohim of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word which YHWH has spoken concerning him: </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />2 Kings 20:</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, went to him and said to him, “Thus says YHWH: ‘Set your house in order, for you shall die, and not live.’ ” 2 Then he turned his face toward the wall, and prayed to YHWH, saying, 3 “Remember now, O YHWH, I pray, how I have walked before You in truth and with a loyal heart, and have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. 4 And it happened, before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court, that the word of YHWH came to him, saying, 5 “Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of YHWH. 6 </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.”</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">It was at this same time that Sennacherib king of Assyria was attacking Jerusalem. Hezekiah was sick and on his death bed. He was about to die when the attack started. And the sign that Jerusalem was going to be saved was that Hezekiah would live to </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">eat this year such as grows of itself, And in the second year what springs from the same; Also in the third year sow and reap, Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">. On top of that or included in that, Yehowah said he would </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">live another 15 years</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Edwin R. Thiele renown chronologist and author of The Mysterious Numbers of The Hebrew Kings states that Hezekiah died in 686 BC. 15 years earlier was 701 BC. Qadesh La Yahweh Press proves from many historical points of reference that the year Sennacherib king of Assyria, came to attack Jerusalem was in 701BC.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>So what year is 701 BC?</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">This was when Yahweh said Hezekiah would eat this year such as grows of itself. This means they did not plant a crop. Was this a land rest year, or did they not plant because of the advancing army of Sennacherib? If it was because of the advancing army why did they not plant after the army was defeated by the plague? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">No, this was a land rest year. But not just any land rest year, because Yehowah said that Hezekiah would </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">eat in the second year what springs from the same</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">. That is, in the second year you could not plant yet again and had to eat whatever grew of its own accord. </span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">In the Jubilee cycle there is only one time that this occurs. It is when the 49th year or the 7th land rest year is followed by the 50th year which is the Jubilee Year. And Yahweh is showing us that in the year 701 BC it was a 49th year and a land rest year. He is also showing us that the year 700 BC is the 50th year and is also the Year of Jubilee. It is also the first year in the next cycle of 49 years. How much more plainer can it be shown to us?</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />If this is a correct interpretation, then those land rest years that are mentioned in Josephus and Maccabees will fit the cycles without exception.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">: A Sabbath year occurred in 456 BC Nehemiah 8:18<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 162 BC 1 Macc 16:14 Jos Antiq<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 134 BC 1 Macc & Jos Antiq<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 43 BC as issued by Gaius Julius Caeser And Jos Antiq<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 36 BC Jos Antiq 14:16:2<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 22 BC Jos Antiq 15:9:1<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 42 CE Jos Antiq 18:<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 56 CE<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 70 CE<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 133 CE<br />: A Sabbath year occurred in 140 CE</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">456 BC turns out to be the 49th year and a land rest year. 162 BC also turns out to be the 49th year. 134 BC would be the 4th Sabbath year of that cycle. 43 BC would be the 3rd land rest year in that cycle, and 36 BC the fourth land rest year and 22 BC the sixth land rest of this cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">42 CE is the 1st land rest year of this cycle. 56 CE is the third land rest year. 70 CE is the fifth land rest year and 133 CE is the 49th year in this cycle while 140 CE is the first land rest year of the next cycle. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When doing your calculations remembers there is no year ‘0’ when going from 1BC to 1 CE. 3BC, 2BC, 1BC, 1CE, 2CE, 3CE, is counted as six years not seven.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">If we count by sevens from 456 BC back to Hezekiah’s time we will arrive at 701 BC. A land Rest year. Knowing this, </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">we now know from Yehowah Himself that 700 BC was a Jubilee year.</span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Which Jubilee was it?</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">We read in 1 Kings 6:. </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth* year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Yehowah.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 Kings 11: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">42 And the period that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />Thiele in his book states that the start of Rehoboam’s reign was 930 BC.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Time for a little math 701 BC to 930 BC is 229 Years. 480 years after the exodus, to the fourth year of Solomon to Hezekiah 480 plus 36 (36 is the number of years from the beginning to build the temple to the end of Solomon’s reign in 930 BC) plus 229. The Exodus took place 430 years after they had entered the land which was when Abraham first entered Egypt. This was about when Abraham was 70. And by adding up all those years mentioned in the bible you will arrive at the birth of Abraham 1948 years after the Creation of Adam.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">So 1948 plus 70 plus 430 plus 480 plus 36 plus 229 plus 701 BC =3894 BC By this simple addition we arrive at the creation of Adam in 3894 BC. Then as a cross reference we subtract 49 from this date repeatedly, until we arrive at 709 BC. Obviously this should have worked out to be 701 BC. Another simple addition. 3894 BC plus 2006 = 5900. We have too many years. 58 Years to many. Remember I said 49 X 120 = 5880 but that this year (2006) was 5842. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">If we count forward in time from 701 BC by 49 year periods we arrive at 1995 as the 49th year and 1996 as the Year of Jubilee. If we also say this is the 119th Jubilee, we can multiply 119 X 49 and get a total of 5831 years up to 1995. 5831-1995 = 3836 + 1 for year ‘0’ = 3837 BC.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">When I come forward using Biblical chronology I can almost make all things fit in a logical chronology. But once again I end up out by 12 years using the existing information. If I move the whole list in the other direction I am out by 37 years. Many chronologist have a great deal of trouble from Jacob to Hezekiah due to the lack of verifiable information available.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">I show you this to share the problem I have of making it known as to which Jubilee we are in. I am not 100% sure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But if we divide 120 Jubilee Cycles by the 6 days of the week, or the six days of man, we end up with each day having 20 Jubilee periods. Or 20 X 49 = 980 Years for one day. The Messiah was to be killed, cut off, executed in the midst of the week. That was a Wednesday. This was the fourth day. Indeed the Messiah was killed on a Wednesday and the year was also the 3864th year from creation. In other words the year our Messiah was killed was 28 or 31 CE or 3864 after creation. 980 X 4 days =3920 years. 980 X 3 days = 2940. So we can see that He did indeed die on the prophetic 4th day. The temple too was destroyed in 70 CE which is 3906. 14 years before the prophetic day was to end and the prophetic 5th day was to start.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Adam too died at the age of 930. 50 years before the first prophetic day would end. In the day you eat of it you shall die. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">One other note while I am on this subject. Note Isaiah 61: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 “The Spirit of the Master God is upon Me, Because the Master has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound; 2 </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>To proclaim the acceptable year of the Master</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, And the day of vengeance of our God;</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br />Our Messiah was born 3BC as shown in the article </span></span><span style="color: #003366;"><a href="http://www.sightedmoon.com/?page_id=22" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"><span lang="en-GB">Conjunction or Sighted Which?</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">But we all have always assumed He lived until he was 33 ½ years old when He was crucified. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Michael Rood</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">( even if I don't always agree with him) in his 70 week Prophecy series clearly shows that the Messiah preached and did all His work starting in 27 CE before the Passover. One year later he was stoned to death on a tree on the Mount of Olives. From the time He was baptized in the Jordan until His death and up to the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given was a total of 70 weeks. This then makes His year of death 28 CE. This year of 28 CE is also a year in which the New Sighted Moon can be seen at such a time as to allow Passover to occur on a Wednesday. This year of 28 CE is also a Land rest year. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">I have shown all this to demonstrate that we are close and also to show how I am unable to show with 100% accuracy that this is the last Jubilee. I strongly suspect it is as I will show you. But to say dogmatically that it is, I cannot.</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Where are We Now in Prophecy?</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">If 1996 (some say 1967 was) was the last Jubilee year and if it also was the 119th Jubilee cycle as I am claiming, then what happens next? To find that answer we have to return to the Bible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">We first need to understand how </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehovah</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">thinks concerning these Land Rest Years and Jubilee years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">We read in Daniel 9: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolation’s of Jerusalem.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">This year was 521 BC</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">This revelation that Daniel has from Jeremiah is found in Jeremiah 25:</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">8 “Therefore thus says the YHWH Zebaoth: ‘Because you have not heard My words, 9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ says YHWH, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations. 10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp. 11 And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. 12 </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>‘Then it will come to pass, when seventy years are completed</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,’ says YHWH; ‘and I will make it a perpetual desolation.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Babylon was conquered in 537 BC. 70 years earlier was 607 BC But Jerusalem or Judah was attacked by </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Nebuchadnezzar</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, starting in 606 when Daniel was captured and the final destruction of Jerusalem taking place 586 BC on the 7th day of the fifth month.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Jeremiah again states this 70 Years in Jeremiah 29:</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">8 For thus says the YHWH Zebaoth, the Elohim of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed. 9 For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them, says YHWH. 10 For thus says YHWH: </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>After seventy years are completed at Babylon,</i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says YHWH, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says YHWH, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says YHWH, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive. </span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">So Daniel knows the 70 year period is coming to a close. He does not know exactly when that time ends, but he knows it is close. So the beginning of this new prophecy of 70 weeks or 70 </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>shabuwa</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, (periods of 7 or seventy sevens) is </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>to start when the decree is given out</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Most believe this to be 70 times 7 years. Their reasoning is based on 2 Chronicles 36: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: 21 To fulfil the word of YHWH by the mouth of Jeremiah, </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. </i></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">70 Years! </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">That is 70 broken land rest years. To get 70 land rest years, you have to have 427 years.</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">The assumption that you need 490 years of broken Sabbaths is wrong. One Jubilee cycle times ten. This is an assumption by unlearned men. Each Sabbatical cycle has 8 land rest in them, not 7. One on each of the 7th , 14th , 21st , 28th , 35th , 42nd and 49th years, but the 50th year is also a land rest year. When you add up these years, counting until you get to 70 broken land rest years you arrive at 427 years . In the 490 years there are 80 land rest years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">When we take the time when Jerusalem fell </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>in 586 BC</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, and we add 427 year to it, we arrive at 1013 BC. This would have been the time during King David’s Rule. Chronologist say that Solomon died in 930 BC after reigning 40 years. 930 plus 40 = 970 and King David ruled 40 years bringing us to 1010 BC. Very close to our date for broken land rest years. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">So, does </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehovah</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">consider these Land Rest Years and Jubilee Years lightly? No, I think not. Nor should we. They are very important to Him. So much so that He removed Judah from the land for 70 years to give the land its rest which it had not had while Judah was on the land.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">We have previously read from Leviticus 23, and 25. In Leviticus 26 we are told in the first 13 verses what </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehovah</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">will do for us </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">if we just obey Him</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">1 ‘You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am YHWH your Elohim. 2 </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>You shall keep My Sabbaths </i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">and reverence My sanctuary: I am </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehowah</i></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">. 3 </span></span></em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them, 4 then I will give </i></span></span></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">you rain in its season, the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 Your threshing shall last till the time of vintage, and the vintage shall last till the time of sowing; you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land. 7 You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. 8 Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. 9 ‘For I will look on you favourably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you. 10 You shall eat the old harvest, and clear out the old because of the new. 11 I will set My tabernacle among you, and My soul shall not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you and be your Elohim, and you shall be My people. 13 I am </span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehowah</i></span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you walk upright.</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Notice the condition. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">‘If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them </span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">It is not enough that we know the law. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">We must live by the law. We must be doers of the law</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Romans 2:</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">13 for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified.</span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">If we will not obey </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehowah</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">, if we will not walk in these Statutes, if we will not keep these Commandments, and if we will not perform them, then the rest of Leviticus 26 tells us what </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehowah</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">will do. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yehowah</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">tells us what </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">He</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">will do to us if we obey and then He tells us what </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">He</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">will do if we will not obey. It is right there in Leviticus and is not something I am making up. You do not have to be a prophet to read His words. This is not rocket science. The simplest of men can understand. Will they though? Will you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Leviticus 26: </span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">14 ‘But if you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, 15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, 16 I also will do this to you: I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it. 17 I will set My face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. </span></span></em></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">When we read the above text, it has little meaning to us today in the twenty-first century. Until you understand that Yehovah is talking about His commandments as contained in Leviticus 23 and 25; not just the Sabbath and the Holy Days, but also the Land Rest Years. You also need to understand that Yehovah is talking to Israel and to Judah. Combining all the information that has been spoken about up until now, we are talking about the Land Rest Years and have determined that the last Jubilee year was in 1996, with 1995 being the 49th year and the seventh land rest year. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">If 1996 is the Jubilee year, it is also the 1st year of the next seven years in Yehowah’s Jubilee cycle. We read in Leviticus 26:16 Yahweh’s first punishment. I will appoint terror over you; wasting disease; fever which consume the eyes </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">To me the remaining of the verse seems to cover the over-all punishment. So I will focus just on these three. Again, who is this addressed too? </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">It is addressed to Israel and to Judah. Israel is the United States, England, Australia and Canada, as well as Norway Sweden, France, Denmark, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, South Africa; and other countries of North Western Europe. Judah is represented by the State of Israel and the Jewish people.</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u><b>So this curse is applicable to these countries and these peoples.</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The word ‘Terror’ used inLeviticus 26:16 is Behalah in Hebrew and is used 4 times in scriptures. Twice to denote trouble, and two for terror. The word ‘Terror’ from the Concise Oxford Dictionary states Terror as Extreme Fear. A Terror is one who favours or uses terror- inspiring methods of governing or of coercing government or community. Terrorize is to fill with terror.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">From http://philologos.org/bpr/files/j006.htm At the Western Wall today ( Mar 22, 2001)and in yeshivas and synagogues and religious schools throughout Israel the sound of shofar blasts, the singing of Hebrew Psalms and cries and tears and wails of repentance were heard in response to a declaration by the Gedolei Yisrael (Great Ones of Israel) formally recognizing the beginning of the </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">“time of Jacob’s trouble.” </span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Thursday, March 22, 2001 </span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">(the 27th of Adar, 5761), was earlier designated the time to celebrate</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Rosh Chodesh</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Nisan, (the first day of Nisan), since the first day of Nisan actually falls on Sunday. Ordinarily </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Rosh Chodesh</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Nisan is designated a Yom Kippur </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Katan</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">(a small Yom Kippur).<br />So over the past 24 hours the Jewish community here in Israel and throughout the world has united in prayer. What is unusual about this year’s Yom Kippur Katan is that in light of the 6-month-old Palestinian uprising which has claimed the lives of 57 Israelis, including more than 20 through the direct involvement and participation of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority,</span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>the rabbis</u></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><u>have added</u></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">the designation as “a time of Jacob’s trouble.” </span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><br /></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Further it is signed by ALL 27 of the leading Orthodox and Chassidic sages, both the “maranan verabonon” (masters and teachers) and the “gedolei ha-Torah vehaChassidus (Torah sages among the Chassidut).”</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">The declaration begins and is formally designated:</span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">“IT IS A TROUBLED TIME FOR YA’ACOV BUT HE WILL BE SAVED.” </span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Jacob is often used to denote Israel. The title of Israel was passed down to the son of Jacob, Joseph, and to his son Manasseh and Ephraim. </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Manasseh’s</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">children became known as </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Machir [haMahir]</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">by the Assyrians. Later they were called </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Amyrgian Scyths [Amyrgio Scuthae</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">], as well as, </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">[Margiana, Marycaei, Maruca]</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">during the Assyrian Captivity. As time marched on they became known as </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Gimirri Umurgah </span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">at around 522-486 BC by the Babylonians and after they were freed by the Babylonians and Medes. Still, later as these people migrated to north western Europe they were called </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Umerga - Amyrgio - Umerugi [Saxon Germany], Mercian Saxons [England], Maruka - Skati Maruka Abis Maurungani </span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">around 700 CE. Still, later on some were known as </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Ap-Meryk - Son of Machir</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">- until in 1470 we have in ancient records </span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Richard Ameryk and other records still with the title America - Land of Machir 1451-1512</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Taken from Yair Davidiy’s book The Tribes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">So this should now be very clear as to whom these blessings and curses from Leviticus apply. To the richest nation ever blessed on the face of the earth, just as Yehowah said He would to Abraham, now comes the curse that will destroy her for not following and obeying Him. These things are to be applied to the United States of America. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>Manasseh</b></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">Here another thoughts concerning the </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Yovel Year</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span lang="en-GB">based on different approach, only time will tells us who is right:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">* Mark Blitz is a believer in Yeshua, Torah keeper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">It started for me with an April 30, 2008 World Net Daily story on Blood Moons</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #003366;"><a href="http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=63076" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=63076</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">which linked to an interview on a show called Prophecy in the News. As I listened to the interview with Mark Blitz*</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #003366;"><a href="http://prophecyinthenews.com/" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://prophecyinthenews.com/</span></span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">on the Internet I took up their offer to buy a DVD. It was recorded of Mark teaching at his Assembly three days after his discovery about eclipses on the Jewish holidays in 2015. At three days he had not yet seen how amazing and compelling these eclipses would later prove to be. Sets of lunar eclipses falling on Jewish holidays spanning 600 years from 1493 to past 2100 happened only three times. They are: in 1948 (The year of the birth of Israel as a nation again), in 1967 (When Jerusalem was captured), and they will be in 2015. (SEE THE CHARTS BELOW:)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Heavenly signs: Sabbatical Year 2014-2015</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">(September 25, 2014 - September 13, 2015)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Four Lunar Eclipses: NASA table of Lunar eclipses (2011-2020) | Jewish Holidays (1998-2017)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The blood-red moon signifies trouble for Israel</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Passover: April 15, 2014</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">| Total eclipse visible in Australia, Pacific, Americas<br />Tabernacles:</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">October 9, 2014</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">| October 8, 2014 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Passover: April 4, 2015</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">| Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas<br />Tabernacles: September 28, 2015 | Total eclipse visible in East Pacific, Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia (This is the only one visible from Jerusalem at moon-set)<br />Four total blood-red moons back-to-back are rare, the only time it happens on four Biblical holidays is in 2014/2015. The only times last century these occurred together was in 1967/1968 when Jerusalem was recaptured. Hebcal used to determine older Jewish holidays.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Passover: April 25, 1967</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">| Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tabernacles: October 19, 1967 | October 18</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">, 1967 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Passover: April 13, 1968</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">| Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa<br />Tabernacles: October 7, 1968 | October 8, 1968 Total eclipse visible in Asia, Australia, Pacific, Americas<br />Four total lunar eclipses also happened before these listed above just after Israel became a nation in 1949/1950 as well. Hebcal used to determine older Jewish holidays.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Passover: April 14, 1949 | April 13, 1949 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa<br />Tabernacles: October 8, 1949 | October 7, 1949 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia<br />Passover: April 2, 1950 | Total eclipse visible in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia<br />Tabernacles: September 26, 1950 Total eclipse visible in Americas, Europe, Africa, West Asia<br />The next previous time this happened again was in 1493/1494 just after the Jews were kicked out of Spain on the 9th of Av, 1492.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Solar Eclipses: NASA table of Solar eclipses (2011-2020) | Jewish Holidays (1998-2017)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The solar eclipse signals judgment for the nations</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Tamuz 29/Av 1: August 2, 2008 | August 1, 2008 Total eclipse visible in North America, Europe, Asia<br />Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 21-22, 2009 | July 22, 2009 Total eclipse visible in East Asia, Pacific Ocean, Hawaii<br />Tamuz 29/Av 1: July 11-12, 2010 | July 11, 2010 Total eclipse visible in Southern South America</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Adar 29/Nisan 1 (Beginning of the religious calendar): March 20-21, 2015</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Total eclipse visible in Iceland, Europe, North Africa, North Asia<br />Rosh Hashanah: September 14, 2015 | September 13, 2015 Partial eclipse visible in South Africa, South Indian, Antarctica</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When Mark Blitz first went looking for eclipses on NASA’s website, which lists them, it seems he ONLY went to see if there were any in 2015. The reason blew my mind. It was something as amazing as the eclipses. You can hear the audio of this DVD on his Assembly’s web site from 3-1-08,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #003366;"><a href="http://www.elshaddaiministries.us/audio/torah5768/20080301t22.html" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.elshaddaiministries.us/audio/torah5768/20080301t22.html</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">I’ve been doing some hunting around to see if any other Messianic believers have taken note of the 4 upcoming eclipses that Mark Blitz has outlined for us. A gentleman, Greg Killian, who knows a lot about astronomy and the Bible with a vast web site with all kinds of very detailed Biblical studies has recently posted something very interesting on the eclipses and the possible Jubilee year, 2015. The article I am quoting from can be found here.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Regarding the Jubilee (Yovel) year, Greg Killian says:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“<span style="font-size: 13pt;">One of the most interesting Yovel calculations comes from those who combine the opinion of the Rabbanan and Hakham Yehoshua. This novel idea[9] suggests that we count fifty years for the Yovel up until the destruction of the Temple. After the destruction of the Temple we revert to counting forty-nine years with the first year of the next cycle being the Yovel year. By combining Rabannan’s count and R. Yehuda’s count:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">We find that the last Yovel (Jubilee) year was 5727 (1967),</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the year of the 6-Day War.<br />This was the 48th Yovel year starting from the time of Ezra in 3416.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Yovel year which is 49 years later is 5776 (2015)</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“This novel calculation shows the following Jubilees and their significance:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yovel Year 46 - 5678 (1917)</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Shortly after the beginning of the 46th Yovel, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">the Balfour Declaration was ratified</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">. Dated November 2, 1917 (17th Marcheshvan 5678), the Balfour Declaration is one of the biggest steps towards gaining international recognition for the Return to Eretz Israel.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yovel Year 47 - 5727(1967)</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US">The next Yovel year, according to this calculation, was in 5727. In Iyar 5727 </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">(June of 1967),</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yerushalayim, Yehuda, Shomron, the Golan, and Gaza came under Jewish control for the first time in centuries, and the move back to these areas, of eretz Israel, began.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Yovel Year 48 - 5776 ( 2015)</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“<span style="font-size: 13pt;">This coming Yovel, and its events, are yet to be seen. Never the less, we can learn what kinds of events to expect. Perhaps the year following would be a fitting time for the Sanhedrin to assume or rather to resume its role in counting of Shmita and Yovel and to assume its role of leadership of Am Israel.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">This next Yovel would start the 49th Yovel period. Rather fitting that the Sanhedrin would count the last Yovel before the 50th Yovel, a Yovel of Yovels. Remember that only the Sanhedrin can count and sanctify the Yovel year.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">From Mark’s notes:</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #003366;"><a href="http://www.elshaddaiministries.us/video/eclipsenotes.html" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.elshaddaiministries.us/video/eclipsenotes.html</span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">June 7th 1967</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jerusalem was restored to Israel and began to be built up in troublous times! 49 prophetic years x 360 days = 17,640 days. So, let’s count from June 7th 1967 forward, to the day, 17,640 days and see where it takes us! It puts you on Sep 23rd 2015, which is YOM KIPPUR!!!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Why 2015?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Is it because of Isaac Newton?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Newton wrote over a million words of commentary on the books of Daniel and Revelation. They were released in reprint only in the past few years. He thought God had given us a way to see His “End Time” timetable. Newton thought the Second Coming of Yeshua would be the start of a Jubilee year. The keeping of when these fifty year cycles called Jubilee years is to take place has been lost in time. They start after a count of 49 years on a Jewish Holiday, the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. That 50th year called a Jubilee Year would be a time of returning land to the original owners and freeing of slaves.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Leviticus 25:8-10</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">8 The Year of Jubilee</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. 10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NKJV</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Here is where it gets exciting, Mark Blitz wanted to see if there were any eclipses in 2015 because he had heard about some other person’s calculations. Here is a link I found when I Google searched June 7, 1967 and Daniel 9:25 it seems to follow along with what Marl Blitz was saying. I know nothing else about this site but I will put some quotes from it below. First Daniel 9:24,25,& 26 then “Newton’s Riddle”:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dan 9:24-26</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">“<span style="font-size: 13pt;">Newton’s Riddle” - Jim Bramlett - Feb 27, 2008</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Newton was a devout believer in Messiah and Bible scholar, fluent in ancient languages, and who translated directly from the Hebrew and Greek. He was unusually drawn to the prophet Daniel, which he began studying at age 12 and continued until he died at age 85. In fact, The Columbia History of the World, a secular history book, remarks, “At the end of his days he spent more time studying and writing about the prophecies in the Book of Daniel than he did in charting the heavens.” Apparently, God Himself put in Newton’s heart this burning desire to study Daniel, then gave him the key to the timing of Messiah’s return.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Could this be the final profound secret the Master revealed to this godly genius near the end of his life — a secret “accidentally” discovered in the Library of Congress and republished just in the last few years — a secret so simple that most have missed it?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">If Newton was correct in his interpretation of Daniel, the prophet to whom God gave specific timing, then the return of the Master Yeshua Messiah will be very, very soon, indeed!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Newton’s understanding of one key passage in Daniel chapter 9 is fundamentally different from that of most common interpretations. In about 550 B.C., God gave the prophet Daniel a view of history to the end. From Daniel 9:25, scholars usually add the “seven weeks (of years, or 49 years) and 62 weeks (434 years)” to get 483 years and calculate the time of Messiah’s First Coming. However, Newton says there is no linguistic basis for adding those two numbers (49 and 434), and to do so is “doing violence to the language of Daniel.” Newton says the two numbers separately speak of both the First and Second Coming,</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">both being counted from the “going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">.”</span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Some commentators agree.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Newton says the “62 weeks,” or 434-year part was fulfilled at the First Coming, and the “seven weeks,” or 49-year part will apply to the Second Coming. And three centuries ago he saw in the Scriptures and wrote about the rebirth of Israel at a time when such a thought was preposterous. Amazingly by faith and understanding of the Scriptures, he foresaw a “friendly kingdom” someday again issuing the “commandment to restore and build Jerusalem.” Now, centuries later, that “friendly kingdom” may have been the United Nations, which decreed </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Israel’s rebirth in November, 1947, causing Israel to be reborn in May, 1948.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Master revealed to Newton, that Yeshua would return 49 years from the date that Israel once again has control of Jerusalem (This occurred on June 7, 1967 when the Temple Mount was recaptured). Newton was also shown that the Second Coming of Yeshua would be at the start of a Jubilee year on the Day of Atonement!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">...if you use exactly 49 Jewish (360-day, prophetic) years from the day Israel captured the Temple Mount on </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">June 7, 1967</span></b></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">, you get 49 X 360 = 17640 days, which amazingly takes one exactly to September 23, 2015, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Day of Atonement 2015 and is the start of a new Jubilee year!</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In the Old Testament, the prophet Joel states, “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the MASTER come.” (Joel 2:31)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">In the New Testament, Yeshua is quoted as saying, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light ... And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">(Matthew 24:29-30)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Now back to this email. Remember Newton thought the second coming would start a Jubilee year, which starts on a Day of Atonement. Adding a 49 biblical 360-day years to one of the most significant dates in Bible prophecy and coming up to a Day of Atonement are 17,640 to 1 odds (360 days x 49 years)! Yet there it is 49 Jewish (360-day, prophetic) years from the day Israel captured the Temple Mount on June 7, 1967, you get 49 X 360 = 17640 days, which amazingly takes one exactly to September 23, 2015, the Day of Atonement 2015!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Now you know why Mark Blitz looked to see if there were any eclipses in 2015 and as he said it blew his mind. By going to the NASA’s website, you can look into the eclipses on your own.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The reason to subtract seven years from 2015 is to account for the time named the Tribulation, the events in the book of Revelation. Most of us think the Rapture, the taking away of Believers happens just before the Tribulation starts. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Another Newton site:</span></span></span><span style="color: #003366;"><a href="http://www.csg.net/eschatology/Newton.htm" style="color: #003366; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">http://www.csg.net/eschatology/Newton.htm</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">May Yehovah bless you and keep you as you follow the path of life, follwoing our master Yehoshua HaMoschiach.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Heb 10:1</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>For the Torah, having a shadow of the good <i>matters</i> to come</b>, <b>and not the image itself of the matters,
was never able to make perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter <i>offerings</i>
which they offer continually year by year. </b></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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Scripture Research. “Used by permission”!When other: King James Version; I have
restored the Name of our Heavenly Father and our Master Yehoshua Messiah when
needed otherwise the RNKJV(Revisited New King James Version) is used!</b></span></i></span></font></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The <i>RNKJV (Renewed King James Version) use <b>YHWH </b></i>while I use </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> for the Name of our
heavenly father. The RNKJV write according to the English letters, I preserve
the Hebrew letters of the <i>tetragramaton</i>
in order to avoid vain discussion and strife concerning the spelling and
pronunciation of the Name of our heavenly Father. During the reading you will
also found the <i>Tetragramaton </i>written
as: <i>Yehovah</i>, and the name of our
Master as <i>Yehoshua</i> this is my
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Today’s <i>“parasha”</i> bring us to a new point which
has been neglected by men until </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">in His mercy put back
in the heart of His people to search the truth. This is the Shabbat of the land
and the <i>“Yovel”</i>, called <i>Year of Jubilee</i> in English. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">In </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s time, only the Shabbat of
the land was kept in <i>Eretz Israel (land of Israel)</i>,
there was no <i>“Yovel” </i><span>kept</span>! We are going to see that </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">was concerned with the restoration of all
things (Acts 3:21).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Today we
see more and more believers dedicate themselves to study and learning of the
Torah. We know that when Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>,
will come back to establish the Kingdom
of <i>Elohim</i><i>,</i> the Torah will be the standard of life
throughout the earth.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">----- <b>Isa 2:2</b> <i>and
it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of YHWH's house shall
be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the
hills; </i><span>and all nations shall flow
unto it.</span><i> </i><b>Isa 2:3</b> <i>and many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the
mountain of YHWH, to the house of the Elohim of Jacob; and he will teach us of
his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for </i><b><span>out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word (Torah) of YHWH from
Jerusalem.</span></b><i> </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">----- </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">spoke
to <i>Moshe</i> in the Mount Sinai! This
took place when <i>Moshe</i> went up for
forty days and forty nights.<span> </span>When <i>Moshe</i> writes these laws of rest of the
land and <i>Yovel</i>, the children of Israel are
still in the wilderness, this is the preparation for entering the land.”</span><i><span lang="EN-US"> When you come into the land………”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">As I wrote in a former <i>“parasha”</i>, we are not in <i>Eretz Israel</i> now and therefore should
understand that the study of Torah is a preparation for time to come at the
second advent of Messiah.<span> </span></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Remember, </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, sanctify (Set apart) His
people through keeping the Shabbat:<span> </span></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Exo 31:13</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And you, speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl,
saying, ‘</i><b><span>My Sabbaths you are to
guard, by all means, for it is a sign<sup>1</sup>
between Me and you throughout your generations</span></b><i>, to know that <b>I, </b></i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, am setting you apart</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">.
Footnote: <sup>1</sup>The only sign of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> setting us apart, the only sign of the everlasting covenant, is
His Sabbaths, one of them being the seventh day Sabbath. This is repeated in
Ezek. 20:12 & 20</i>………………</span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Exo 31:14</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>ye shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one
that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work
therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">Exo 31:15<span lang="EN-US"> <i>six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the Sabbath of rest,
holy to YHWH: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, he shall surely be
put to death. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">Exo 31:16<span lang="EN-US"> <i>wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the
Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">Exo 31:17<span lang="EN-US"> <b>it is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever</b><i>: for
in six days YHWH made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and
was refreshed. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 20:12</b><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>“And I also gave them My Sabbaths
(Heb.Shabbot), to be a sign<sup>1</sup> between
them and Me, to know that I am </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> who sets them apart.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 20:20</b><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>‘And set apart My Sabbaths (Heb. Shabbot),
and <b>they shall be a sign between Me and you, to know that I am </b></span><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> your Elohim.’ </span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">When
studying the Torah (</span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
instructions) we should have always in mind that the natural points toward the
spiritual. Nowadays, you can hear people everywhere, in the TV, the radio, or
read in news papers about “spiritual”. In reality their so called
“spirituality” is far from the real spiritual way ordained by </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s <i>Ruach</i> (Spirit). It is only a Greek “understanding” of “satisfying
the desire of the flesh”.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">According
to the Torah, the pattern is simple: To follow the flesh is <i>“carnal”</i> to follow the <i>Ruach</i> is “spiritual”:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gal 5:16</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
I say: <b>Walk in the Spirit</b> and you
shall not accomplish the lust of the flesh. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gal 5:17</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> for <b>the flesh lusts against the Spirit</b>, and the Spirit against
the flesh. And <b>these are opposed to each
other</b>, so that you do not do what you desire to do. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gal 5:18</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> but <b>if you are led by the
Spirit, you are not under Torah</b></span></i><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">From
another translation:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gal 5:17</b> <i>for <b>the old nature </b></i><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">(carnal man)</span></i></b><i> wants what <b>is
contrary to the Spirit</b>, and the Spirit wants what is contrary to the old
nature. These oppose each other, so that <b>you
find yourselves unable to carry out your good intentions. <br />
</b></i><b>Gal 5:18</b><i> but <b>if you are
led by the Spirit, then you are not in subjection to the system that results
from perverting the Torah into legalism</b></i>. <br />
<span lang="EN-GB">In other words we must
choose to be led by the <i>Ruach</i>, in
order to follow Abba </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
will. “You are not under the Torah”, means that walking in the <i>Ruach</i> in Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">make us
free from the bondage of the “Ink of the letter” in other words, trying to be
justified by keeping the Torah!</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gal 2:16</b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span><i>Knowing
that a man is not justified by the works of the law (Oral Torah of the
Pharisee), but by the faith of Yehoshua the Messiah, even we have believed in </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
the Messiah, that we might be justified by the faith of the Messiah, and not by
the works of the law (Ma’asee HaTorah: Work of the Oal Torah): for by the works
of the law shall no flesh be justified.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">Gal 2:17<span lang="EN-GB"> <i>But if, while we seek to be justified by the
Messiah, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore the Messiah the
minister of sin? By no means.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Torah
keeping is to walk in a righteous way and not to be justified by the
regulations of men.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Rom 8:1</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>There is, then, now no condemnation to those
who are in Messiah </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, who do
not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Rom 8:3</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>For the Torah being powerless, in that it
was weak through the flesh…………</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Rom 8:5</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for <b>those
who live according to the flesh</b> <b>set
their minds on the <span>matters</span> of
the flesh</b>, but those <span>who live</span>
according to the Spirit, the <span>matters</span>
of the Spirit</i>. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Rom 8:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>because <b>the
mind of the flesh (carnal man) is enmity towards Elohim</b>, for it does not subject itself<sup>1</sup> to the Torah of Elohim, neither indeed is it able</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Rom 8:8</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and <b>those
who are in the flesh (carnal) are unable to please Elohim. </b></i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">With this,
we should be able to see those who are able to “please <i>Elohim</i>” in the world today!</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now this is
the aspect of the redemption. When Adam transgressed following <i>Chawah</i>’s <i>(Eve)</i> sin, the all world was put under the power of sin and was
held under the need of redemption.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">established the rest of the land
(Shabbat) in the same pattern it was for the day of rest for mankind (Weekly
Shabbat). In the book of <i>B’reshit</i>
(Genesis) the Rest of the seventh day is given for all mankind, it is only
after the flood, when </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">called <i>Abram</i> that the Shabbat was determined to
be for </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s chosen people, because of
the rebellion of mankind.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now this
pattern was extended to the land of Israel <i>(Eretz
Isarel)</i>, when the Children of Israel (carnal man) will enter it led by <i>Yohushua</i> son of <i>Nun</i>, a picture foreshadowing our (you and me) future entering in <i>Eretz Isarel</i> under Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’leadership.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">This
Shabbat of rest every seven years will become a challenge which the children of
Israel
(carnal man) our forefathers were not able to keep.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Later on we
will see that <i>Sha’ul</i> speaks
concerning the earth waiting also for redemption.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">“The land
shall observe a Shabbat to </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">“</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
challenge: During this year, the Children of Israel (carnal man) were not
allowed to reap what grows of its own and also not to gather the grapes of “un-pruned”
wine. The reason been “it is a year of rest for the land”: “Do not sow and do
not prune your vineyard” (verse 5).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">There are
many things to see in this verse.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara", sans-serif;"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The Children of Israel (carnal man) were not
allowed to reap what grows of its own of “un-pruned wine” </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara", sans-serif;"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The Children of Israel (carnal man) were not
allowed to sow and to gather the grapes during the seventh year.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Remember
all this point to a spiritual aspect of our life! </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Who is the
sustainers of life, is it not </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Neh 9:21</b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And for forty years <b>You sustained them</b>
in the wilderness – <b>they lacked not</b>.
Their garments did not wear out and their feet did not s</i>well. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Nehemiah</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> wrote a remembrance concerning </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">sustaining His people during their time in the
wilderness: He gave them “<i>manna</i>”.
What is harder, to give “<i>manna</i>” forty
years or to feed the Children of Israel during the “seventh year”, the Shabbat
year?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">“</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US">The Sabbath of
the land shall be to you for food”.</span></i></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">I wrote a <i>midrash </i>to explain the
forty years in the wilderness which are a pattern of the two thousands years
from the first advent of <i>Messiah </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><span lang="EN-US">to his second advent.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Forty years endurance in the wilderness equal: 40 x 50 (<i>Yovel) = 2000 Years!</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">So the pattern came from </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> speaking to <i>Noach:</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gen 6:3</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and YHWH said, My spirit shall not always
strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet <b>his days shall be an hundred and twenty years</b>.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
explanation is this: 120 years represent not the length of man’s life <i>(read Psalm 90:10)</i> but the length of
mankind living in this form on earth:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">120 x 50 <i>(Yovel)= 6000 years.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">One <i>Yovel = 50 Years (7 x7=49 + the Yovel year).</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now the
second explanation is this:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The six
year of labour are the six thousand years of man on earth, the Shabbat is the
Millennium when </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
people will be feed by </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
himself, for during this time </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
people will not work, those having fed on the Torah before the “Millennium “will
eat the fruit of it during the Millennium and will have enough for the Eighth
day which is <i>“Olam Aba”</i>, Eternal life
as we are going to see.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
came in the year four thousand; thus remain 2000 years <i>(40 Yovels)</i> or <i>“40 years
wilderness” </i>foreshadowed in the time of <i>Moshe
</i>when they walk in the <i>“natural”</i>
forty years<i>.</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
question was given by Moshe verse 20:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-US">“What do we eat in the
seventh year, since we do not sow nor gather in our crops………”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">say that He will command blessing on
the sixth year and that it will be enough for the next three years:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara", sans-serif;"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The seventh year which is the Shabbat of the
land,</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara", sans-serif;"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The eight year which will be the year of
sowing again</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 53.25pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "candara", sans-serif;"><span>-<span style="font: 7pt "times new roman";">
</span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB">●The ninth year which will be the coming
harvest.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now I want
you to see something according to the numbers and the Hebrew “<i>gemetria</i>”</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">●Six is the number of man. During Six years men
will sow and reap (work of the hand).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">●Seven is the number for divine completion on
earth, when </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
people will not sow nor reap it is the <i>Millennium
Reign of Messiah</i>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">●Eight is the number for behind the natural,
also a number for Eternity, found in the last feast during the feast of the
booth, the Eight days is the last great day or “staying a while” also called <i>Shemini Atzeret </i>also <i>shimcha Torah</i>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">●Nine is the number for judgment! </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">●Un-pruned wine! Let us read:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Un-pruned: Strong’s #H5139<b><i> naw-zeer'</i></b><i>,</i> <i>naw-zeer'</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span>נזר<span> </span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.written nun (50), tsade (90),
resh(200) (340). nâzir</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">From <u>H5144</u>;
<b><i>separate</i></b>, that is, <b>consecrated</b> (as <i>prince</i>, <b>a <i>Nazirite</i></b>); hence (figuratively
from the latter) an <i>un-pruned</i> vine (like an unshorn <i>Nazirite</i>). (The translation, <i>Nazarite</i>, is by a false
alliteration with <i>Nazareth</i>.):
separate (-d), vine undressed.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>H5144 </u><b><span lang="EN-GB">nâzar</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>naw-zar'</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">A primitive root; to <i>hold</i> <i>aloof</i>,
that is, (intransitively) <b><i>abstain</i></b>
(from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (that is, <i>apostatize</i>));
specifically to <i>set</i> <i>apart</i> (to sacred purposes), that is, <i>devote:
- </i>consecrate, separate (-ing, self).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">You
remember the “<i>Nazarites</i>” where to be
set apart like Samson not drinking (abstaining) alcohol neither cutting the
hair.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">So we can
see that <b>this Shabbat of rest was to
consecrate </b></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s creation to His maker</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">All what
grows from the corn to the wine, all point to </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">Messiah:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 15:1</b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<b><i>I (</i></b></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) am the true vine</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, and My Father is the gardener. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 15:2</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “<b>Every branch in Me that bears
no fruit He takes away</b>. And <b>every
branch that bears fruit <u>He prunes</u></b>, so that it bears more fruit. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Prune</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">:
Strong’s #G2508 <b>kathairō</b> <i>kath-ah'ee-ro</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">From <u>G2513</u>;
<b>to <i>cleanse</i></b>, that is,
(specifically) to <i>prune</i>; figuratively <b>to <i>expiate</i></b><i>:</i> - <b>purge.</b></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Thayers</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> goes further saying: to cleanse, <b>free from corrupt desire</b>, <b>free from every admixture</b> of <b>what is false</b>, sincere genuine</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Prune is
the opposite of un-pruned, bringing back to its intended form!</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">During the
seventh year, the land was to be like under a <i>“Nazarene vow”</i> so to say, subjected to </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s law in order to rest.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">I remember
that in France
until the 60<sup>th</sup>, we had the year of <i>“Jasher”</i> the field was left unsown in order to rest. Now it is
finished, people use “fertilizer”. Nevertheless, this time of <i>“Jasher”</i> came from the <i>Yehudin</i> living in France; and also from
those of <i>Ephraim</i> who were still
keeping the tradition of their ancestors; of course it was no more perfectly
according to the Torah, because they did it in a manner that they could reap
from another field who was in it sixth years so doing in a circle in order that
every filed had one year rest (Shabbat).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Do you
think the earth was not able to bear fruits in the seventh year? Not so but it
is written, the Just (righteous) will live by faith (<i>Abakkuk 2:4</i>). Faith is to trust <i>Elohim</i>
and not our own ability.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 8-11.</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for
yourself, seven times seven years……….. shall be to you <b>forty-nine years……………………..</b>sound a ram’s horn to pass through on <b>the tenth day of the seventh month</b>, on
the Day of Atonement………..<b> </b>The
fiftieth year is a Jubilee to you………………</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The year of
the <i>“yovel”,</i> seven time seven and the
next year is the fiftieth, the year of the <i>“yovel”</i>,
starting on <i>Yom</i> <i>kippur</i>, the tenth of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Yovel</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> year the year of freedom:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The seventh
year is a year of rest for the land; <i>Yovel</i>
is the year of release for people, a year when people got a new chance for a
new start.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 4:17</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and the scroll of the prophet Yeshayahu was
handed to Him (</i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>). And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place where it
was written: </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 4:18</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “The Spirit of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> is upon Me,<sup>1</sup></i><i><span lang="EN-US">
because He has anointed </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Me to bring the Good News to <b>the poor</b>. He has sent Me to heal <b>the broken-hearted</b>, <b>to proclaim release to the captives </b>and
<b>recovery of sight to the blind</b>, <b>to send away crushed ones</b> with a
release, Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-3.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 4:19</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> to proclaim the acceptable year of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”<sup>1</sup></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-2.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk
4:20</b><i><span lang="EN-US"> and having rolled up the
scroll, He gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in
the congregation were fixed upon Him. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk
4:21</b><i><span lang="EN-US"> and He began to say to
them, “<b>Today this Scripture has been
filled in your hear</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US">ing.” </span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">came to fulfill the <i>Yovel</i> year, he didn’t came to set
material things straight, we have learned that the Last Adam came to make the
“new man”. People in </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
time were poor, because having no Torah’s life (they followed the traditions of
men Matt.15:3-9, i.e. the Pharisee) blind to the truth, captive in the prison
of their own sins. They were in need to recover in order to see again, to be
released:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Good news
to the poor: What was the “Good news to the poor, what does </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">says”?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 42:1</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>“See, My Servant (</i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)
whom I uphold, My Chosen One My (</span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)
being has delighted in! I (</span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) have put My Spirit upon Him;
He brings forth right-ruling to the nations.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>●<b>The poor</b>:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mat 5:3</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Blessed are the poor in spirit, because
theirs is the reign of the heavens. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Jas 2:5</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Listen, my beloved brothers: Has Elohim not
chosen the poor of this world, <b>rich in
belief</b> and heirs of the reign which He promised to those who love Him?</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">●To heal the broken
hearted</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">!</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Psa 34:18</b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">is near to the broken-hearted, and saves those
whose spirit is crushed</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>2Ch 34:27</b><span lang="EN-US"> “<i>Because your heart was tender, and you
humbled yourself before Elohim when you heard His words against this place and
against its inhabitants, and you humbled yourself before Me, and you tore your
garments and wept before Me, I also have heard,” declares </i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 17.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Psa 147:3</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>He</i><i> heals the broken-hearted and binds up their
wounds.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>●<b>Release to the captive</b></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Psa 102:19</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>for He looked down from the height of His
set-apart place; from heaven<span> </span> </i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">viewed the earth,</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt; text-indent: 0.15pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Psa
102:20</b><i><span lang="EN-US"> to hear the groaning of
the prisoner, to release those appointed to death</span></i><span lang="EN-US">,</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Psa 146:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Doing right-ruling for the oppressed, Giving
bread to the hungry. </i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b><i><span lang="EN-US">releases those who are bound</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US">,</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<b><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">●</span><b><span lang="EN-GB">Recovery of sight to
the blind</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 42:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <b><i>to
open blind eyes</i></b><i>, to bring out
prisoners from the prison, <b>those who sit
in darkness</b> from the prison house</i>. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 42:16</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And <b>I
shall lead the blind by a way</b> they have not known – in paths they have not
known I lead them. <b>I make darkness light
before them</b>, and crooked places straight. These matters I shall do for
them, and I shall not forsake them</i>. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 60:<i>1</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “Arise, shine, for your light has come! And the esteem of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">has risen upon you. (who is the light, is not </span></i>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 60:2</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>“For look, darkness covers the earth; and
thick darkness the peoples. But </i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> arises
over you, and His esteem is seen upon you</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">●<b>Send
away crushed ones with a release</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"></span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gen 3:15</b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And I put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her Seed<sup>1</sup>.
<b>He shall crush your head</b>, and you shall crush His heel.</i>” Footnote: <sup>1</sup>First promise of the Messiah.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 42:3</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“A crushed reed He does not break, and
smoking flax He does not quench. He brings forth right-ruling in accordance
with truth (Torah)</i>. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span><b>Isa 35:3</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Strengthen
the weak hands, and make firm the weak knees. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 35:4</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Say to those with anxious heart, “Be strong, do not fear! See, your
Elohim comes with vengeance, with the recompense of Elohim. He is coming to
save you.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●<b>Release</b></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>Deu 15:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“At
the end of every seven years you <b>make a
release <span>of debts</span></b>. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span><b>Deu 15:9</b>
<i>“Be on guard lest there be a thought of
Beliyaʽal in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, <b>the year of release, is near</b>,’ and your eye is evil against your
poor brother and you give him naught. And he shall cry out to </i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><i><span lang="EN-US">against you, <b>and
it shall</b> <b>be a sin in you</b>.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">What then
was the “Gospel of the Kingdom
of <i>Elohim</i>”?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Deu 15:2</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And <b>this
is the word of the release</b>: Every creditor is to release what he has loaned
to his neighbour, he does not require it of his neighbour or his brother,
because <b>it is called the release of </b></i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The last
citation </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">did from the book of <i>Yeshayahu</i> must be look at, very carefully:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 4:19</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> to proclaim the acceptable year of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”</i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">This is what <i>Yeshayahu</i> wrote?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Isa 61:2</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>to proclaim the acceptable year of </i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, “<b>and the day of
vengeance of our Elohim”</b>, to comfort all who mourn</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">omitted the second part of the
sentence: <i>“and the day of vengeance of
our Elohim”!</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">This was
not a coincidence, because the <i>“day of
vengeance</i>” was not at </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-US">first advent.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mic 5:8</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>And the remnant of Yaʽaqoḇ shall be among
the gentiles (nations), in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the
beasts of a forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passes
through, shall both tread down and shall tear, and there is no one to
deliver………</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mic 5:15</b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And <b>I
shall take vengeance</b> in wrath and rage on the gentiles who did not obey.” </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 21:5</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
as some were speaking about the Set-apart
Place, that it was adorned with goodly stones and
gifts, He said,</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 21:6</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“These that you see – the days are coming in
which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.”</i>
</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 21:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and they
asked Him, saying, “Teacher, but <b>when
shall this be?</b> And what is the sign when this is about to take
place?”………………………</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 21:22</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Because
<b>these are days of vengeance</b>, to fill
all that have been written. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 21:23</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing
children in those days! For there shall be great distress in the earth and
wrath upon this people. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>2Th 1:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and to give you who are afflicted rest with
us <b><u>when the Master </u></b></i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><u><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US">is revealed
from heaven</span></u></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> with His
mighty messengers</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>2Th
1:8</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>in flaming fire <b><u>taking vengeance on those who do not know Elohim</u></b>, and on
those who do not obey the Good News of our Master </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Messiah</span></i><span lang="EN-US">, </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">As we have
seen the spiritual follow the natural and not the other way round</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>1Co 15:46</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>the spiritual, however, was not first, but
the natural, and <b>afterward the spiritual</b>. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>1Co 15:47</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>the first man was of the earth, earthy; the
second Man is the Master from heaven. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>1Co 15:48</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> as is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the
heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>1Co 15:49</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and as we have borne the likeness of the earthy, we shall also bear the
likeness of the heavenly. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">In the <i>Tanak</i> the release was in the <i>Yovel</i> year every fifty years. Could it
bee that when </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">came that it was also a <i>Yovel</i> year in spite that it was not
celebrated? (Read my <i>midrash</i> on the
“One hundred twenty years).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Lev
25:13</b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘In the Year of this
Jubilee <b>let each one of you returns to
his possession</b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Verse 23.</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">the land is not to be sold beyond reclaim, <b>for the land is Mine (says </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>)</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">It is
amazing to see that today the all world is pushing to make Israel give
land to the Palestinians: “Land for peace”. How can people deal with the land
belonging to the King of the universe?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 24</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">
And provide for redemption for the land……</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Redemption
for the land, what does Shaul say concerning the creation waiting for redemption? Read <b>(Rom.8:19-23)</b><br /></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></font></span><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Act 3:20</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
that He sends </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> Messiah,
pre-appointed for you, </span></i></span></font></span><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Act 3:21</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>whom heaven needs to receive <b>until the times of restoration of all <span>matters</span></b>, of which Elohim spoke
through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old</i>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></b></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 25. </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘When your brother becomes poor, and has sold some
of his possession, and his redeemer, a close relative comes to redeem it, and
then he shall redeem what his brother sold.<b>
</b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">We can read
in the book of Ruth: Read <b>(Ruth 4:1 - 16) Boaz redeem the Land of a relative.</b><br /></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></font></span><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">We know
that Ruth a Moabite woman became the vessel through whom King David will come
and later our Master </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">according to the seed.</span></span></font></span><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Ruth a
pagan woman was married to <i>Mahlom</i> the
son of <i>Elimelek</i> a <i>Yehudin</i> from <i>Beth</i> <i>Lechem</i>. When her
husband died, instead to do like the other Moabite woman who departed to go
back to her kinsmen, she staid with her mother in law and followed her back to
her country (Israel).
What is amazing is that </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-US">in His own purpose and
wisdom “overlooked” the fact that <i>Ruth</i>
was a <i>Moabite</i> and looked at her
heart:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Rth 1:16</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>But Ruth
said, “Do not urge me to leave you, or to go back from following after you. For
wherever you go, I go; and wherever you stop over, I stop over. <b>Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim</b></i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">What does <i>Kefa</i> says:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Act 10:34</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Then<sup>G1161</sup>
Peter<sup>G4074</sup> opened<sup>G455</sup> his mouth,<sup>G4750</sup> and
said,<sup>G2036</sup> Of<sup>G1909</sup> a truth<sup>G225</sup>
I perceive<sup>G2638</sup> that<sup>G3754</sup> <b>Elohim<sup>G2316</sup> is<sup>G2076</sup>
no<sup>G3756</sup> respecter of persons:<sup>G4381</sup> </b></i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Act 10:35</b><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">But<sup>G235</sup>
in<sup>G1722</sup> every<sup>G3956</sup> nation<sup>G1484</sup>
he that feareth<sup>G5399</sup> him,<sup>G846</sup> and<sup>G2532</sup>
worketh<sup>G2038</sup> righteousness,<sup>G1343</sup> is<sup>G2076</sup>
accepted<sup>G1184</sup> with him.<sup>G846</sup> </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 39…</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">………..do
not make him serve as a slave</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Read the
book of <i>Philemon</i> in the <i>Brit</i> <i>Chadasha</i>
for <i>Onesimus</i> who passed from slave to
man as slave in Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">and who came back to
his owner:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">We read in
Vincent word’s study:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">The name is withheld until Paul has
favorably disposed Philemon to his request. The word means <span>helpful</span>, and it was a common name for
slaves. The same idea was expressed by other names, as <span>Chresimus</span>, <span>Chrestus</span>
(<span>useful</span>); <span>Onesiphorus</span> (<span>profit-bringer</span>, <u>2Ti_1:16</u>);
<span>Symphorus</span> (<span>suitable</span>). Onesimus was a runaway
Phrygian slave, who had committed some crime and therefore had fled from his
master and hidden himself in Rome.
Under Roman law the slave was a chattel. Varro classified slaves among <span>implements</span>, which he classifies as <span>vocalia</span>, <span>articulate</span> <span>speaking</span>
implements, as <span>slaves</span>; <span>semivocalia</span>, <span>having</span> <span>a</span> <span>voice</span> <span>but</span> <span>not</span> <span>articulating</span>, as <span>oxen</span>; <span>muta</span>, <span>dumb</span>, as <span>wagons</span>. The attitude of the law
toward the slave was expressed in the formula <span>servile</span> <span>caput</span> <span>nullum</span> <span>jus</span> <span>habet</span>; <b><span>the</span> <span>slave</span> <span>has</span> <span>no</span> <span>right</span></b>. The master's power was unlimited. He might mutilate,
torture, or kill the slave at his pleasure. Pollio, in the time of Augustus,
ordered a slave to be thrown into a pond of voracious lampreys (fishes).
Augustus interfered, but afterward ordered a slave of his own to be crucified
on the mast of a ship for eating a favorite quail. Juvenal describes a
profligate woman ordering a slave to be crucified. Some one remonstrates. She
replies: “So then a slave is a man, is he! 'He has done nothing,' you say.
Granted. I command it. Let my pleasure stand for a reason” (vi., 219). Martial
records an instance of a master cutting out a slave's tongue. The old Roman
legislation imposed death for killing a plough-ox; but the murderer of a slave
was not called to account. Tracking fugitive slaves was a trade. Recovered
slaves were branded on the forehead, condemned to double labor, and sometimes
thrown to the beasts in the amphitheater. The slave population was enormous.
Some proprietors had as many as twenty thousand.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Phm 1:15</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for he parted <span>from you</span> for a while, possibly because of this, so that you
might have him back forever, </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Phm 1:16</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> no longer as a slave but more than a slave, <b>as a beloved brother</b>, especially to me, and how much more to you,
both in the flesh and in the Master. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Phm 1:17</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> so, if you regard me as your partner, <b>receive him as you would me</b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Phm 1:18</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> But if he has wronged you or owes you whatever, put that on my account.
</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Phm 1:19</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> I, Sha’ul, wrote with my own hand. I shall repay – not to mention to
you that you indeed owe yourself to me also. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>1Co 12:13</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for indeed by one Spirit we were all
immersed into one body, whether Yehuḏim or Greeks, <b>whether slaves or free,</b> and we were all made to drink into one
Spirit</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gal 3:27</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for as many of you as were immersed into
Messiah have put on Messiah. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Gal 3:28</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>There
is no Yehuḏite nor Greek, <b>there is not
slave nor free</b>, there is not male and female, for you are all one in
Messiah </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Slave</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> or <i>servant</i> used in these few example is
Strong’s#G1401 </span><b><span lang="EN-GB">doulos</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>doo'-los</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">From <u>G1210</u>; <b>a <i>slave</i></b>
(<b>literally</b> or <b>figuratively</b>, involuntarily or voluntarily; frequently therefore in
a qualified sense of <i>subjection</i> or <i>subserviency</i>): - bond (-man), <b>servant</b>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Col</b><b> 3:10</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and have put on the new one who
is renewed in knowledge according to the likeness of Him who created him,</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Col</b><b> 3:11</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>where
there is not Greek and Yehuḏite, circumcised and uncircumcised, foreigner, Scythian,
<b>slave</b>, free, but Messiah is all, and
in all</i>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Verse 42.</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US"> For they are My servants</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">, whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim,
<b>they are not sold as slaves</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
Children of Israel (carnal man) were already bought from slavery to freedom by </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. Slave were of lower value
and therefore </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">didn’t wanted His people been
considered as slave.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Lev 25:1</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> spoke to
Mosheh on Mount Sinai, saying....<b>hall
be released in the Year of Jubilee, he and his children with him. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
25:55</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Because the children of
Yisra’ĕl are servants to Me, they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim. I am </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">your Elohim. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><ol><li>
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Chapter 26.</span></b></span></font></span></li></ol></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">After
having given the rules of the Shabbat of the land and of the <i>Yovel</i> of release, </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> (Yehovah) </span><span lang="EN-GB">remind
His people that they don’t have to make idols, carved image and pillars and
statues of stone.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Centuries
later, the children of Israel, both the House of Israel (<i>Ephraim</i>) and
the House of <i>Yehuda</i> will both falls
into idolatry following the way of the heathen nations</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The first
step to guard </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
commands is to keep the Shabbat, written here in the plural form.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Lev 26:1</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>‘<b>Do not make idols</b> for yourselves, and <b>do not set up a carved image or a pillar</b> for yourselves, and <b>do not place a stone image in your land</b>,
to bow down to it. For I am </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">your Elohim. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:2</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>Guard My <u>Sabbaths</u></b> and reverence My set-apart place. I am </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">The Hebrew word for</span><i><span lang="EN-US"> “guard” or “keep” </span></i><span lang="EN-US">is
the word:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="DE">H8104</span></b><span lang="DE"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">שׁמר<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="DE">shâmar</span><span lang="DE"> </span><i><span lang="DE">shaw-mar'</span></i><span lang="DE"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="DE">A primitive root; properly to <b><i>hedge</i>
about</b> (as with thorns), that is, <i>guard</i>; generally to <b><i>protect</i>,</b>
<i>attend</i> <i>to</i>, etc.: - beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self),
keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save
(self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch (-man).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Haftorah</span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The prophet
<i>Yrmeyahu</i> give the example, buying the
field of his uncle, using his right of redemption.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Yrmeyahu</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> was sent to be a vessel for </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">against the crookedness of the children of
Israel which pushed </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">to turn over the land of Israel to
the Chaldean in order to chastise His children.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">My question
is: How it is today when we see the Palestinians, taking more and more place in
<i>Eretz Israel</i>? Many ask to pray to <i>Elohim</i> to deliver our brethren from the
Palestinian oppression, but few ask to pray for repentance from sin!</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">What is the
reason why </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">gave the land over to the <i>Chaldeans</i>, may be this will help to
understand today’s situation?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Read verses
23-24</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Jer 32:6</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And Yirmeyahu said, “The word of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">came to me,
saying...</span></i></span></font></span><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer
32:26</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Then the word of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">came to
Yirmeyahu, saying, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer 32:27</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “See, I am </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the Elohim of all flesh. Is there any matter too hard for Me?”</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Luk 4:16</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And He came to Natsareth, where He had been brought up. And according
to His practice, He went into the congregation on the Sabbath day, and stood up
to read. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Luk 4:17</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and the scroll of the prophet
Yeshayahu was handed to Him. And having unrolled the scroll, He found the place
where it was written:</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Luk 4:18</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “The Spirit of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </i><i>is upon Me,<sup>1</sup></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> because He has
anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor. He has sent Me to heal the
broken-hearted, to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to
the blind, to send away crushed ones with a release, Footnote:
<sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-3.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Luk
4:19</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> to
proclaim the acceptable year of </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”<sup>1</sup></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Isa. 61:1-2.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Luk
4:20</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and having rolled up the
scroll, He gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in
the congregation were fixed upon Him. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Luk
4:21</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> And He began to say to
them, “<b>Today this Scripture has been
filled in your hearing.”</b></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<font size="6"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></span></span></font></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><font size="6"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Parsha B’chukotai – In
my Instruction</span></b></span></span></font></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The second
part of this two-fold “<i>Parasha</i>” give
us a deep understanding concerning the consequences of rebellion against </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">right ruling and commandments.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The first
two verses show the condition: <b>If</b>
and <b>then, </b>to keep the statutes and
guard the commands is the way to get </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s protection from the enemy and provision for our daily life.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">What can we
say for us today in our daily life, for those who are in Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The battle
is spiritual:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eph 6:11</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Put on the complete armour of Elohim, for
you to have power to stand against the schemes of the devil.</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eph 6:12</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>because
we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities,
against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual <span>matters</span> of wickedness in the
heavenlies.</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Jas 4:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>so then subject yourselves to Elohim. Resist
the devil<sup>1</sup> and he shall flee from
you. Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Or adversary</i>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">Jas 4:8<span lang="EN-GB"> <i>draw near to Elohim and He shall draw near
to you. Cleanse hands, sinners. And cleanse the hearts, you double-minded!</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>1Pe 1:22</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Now that <b>you have cleansed your lives</b>
<b>in obeying the truth</b> through the
Spirit </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The truth
(read <i>Yochanan</i> 17:17, Psalm 119: 142,
151, 160)</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">There are
great promises, but if the Children of Israel, our forefathers reject the truth
and turn to wickedness, </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">make promise to punish
them for breaking the covenant. What does this mean and what are the
consequences?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">wasting
disease</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>●inflammation, destroying the eyes</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>●you shall sow your seed in vain</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">you
shall be smitten before your enemies</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">those
who hate you shall rule over you</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">you
shall flee when no one pursues you. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">And if they
still remain stubborn:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">
then I shall punish you seven times more for your sins. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">And if they
still keep going their own way in spite of punishment?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">
I shall bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">send
wild beasts among you (<b>euphemism for
cruel adversary</b>)</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●</span><i><span lang="EN-US">I
shall send pestilence among you,</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●<i>you
shall be given into the hand of the enemy.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">●I have cut off your
supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall
bring back to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●<b><i>you shall eat the flesh of your
sons, and eat the flesh of your daughters</i></b><i>.(see the excerpt from Josephus “War of the Jews”, below) </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">●And I shall destroy
your high places, and cut down your sun-pillars, and put your carcasses on the
carcasses of your idols. And My being shall loathe you.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.25pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">●<b>I shall turn your cities into ruins</b> (Jerusalem was completely
destroyed by Caesar Titus in the year 69-70 C.E, only few tower and the west wall was
left as reminder of what Titus and his army did to the “Jews”, doing </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s
will against His people.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.4pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">●<i>I shall
lay the land waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span><i>I
shall scatter you among the gentiles</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The land
enjoys its Sabbaths as long as it lays waste and you are in your enemies’ land.
Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The House of <i>Yehuda</i> was punished a first time when </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">according
to the word of the prophet <i>Yrmeyahu</i>,
send them to Babylon
<b>for seventy years</b> for not keeping
the Shabbat of the Land during 490 years. <b>(70
X 7=490)</b></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Dan 9:2</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>in the
first year of his reign I, Dani’ĕl, observed from the Scriptures the number of
the years, according to the word of </i></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">given to Yirmeyah</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> the prophet, for the completion of the wastes of
Yerushalayim <b>would be seventy years</b></span></i><span lang="EN-US">.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">Chapter
four, </span><span lang="EN-GB">the prophet <i>Yechezk’el</i> was commanded of </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">to set himself before the Children of Israel to
announce their rebellion:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 4:4</b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And lie on <b>your left side</b>,
and you shall put the crookedness of <b>the
house of Yisra’ĕl </b>on it. As many days as you lie on it, you shall bear
their crookedness. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 4:5</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “For <b>I Myself have laid on you <u>the
years</u> of their crookedness, <u>according to the number of the days</u></b>,
<b>three hundred and ninety days.</b> And
you shall bear the crookedness of the house of Yisra’ĕl.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> (One year = one day)</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">This was to
come to the House of Israel years according to the number of days, so it became
390 days it should become 390 years. The left side is the side of judgment in
the “Tree of life”.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Remember
that </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">promised that if in spite of it, if they don’t
listen and change their ways, he will punish them seven times more (<i>Vayiqra/Lev.</i> 26:18,21,24,28)</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The house
of Israel,
<i>Ephraim</i> was banished or scattered
among the nations (gentiles) in 721 B.C.E. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Let us make
a short calculation: 390 years were the initial punishment, and seven times
more for not turning back, thus we count three hundred ninety years time seven
and we get Two thousand seven hundred and thirty years punishment (2730).</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
punishment started in the year 721B.C.E. when </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">sent
His people to the Assyrian from where they will be later scattered in the four
winds, to the end of the world.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">2730 year
add to the -721 before common area we have the year 2009 (1981 in the Lunar
calendar), meaning that the punishment for the House of Israel, Ephraim will
come an end in the year 2009 (1981) our time. I know some scholars have counted
it another way and there are some small differences. We are now in the time of
refreshing, in our relationship to our heavenly Father.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Yrmeyahu</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> spoke of another punishment <b>for the House of <i>Yehuda</i></b> which has been overlooked by many scholars:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 4:6</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And
when you have completed them, <b>you shall
lie again</b> on your right side and shall bear <b>the crookedness of the house of Yehuḏah</b> <b><u>forty days, a day for a year</u></b>. I have laid on you <b>a day for a year</b>.</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 4:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“<b>Then
<u>you shall set your face toward the siege of Yerushalayim</u></b>, with your
arm bared, and <b>you shall prophesy
against it</b></i>. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">When was
this period to come?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">I will show
you something and prove it by the word of the historian “Josephus”.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">When
Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">came, the <i>Yehudin</i>
rejected him, even if many among them received him as the promised messiah.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Act 3:17</b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as your rulers
did too. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Act 3:18</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “But this is how Elohim has filled what He had announced beforehand
through the mouth of all the prophets, that His Messiah was to suffer. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Act 3:19</b><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">“<b>Repent
therefore and turn back</b>, for the blotting out of your sins, <b>in order that times of refreshing might
come</b> from the presence of the Master, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Act 3:20</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>and that He sends </b></span></i>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US">Messiah</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">, pre-appointed for you,</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Kefa/Peter</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is saying that if they (the <i>Yehudin</i>) repent and turn back to the
Torah, accepting </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">will send back </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">messiah.
Do you remember what we read in the <i>Parasha</i>?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Lev
26:29</b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall eat the flesh of your sons</b>, and <b>eat the flesh of your daughters.... </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Lev 26:31</b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘and <b>I
shall turn your cities into ruins</b> and lay your set-apart places waste</span></i><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The set
apart place is the Temple
in <i>Yerushalayim</i>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Messiah says
to the <i>Yehudin</i>:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 8:21</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Therefore </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said to them again, “I am going away, and you shall seek Me,
and <b>you shall die in your <u>sin</u></b><u>.</u>
Where I go you are unable to come</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.” </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Sin is here
singular, the sin for having rejected the one sent of <i>Elohim</i>!</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">died on the stake at the age of 33,
during Pesach. In<span> </span>order to have
fulfilled the first part of his coming for three and half years, </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">must have started his ministry
during the seventh month at <i>Yom</i> <i>Kippur</i> and died on the stake three and
half years later during the month of Pesach on the 14<sup>th</sup> of Aviv.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now remember
that </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">commanded <i>Yechezk’el</i>
to lie on the side for 40 days as a sign that:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 4:6</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“And
when you have completed them, you shall lie again on your right side and shall
bear the crookedness of the house of Yehuḏah <b>forty days, a day for a year</b>. I have laid on you a day for a year.</i>
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 4:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Then
you shall set your face toward the siege of Yerushalayim, with your arm bared,
and <b>you shall prophesy against it</b></i><b>.</b> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">We have
seen that the punishment for rebellion given in the book of <i>Vayiqra/Lev.</i> should be: <b>To eat the flesh of sons and daughters</b>,
and <b>the city shall become a ruin</b>.
With this in mind we can read what the historian <i>Yosephus</i> wrote: From the books Wars of the Jews Book 5-6 Thought it
is a bit long I encourage you to read these excerpts in order to see that </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">fulfilled His word perfectly at the right time
and that if there are some mistake it is on our part and not </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Hab 2:<i>2</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> answered
me and said, “Write the vision and inscribe it on tablets, so that he who reads
it runs</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Hab
2:3</b><span lang="EN-US"> “<b><i><u>For the vision is yet for an appointed time</u></i></b>, <i>and it speaks of the end, and does not lie.
If it lingers, wait for it, for <b>it shall
certainly come, it shall not delay</b></i>. </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">The prophet
Habakkuk spoke from the chastisement of Yehuda through the Chaldeans. What I want
us to see is that when </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-US">speak a vision for an
appointed time it will come to pass in the time it has been appointed for and
will come to pass.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Vision </span></b><span lang="EN-US">in
Hebrew is the word: Strong’s #H2377 </span>חזון<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB">châzôn</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>khaw-zone'</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">From <u>H2372</u>; a <i>sight</i> (mentally), that is, a <b><i>dream</i></b>, <b><i>revelation</i></b>, or <b><i>oracle</i></b><i>:
- </i>vision</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">What
happened after Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">departure is the
fulfilment of prophecy spoken of </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">many centuries before
starting with Moshe according to <i>Vayiqra/Lev.</i>
chapter 26:14-39.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Josephus</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">: “War of the Jews” Book 5-6, excerpt (this
happened in the year 69-70C.E,
<b>40 years after </b></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">went back to the Father:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>1. WHEN
therefore Titus had marched over that desert which lies between Egypt and Syria, in the manner forementioned,
he came to Cesarea, having resolved to set his forces in order at that place,
before he began the war. Nay, indeed, while he was assisting his father at Alexandria, in settling <b>that government which had been newly conferred upon them by God,</b> it
so happened that the sedition at Jerusalem
was revived,</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Now <b>Titus</b>, according to the
Roman usage, went in the front of the army after a decent manner, and marched
through Samaria to Gophna, a city that had been formerly taken by his father
(Vespasian), and was then garrisoned by Roman soldiers; and when he had lodged
there one night, he marched on in the morning; and when he had gone as far as a
day's march, he pitched his camp at that valley which the Jews, in their own
tongue, call "the Valley of Thorns," near a certain village called
Gabaothsath, which signifies "the Hill of Saul," being distant from
Jerusalem about thirty furlongs. <u>(6)</u>
There it was that he chose out six hundred select horsemen, and went to take a
view of the city, to observe what strength it was of, and how courageous the
Jews were; whether, when they saw him, and before they came to a direct battle,
they would be affrighted and submit; for he had been informed what was really
true, that the people who were fallen under the power of the seditious and the
robbers were greatly desirous of peace; but being too weak to rise up against
the rest, they lay still.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">The Jews became still more and more in number,
as encouraged by the good success of those that first made the attack; and
while they had such good fortune, they seemed both to themselves and to the
enemy to be many more than they really were. The disorderly way of their
fighting at first put the Romans also to a stand, who had been constantly used
to fight skilfully in good order, and with keeping their ranks, and obeying the
orders that were given them; for which reason the Romans were caught
unexpectedly, and were obliged to give way to the assaults that were made upon
them. Now when these Romans were overtaken, and turned back upon the Jews, they
put a stop to their career; yet when they did not take care enough of
themselves through the vehemence of their pursuit, they were wounded by them;
but as still more and more Jews sallied (sudden attack) out of the city, the
Romans were at length brought into confusion, and put to fight, and ran away
from their camp.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AS now the war abroad ceased for a while,
the sedition within was revived; and <b>on
the feast of unleavened bread</b>, which was now come, it being the fourteenth
day of the month Xanthicus, [Nisan,] when it is believed the Jews were first
freed from the Egyptians, Eleazar and his party opened the gates of this
[inmost court of the] temple, and admitted such of the people as were desirous
to worship God into it. <u>(9)</u> But John (a
zealot) made use of this festival as a cloak for his treacherous designs, and
armed the most inconsiderable of his own party, the greater part of whom were
not purified, with weapons concealed under their garments, and sent them with
great zeal into the temple, in order to seize upon it; which armed men, when
they were gotten in, threw their garments away, and presently appeared in their
armor.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><u>9)</u></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Here we see the true occasion of
those vast numbers of Jews that were in Jerusalem during this siege by Titus,
and perished therein; that the siege began at the feast of the Passover, when such
prodigious multitudes of Jews and proselytes of the gate were come from all
parts of Judea, and from other countries, in order to celebrate that great
festival. See the note B. VI. ch. 9. sect. 3. Tacitus himself informs us, that
the number of men, women, and children in Jerusalem, when it was besieged by
the Romans, as he had been informed. This information must have been taken from
the Romans: for Josephus never recounts the numbers of those that were
besieged, only he lets us know<b>, that of
the vulgar, carried dead out of the gates, and buried at the public charges,
was the like number of 600,000</b>, ch. viii. sect.7. However, when Cestius
Gallus came first to the siege, that sum in Tacitus is no way disagreeable to
Josephus's history, though they were become much more numerous when <b><u>Titus encompassed the city at the
passover.</u></b> As to <b>the number that
perished during this siege, Josephus assures us, as we shall see hereafter,
they were 1,100,000,(1million and One hundred thousand)</b> besides 97,000
captives. But Tacitus's history of the last part of this siege is not now
extant; so we cannot compare his parallel numbers with those of Josephus.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">3. And now Titus pitched his camp within the
city, at that place which was called "the Camp of the Assyrians,"
having seized upon all that lay as far as Cedron, but took care to be out of
the reach of the Jews' darts. He then presently began his attacks, upon which
the Jews divided themselves into several bodies, and courageously defended that
wall; while John and his faction did it from the tower of Antonia, and from the
northern cloister of the temple, and fought the Romans before the monuments of
king Alexander; and Sireoh's army also took for their share the spot of ground
that was near John's monument, and fortified it as far as to that gate where
water was brought in to the tower Hippicus. However, the Jews made……….</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AS Josephus was speaking thus with a loud voice, the seditious would
neither yield to what he said, nor did they deem it safe for them to alter
their conduct; but as for <b>the people,
they had a great inclination to desert to the Romans</b>; accordingly, some of
them sold what they had, and even the most precious things that had been laid
up as treasures by them, for every small matter, and <b>swallowed down pieces of gold, that they might not be found out by the
robbers;</b> and when they had escaped to the Romans, went to stool, and had
wherewithal to provide plentifully for themselves; for Titus let a great number
of them go away into the country, whither they pleased. And <b>the main reasons why they were so ready to
desert</b> were these: That now they <b>should
be freed from those miseries which they had endured in that city</b>, and yet
should not be in slavery to the Romans: however, John and Simon, with their
factions, did more carefully watch these men's going out than they did the
coming in of the Romans; and if any one did but afford the least shadow of
suspicion of such an intention, his throat was cut immediately.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">T<i>he
madness of the seditious did also <b>increase
together with their famine</b>, and both those miseries were every day inflamed
more and more; for there was no corn which any where appeared publicly, but the
robbers came running into, and searched men's private houses; and then, if they
found any, they tormented them, because they had denied they had any; and <b>if they found none, they tormented them
worse</b>, because they supposed they had more carefully concealed it. The
indication they made use of whether they had any or not was taken from the
bodies of these miserable wretches; which, if they were in good case, they
supposed they were in no want at all of food; but if they were wasted away,
they walked off without searching any further; nor did they think it proper to
kill such as these, because they saw they would very soon die of themselves for
want of food. Many there were indeed who sold what they had for one measure; it
was of wheat, if they were of the richer sort; but of barley, if they were
poorer. When these had so done, they shut themselves up in the inmost rooms of
their houses, and ate the corn they had gotten; some did it without grinding
it, by reason of the extremity of the want they were in, and others baked bread
of it, according as necessity and fear dictated to them: a table was no where
laid for a distinct meal, but they snatched the bread out of the fire,
half-baked, and ate it very hastily………..</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">3. <b>It
was now a miserable case, and a sight that would justly bring tears into our
eyes</b>, how men stood as to their food, while the more powerful had more than
enough, and the weaker were lamenting [for want of it.] But <b>the famine was too hard</b> for all other
passions, and it is destructive to nothing so much as to modesty; for what was
otherwise worthy of reverence was in this case despised; insomuch that <b>children pulled the very morsels that their
fathers were eating out of their very mouths</b>, and what was still more to be
pitied, <b>so did the mothers do as to
their infants;</b> and when <b>those that
were most dear were perishing under their hands, they were not ashamed to take
from them the very last drops that might preserve their lives</b>: and while
they ate after this manner, yet were they not concealed in so doing; but the
seditious every where came upon them immediately, and snatched away from them
what they had gotten from others; for when they saw any house shut up, this was
to them a signal that the people within had gotten some food; whereupon <b>they broke open the doors, and ran in, and
took pieces of what they were eating almost up out of their very throats</b>,
and this by force: <b><u>the old men, who
held their food fast, were beaten</u></b>; and if <b>the women hid what they had within their hands, their hair was torn for
so doing</b>; nor was there any commiseration shown either to the aged or to
the infants, but <b>they lifted up children
from the ground as they hung upon the morsels they had gotten, and <u>shook
them down upon the floor</u></b>……</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">They were more
barbarously cruel</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> to those that had prevented their
coming in, and had actually swallowed down what they were going to seize upon,
as if they had been unjustly defrauded of their right. <b>They also invented terrible methods of torments</b> to discover where
any food was, and <b>they were these to
stop up the passages of the privy parts of the miserable wretches, and to drive
sharp stakes up their fundaments</b>; and a man was forced to bear what it is
terrible even to hear, <b>in order to make
him confess that he had but one loaf of bread,</b> or that he might discover a
handful of barley-meal that was concealed; and this was done when these
tormentors were not themselves hungry………………</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">They confessed what was true, <u>that
they were the slaves, the scum, and the spurious and abortive offspring of our
nation</u></span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, while they overthrew the city
themselves, and forced the Romans, whether they would or no, to gain a
melancholy reputation, by acting gloriously against them, and did almost draw
that fire upon the temple, which they seemed to think came too slowly; and
indeed <b>when <u>they saw that temple
burning</u> from the upper city, they were neither troubled at it, nor did they
shed any tears </b>on that account, while yet these passions were discovered
among the Romans themselves; which circumstances we shall speak of hereafter in
their proper place, when we come to treat of such matters……….</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">when they were going to be taken, they were forced
to defend themselves for fear of being punished; as after they had fought, they
thought it too late to make any supplications for mercy; so <b>they were first whipped, and then tormented
with all sorts of tortures</b>, before they died, and <b>were <u>then crucified before the wall of the city</u></b>. This
miserable procedure made Titus greatly to pity them, while <b><u>they caught every day five hundred Jews</u></b>; nay, some days they
caught more: yet it did not appear to be safe for him to let those that were
taken by force go their way, and to set a guard over so many he saw would be to
make such as great deal them useless to him. The main reason why he did not
forbid that cruelty was this, that he hoped the Jews might perhaps yield at
that sight, out of fear lest they might themselves afterwards be liable to the
same cruel treatment. So <b><u>the
soldiers, out of the wrath and hatred they bore the Jews, nailed those they
caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses</u>, by
way of jest, when their multitude was so great, that room was wanting for the
crosses, and crosses wanting for the bodies</b>……………..</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">3. So all hope of escaping was now cut off from
the Jews, together with their liberty of going out of the city. <b>Then did the famine widen its progress, and
devoured the people by whole houses and families</b>; the upper rooms were full
of <b>women and children that were dying by
famine</b>, and the lanes of <b>the city
were full of the dead bodies of the aged; the children also and the young men </b>wandered
about the market-places like shadows, all swelled with the famine, and fell
down dead, wheresoever their misery seized them. As for burying them, those
that were sick themselves were not able to do it; and those that were hearty
and well were deterred from doing it by the great multitude of those dead
bodies, and by the uncertainty there was how soon they should die themselves; <b>for many died as they were burying others</b>,
and many went to their coffins before that fatal hour was come. Nor was there
any lamentations made under these calamities, nor were heard any mournful
complaints; but <b>the famine confounded
all natural passions;</b> for those who were just going to die looked upon
those that were gone to rest before them with dry eyes and open mouths. A deep
silence also, and a kind of deadly night, had seized upon the city; while yet
the robbers were still more terrible than these miseries were themselves; for
they brake open those houses which were no other than graves of dead bodies,
and <b>plundered them of what they had</b>;
and carrying off the coverings of their bodies, went out laughing, and tried
the points of their swords in their dead bodies; and, in order <b>to prove what metal they were made of they
thrust some of those through that still lay alive upon the ground</b>; but for
those that entreated them to lend them their right hand and their sword to
despatch them, they were too proud to grant their requests, and left them to be
consumed by the famine……………………</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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dead bodies, and <b>the thick putrefaction</b>
running about them, he gave a groan; and<u>, <b>spreading out his hands to heaven, called God to witness that this was
not his doing</b></u>; and such was the sad case of the city itself……………</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">These Romans besides had great plenty of corn
and other necessaries out of Syria, and out of the neighbouring provinces; many
of whom would stand near to the wall of the city, <b>and show the people what great quantities of provisions they had, and
so make the enemy more sensible of their famine</b>, by the great plenty, even
to satiety, which they had themselves…….</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">After this man there ran away to Titus many of the eminent citizens, and
told him <b>the entire number of the poor
that were dead, and that no fewer than <u>six hundred thousand </u>were thrown
out at the gates</b>, though still the number of the rest could not be
discovered; and they told him further, that when they were no longer able to
carry out the dead bodies of the poor, <b>they
laid their corpses on heaps</b> in very large houses, and shut them up therein;
as also that <b>a medimnus of wheat was
sold for a talent</b>; and that when, a while afterward, it was not possible to
gather herbs, by reason the city was all walled about, <b>some persons were driven to that terrible distress as to search the
common sewers and old dunghills of cattle, and <u>to eat the dung</u> which
they got there</b>; and what they of old could not endure so much as to see
they now used for food. When the Romans barely heard all this, they
commiserated their case; while the seditious, who saw it also, did not repent,
but suffered the same distress to come upon themselves; for they were blinded
by that fate which was already coming upon the city, and upon themselves
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>1. THUS did <b>the miseries of Jerusalem
grow worse</b> and worse every day, and the seditious were still more irritated
by the calamities they were under, even while <b>the famine preyed upon themselves</b>, after it had preyed upon the
people. And indeed <b>the multitudes of
carcasses that lay in heaps one upon another was a horrible sight</b>, and <b>produced a pestilential stench</b>, which
was a hindrance to those that would make sallies out of the city, and fight the
enemy:</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>And let my first argument to move
you to it be taken from what probably some would think reasonable to dissuade
you, I mean the constancy and patience of these Jews, even under their ill
successes; for it is unbecoming you, who are Romans and my soldiers, who have
in peace been taught how to make wars, and who have also been used to conquer
in those wars, to be inferior to Jews, either in action of the hand, or in
courage of the soul, and this especially when you are at the conclusion of your
victory, <b>and <u>are assisted by God
himself</u></b>; for as to our misfortunes, they have been owing to the madness
of the Jews, while their sufferings have been owing to your valor, and to the
assistance God hath afforded you; <b><u>for
as to the seditions they have been in, and the famine they are under, and the
siege they now endure, and the fall of their walls without our engines, what
can they all be but demonstrations of God's anger against them </u>(read again
Vayyiqra 26:14-32)</b>, and of his assistance afforded us?........</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">For they foretold that this city should be then taken when somebody
shall begin the slaughter of his own countrymen. And <b>are not both the city and the entire temple now full of the dead bodies
of your countrymen? <u>It is God, therefore, it is God himself who is bringing
on this fire, to purge that city and temple by means of the Romans</u></b>, <u>(8)</u> and is going to pluck up this city, which is
full of your pollutions."……</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AND now Titus gave orders to his soldiers
that were with him to dig up the foundations of the tower of Antonia, and make
him a ready passage for his army to come up; while he himself had Josephus
brought to him, (for he had been informed that <b>on that very day, which was the seventeenth day <u>(5)</u> of Panemus, [Tamuz,] the sacrifice called
"<u>the Daily Sacrifice</u>" had failed</b>, and <b>had not been offered to God, for want of men to offer it</b>, and that
the people were grievously troubled at it,) and commanded him to say the same
things to…….</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>5)</u><span lang="EN-GB"> This was a remarkable day indeed, <b><u>the seventeenth of Paneruns. [Tamuz,]
A.D. 70,</u></b> when, according to Daniel's prediction, six hundred and six
years before, the Romans "in half a week caused <b>the sacrifice and oblation to cease</b>," <u>Dan_9:27</u>. For <b>from the month of February, A.D. 66</b>, about which time Vespasian
entered on this war, to this very time, <b><u>was
just three years and a half</u></b>. See Bishop Lloyd's Tables of Chronology,
published by Mr. Marshall, on this year. Nor is it to be omitted, what year
nearly confirms this duration of the war, that four years before the war begun
was somewhat above seven years five months before the destruction of Jerusalem,
ch. 5. sect. 3.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Upon this Josephus stood in such a place where
he might be heard, not by John only, but by many more, and then declared to
them what Caesar had given him in charge, and this <b>in the Hebrew language</b>. <u>(6)</u>
So he earnestly prayed them to spare their own city, and to prevent that fire
which was just ready to seize upon the temple, and to offer their usual
sacrifices to God therein……</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>(6)</u><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>The same that in the New Testament is always so called, and was then
the common language of the Jews in Judea</b>, which was the Syriac dialect.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Thou hast indignation at me again, and makest a clamor at me, and
reproachest me; indeed I cannot deny but I am worthy of worse treatment than
all this amounts to, because, in opposition to fate, I make this kind
invitation to thee, and endeavor to force deliverance <b>upon <u>those whom God hath condemned</u></b>. And <b>who is there that does not know what the writings of the ancient
prophets contain in them</b>, - and <b><u>particularly
that oracle which is just now going to be fulfilled upon this miserable city</u></b>?
For they foretold that this city should be then taken when somebody shall begin
the slaughter of his own countrymen. And <b>are
not both the city and the entire temple now full of the dead bodies of your
countrymen? <u>It is God, therefore, it is God himself who is bringing on this
fire, to purge that city and temple by means of the Romans</u></b><u>,</u> <u>(8)</u> and is going to pluck up this city, which is
full of your pollutions."</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>(8)</u><span lang="EN-GB"> Of this oracle, see the note on B.
IV. ch. 6. sect. 3. <i>Josephus</i>, both
here and in many places elsewhere, speaks so, that it is most evident he was
fully satisfied that <b>God was on the
Romans' side, and made use of them now for the destruction of that wicked
nation of the Jews;</b> which was for certain the true state of this matter, as
the prophet <i>Daniel</i> first, and our
Saviour himself afterwards, had clearly foretold. See Lit. Accompl. of Proph.
p. 64, etc.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Moreover<b>, their hunger was so
intolerable, that it obliged them to chew every thing</b>, while they gathered
such things as the most sordid animals would not touch, and endured to eat
them; <b>nor did they at length abstain
from girdles and shoes</b>; and the very leather which belonged to their
shields they pulled off and gnawed: the very wisps of old hay became food to
some; and <b>some gathered up fibres</b>,
and sold a very small weight of them for four Attic [drachmae]. But why do I
describe the shameless impudence that the famine brought on men in their eating
inanimate things, while <b>I am going to
relate a matter of fact, the like to which no history relates,</b> <u>(15)</u> either among the Greeks or Barbarians? <b><u>It is horrible to speak of it</u></b><u>,</u>
and incredible when heard. <b>I had indeed
willingly omitted this calamity of ours, that I might not seem to deliver what
is so portentous to posterity, but that I have innumerable witnesses to it in
my own age</b>; and besides, my country would have had little reason to thank
me for suppressing the miseries that she underwent at this time………</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">4. There was a certain woman that dwelt beyond
Jordan, her name was Mary; her father was Eleazar, of the village Bethezob, which
signifies the house of Hyssop. She was eminent for her family and her wealth,
and had fled away to Jerusalem
with the rest of the multitude, and was with them besieged therein at this
time. The other effects of this woman had been already seized upon, such I mean
as she had brought with her out of Perea, and removed to the city. What she had
treasured up besides, as also what food she had contrived to save, had been
also carried off by the rapacious guards</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">,………….</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">She then attempted a
most unnatural thing</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">; and <b>snatching up her son, who was a child sucking at her breast, she said,</b>
"O thou miserable infant! for whom shall I preserve thee in this war, this
famine, and this sedition? As to the war with the Romans, if they preserve our
lives, we must be slaves. This famine also will destroy us, even before that
slavery comes upon us. Yet are these seditious rogues more terrible than both
the other. <b><u>Come on; be thou my food,</u></b>
and be thou a fury to these seditious varlets, and a by-word to the world,
which is all that is now wanting <b>to
complete the calamities of us Jews</b>." As soon as she had said this, <b>she slew her son, and then roasted him, and
eat the one half of him</b>, and <b>kept
the other half by her concealed</b>………</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">upon this the seditious came in presently, and smelling the horrid scent
of this food, they threatened her that they would cut her throat immediately if
she did not show them what food she had gotten ready. She replied that she had
saved a very fine portion of it for them, and withal uncovered what was left of
her son. Hereupon <b>they were seized with
a horror</b> <b>and amazement of mind</b>,
and stood astonished at the sight, when <b>she
said to them, "This is mine own son,</b> and what hath been done was mine
own doing! Come, eat of this food; for I have eaten of it myself! Do not you
pretend to be either more tender than a woman, or more compassionate than a
mother; but if you be so scrupulous, and do abominate this my sacrifice, as I
have eaten the one half, let the rest be reserved for me also." After
which those men went out trembling, being never so much aftrighted at any thing
as they were at this, and with some difficulty <b>they left the rest of that meat to the mother</b>. Upon which the whole
city was full of this horrid action immediately; and while every body laid this
miserable case before their own eyes, they trembled, as if this unheard of
action had been done by themselves. So those that were thus distressed by the
famine were very desirous to die, and those already dead were esteemed happy,
because they had not lived long enough either to hear or to see such miseries.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">5. This sad instance was quickly told to the
Romans, some of whom could not believe it, and others pitied the distress which
the Jews were under; but there were many of them who were hereby induced to a
more bitter hatred than ordinary against our nation. But for <b><u>Caesar, he excused himself before God as
to this matter</u></b>, and said that he had proposed peace and liberty to the
Jews, as well as an oblivion of all their former insolent practices; but that
they, instead of concord, had chosen sedition; instead of peace, war; and
before satiety and abundance, a famine. That they had begun with their own
hands to burn down that temple which we have preserved hitherto; and that
therefore they deserved to eat such food as this was. That, however, this
horrid action of eating an own child ought to be covered with the overthrow of
their very country itself, and men ought not to leave such a city upon the
habitable earth to be seen by the sun, wherein mothers are thus fed,</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">But when Titus perceived that his endeavours to spare a foreign temple
turned to the damage of his soldiers, and then be killed, <b>he gave order to set the gates on fire</b>……..</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i><u><span lang="EN-GB">But as for that house, God had, for
certain, long ago doomed it to the fi</span></u></i></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">re</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">; and now that fatal
day was come, according to the revolution of ages<b>; it was the tenth day of the month Lous, [Ab,]</b> upon which it was
formerly burnt by the king of Babylon; although these flames took their rise
from the Jews themselves, and were occasioned by them; for upon Titus's
retiring, the seditious lay still for a little while, and then attacked the
Romans again, when those that guarded the holy house fought with those that
quenched the fire that was burning the inner [court of the] temple; but these
Romans put the Jews to flight, <b>and
proceeded as far as the holy house itself.</b> At which time one of the
soldiers, without staying for any orders, and without any concern or dread upon
him at so great an undertaking, and being hurried on by a certain divine fury,
snatched somewhat out of the materials that were on fire, and being lifted up
by another soldier, he set fire to a golden window, through which there was a
passage to the rooms that were round about the holy house, on the north side of
it. As the flames went upward, the Jews made a great clamor, such as so mighty
an affliction required, and ran together to prevent it; and now they spared not
their lives any longer, nor suffered any thing to restrain their force, since
that holy house was perishing, for whose sake it was that they kept such a
guard about it.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Moreover, the hope of plunder induced many to go on, as having this
opinion, that all the places within were full of money, and as seeing that all
round about it was made of gold. And besides, one of those that went into the
place prevented Caesar, when he ran so hastily out to restrain the soldiers,
and threw the fire upon the hinges of the gate, in the dark; whereby the flame
burst out from within the holy house itself immediately, when the commanders retired,
and Caesar with them, and when nobody any longer forbade those that were
without to set fire to it. <b>And thus was
the holy house burnt down</b>, without Caesar's approbation……..</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Now the number of years that passed <b>from
its first foundation, which was laid by king Solomon</b>, <b>till this its destruction, which happened in the second year of the
reign of Vespasian,</b> are collected to be <b>one thousand one hundred and thirty (1130), besides seven months and
fifteen days</b>; and from the second building of it, which was done by Haggai,
in the second year of Cyrus the king, <b><u>till
its destruction under Vespasian</u></b>, there were <b>six hundred and thirty-nine years and forty-five days</b>.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">2. And now the Romans, judging that it was in
vain to spare what was round about the holy house, burnt all those places, as
also the remains of the cloisters and the gates, two excepted; the one on the
east side, and the other on the south; both which, however, they burnt
afterward. <b>They also burnt down the
treasury chambers, in which was an immense quantity of money, and an immense
number of garments, and other precious goods</b> there reposited; and, to speak
all in a few words, there it was that the entire riches of the Jews were heaped
up together, while the rich people had there built themselves chambers [to
contain such furniture]………</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Thus also before the Jews' rebellion, and
before those <b>commotions which preceded
the war</b>, when the people were come in great crowds <b>to the feast of unleavened bread</b>, on the eighth day of the month
Xanthicus, <u>(21)</u> [Nisan,] and at the
ninth hour of the night, so great a light shone round the altar and the holy
house, that it appeared to be bright day time; which lasted for half an hour. <b><u>This light seemed to be a good sign to
the unskillful, but was so interpreted by the sacred scribes, as to portend
those events that followed immediately upon it</u></b>. At the same festival
also, a heifer, as she was led by the high priest to be sacrificed, brought
forth a lamb in the midst of the temple. Moreover, the eastern gate of the
inner <u>(22)</u> [court of the] temple, which
was of brass, and vastly heavy, and had been with difficulty shut by twenty
men, and rested upon a basis armed with iron, and had bolts fastened very deep
into the firm floor, which was there made of one entire stone, was seen to be
opened of its own accord about the sixth hour of the night……….</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">They were all received by the Romans, because Titus himself grew
negligent as to his former orders for killing them, and because the very
soldiers grew weary of killing them, and because they hoped to get some money
by sparing them; for they left only the populace, and sold the rest of the
multitude, <u>(28)</u> with their wives and
children, and every one of them at a very low price, and that because such as
were sold were very many, and the buyers were few: and although Titus had made
proclamation beforehand, that no deserter should come alone by himself, that so
they might bring out their families with them, yet did he receive such as these
also. However, he set over them such as were to distinguish some from others,
in order to see if any of them deserved to be punished. And indeed the number
of those that were sold was immense; but of the populace above forty thousand
were saved, whom Caesar let go whither every one of them pleased.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Note:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><u>28)</u><span lang="EN-GB"> This innumerable multitude of Jews
that were "sold" by the Romans was an eminent completion of God's
ancient threatening by Moses, that if they apostatized from the obedience to
his laws, they should be "sold unto their enemies for bond- men and bond-women,"
<u>Deu_28:68</u>. See more especially the note
on ch. 9. sect. 2. But one thing is here peculiarly remarkable, that Moses
adds, Though they should be "sold" for slaves, yet "no man
should buy them;" i.e. either they should have none to redeem them from this
sale into slavery; or rather, that the slaves to be sold should be more than
were the purchasers for them, and so they should be sold for little or nothing;
which is what <i>Josephus</i> here affirms
to have been the case at this time.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">THAT WHEREAS THE CITY OF JERUSALEM HAD BEEN FIVE
TIMES TAKEN FORMERLY, THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME OF ITS DESOLATION. A BRIEF
ACCOUNT OF ITS HISTORY.</span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">1. AND thus was <b>Jerusalem taken,
in the second year of the reign of Vespasian</b>, on the eighth day of the
month Gorpeius [<b>Elul the sixth month
before Etanim</b>]. It had been taken five <u>(34)</u>
times before, though this was the second time of its desolation; for Shishak,
the king of Egypt, and after him Antiochus, and after him Pompey, and after
them Sosius and Herod, took the city, but still preserved it; but before all
these, the king of Babylon conquered it, and made it desolate, one thousand
four hundred and sixty-eight years and six months after it was built. But he
who first built it. Was a potent man among the Canaanites (himself was not a
Canaanite) , and is in our own tongue called [<b>Melchisedek]</b>, the Righteous King, for such he really was; on which
account he was [there] the first priest of God, and first built a temple
[there], and called the city Jerusalem, which was <b>formerly called Salem</b>. However, David, the king of the Jews,
ejected the Canaanites, and set-tied his own people therein. It was demolished
entirely by the Babylonians, four hundred and seventy-seven years and six
months after him. And from king David, who was the first of the Jews who
reigned therein, to this destruction under Titus, were one thousand one hundred
and seventy-nine years (1179); but from its first building, till this last
destruction, were two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years (2177); yet
hath not its great antiquity, nor its vast riches, nor the diffusion of its
nation over all the habitable earth, nor the greatness of the veneration paid
to it on a religious account, been sufficient to preserve it from being
destroyed. And thus ended the siege of Jerusalem.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Do you remember what </span></b>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">told his disciples?</span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mat 24:1</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and going out, </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">went away from
the Set-apart Place
(Temple), and His taught ones came near <b>to point out to Him the buildings of the
Set-apart Place</b>.(Temple)
</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mat 24:2</b><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US">and </span></i>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">said to them,
“Do you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, <b>not one stone shall be left here upon another, at all, which shall not
be thrown down</b>.”</span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">This
prophecy was fulfilled 40 Years after </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">departure
according to <i>Yechezk’el</i> 4:6-7</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Eze 4:6</b><span lang="EN-GB"> a<i>nd when thou hast accomplished them lie
again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty
days: I have appointed thee <b>each day for
a year.</b></i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">Eze 4:7<span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Therefore <b>thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem</b>, and thine arm shall be
uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">What can we
say then? I have heard many people judging the accuracy of </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>’s word, but here we have the
proof that what <i>Moshe</i>, the prophets
or Messiah </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">spoke, was perfectly fulfilled:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mat 5:18</b><span lang="EN-US"> <i>“For
truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth
pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah <u>till
all be done</u></i>.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Luk 16:17</b><span lang="EN-GB"> “<i>And it is easier for the heaven and the earth to pass away than for one
tittle of the Torah to fall. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
prophecy and understanding must be revised because according to <i>Josephus</i>’s proof concerning the
destruction of the Temple and <i>Yerushalayim</i>
the vision concerning the last week was completely fulfil in the year 70C.E.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The first
part was fulfilled when </span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">entered his ministry
for three an half year. The last part of the week (seven years) was
accomplished by Titus from the midst of Year 66 to the year 70CE.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">For those
waiting now for the last seven years, when the <i>“Anti-Christ”</i> shall appear; they should read the work from <i>Josephus</i> before making a conclusion. I
know that it is also written: <i>“what has been, it is what will be… Eccl.)</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">do not speak of one remaining week
in his prophecy:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mat 24:2</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and
</i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">said to them,
“Do you not see all these? Truly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left
here upon another, at all, which shall not be thrown down.” </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mat 24:3</b><i><span lang="EN-US"> and
as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the taught ones came to Him separately,
saying, “Say to us, <b>when shall this be</b>,
<b>and</b> <b>what is the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">In this
chapter, </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">told his disciples first of the destruction of
the Temple,
this was fulfilled in 70C.E
as we read from <i>Josephus</i>, after that,
the disciples asked him concerning the sign of His coming and of the end of the
age. So the all chapter is divided in two different period of time. Let the
reader be careful when reading and not putting all in the same period of time.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US">give the premises of what will be
before his second coming and the time of the end of the age.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US">The first
part: The destruction of the Temple
and so the completion of one part of <i>Daniel</i>’s
vision was completed in 70C.E,
the last part the end of the age will be when Messiah will come back. I will
give more details in the study of <i>Daniel</i>’s
vision.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">It is not
said that history does not repeat itself, concerning the seventy’ weeks vision
in Daniel’s book?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Dan 12:1</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Now at that time Miḵa’ĕl shall stand up,
the great head who is standing over the sons of your people. <b>And there shall be</b> <b>a time of distress such as never was since there was a nation, until
that time</b>. And at that time your people shall be delivered, every one who
is found written in the book, </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Mat 24:21</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“For
then there <b>shall be great distress, such
as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever
shall be</b>.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">In the
first verse from Daniel chapter 12, the Hebrew word for “stand up” is the word <b><i>“âmad”</i></b>
which can also means: <b><i>“stand still”</i></b>. If we consider the
meaning to be <i>“stand still”</i> we will
see what Shaul say:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>2Th 2:7</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>for the secret of lawlessness is already at
work – only until <b><u>he</u> who now
restrains comes out of the midst</b></i><b>.
</b></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
question is: Who is this “he”?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">I have read
many interpretation, <i>Christians</i> like
to say that it is the “<i>church</i>” that
will be “<i>raptured</i>” and then the
lawless One will come. This of course is not true. <i>Michael</i> is the <i>Archangel</i>
in charge of the protection of Israel,
by <i>“standing still”</i> this will open a
free way for the man of perdition to enter into the scene and do what he is
appointed to do and <i>Elohim</i> judgment
comes upon the earth. You may say, what happen with <b><i>Yah</i></b>’s people?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">You should
read Psalm 91 which is a psalm for the coming end days, and also what </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">say to the Philadelphia Assembly:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Rev 3:10</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“Because you have guarded My Word of
endurance, <b>I also shall guard you from
the hour of trial which shall come upon the all world</b>, to try those who
dwell on the earth.</i> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The word <i>“Philadelphia”
</i>is a Greek word meaning: <i>“Love as
brethren”</i> from two words: <i>“Philos”</i>
and <i>“adelphos”.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Do you
remember what </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">told his disciples in the book of <i>Yochanan</i>?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 13:35</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>“By this shall all know that you are My
taught ones (disciples/talmidin), <b>if you
have love for one another.”</b></i><b> </b></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">Could this
be valid for the <i>Philadelphia</i> Assembly during the last
days?</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
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</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Lev 26:3</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘<b>If </b>you walk in My laws (chuqqah/Statutes) and guard My commands
(mitzvoth), <b><u>and shall do them</u></b>,
</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:4</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>then</b> I shall give you rain
in its season, and the land shall yield its crops, and the trees of the field
yield their fruit. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:5</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>your threshing shall last
till the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last till the
time of sowing</b>. And you shall eat your bread until you have enough, <b>and shall dwell in your land safely</b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:6</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And I shall give peace in the land, and you shall lie down and no one
make you afraid. And I shall clear the land of evil beasts, and <b>not let the sword go through your land. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:7</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword
before you. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:8</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>five of you shall pursue a
hundred, and a hundred of you pursue ten thousand.</b> And your enemies shall
fall by the sword before you. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:9</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>I shall turn to you and
make you bear fruit</b>, and shall increase you, and shall establish My
covenant with you. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:10</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>you shall eat the old
supply</b>, <b>and clear out the old
because of the new.</b> </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:11</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And I shall set My Dwelling
Place in your midst, and My being shall not reject
you. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:12</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘And <b>I shall walk in your midst</b>,
and shall be your Elohim, and you shall be My people. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev 26:13</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> ‘I am </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> your
Elohim, who brought you out of the land
of Mitsrayim, from being
their slaves. And <b>I have broken the bars
of your yoke</b> and made you walk upright. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:14</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But <b><u>if you do not obey Me</u></b>, and do not do all these commands, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:15</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>if you reject My laws</b>, or if your being loathes My right-rulings,
so that you do not do all My commands, but <b>break
My covenant</b>, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:16</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <b>I also do this to you</b>: And I shall appoint sudden alarm over you, <b>wasting disease</b> and <b>inflammation</b>, <b>destroying the eyes</b>, and <b>consuming
the life</b>. And <b>you shall sow your
seed in vain</b>, for <b>your enemies shall
eat it</b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:17</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall set My face
against you, and <b>you shall be smitten
before your enemies</b>. And <b>those who
hate you shall rule over</b> you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:18</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And after all this, <b>if you do not obey Me, then I shall punish
you seven times more</b> for your sins. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:19</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall break the
pride of your power, and shall make your heavens like iron and your earth like
bronze. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:20</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>your strength shall be spent in vain </b>and your land not yield its
crops, nor the trees of the land yield their fruit. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:21</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if you walk contrary
to Me, and refuse to obey Me, <b>I shall
bring on you seven times more plagues</b>, according to your sins, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:22</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>send wild beasts among you</b>, which shall bereave you of your
children. And I shall cut off your livestock, and make you few in number, and
your highways shall be deserted. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:23</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if you are not
instructed by Me by these, but walk contrary to Me, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:24</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> then I also shall walk
contrary to you, and <b>I Myself shall
smite you seven times for your sins. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:25</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall bring
against you a sword executing the vengeance of My covenant, and you shall
gather together in your cities, and <b>I
shall send pestilence among you</b>, and <b><u>you
shall be given into the hand of the enemy</u></b><u>.</u> </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:26</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘When I have cut off your
supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall
bring back to you your bread by weight, and <b>you shall eat and not be satisfied. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:27</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if in spite of this, you do not obey Me</b>, but walk contrary to Me, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:28</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> then I shall walk
contrary to you in wrath. And <b>I Myself
shall punish you seven times for your sins. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:29</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b><u>you shall eat the flesh of your sons</u></b>, and <b><u>eat the flesh of your daughters</u>. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:30</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>I shall destroy your high places</b>, and <b>cut down your sun-pillars</b>, and put your carcasses on the carcasses
of your idols. And My being shall loathe you. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:31</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b><u>I shall turn your cities into ruins</u></b> and lay your set-apart
places waste, and <b><u>not smell your
sweet fragrances</u></b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:32</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And I shall lay the land
waste, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:33</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>I shall scatter you among the gentiles (goy)</b> and draw out a sword
after you. And <b>your land shall be desert</b>
and your cities ruins, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:34</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>the land enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies waste</b> and you are in
your enemies’ land. Then the land would rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:35</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘As long as it lies waste
it rests, for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when you dwelt in it. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:36</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And as for <b>those of you who are left</b>, <b>I shall send faintness into their hearts</b>
in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them
to flee. And they shall flee as though retreating from a sword, and <b>they shall fall when no one pursues. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:37</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>they shall stumble over one another</b>, as from before a sword, when
no one pursues. And you shall be unable to stand before your enemies. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:38</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>you shall perish among the gentiles</b>, and the land of your enemies
shall eat you up, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:39</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and <b>those of you who are left rot away in their crookedness in your
enemies’ lands</b>, and also in their fathers’ crookednesses rot away with
them. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:40</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>But if they confess their crookedness and the crookedness of their
fathers, with their trespass in which they trespassed against Me, and that they
also have walked contrary to Me, </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:41</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and that I also have
walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies <b>– <u>if their uncircumcised heart is then
humbled, and they accept the punishment of their crookedness</u></b><u>, </u></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:42</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <b>then</b> I shall remember My covenant with Yaʽaqoḇ, and also My
covenant with Yitsḥaq, and also remember My covenant with Aḇraham, <b>and remember the land</b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:43</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘For the land was
abandoned by them, and enjoying its Sabbaths while lying waste without them,
and they were paying for their crookedness, because they rejected My
right-rulings and because their being loathed My laws. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:44</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And yet for all this, <b>when they are in the land of their enemies,
I shall not reject them,</b> nor shall I loathe them so as to destroy them and
break My covenant with them. For I am </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> their
Elohim. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:45</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘Then I <b>shall remember for their sake the covenant
of the ancestors</b> whom I brought out of the land of Mitsrayim before the
eyes of the nations to be their Elohim. I am </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.’ ” </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
26:46</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> These are the laws and
the right-rulings and the Torot<sup>1</sup>
which </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> made between Himself and the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai by the hand of Mosheh. Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Torot - plural of Torah, teaching.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Lev 27:1</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>And </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> spoke to Mosheh, saying,</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:2</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “Speak to the children of
Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of
lives unto </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:3</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> when your evaluation is
of <b>a male from twenty years old up to
sixty years old</b>, then <b>your
evaluation shall be fifty sheqels of sil</b>ver, according to the sheqel of the
set-apart place. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:4</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if <b>it is a female</b>, then your evaluation
shall be <b>thirty sheqels</b>; </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:5</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and if <b>from five years old up to twenty years ol</b>d,
then your evaluation for a male shall be <b>twenty
sheqels</b>, and for <b>a female ten
sheqels</b>; </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:6</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and if <b>from a month old up to five years old</b>,
then your evaluation for a male shall be <b>five
sheqels of silver</b>, and <b>for a female</b>
your evaluation shall be <b>three sheqels
of silver; </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:7</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and if <b>from sixty years old and above</b>, if it
is <b>a male</b>, then your evaluation
shall be <b>fifteen sheqels</b>, and for <b>a female ten sheqels</b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:8</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But if he is too poor to
pay your evaluation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and <b>the priest shall set a value for him</b>.
According to the ability of him who vowed, the priest shall value him. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:9</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if it is a beast of
which they bring an offering to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, all such given to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">is set-apart. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:10</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘He is not to replace it
or exchange it, good for spoilt or spoilt for good. And if he at all exchanges
beast for beast, then both it and the one exchanged for it is set-apart. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:11</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if it is any unclean beast of which they do not bring an offering to </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, then he shall present the beast before the priest;</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:12</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> and the priest shall
value it, whether it is good or spoilt. According to your evaluation, O priest,
so it shall be. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:13</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But <b>if he indeed redeems it, then he shall add one-fifth</b> to your
evaluation. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:14</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>when a man sets his house apart, to be set-apart to </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, then
the priest shall value it, whether it is good or spoilt. As the priest values
it, so it stands. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:15</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if he who sets it
apart does redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver of your
evaluation to it, and it shall be his. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:16</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if a man sets apart to </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US">a field he owns</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">,
then your evaluation shall be according to the seed for it – <b>a omer of barley</b> seed at fifty sheqels
of silver. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:17</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘If he sets his field
apart from the Year of Jubilee, according to your evaluation it stands. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:18</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘But if he sets his field
apart after the Jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the silver due <b>according to the years that remain till the
Year of Jubilee</b>, and it shall be deducted from your evaluation. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:19</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if he who sets the
field apart ever wishes to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of the silver
of your evaluation to it, and it shall be his. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:20</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b>if he does not redeem the field</b>, or if he has sold the field to
another man, it is no longer redeemed, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:21</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> but <b>the field, when it is released in the Jubilee, is set-apart to </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US">as a dedicated
field, to be the possession of the priest. </span></i></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:22</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if a man sets apart
to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">a field which he has bought, which is not the field
of his possession, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:23</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> then the priest shall
reckon to him the amount of your evaluation, up to the Year of Jubilee, and he
shall give your evaluation on that day, set-apart to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:24</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>In the Year of Jubilee the field returns to him from whom he bought it</b>,
to him whose is the possession of the land. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:25</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And all your evaluations
is to be according to the sheqel of the set-apart place: twenty gĕrahs to the
sheqel. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:26</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘However, <b>a first-born of the beasts, which is
first-born to </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, no man sets it apart</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> – whether bull or sheep, it belongs to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:27</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And if among the unclean
beasts, then he shall ransom it according to your evaluation, and shall add
one-fifth to it. And if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to
your evaluation. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:28</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘However, whatever a man
lays under ban for </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">of all that he
has, man and beast, or the field of his possession, is not sold or redeemed.
Whatever is laid under ban is most set-apart to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:29</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>No one under the ban, under the ban among men, is ransomed, but shall
certainly be put to death. </b></span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:30</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And all the tithe of the
land – of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree – belongs to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. It is
set-apart to </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:31</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘<b>If a man indeed redeems any of his tithes, he adds one-fifth to it</b>.
</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:32</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘And <b><u>the entire tithe of the herd and of the flock</u></b>, all that
passes under the rod, the tenth one is set-apart to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:33</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> ‘He does not inquire
whether it is good or spoilt, nor does he exchange it. And if he exchanges it
at all, then both it and the one exchanged for it are set-apart, it is not
redeemed.’ ” </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Lev
27:34</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> These are the commands
which </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">commanded Mosheh for the children of Yisra’ĕl on Mount Sinai. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Haftorah</span></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">The hope
for those who have been scattered to the end of the earth the day will come and
has indeed come when men shall see and understand and therefore turn away from
their false gods, to the living and only true <i>Elohim</i><span> </span></span>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB">Zebaoth</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> the <i>Qadosh</i>
One of <i>Israel</i>.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Yrmeyahu</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> 17:13</span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"> ………Those who depart from
Me shall be written in the earth</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">,
because they have forsaken </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the fountain of living waters</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">We see
something done by </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">which is directly related to what
the prophet is saying:</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 8:2</b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>and at dawn He came again into the Set-apart Place,
and all the people were coming to Him. And having sat down, He was teaching
them. </i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 8:3</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and <b>the scribes and Pharisees</b>
brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And having set her in the midst, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 8:4</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of
adultery. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 8:5</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And in the Torah Mosheh commanded us that such should be stoned. What
then do You say?” </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Joh 8:6</b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and this <b>they said, trying Him,
so that they might accuse Him</b>. <b>But </b></span></i>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, bending
down, wrote on the ground with the finger,</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">
as though He did not hear. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Joh 8:7</i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> But as they
kept on questioning Him, He straightened up and <b>said to them</b>, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the
first to throw a stone at her.”</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
</span></font></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-GB">I know that
some scholars say that this part of chapter 8 was not in earlier documents, nevertheless
the writing on the ground from </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>
</span><span lang="EN-GB">was directly related to
the words from <i>Yrmeyahu</i>, pointing to
the scribes and Pharisee who were seeking to proclaim their own righteousness,
following their <i>Oral Torah </i>with their <i>“takanots, gezerot and ma’asee”</i>
but indeed had only evil in their heart </span><i><span lang="EN-US">“He
who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US">!</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto
the last: and Yehoshua was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.</i></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man
condemned thee?</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">Joh 8:11<span lang="EN-GB"> <i>She said, No man, Sir. And </i></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said unto her, Neither do I
condemn thee: go, and sin no more</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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understand in this story, that<span> </span></span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> was not first concern with
the adulterer woman but much more with the hypocrisy of the scribes and
Pharisee and thus writing on the ground did what the prophet <i>Yrmeyahu</i> spoke.</span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span> יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> came first to restore and not to judge, nevertheless he told
the woman to <b>stop sinning. </b>The
Scribes and Pharisee had not righteousness in mind but to accuse </span>יהושע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span> </span></span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Jer 16:19</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> O </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, my
strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the gentiles
(goy) shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood, futility, and
there is no value in them.”<sup>1</sup> Footnote:
<sup>1</sup>See Ps. 147:19, Isa. 2:3, Isa. 60:2-3, John 4:22, Rom. 2:20, Rom.
3:2, Rom. 9:4.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer
16:20</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Would a man make mighty
ones for himself, which are not mighty ones? </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer
16:21</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “Therefore see, I am
causing them to know, this time I cause them to know My hand and My might. And <b>they shall know that My Name is </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>!” </span></i></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>Jer 17:1</i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>“The sin of Yehuḏah is written
with a pen of iron, engraved with the point of a diamond <b>on the tablet of their heart</b>, and on the horns of your altars, </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer 17:2</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕrim by the
spreading trees on the high hills. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer 17:3</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “My mountain in the field, I give as plunder your wealth, all your
treasures, your high places of sin, throughout all your borders. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer 17:4</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And <b>you, even of yourself,
shall let go of your inheritance which I gave you</b>. And <b>I shall make you serve your enemies in a land which you have not known</b>,
for you have kindled a fire in My displeasure which burns forever.” </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer 17:5</i><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Thus said </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, “<b>Cursed is the man who
trusts in man and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart turns away from </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:6</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “For he shall be like a
shrub in the desert, and not see when good comes, and shall inhabit the parched
places in the wilderness, a salt land that is not inhabited. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:7</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> <b>“Blessed is the man who trusts in </b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, and
whose trust is </span></i></b>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:8</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “For he shall be like a
tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and does
not see when heat comes. And his leaf shall be green, and <b>in the year of drought he is not anxious, nor does he cease from
yielding fruit</b>. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:9</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “The
heart is crooked<sup>1</sup> above all, and desperately sick – who shall
know it? Footnote: <sup>1</sup>See 7:24, 16:12, 18:12,
23:17.</span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:10</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “<b><u>I, </u></b></span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><i><u><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, search the heart, I try the
kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of
his deeds. </span></u></i></b></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;"><i>Jer
17:11</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> “As a partridge that
broods but does not hatch, so is he who gets riches, but not by right. It
leaves him in the midst of his days, and at his end he is a fool.” </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:12</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> An esteemed throne,
exalted from the beginning, is the place of our set-apart place. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:13</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> O </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the
expectation of Yisra’ĕl, <b>all who forsake
You are put to shame</b>. “<b>Those who
depart from Me shall be written in the earth</b>, because they have forsaken </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, the fountain of living waters.”<sup>1</sup> Footnote: <sup>1</sup>See 2:13. </span></i></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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17:14</i><i><span lang="EN-US"> Heal me, O </span></i>יהוה<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, so that
I am healed. Save me, so that I am saved, for You are my praise.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></font></span></div><span style="color: #7b1fa2;"><font size="4"><span style="background-color: white;">
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</span></font></span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-37742950361548264462017-11-01T11:10:00.001-07:002017-11-01T11:10:18.622-07:00THE PATH OF THE JUST Chapeter 6CHAPTER VI <br />CONCERNING THE TRAIT OF ZEAL <br />AFTER WATCHFULNESS comes Zeal, Watchfulness pertaining to the negative commandments and Zeal to the positive, in accordance with the idea of "Depart from evil and do good (Psa 34:15)." "Zeal," as the name implies, signifies alacrity in the pursuit and fulfillment of mitzvoth. As expressed by our Sages of blessed memory (Pesachim 4a), "The zealous advance themselves towards mitzvoth." That is, just as it requires great intelligence and much foresight to save oneself from the snares of the evil inclination and to escape from evil so that it does not come to rule us and intrude itself into our deeds, so does it require great intelligence and foresight to take hold of mitzvoth, to acquire them for ourselves, and not to lose them. For just as the evil inclination attempts, with the devices at its command, to cast a man into the nets of sin, so does it seek to prevent him from performing mitzvoth, and to leave Him devoid of them. If a man weakens and is lazy and does not strengthen himself to pursue mitzvoth and to hold onto them, he will certainly lack them. <br />A person's nature exercises a strong downward pull upon him. This is so because the grossness which characterizes the substance of earthiness keeps a man from desiring exertion and labor. One who wishes, therefore, to attain to the service of the Creator, may His Name be blessed, must strengthen himself against his nature and be zealous. If he leaves himself in the hands of his downward-pulling nature, there is no question that he will not succeed. As the Tanna says "Be fierce as a leopard, light as an eagle, swift as a deer and strong as a lion to do the will of your Father in heaven." Our Sages of blessed memory have numbered Torah and good deeds among those things which require self-fortification (Berachoth 32b). And Scripture plainly states (Jos 1:7), "Strengthen yourself and be very courageous to observe to do according to all the Torah which Moses My servant commanded you." One who seeks to transform his nature completely requires great strengthening. Solomon repeatedly exhorts us concerning this, recognizing the evil of laziness and the greatness of the loss that results from it. He says (Pro 6:10), "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep and your poverty is suddenly upon you and your want as an armed man." The lazy man, though not actively evil, produces evil through his very inactivity. We read further (Pro 18:9), "Also he who slackens in his work is a brother to the Destroyer." Though he is not the Destroyer who commits the evil with his own hands, let him not think that he is far-removed from him - he is his blood-brother. <br />A portrayal of a daily occurrence furnishes us with a clear idea of the lazy man's wickedness (Pro 24:30.). "I passed by the field of a lazy man and by the vineyard of a man without sense and it was overgrown with thistles; its face was covered with nettles... And I beheld; I put my heart to it; I saw; I took instruction, a little sleep, a little slumber ... and suddenly your poverty is upon you ..." Aside from the surface description, whereby we are provided with an unquestionably true account of what happens to the lazy man's field, a very beautiful interpretation has been put forth by our Sages of blessed memory (Yalkut Shimoni Mishlei 961): " `and it was overgrown with thistles' - he seeks the interpretation of a passage and does not find it; ,its face was covered' - because of his not having labored in the Law, he sits in judgment and declares the pure, unclean and the impure, clean, and he breaches the fences of the Scholars. What is this man's punishment? Solomon tells us (Ecc 10:8) : `One who breaches a fence will be bitten by a snake.' " That is, the evil of the lazy man does not come all at once, but little by little, without his recognizing and sensing it. He is pulled from evil to evil until he finds himself sunk in evil's very depths. He begins by not expending the amount of effort which could be expected of him. This causes him not to study Torah as he should; and because of this, when he later does come to study it, he lacks the requisite understanding. It would be bad enough if his evil were to end here, but it does not. It grows even worse; for in his desire, notwithstanding, to interpret the section or chapter under consideration, he adduces interpretations which are not in accordance with the law, destroys the truth and perverts it, trespasses upon ordinances, and breaches the fences. His end, like that of all who breach fences, is destruction. Solomon continues (Ibid.), "And I beheld; I put my heart to it" - I thought upon this thing and I saw the terrible nature of the evil in it; it is like a poison which continues to spread, little by little, its workings unnoticed, until death results. This is the meaning of "A little sleep ... and suddenly your poverty is upon you as an armed man ..." <br />We see with our own eyes how often a person neglects his duty in spite of his awareness of it and in spite of his having come to recognize as a truth what is required for the salvation of his soul and what is incumbent upon him in respect to his Creator. This neglect is due not to an inadequate recognition of his duty nor to any other cause but the increasing weight of his laziness upon him; so that he says, "I will eat a little," or "I will sleep a little," or "It is hard for me to leave the house," or "I have taken off my shirt, how can I put it on again?" (Son 5:3). "It is very hot outside," "It is very cold," or "It is raining too hard" and all the other excuses and pretenses that the mouth of fools is full of. Either way, the Torah is neglected, Divine service dispensed with, and the Creator abandoned. As Solomon said (Ecc 10:18), "Through laziness the roof sinks in, and through the hands' remaining low, the house leaks." If his laziness is held up to him, the lazy man will doubtless come back with many quotations culled from the Sages and from Scripture, and with intellectual arguments, all supporting, according to his misguided mind, his leniency with himself (and all allowing him to remain in the repose of his laziness). He fails to see that these arguments and explanations stem not from rational evaluation, but from his laziness, which, when it grows strong within him, inclines his reason and intelligence to them, so that he does not pay heed to what is said by the wise and by those who possess sound judgment. It is in this connection that Solomon cried (Pro 26:16), "A lazy man is wiser in his own eyes than seven sages!" Laziness does not even permit one to attend to the words of those who reprove him; he puts them all down for blunderers and fools, reckoning only himself wise. <br />A principle that experience has shown to be of central importance to the work of Separation is that whatever tends to lighten one's burden must be examined carefully. For although such alleviation is sometimes justified and reasonable, it is most often a deceitful prescription of the evil inclination, and must, therefore, be subjected to much analysis and investigation. If, after such an examination, it still seems justified, then it is certainly acceptable. <br />In fine, a man must greatly strengthen himself, and power himself with Zeal to perform the mitzvoth, casting from himself the hindering weight of laziness. The angels were extolled for their Zeal, as is said of them (Psa 103:20), "Mighty in power, they do His word, to listen to the voice of His word," and (Eze 1:14), "And the living creatures ran and returned, as streaks of lightning." A man is a man and not an angel, and it is therefore impossible for him to attain to the strength of an angel, but he should surely strive to come as close to that level as his nature allows. King David, grateful for his portion of Zeal, said (Psa 119:60), "I was quick; I did not delay in keeping Your mitzvoth." <br />Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-33207705343043979522017-11-01T11:09:00.000-07:002017-11-01T11:09:27.615-07:00THE PATH OF THE JUST Chapter 5<span style="font-size: large;">CHAPTER V <br />CONCERNING THE FACTORS WHICH DETRACT FROM WATCHFULNESS AND THE WITHDRAWING OF ONESELF FROM THEM <br />THE FACTORS which detract from this trait and withdraw one from it are three: The first is worldly occupation and involvement, the second, laughter and levity, and the third, evil companionship. We will discuss each one individually. <br />We have already discussed worldly occupation and involvement. When a man is involved in worldly affairs, his thoughts are bound by the chains of the burden that weighs upon them and it is impossible for them to become concerned with his deeds. The Sages, may Peace be upon them, said, in their awareness of this fact (Avoth 4.10), "Minimize your occupations and occupy yourself with Torah." A person must occupy himself to a certain extent for the sake of a livelihood, but not to the extent where his Divine service is interfered with. It is in respect to this that we were commanded to set aside times for Torah study. We have already mentioned that it is such study which is the prime requirement for Watchfulness; as stated by R. Pinhas, "Torah brings one to Watchfulness." Without it, Watchfulness will not be attained. As our Sages of blessed memory have stated (Avoth 2.6), "An ignoramus cannot be a saint." This is true because the very Creator, Blessed be His name, who invested man with an evil inclination, created the Torah as an antidote to it (Kiddushin 30b). It is self-evident that if the Creator has fashioned for this affliction only this remedy, it is impossible under any circumstances that a person be cured of it through any other means. One who thinks to save himself without it is mistaken, and will recognize his mistake only in the end, when he dies in sin. For the evil inclination exerts great force against a person, and, without his being aware of it, grows and waxes stronger, and comes to dominate him. A man may resort to all the devices imaginable - if he does not adopt the remedy which was created for him, namely, the Torah, as I have written, he will neither recognize nor feel the intensification of his illness until he dies in sin and his soul is lost. <br />To what is this analogous? To the case of a sick man, who, consulting doctors and having his sickness correctly diagnosed and prescribed for, nevertheless, possessing no previous knowledge of medicine, abandons their prescription and takes instead whatever medicine he happens to think of. Is there any doubt that he will die? <br />The same is true in our case. No one understands the disease of the evil inclination and the potentialities inherent within it but the Creator who fashioned it. And He Himself cautioned us that the only antidote to it is Torah. Who, then, can abandon it and take anything else and expect to live? The darkness of earthiness will advance upon him degree by degree without his sensing it, until he finds himself sunk in evil and so far removed from truth that it will not even occur to him to seek it. If, however, he occupies himself with Torah, then, when he sees its ways, its commandments and its warnings, there will awaken within him responses which will lead him to the ways of good. As our Sages of blessed memory have said (Yerushalmi Chagigah 1:7), "Would that they left me and kept my Torah, for the radiance within it would return them to good." <br />Also included in this category is the setting aside of times for consideration of one's deeds, with an eye towards their correction, as I wrote above. In addition to this, he who is wise will not permit any time that may remain from his affairs to go lost, but he will immediately seize it, and not let it go, in order to employ it towards self-improvement and the betterment of his Divine service. <br />The deterrent that we have been discussing, though more common than the others, is the easiest to escape, for those who wish to escape it. The second deterrent, however, laughter and levity, is very severe. He who is immersed in it is as one who is immersed in a great ocean, from which it is extremely difficult to escape. For laughter affects a person's heart in such a manner that sense and reason no longer prevail in him, so that he becomes like a drunkard or a simpleton, whom, because they cannot accept direction, it is impossible to advise or direct. As was said by King Solomon, may Peace be upon him (Ecc 2:2), "About laughter I have said, `It is silly,' and about happiness, `What does it do?"' And our Sages of blessed memory have said (Avoth 3.13), "Laughter and lightheadedness motivate a man towards illicit relations." For even though every reasoning individual recognizes the gravity of this kind of sin and his heart is afraid to approach it because of the vividness of the impression that has stamped itself into his mind, of the truly terrible nature of the offense and the severity of its punishment, still laughter and lightheadedness draw him on little by little and lead him closer and closer to the stage where fear leaves him little by little, degree by degree, until finally he reaches the sin itself and commits it. Why is this so? Just as the essence of Watchfulness involves applying one's heart to things, so the essence of laughter is the turning away of one's heart from just, attentive thinking, so that thoughts of fearing God do not enter one's heart at all. <br />Consider the great severity and destructive power of levity. Like a shield smeared with oil, which wards off arrows and causes them to fall to the ground, not permitting them to reach the bearer's body, is levity in the face of reproof and rebuke. For with one bit of levity and with a little laughter a person can cast from himself the great majority of the awakenings and impressions that a man's heart stimulates and effects within itself upon his seeing or hearing things which arouse him to an acconting and an examination of his deeds. The force of levity flings everything to the ground so that no impression whatsoever is made upon Him. This is due not to the weakness of the forces playing upon him, nor to any lack of understanding on his part, but to the power of levity, which obliterates all facets of moral evaluation and fear of God. Touching this the Prophet Isaiah "screamed like a crane," for he saw that it was this which left no place for his exhortations to make an impression and which destroyed all hope for the sinners. As it is stated (Isa 28:22), "And now do not engage in levity lest your bonds be strengthened." And our Sages have pronounced (Avodah Zarah 18b) that one who is given to levity brings suffering upon himself. Scripture itself explicity states (Pro 19:29), "Judgments are appropriate for the light-headed." Indeed, this is dictated by reason; for one who is influenced by thought and studies does not require bodily punishment, for he will leave off sinning without it by virtue of the thoughts of repentance which will arise in his heart through what he will read or hear of moral judgments and exhortations. But the light-headed, who because of the force of their levity are not influenced by exhortations cannot be corrected except through punitive judgments. For their levity will not be as effective in warding off these as it is in warding off ethical appeals. In accordance with the severity of the sin and its consequences is the True Judge severe in His punishment. As our Sages of blessed memory have taught us (Avodah Zarah 18b), "The punishment for levity is extremely severe; it begins with suffering and ends with destruction, as it is said (Isa 28:22), `Lest your bonds be strengthened, for I have heard destruction and cutting off..." <br />The third deterrent to Watchfulness is evil companionship, that is, the companionship of fools and sinners, as Scripture states (Pro 13:20), "And the friend of fools will be broken." Very often we see that even after the truth of a man's responsibility for Divine service and Watchfulness has impressed itself upon a person, he weakens or commits certain trespasses in order not to be mocked by his friends or to be able to mix freely with them. This is the intent of Solomon's warning (Pro 24:21), "Do not mix with those who make changes." If someone says to you (Kethuvoth 17a), "A man's mind should always be associated with his fellow men," tell him, "This refers to people who conduct themselves as human beings and not to people who conduct themselves as animals." Solomon again warns (Pro 14:7), "Withdraw yourself from a fool." And King David said in this connection (Psa 1:1), "Happy is the man who did not walk...... upon which our Sages of blessed memory have commented (Avodah Zarah 18b), "If he walked he will eventually stand, and if he stood, he will eventually sit." And again (Psa 26:4), "I have not sat with false men ...I despised the society of the wicked ..." What a person must do, then, is to purify and cleanse himself, and keep his feet from the paths of the crowd who are immersed in the foolishness of the time, and turn them to the precincts of God and His dwelling places. As David himself concludes (Ibid. 6), "I will wash my hands in cleanliness, and I will go round Your altar, O God." If there are among his companions those who subject him to ridicule, he should not take it to heart, but, to the contrary, should ridicule them and shame them. Let him consider whether, if he had the opportunity of acquiring a great deal of money, he would keep from undertaking what such acquisition entailed so as to avoid the ridicule of his companions. How much more averse should he be to losing his soul for the sake of sparing himself ridicule. In this connection our Sages of blessed memory exhorted us (Aroth 5.23), "Be fierce as a leopard to do the will of your Father in heaven." And David said (Psa 119:46), "And I will speak of your testimonies before kings and I will not be ashamed." Even though most of the kings of his time occupied themselves with, and were wont to converse upon grandiose schemes and pleasures, and we would, therefore, tend to expect that David, himself a king, would be ashamed, while in their presence, to speak of ethical questions and Torah instead of discussing great feats and the pleasures of men such as they - in spite of all this, David was not in the least perturbed, and his heart was not seduced by these vanities, because he had already attained to the truth. He states explicitly (Psa 119:46), "And I will speak of your testimonies before kings and I will not be ashamed." Isaiah, likewise, said (Isa 50:7), "1 therefore made my face like flint and I knew that I would not be ashamed." </span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-74678595506949783382017-11-01T10:21:00.005-07:002022-08-20T08:38:04.733-07:00THE PATH OF THE JUST Chapter 4<span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">CHAPTER IV <br /></b><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><b>CONCERNING THE MANNER OF ACQUIRING WATCHFULNESS </b></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><b>PATH OF THE JUST</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">RABBI MOSHE HAIM LUZZATTO</span></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: large;">THAT WHICH, in general, brings a person to Watchfulness is Torah study. As R. Pinchas stated in the beginning of the Baraitha, "Torah brings one to Watchfulness." That which leads to it in particular, however, is reflection upon the demanding nature of the Divine service that a man is responsible for and the severity of the judgment which it involves. This understanding may be gained by analyzing the incidents that are related in the sacred writings and by studying the statements of the Sages of blessed memory which awaken one to it. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In this process of understanding, there are various levels of ideas, applying respectively to those with wholeness of understanding, those of lesser understanding and the general populace. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Those with wholeness of understanding will be primarily motivated towards Watchfulness by their coming to see clearly that only perfection and nothing else is worthy of their desire and that there is no worse evil than the lack of and removal from perfection. For after this has become clear to them, as well as the fact that the means to this end are virtuous deeds and traits, they will certainly never permit themselves to diminish these means; nor will they ever fail to make use of their [the means'] full potential. For it would already have become clear to them that if these means were reduced in number or not employed with complete effectiveness, with all of the energy that they called for, true perfection would not be attained through them, but would be lacked to the extent that sufficient exertion was lacking in relation to them. There is no misfortune nor any evil that those with wholeness of understanding deem greater than this lack of perfection. They will, therefore, choose to increase the number of these means and to be rigid in relation to all of their aspects. They will find no rest or peace from the worry that they possibly lack something which might lead them to the perfection that they desire. As was said by King Solomon, may Peace be upon him (Pro 28:14), "Happy is the man who always fears." Our Sages (Berachoth 60a) interpreted this statement as applying to the realm of Torah. The trait to which this degree of attainment leads is the one which is termed "Fear of Sin," a trait which constitutes one of the highest levels of achievement. Its intent is that a man constantly fear and worry lest he be harboring a trace of sin which might keep him from the perfection that he is dutybound to strive for. Concerning this our Sages of blessed memory said by way of analogy (Bava Bathra 75a), "This teaches us that everyone is burned by his neighbor's canopy." It is not jealousy which is the operative factor here (for jealousy as I will explain further with the help of Heaven, is encountered only among those who lack understanding), but rather the fact that he sees himself as lacking a level of achievement towards perfection, a level that he could have attained just as his neighbor had. If he who possesses wholeness of understanding engages in this thought process, he certainly will not fall short of being watchful in his deeds. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Those of lesser understanding, however, will be motivated towards Watchfulness according to their particular level of discrimination, so that their quest will be for the honor that they desire. It is evident to every man of faith that the different stations in the World of Truth, the World to Come, vary only in relation to one's deeds; that only he who is greater in deeds than his neighbor will be elevated above him, whereas he who is lesser in deeds will occupy a lower level. How, then, can a man blind his eyes to his actions or slacken his efforts, if afterwards, when he can no longer straighten out what he has made crooked, he will unquestionably suffer? </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There are some fools who seek only to lighten their burden. They say, "Why weary ourselves with so much Saintliness and Separation? Is it not enough for us that we will not be numbered among the wicked who are judged in Gehinnom? We will not force ourselves to enter all the way into Paradise. If we do not have a large portion, we will have a small one. It will be enough for us. We will not add to our burdens for the sake of greater acquisitions." There is one question that we will ask these people -could they so easily, in this transitory world, tolerate the sight of one of their friends being honored, and elevated above them, and coming to rule over them-or, more so, one of their servants or one of the paupers who are shameful and lowly in their eyes? Could they tolerate this without suffering and without their blood boiling in them? Is there any question that they could not? We witness with our own eyes all of the labors of a man to elevate himself above everyone he can and to establish his place among the exalted. This is a man's jealousy of his neighbor. If he sees his neighbor elevated while he remains low, what he tolerates will be what he is forced to tolerate because of his inability to alter the situation: but his heart will brood within him. If it is so difficult, then, for them to abide being on a lower level than others in respect to qualities whose desirability is illusive and deceitful, qualities in relation to which a man's being designated as lowly is but a surface judgment, and his being elevated, vanity and falsity, then how could they tolerate seeing themselves lower than those same persons who are now lower than they? And this in the place of true quality and everlasting worth, which, though they might not give heart to it now because of their failure to recognize it and its value, they will certainly recognize in its time for what it is, to their grief and shame. There is no question that their suffering will be terrible and interminable. This tolerance, then, that they adopt in order to lighten their burden is nothing but a deceitful persuasion of their evil inclination, with no basis whatsoever in truth. If they saw the truth, there would be no room for such deception, but because they do not seek it, but walk and stray according to their desires, these persuasions will not leave them until such a time when it will no longer avail them, when it will no longer be in their hands to rebuild what they have destroyed. As was said by King Solomon, may Peace be upon him (Ecc 9:10), "Whatever your hand finds to do with your strength, do it, for there is no deed, nor account, nor knowledge..." That is, what a man does not do while he still has the power that His Creator has given him (the power of choice that is given to him to employ during his lifetime, when he can exercise free will and is commanded to do so) he will not again have the opportunity of doing in the grave and in the pit, for at that time he will no longer possess this power. For one who has not multiplied good deeds in his lifetime will not have the opportunity of performing them afterwards. And one who has not taken an accounting of his deeds will not have time to do so later. And one who has not become wise in this world will not become wise in the grave. This is the intent of (Ibid.) ". .. for there is no deed nor account nor knowledge nor wisdom in the pit to which you are going." </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But the general populace will be motivated towards Watchfulness through a recognition of the depth of judgment in relation to reward and punishment. In truth, one should continuously tremble and shiver, for who will abide the Day of Judgment, and who will be deemed righteous before his Creator, whose scrutiny dissects all things, small and great. As our Sages of blessed memory have said (Chagigah 5b), " `And He relates to a man his conversation' (Amo 4:13). Even a casual conversation between a man and his wife is related to him at the time of judgment." And, similarly, (Yevamoth 121b), " `And around Him it storms violently' (Psa 50:3). This teaches us that the Holy One Blessed be He judges His saints to the degree of a hair's-breadth" [an inference derived from the structural relationship between "storms" and "hair" in the Hebrew]. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Abraham - the same Abraham who was so beloved by his Possessor that Scripture (Isa 41:8) refers to him as "Abraham, my beloved" - Abraham did not escape judgment for a slight indiscretion in his use of words. Because he said, (Gen 15:8), "With what shall I know," the Holy One Blessed be He said to him, "Upon your life, you shall surely know, for your children will be strangers..." (Vayikra Rabbah 11:5). And because he entered into a covenant with Avimelech without having been commanded by God to do so, the Holy One Blessed be He, said to him, "Upon your life, I shall delay the rejoicing of your sons for seven generations" (Bereshith Rabbah 54:5). </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Jacob, because he became angry with Rachel upon her saying to him (Gen 30:1), "Give me sons," was told by God (as related in the Midrash), "Is this the way to answer those who are oppressed? Upon your life, your sons will stand before her son" (Bereshith Rabbah 71: 10). And because he placed Dinah in a chest so that Esau would not seize her, even though his intentions in doing so were unquestionably worthy ones, we are told in the Midrash (Ibid. 80:3) that the Holy One Blessed be He said to him, because he withheld kindliness from his brother, " `Who keeps kindliness from his neighbor' (Job 6:14) - Because you did not wish to wed her lawfully, she will be wed unlawfully." </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph, because he said to the one appointed over the drink (Gen 40:14 hew:14 ew:14), "But remember me in relation to yourself," had two years added to his imprisonment, as we are told by our Sages of blessed memory (Bereshith Rabbah 89:2). Also, because he embalmed his father without God's permission, or, according to a second opinion, because he heard, "Your servant, our father" and kept still, he died before his brothers (Bereshith Rabbah 100:3). </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">David, because he referred to words of Torah as "songs," was punished by having his joy dampened through Uzzah's indiscretion (Sotah 35a). </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Michal, because she admonished David for dancing in public before the ark, was punished by dying in childbirth, having had no other children in her lifetime (2Sa 6:20 f ). </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Hezekiah - because he revealed the treasure house to the officers of the Babylonian king, it was decreed that his sons serve as eunuchs in the palace of the King of Babylonia. (2Ki 20:12 ff ). </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">There are many more instances of this nature. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In the chapter "All are Liable" (Chagiga 5a), our Sages of blessed memory told us, "Rabbi Yochanan cried when he came to the following verse (Mal 3:5): `And I will draw near to you in judgment, and I will be a quick witness...' Is there any remedy for a servant against whom lesser offenses are weighed, as grave ones are?" It is certainly not the point of this statement that the punishment is identical for both, for the Holy One Blessed be He pays measure for measure. It is rather to be understood that in relation to the weighing of deeds, those which are less weighty are placed upon the balance just as the weightier ones are; for the latter will not cause the former to be forgotten, nor will the Judge overlook them, just as He will not overlook the weighty ones. But He will consider and attend to all of these equally, judging each one of them and meting out punishment for each one according to its nature. As was said by King Solomon, may Peace be upon him (Ecc 12:14), "For God will bring every deed into judgment." Just as the Holy One Blessed be He does not allow any good deed, small as it may be, to go unrewarded, so does He not permit any bad deed, however small, to go unjudged and unpassed upon, contrary to the thinking of those who wish to talk it into themselves that the Lord Blessed be He, will not review the lighter things in His judgment and will not call them into account. It is an acknowledged principle (Bava Kamma 50a): "Whoever says that the Holy One Blessed be He overlooks things will have his life `overlooked.' " And our Sages of blessed memory have also said (Chagiga lba), "If the evil inclination says to you, `Sin and the Holy One Blessed be He will forgive you,' do not heed it." All this is obvious and clear, for God is a God of truth. It is this idea which is embodied in the statement of Moses our Teacher, may Peace be upon him (Deu 32:4), "The Rock-His work is whole; for all of His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness, without wrong. . ." Since the Holy One Blessed be He desires justice, ignoring the bad would be as much of an injustice as ignoring the good. If He desires justice, then, He must deal with each man according to his ways and according to the fruits of his acts, with the most minute discrimination, for good or for bad. This is what underlies the statement of our Sages of blessed memory (Yalkut Ibid.) that the verse "He is a God of faithfulness, without wrong; He is righteous and just" has application to the righteous and to the wicked. For this is His attribute. He judges everything. He punishes every sin. There is no escaping. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">To those who might ask at this point, "Seeing that whatever the case may be, everything must be subjected to judgment, what function does the attribute of mercy perform?" the answer is that the attribute of mercy is certainly the mainstay of the world; for the world could not exist at all without it. Nevertheless the attribute of justice is not affected. For on the basis of justice alone it would be dictated that the sinner be punished immediately upon sinning, without the least delay; that the punishment itself be a wrathful one, as befits one who rebels against the word of the Creator, blessed be His Name; and that there be no correction whatsoever for the sin. For in truth, how can a man straighten what has been made crooked after the commission of the sin? If a man killed his neighbor; if he committed adultery-how can he correct this? Can he remove the accomplished fact from actuality? </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">It is the attribute of mercy which causes the reverse of the three things we have mentioned. That is, it provides that the sinner be given time, and not be wiped out as soon as he sins; that the punishment itself not involve utter destruction; and that the gift of repentance be given to sinners with absolute lovingkindness, so that the rooting out of the will which prompted the deed be considered a rooting out of the deed itself. That is, when he who is repenting recognizes his sin, and admits it, and reflects upon his evil, and repents, and wishes that the sin had never been committed, as he would wish that a certain vow had never been made, in which case there is complete regret, and he desires and yearns that the deed had never been done, and suffers great anguish in his heart because of its already having been done, and departs from it for the future, and flees from itthen the uprooting of the act from his will is accredited to him as the uprooting of a vow, and he gains atonement. As Scripture states (Isa 6:7), "Your wrong will depart, and your sin will be forgiven." The wrong actually departs from existence and is uprooted because of his suffering for and regretting now what had taken place in the past. This is certainly a function of lovingkindness and not of justice. In any event, however, it is a type of lovingkindness which does not entirely negate the attribute of justice. It can be seen as according with justice in that in place of the act of will from which the sin arose and the pleasure that it afforded, there is now regret and suffering. So, too, the time extension constitutes not a pardoning of the sin, but rather God's bearing with the sinner for a while to open the door of repentance to him. Similarly, all of the other operations of lovingkindness, such as "The son benefits his father," (Sunhedrin 104x) and "Part of a life is like the whole life" (Kcheleth Rabbah 7:48), mentioned by our Sages, are aspects of lovingkindness wherein small amounts are accounted large. But these considerations do not militate against nor actually negate the attribute of justice, for there is good reason to attach importance to them. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But for sins to be pardoned or ignored would be entirely contrary to the concept of justice, for then there would be no judgment and no true law in relation to things. It is, therefore, impossible for such a situation to obtain. And if the sinner does not find open to him one of the avenues of escape that we have mentioned, it is certain that the attribute of justice will not emerge empty-handed. As our Sages of blessed memory have said (Yerushalmi Ta'anith 2:1), "He withholds His wrath, but He collects what is His." </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">We see, then, that the man who wants to open his eyes to the truth can offer himself no possible argument for not exercising the maximum of Watchfulness in his deeds and subjecting them to the most thorough analysis. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">All of these are observations which, if one approaches them with sensitivity, will certainly lead him to the acquisition of Watchfulness. </span><br /></span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-29982860893291504132017-11-01T10:20:00.003-07:002017-11-01T10:20:49.598-07:00THE PATH OF THE JUST Chapter 3<span style="font-size: large;">CHAPTER Ill <br />CONCERNING THE DIVISIONS OF WATCHFULNESS <br />ONE WHO WISHES to watch over himself must take two things into consideration. First he must consider what constitutes the true good that a person should choose and the true evil that he should flee from; and second, he must consider his actions, to discover whether they appertain to the category of good or to that of evil. This applies both to times when there is a question of performing a specific action and to times when there is no such question. When there is a question of performing a specific action, he should do nothing before he weighs the action in the scale of the aforementioned understanding. And when there is no such question, the idea should take the form of his bringing before himself the remembrance of his deeds in general and weighing them, likewise, in the scales of this criterion to determine what they contain of evil, so that he may cast it aside, and what of good, so that he may be constant in it and strengthen himself in it. If he finds in them aught that is evil, he should consider and attempt to reason out what device he might use to turn aside from that evil and to cleanse himself of it. Our Sages of blessed memory taught us this in their statement (Eruvin 136), "It would have been better for a man not to have been created... but now that he has been created, let him examine his deeds. Others say, `Let him "feel" his deeds.' " It is to be seen that these two versions constitute two sound beneficial exhortations. For "examination" of one's deeds refers to an investigation of one's deeds in general and a consideration of them to determine whether they might not include certain actions which should not be performed, which are not in accordance with God's mitzvoth and His statutes, any such actions to be completely eradicated. "Feeling," however, implies the investigation even of the good actions themselves to determine whether they involve any leaning which is not good or any bad aspect which it is necessary to remove and to eradicate. This is analogous to a person's feeling a garment to determine whether its material is good and sturdy or weak and rotted. In the same respect he must "feel" his actions by subjecting them to a most exhaustive examination to determine their nature, so that he might remain free of any impurities. <br />To summarize, a man should observe all of his actions and watch over all of his ways so as not to leave himself with a bad habit or a bad trait, let alone a sin or a crime. I see a need for a person to carefully examine his ways and to weigh them daily in the manner of the great merchants who constantly evaluate all of their undertakings so that they do not miscarry. He should set aside definite times and hours for this weighing so that it is not a fortuitous matter, but one which is conducted with the greatest regularity; for it yields rich returns. <br />Our Sages of blessed memory have explicitly taught us the need for such an evaluation. As they said (Bava Bathra 78b), "Therefore the rulers say, `Let us enter into an accounting' (Num 21:27). Therefore the rulers over their evil inclinations say, 'Let us come and compute the world's account, the loss entailed by the performance of a mitzvah, against the gain that one secures through it, and the gain that one acquires through a transgression against the loss that it entails... ' " <br />This true counsel could not have been given, nor its truth recognized by any except those who had already departed from beneath the hand of their evil inclination and come to dominate it. For if one is still imprisoned by his evil inclination, his eyes cannot see this truth and he cannot recognize it. For the evil inclination literally blinds his eyes and he becomes as one who walks in the darkness, where there are stumbling blocks before him which his eyes do not see. As our Sages of blessed memory said (Bava Metzia 83b), " ` You laid down darkness and it was night' (Psa 104:20). This refers to this world which is similar to night." How wondrous is this truthful commentary to him who concentrates upon understanding it. For the darkness of night can cause two types of errors in relation to a man's eye: it may either cover his eye so that he does not see what is before him at all, or it may deceive him so that a pillar appears to him as a man, or a man as a pillar. In like manner, the earthiness and materialism of this world is the darkness of night to the mind's eye and causes a man to err in two ways. First it does not permit him to see the stumbling blocks in the ways of the world, so that the fools walk securely, fall, and are lost without having experienced any prior fear. As Scripture states (Pro 4:19), "The path of the wicked is like pitch darkness; they do not know upon what they stumble," and (Pro 22:3), "The wise man sees the evil and hides, and the fools pass on and are punished," and (Pro 14:16), "And the fool becomes infuriated and is secure." For their hearts are steadfast and they fall before having any knowledge whatsoever of the existence of the stumbling block. The second error, which is even worse than the first, stems from the distortion of their sight, so that they see evil as though it were goodness itself, and good as if it were evil, and, because of this, strengthen themselves in clinging to their evil ways. For it is not enough that they lack the ability to see the truth, the evil staring them in the face, but they also see fit to find powerful substantiations and empirical evidence supporting their evil theories and false ideas. This is the great evil which embraces them and brings them to the pit of destruction. As Scripture states (Isa 6:10), "The heart of this nation has become fatted, and its ears have become heavy, and its eyes have turned aside, lest..." All this because of their being under the influence of the darkness and subject to the rule of their evil inclination. But those who have already freed themselves from this bondage see the truth clearly and can advise others in relation to it. <br />To what is this analogous? To a garden-maze, a type of garden common among the ruling class, which is planted for the sake of amusement. The plants there are arranged in walls between which are found many confusing and interlacing paths, all similar to one another, the purpose of the whole being to challenge one to reach a portico in their midst. Some of the paths are straight ones which lead directly to the portico, but some cause one to stray, and to wander from it. The walker between the paths has no way of seeing or knowing whether he is on the true or the false path; for they are all similar, presenting no difference whatsoever to the observing eye. He will not reach his goal unless he has perfect familiarity and visual acquaintance with the paths through his having traversed them and reached the portico. He who occupies a commanding position in the portico, however, sees all of the paths before him and can discriminate between the true and the false ones. He is in a position to warn those who walk upon them and to tell them, "This is the path; take it!" He who is willing to believe him will reach the designated spot; but he who is not willing to believe him, but would rather trust to his eyes, will certainly remain lost and fail to reach it. <br />So too in relation to the idea under discussion. He who has not yet achieved dominion over his evil inclination is in the midst of the paths and cannot distinguish between them. But those who rule their evil inclination, those who have reached the portico, who have already left the paths and who clearly see all of the ways before their eyes - they can advise him who is willing to listen, and it is to them that we must trust. <br />And what is the advice that they give us'? - 'Let us enter into an accounting.' Let us come and compute the world's account." For they have already experienced, and seen, and learned that this alone is the true path by which a man may reach the good that he seeks, and that there is none beside this. <br />What emerges from all this is that a man must constantly - at all times, and particularly during a regularly appointed time of solitude - reflect upon the true path (according to the ordinance of the Torah) that a man must walk upon. After engaging in such reflection he will come to consider whether or not his deeds travel along this path. For in doing so it will certainly be easy for him to cleanse himself of all evil and to correct all of his ways. As Scripture states (Pro 4:26), "Consider the path of your feet and all of your paths will be established," and (Lam 3:40), "Let us seek out our ways and examine them, and we will return to God." <br /><br /></span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-17141970961489547732017-11-01T10:19:00.003-07:002017-11-01T10:19:52.461-07:00THE PATH OF THE JUST Chapter 2<span style="font-size: large;">CHAPTER II <br />CONCERNING THE TRAIT OF WATCHFULNESS <br />THE IDEA OF WATCHFULNESS is for a man to exercise caution in his actions and his undertakings; that is, to deliberate and watch over his actions and his accustomed ways to determine whether or not they are good, so as not to abandon his soul to the danger of destruction, God forbid, and not to walk according to the promptings of habit as a blind man in pitch darkness. This is demanded by one's intelligence. For considering the fact that a man possesses the knowledge and the reasoning ability to save himself and to flee from the destruction of his soul, is it conceivable that he would willingly blind himself to his own salvation? There is certainly no degradation and foolishness worse than this. One who does this is lower than beasts and wild animals, whose nature it is to protect themselves, to flee and to run away from anything that seems to endanger them. One who walks this world without considering whether his way of life is good or bad is like a blind man walking along the seashore, who is in very great danger, and whose chances of being lost are far greater than those of his being saved. For there is no difference between natural blindness and self-inflicted blindness, the shutting of one's eyes as an act of will and desire. <br />Jeremiah complains about the evil of the men of his generation, about their being affected with this affliction, the blinding of their eyes to their actions, their failure to analyze them in order to determine whether they should be engaged in or abandoned. He says about these men (Jer 8:6), "No one regrets his wrongdoing, saying... They all turn away in their course as a horse rushing headlong into battle." He alludes here to their running on the impetus of their habits and their ways without leaving themselves time to evaluate their actions and ways,, and, as a result, falling into evil without noticing it. In reality, this is one of the clever devices of the evil inclination - to mount pressure unrelentingly against the hearts of men so as to leave them no leisure to consider and observe the type of life they are leading. For it realizes that if they were to devote even a slight degree of attention to their ways, there is no question but that they would immediately begin to repent of their deeds and that regret would wax in them until they would leave oft sinning altogether. It is this consideration which underlay the counsel of the wicked Pharaoh in his statement (Exo 5:9), "Intensify the men's labors..." His intention was not merely to deprive them of all leisure so that they would not come to oppose him or plot against him, but he strove to strip their hearts of all thought by means of the enduring, interminable nature of their labor. <br />This is precisely the device that the evil inclination employs against man; for it is a warrior and well versed in deception. One cannot escape it without great wisdom and a broad outlook. As we are exhorted by the Prophet (Hag 1:7), "Give heed to your ways." And as Solomon in his wisdom said (Pro 6:4), "Give neither sleep to your eyes nor slumber to your eyelids. Rescue yourself as a deer from the hand..." And as our Sages of blessed memory said (Sotah 5b), "All who deliberate upon their paths in this world will be worthy to witness the salvation wrought by the Holy One Blessed be He." Clearly even if one superintends himself, it is not within his power to save himself without the help of the Holy One Blessed be He. For the evil inclination is extremely tenacious, as Scripture states (Psa 37:32), "The wicked one looks to the righteous and seeks to kill him; God will not leave him..." If a man looks to himself, the Holy One Blessed be He helps him, and he is saved from the evil inclination. But if he gives no heed to himself, the Holy One Blessed be He will certainly not superintend him; for if he does not pity himself, who should pity him? This is as our Sages of blessed memory have said (Berachoth 33a), "It is forbidden to pity anyone who has no understanding," and (Avoth 1:14), "If I am not for myself, who will be for me?" <br /></span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-89546937656304035892017-11-01T10:18:00.000-07:002017-11-01T10:18:04.499-07:00THE PATH OF THE JUST Chapter One<span style="font-size: large;">CHAPTER I <br />CONCERNING MAN'S DUTY IN THE WORLD <br />THE FOUNDATION OF SAINTLINESS and the root of perfection in the service of God lies in a man's coming to see clearly and to recognize as a truth the nature of his duty in the world and the end towards which he should direct his vision and his aspiration in all of his labors all the days of his life. <br />Our Sages of blessed memory have taught us that man was created for the sole purpose of rejoicing in God and deriving pleasure from the splendor of His Presence; for this is true joy and the greatest pleasure that can be found. The place where this joy may truly be derived is the World to Come, which was expressly created to provide for it; but the path to the object of our desires is this world, as our Sages of blessed memory have said (Avorh 4:21), "This world is like a corridor to the World to Come." <br />The means which lead a man to this goal are the mitzvoth, in relation to which we were commanded by the Lord, may His Name be blessed. The place of the performance of the mitzvoth is this world alone. <br />Therefore, man was placed in this world first - so that by these means, which were provided for him here, he would be able to reach the place which had been prepared for him, the World to Come, there to be sated with the goodness which he acquired through them. As our Sages of blessed memory have said (Eruvin 22a), "Today for their [the mitzvoth's] performance and tomorrow for receiving their reward." <br />When you look further into the matter, you will see that only union with God constitutes true perfection, as King David said (Psa 73:28), "But as for me, the nearness of God is my good," and (Psa 27:4), "I asked one thing from God; that will I seek - to dwell in God's house all the days of my life..." For this alone is the true good, and anything besides this which people deem good is nothing but emptiness and deceptive worthlessness. For a man to attain this good, it is certainly fitting that he first labor and persevere in his exertions to acquire it. That is, he should persevere so as to unite himself with the Blessed One by means of actions which result in this end. These actions are the mitzvoth. <br />The Holy One Blessed be He has put man in a place where the factors which draw him further from the Blessed One are many. These are the earthy desires which, if he is pulled after them, cause him to be drawn further from and to depart from the true good. It is seen, then, that man is veritably placed in the midst of a raging battle. For all the affairs of the world, whether for the good or for the bad, are trials to a man: Poverty on the one hand and wealth on the other, as Solomon said (Pro 30:9), "Lest I become satiated and deny, saying, `Who is God?' or lest I become impoverished and steal..." Serenity on the one hand and suffering on the other; so that the battle rages against him to the fore and to the rear. If he is valorous, and victorious on all sides, he will be the "Whole Man," who will succeed in uniting himself with his Creator, and he will leave the corridor to enter into the Palace, to glow in the light of life. To the extent that he has subdued his evil inclination and his desires, and withdrawn from those factors which draw him further from the good, and exerted himself to become united with it, to that extent will he attain it and rejoice in it. <br />If you look more deeply into the matter, you will see that the world was created for man's use. In truth, man is the center of a great balance. For if he is pulled after the world and is drawn further from his Creator, he is damaged, and he damages the world with him. And if he rules over himself and unites himself with his Creator, and uses the world only to aid him in the service of his Creator, he is uplifted and the world itself is uplifted with him. For all creatures are greatly uplifted when they serve the "Whole Man," who is sanctified with the holiness of the Blessed One. It is as our Sages of blessed memory have said in relation to the light that the Holy One Blessed be He stored away for the righteous (Chagiga 12a): "When the Holy One Blessed be He saw the light that He had stored away for the righteous, He rejoiced, as it is said (Pro 13:9), `The light of the righteous rejoices.' " And in relation to the "stones of the place" that Jacob took and put around his head they said (Chulin 916), "R. Yitzchak said, `This teaches us that they [the stones] gathered themselves into one spot, each one saying, "Let the righteous one lay his head upon me." Our Sages of blessed memory drew our attention to this principle in Midrash Koheleth, where they said (Koheleth Rabbah 7:28) - 'See the work of God...' (Ecc 7:13). When the Holy One Blessed be He created Adam, He took him and caused him to pass before all the trees of the Garden of Eden. He said to him, `See how beautiful and praiseworthy are my works; and all that I have created, I have created for your sake. Take heed that you do not damage and destroy my world.' " <br />To summarize, a man was created not for his station in this world, but for his station in the World to Come. It is only that his station in this world is a means towards his station in the World to Come, which is the ultimate goal. This accounts for numerous statements of our Sages of blessed memory, all in a similar vein, likening this world to the place and time of preparation, and the next world to the place which has been set aside for rest and for the eating of what has already been prepared. This is their intent in saying (Avoth 4:21), "This world is similar to a corridor ...," as our Sages of blessed memory have said (Eruvin 22a), "Today for their performance and tomorrow to receive their reward," "He who exerted himself on Friday will eat on the Sabbath" (Avodah Zarah 3a), "This world is like the shore and the World to Come like the sea ..." (Koheleth Rabbah 1:36), and many other statements along the same lines. <br />And in truth, no reasoning being can believe that the purpose of man's creation relates to his station in this world. For what is a man's life in this world! Who is truly happy and content in this world? "The days of our life are seventy years, and, if exceedingly vigorous, eighty years, and their persistence is but labor and foolishness" (Psa 90:10). How many different kinds of suffering, and sicknesses, and pains and burdens! And after all this - death! Not one in a thousand is to be found to whom the world has yielded a superabundance of gratifications and true contentment. And even such a one, though he attain to the age of one hundred years, passes and vanishes from the world. Furthermore, if man had been created solely for the sake of this world, he would have had no need of being inspired with a soul so precious and exalted as to be greater than the angels themselves, especially so in that it derives no satisfaction whatsoever from all of the pleasures of this world. This is what our Sages of blessed memory teach us in Midrash (Koheleth Rabbah), "'And also the soul will not be filled' (Eccelesiastes 6:7) What is this analogous to? To the case of a city dweller who married a princess. If he brought her all that the world possessed, it would mean nothing to her, by virtue of her being a king's daughter. So is it with the soul. If it were to be brought all the delights of the world, they would be as nothing to it, in view of its pertaining to the higher elements." And so do our Sages of blessed memory say (Avoth 4:29), "Against your will were you created, and against your will were you born." For the soul has no love at all for this world. To the contrary, it despises it. The Creator, Blessed be His Name, certainly would never have created something for an end which ran contrary to its nature and which it despised. <br />Man was created, then, for the sake of his station in the World to Come. Therefore, this soul was placed in him. For it befits the soul to serve God; and through it a man may be rewarded in his place and in his time. And rather than the world's being despicable to the soul, it is, to the contrary, to be loved and desired by it. This is self-evident. After recognizing this we will immediately appreciate the greatness of the obligation that the mitzvoth place upon us and the preciousness of the Divine service which lies in our hands. For these are the means which bring us to true perfection, a state which, without them, is unattainable. It is understood, however, that the attainment of a goal results only from a consolidation of all the available means employable towards its attainment, that the nature of a result is determined by the effectiveness and manner of employment of the means utilized towards its achievement, and that the slightest differentiation in the means will very noticeably affect the result to which they give rise upon the fruition of the aforementioned consolidation. This is self-evident. <br />It is obvious, then, that we must be extremely exacting in relation to the mitzvoth and the service of God, just as the weighers of gold and pearls are exacting because of the preciousness of these commodities. For their fruits result in true perfection and eternal wealth, than which nothing is more precious. <br />We thus derive that the essence of a man's existence in this world is solely the fulfilling of mitzvoth, the serving of God and the withstanding of trials, and that the world's pleasures should serve only the purpose of aiding and assisting him, by way of providing him with the contentment and peace of mind requisite for the freeing of his heart for the service which devolves upon him. It is indeed fitting that his every inclination be towards the Creator, may His Name be blessed, and that his every action, great or small, be motivated by no purpose other than that of drawing near to the Blessed One and breaking all the barriers (all the earthy elements and their concomitants) that stand between him and his Possessor, until he is pulled towards the Blessed One just as iron to a magnet. Anything that might possibly be a means to acquiring this closeness, he should pursue and clutch, and not let go of; and anything which might be considered a deterrent to it, he should flee as from a fire. As it is stated (Psa 63:9), "My soul clings to You; Your right hand sustains me." For a man enters the world only for this purpose - to achieve this closeness by rescuing his soul from all the deterrents to it and from all that detracts from it. <br />After we have recognized the truth of this principle, and it has become clear to us, we must investigate its details according to its stages, from beginning to end, as they were arranged by R. Pinchas ben Yair in the statement which has already been referred to in our introduction. These stages are: Watchfulness, Zeal, Cleanliness, Separation, Purity, Saintliness, Humility, Fear of Sin, and Holiness. And now, with the aid of Heaven, we will explain them one by one. <br /></span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-28301607560922389452017-11-01T09:26:00.001-07:002017-11-01T10:18:35.868-07:00THE PATH OF THE JUST The Chamchal Moshe Chaim Luzzato <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-size: large;">The RAMCHAL<br />Mesillat Yesharim<br />[ Path of the Just ] <br /><br />AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION <br />The writer says: I have written this work not to teach men what they do not know, but to remind them of what they already know and is very evident to them, for you will find in most of my words only things which most people know, and concerning which they entertain no doubts. But to the extent that they are well known and their truths revealed to all, so is forgetfulness in relation to them extremely prevalent. It follows, then, that the benefit to be obtained from this work is not derived from a single reading; for it is possible that the reader will find that he has learned little after having read it that he did not know before. Its benefit is to be derived, rather, through review and persistent study, by which one is reminded of those things which, by nature, he is prone to forget and through which he is caused to take to heart the duty that he tends to overlook. <br />A consideration of the general state of affairs will reveal that the majority of men of quick intelligence and keen mentality devote most of their thought and speculation to the subtleties of wisdom and the profundities of analysis, each according to the inclination of his intelligence and his natural bent. There are some who expend a great deal of effort in studying the creation and nature. Others devote all of their thought to astronomy and mathematics, and others to the arts. There are those who go more deeply into sacred studies, into the study of the holy Torah, some occupying themselves with Halachic discussions, others with Midrash and others with legal decisions. There are few, however, who devote thought and study to perfection of Divine service - to love, fear, communion and all of the other aspects of saintliness. It is not that they consider this knowledge unessential; if questioned each one will maintain that it is of paramount importance and that one who is not clearly versed in it cannot be deemed truly wise. Their failure to devote more attention to it stems rather from its being so manifest and so obvious to them that they see no need for spending much time upon it. Consequently, this study and the reading of works of this kind have been left to those of a not too sensitive, almost dull intelligence. These you will see immersed in the study of saintliness, not stirring from it. It has reached the stage that when one sees another engaging in saintly conduct, he cannot help but suspect him of dullwittedness. This state of affairs results in evil consequences both for those who possess wisdom and for those who do not, causing both classes to lack true saintliness, and rendering it extremely rare. The wise lack it because of their limited consideration of it and the unwise because of their limited grasp. The result is that saintliness is construed by most to consist in the recitation of many Psalms, very long confessions, difficult fasts, and ablutions in ice and snow - all of which are incompatible with intellect and which reason cannot accept. <br />Truthful, desirable saintliness is far from being conceptualized by us, for it is obvious that a person does not concern himself with what does not occupy a place in his mind. And though the beginnings and foundations of saintliness are implanted in every person's heart, if he does not occupy himself with them, he will witness details of saintliness without recognizing them and he will trespass upon them without feeling or perceiving that he is doing so. For sentiments of saintliness, fear and love of God, and purity of heart are not so deeply rooted within a person as to obviate the necessity of his employing certain devices in order to acquire them. In this respect they differ from natural states such as sleep and wakefulness, hunger and satiety, and all other reactions which are stamped in one's nature, in that various methods and devices are perforce required for their acquisition. There is also no lack of deterrents which keep saintliness at a distance from a person, but then again there is no lack of devices by which these deterrents may be held afar. How, then, is it conceivable that it not be necessary to expend a great deal of time upon this study in order to know these truths and the manner in which they may be acquired and fulfilled? How will this wisdom enter a person's heart if he will not seek it? And since every man of wisdom recognizes the need for perfection of Divine service and the necessity for its purity and cleanliness, without which it is certainly completely unacceptable, but repulsive and despised - "For God searches all hearts and understands the inclination of all thoughts" (1Ch 28:9) - what will we answer in the day of reproof if we weaken in this study and forsake that which is so incumbent upon us as to be the very essence of what the Lord our God asks of us? Is it fitting that our intelligence exert itself and labor in speculations which are not binding upon us, in fruitless argumentation, in laws which have no application to us, while we leave to habit and abandon to mechanical observance our great debt to our Creator? If we do not look into and analyze the question of what constitutes true fear of God and what its ramifications are, how will we acquire it and how will we escape wordly vanity which renders our hearts forgetful of it? Will it not be forgotten and go lost even though we recognize its necessity? Love of God, too - if we do not make an effort to implant it in our hearts, utilizing all of the means which direct us towards it, how will it exist within us? Whence will enter into our souls intimacy with and ardor towards the Blessed One and towards His Torah if we do not give heart to His greatness and majesty which engender this intimacy in our hearts? How will our thoughts be purified if we do not strive to rescue them from the imperfections infused in them by physical nature? And all of the character traits, which are in such great need of correction and cultivation -who will cultivate and correct them if we do not give heart to them and subject them to exacting scrutiny? If we analyzed the matter honestly would we not extract the truth and thereby benefit ourselves, and also be of benefit to others by instructing them in it? As stated by Solomon (Pro 2:4), "If you seek it as silver and search for it as treasure, then you will understand the fear of God." He does not say, "Then you will understand philosophy; then youwill understand astronomy; then you will understand medicine; then you will understand legal judgments and decisions." We see, then, that for fear of God to be understood, it must be sought as silver and searched for as treasure. All this is part of our heritage and is accepted in substance by every devout individual. <br />Again, is it conceivable that we should find time for all other branches of study and none for this study? Why should a man not at least set aside for himself certain times for this speculation if he is obliged in the remainder of his time to turn to other studies or undertakings? Scripture states (Job 28:28), "Hen fear of God - this is wisdom." Our Sages of blessed memory comment (Shabbath 31b), " `Hen' means `one,' for in Greek `one' is designated as `Hen' (Ev). " "We see, then, that fear, and only fear, is accounted wisdom. And there is no doubt that what entails no analysis is not considered wisdom. The truth of the matter is that all of these things require great analysis if they are to be known in truth and not through imagination and deceitful supposition. How much more so if they are to be acquired and attained. One who thinks into these matters will see that saintliness does not hinge upon those things which are put at a premium by the foolishly "saintly," but upon true perfection and great wisdom. This is what Moses our Teacher, may Peace be upon him, teaches us in saying (Deu 10:12), "And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you, but that you fear the Lord your God to walk in all His ways, and to love Him and serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, to observe the mitzvoth of God and His statutes. .. " Herein have been included all of the features of perfection of Divine service that are appropriate in relation to the Holy One Blessed be He. They are: fear of God, walking in His ways, love, wholeheartedness, and observance of all of the mitzvoth. <br />"Fear of God" denotes fear of the Majesty of the Blessed One, fearing Him as one would a great and mighty king, and being ashamed at one's every movement in consequence of His greatness, especially when speaking before Him in prayer or engaging in the study of His Torah. <br />"Walking in His ways" embodies the whole area of cultivation and correction of character traits. As our Sages of blessed memory have explained, "As He is merciful, be also merciful..." The essence of all this is that a person conform all of his traits and all the varieties of his actions to what is just and ethical. Our Sages of blessed memory have thus summarized the idea (Avoth 2.1): "All that is praiseworthy in its doer and brings praise to him from others;" that is, all that leads to the end of true good, namely, strengthening of Torah and furthering of brotherliness. <br />"Love" - that there be implanted in a person's heart a love for the Blessed One which will arouse his soul to do what is pleasing before Him, just as his heart is aroused to give pleasure to his father and mother. He will be grieved if he or others are lacking in this; he will be jealous for it and he will rejoice greatly in fulfilling aught of it. "Whole-heartedness" - that service before the Blessed One be characterized by purity of motive, that its end be His service alone and nothing else. Included in this is that one's heart be complete in Divine service, that his interests not be divided or his observance mechanical, but that his whole heart be devoted to it. <br />"Observance of all the mitzvoth," as the words imply, is observance of the whole body of mitzvoth with all of their fine points and conditions. <br />All of these principles require extensive interpretation. I have found that our Sages of blessed memory have categorized these elements in a different, more detailed formulation, in which they are arranged according to the order necessary for their proper acquisition. Their words are contained in a Baraitha mentioned in different places in the Talmud, one of them, the chapter "Before their festivals" (Avodah Zara 20b):<br />"From this R. Pinchas ben Yair adduced:<br />`Torah leads to Watchfulness;<br />Watchfulness leads to Zeal;<br />Zeal leads to Cleanliness;<br />Cleanliness leads to Separation; <br />Separation leads to Purity;<br />Purity leads to Saintliness;<br />Saintliness leads to Humility;<br />Humility leads to Fear of Sin;<br />Fear of Sin leads to Holiness;<br />Holiness leads to the Holy Spirit,<br />and the Holy Spirit leads to the Revival of the Dead." <br />It is on the basis of this Baraitha that I have undertaken to write this work,in order to teach myself and to remind others of the conditions for perfect Divine service according to their gradations. In relation to each one, I shall explain its nature, its divisions or details, the manner of acquiring it, and its deterrents and the manner of guarding against them, so that I and all those who are pleased to do so may read therein in order to learn to fear the Lord our God and not forget our duty before Him. That which the earthiness of nature seeks to remove from our hearts, reading and contemplation will summon to our consciousness, and will awaken us to what is incumbent upon us. <br />May God be with our aspirations and keep our feet from stumbling, and may there be fulfilled in us the supplication of the Psalmist, beloved of his God (Psa 86:11), "Teach me, O God, Your ways; I shall walk in Your truth. Make one my heart to fear Your Name." Amen, so may be His will. <br />Back Contents Next<br />return to Torah Resources<br />created by:<br />Tsel Harim<br /></span></span></span>Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-88618171227629990682016-09-11T03:43:00.004-07:002020-09-17T01:53:00.771-07:00YOM KIPPUR<!--[if !mso]>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">Daniel ben Ya’acov Israel<br />updated September 2020</span><br /><br /></span></b></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: myriad-pro-semi-condensed, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Jewish eschatology teaches that the fall festivals allude to the time to come. First comes the judgment on Rosh HaShanah (Yom Teruah/Day of Trumpet) when the court is convened, then the confessions of iniquity on Yom Kippur when the court issues its verdict, and after that, the rejoicing of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: myriad-pro-semi-condensed, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">Likewise, the time to come commences with a great day of judgment, corresponding to Rosh HaShanah. After that, it is written, “I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness” (Ezekiel 36:25). And Yehovah says, “I will pardon those whom I leave as a remnant” (Jeremiah 50:20). These passages correspond to Yom Kippur.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: myriad-pro-semi-condensed, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;">After that comes Sukkot when we dwell in booths for seven days. In this regard, the prophet Isaiah says, “There will be a sukkah to give shade from the heat by day, and refuge and protection from the storm and the rain” (Isaiah 4:6). This is why it is called the season of rejoicing.(FFZO)<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: myriad-pro-semi-condensed, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: myriad-pro-semi-condensed, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Heb 10:1</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>For the
Torah, having a shadow of the good <i>matters</i> to come</b>, and not the
image itself of the matters, was never able to make perfect those who draw near
with the same slaughter <i>offerings</i> which they offer continually year by
year. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">When used:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">• <b>"Scripture taken from “The
Scriptures”, Copyright by Institute for Scripture Research. Used by
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur is a special appointed “Moed” time,
during the fall feast. It is significant not only for believers but for the all
world, by this I mean the nations of the world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">As I was
listening to the radio, the speaker was speaking with an alarming voice
concerning the crash in the “bank world”. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">It came to
my mind a strange but lasting thought. It was just before Yom Teruah and this
crisis increases since this first day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">I began to
meditate on the meaning of Yom Kippur and the return of our Master Yehoshua
HaMoschiach. I pray and asked Father Yehowah for insight and understanding in
this matter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was convinced that it was the beginning of trouble for the all world, but after consideration, IF it is the day of the Coronation of the Great King it will happen AFTER the marriage of the Bride and her Bridegroom (Revelation 21, Matt. 25:1 - 13). If we read the story in the book of Luke we see something giving an indication Luke 21:29-36. The lesson is with the comparison of the fig tree: Watch and pray.<br /><br />Yeshua tells us that the End of this age start during the WHEAT Harvest Matt. 13:36-43 which bring us the parable of the 10 vrigins in Matt.25.<br /><br />In the Torah we are commanded to appear before Yehovah <b>3 times a year</b>: Ex. 23:17, 34:23, Deut. 16:16, <br /><b>- The Feast of Unleavened Bread<br />- Shavuot<br />- The Feast of Tabernacle.</b><br /> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: small;">the 7th month is marked by the Number 7 which in gematria point to the conclusion and perfection on earth as we know from the book of Bereshit/Genesis chapter 2:1-2.<br /></span></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur
the Day of Atonement! Atonement for those who are in Moschiach, and under His
blood, waiting for the final redemption which will be the redemption of our
body, and taking place at Sukkot the season of rejoicing<br />Yom Kippur; The day of Judgment ( Matt. 25: 31-46) The verse 31 tells us; When the King seat on his throne.<br /><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Eph 5:23</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Because the husband is head of the wife, as
also <b>the Messiah</b> is head of the
assembly, and <b>He is Saviour of the body<i>. </i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The body is
again a double meaning: The body as our personal abode and the body which is
the Assembly of the believers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur
this is the day when the “Great Trump” will be sounded, the day after the great
tribulation, when Yehoshua will gather His servants from the four corners of
the earth:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 24:29</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “And immediately after the distress<sup>1</sup>
of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give its light,
and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall
be shaken. Footnote:<sup>1</sup>Or <i>pressure</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 24:30 “And then the sign of the Son of Aḏam shall appear in the
heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see
the Son of Aḏam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem.
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 24:31 “And He shall send His messengers with a<b><i> great sound of a trumpet</i></b>,
and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one
end of the heavens to the other. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">We see
verse 31 that after the tribulation (verse 29) the sound of a trumpet will be
heard. This is the Trump which will announce the gathering of the chosen ones <b>and</b> the judgment of the nations.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Can we
found confirmation in the Torah to make sure that we don’t make our own
doctrine?<br />
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I was reading and studying the Torah in the 2007 cycle when I came to the
Parsha “Noach”. This time praise be to Elohim of Israel, I got something
wonderful.<br />
The peshat text gives us the account of Noach and his family; how they got
“saved” by favour of Elohim.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">If we dig a
bit in the “sod”, we can see wonderful revelation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">We should
go to check the Hebrew words to be able to see that there is no coincidence
with Abba Yehowah.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Gen 6:14</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>Make<sup>H6213</sup>
thee an ark<sup>H8392</sup> of gopher<sup>H1613</sup> wood;<sup>H6086</sup>
rooms<sup>H7064</sup> shalt thou make<sup>H6213 (H853)</sup> in the ark,<sup>H8392</sup>
and shalt pitch<sup>H3722</sup> it within<sup>H4480 H1004</sup> and without<sup>H4480
H2351</sup> with pitch.<sup>H3724</sup> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The word
for “pitch” is the Hebrew word</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Strong’s #3722 Kaphar </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">כּפר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">kâphar <i>kaw-far'</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">A primitive root; to <i>cover</i> (specifically
with bitumen); figuratively to <i>expiate</i> or <i>condone</i>, to <i>placate</i>
or <i>cancel: - </i>appease, <b>make (an)
atonement</b>, cleanse, disannul, forgive, be merciful, pacify, <b>pardon</b>, to pitch, <b>purge (away)</b>, put off, (make) <b>reconcile</b>
(-liation).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">If we go the book of Vayiqra chapter 16 we read about the Yom Kippur
sacrifice which is for the High Priest and for the children of Israel (carnal
man).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Hebrew word for atonement in the sacrifices, not only for this chapter
is the word <b>“Kaphar”.</b><br />
Now let us look the meaning and the connection between:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Ark</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur and the other sacrifices</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua HaMoschiach</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Noach was informed by Yehowah that he will destroyed the inhabitants of the
world because of their wickedness. Noach was commanded to build an Ark and to enter it with
his family because he was found righteous before Elohim.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Euphemism and explanation:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Ark
is a picture of Yehoshua HaMoschia, we are in Him (Yehoshua) because we have
found favour before Elohim as we accepted the sacrifice Yehoshua underwent for
us. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Noach was in the Ark
and was saved from the destruction.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The water from the flood is a picture of the Torah.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Eph 5:26</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> in order to set it apart and cleanse it with <b>the washing of water by the Word<i>,<sup>1</sup>
</i></b>Footnote: <sup>1</sup>Rev. 19:8-9.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">The Torah is the judge of all men</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Joh 12:48</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My Words, has one who judges
him: <b>the Word</b> that I have spoken
shall judge him in the last day.</span></span></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">In the day of Noach as I have
explained before in another midrash, the “Tanak” (scriptures) is a
progressive revelation and open itself when we seek.</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Noach is a prototype of a
believer today. </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The ark a type of Messiah, </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The wood which was to make the
ark is a type of the frail nature of man which deceases.</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The water which carries the ark
is a type of Torah which carries believers through the trials of life.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">- The Torah bring believers to salvation when
they are in Yehoshua HaMoschiach</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">- The water destroyed the life of the wicked
when it covered the all world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">- The Torah, represented by the water in the
time of Noach will be the final judgement of the wicked who will be destroyed
for their rejection of the truth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">- Two kinds of animals in the Ark:
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">An euphemism for the house of Israel seven by
pair represented by the clean animals, and the nations represented by the
unclean animals, two by two. Two been the number for division which is a
demonstration that unity will never be possible in the pagan world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Now let us
go back to the construction of the Ark.</span></span></span></div>
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Yehowah informed Noach to “pitch” the ark, within and without.<br />
We have seen that the Hebrew word used here is the same word used for
“atonement”. The ark was able to endure the destruction of the life on earth
because it was “covered” and those inside where under this protection,
expiation, annulation, or forgiveness.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Pitched
inside ( the soul)<span> </span>and outside (the
body).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Gen 8:4</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> And in the seventh month, the seventeenth day
of the month, the ark rested on the mountains of Ararat. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The deluge
was finished in the seventh month, which is the month of Yom Kippur! Is that a
coincidence? No! I don’t think.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">He staid in
the ark until the Tenth month! Ten in Hebrew teaching is the number for completion of all sums. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Artur
W.Pink in his commentary explain that the number ten is also the number of man
tied to the ten commandments. In Hebrew it is also the number for a
congregation called a”myniam”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Seven is
the number for Divine perfection on earth and Five for Torah and mercy.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur,
the Day of Atonement (covering, expiation, pardon, cancel, appease, (reconcile)
is found for us in Yehoshua who is our “ark” the one who “carry” us through the
storm of life. He covered us with His blood until our mortal body, the one
which decease like the ark, will be made immortal at the resurrection.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">There is
more to see in Noach “salvation”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Gen 6:14</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>Make<sup>H6213</sup>
thee an ark<sup>H8392</sup> of gopher<sup>H1613</sup> wood;<sup>H6086</sup>
rooms<sup>H7064</sup> shalt thou make<sup>H6213 (H853)</sup> in the ark,<sup>H8392</sup>
and shalt pitch<sup>H3722</sup> it within<sup>H4480 H1004</sup> and without<sup>H4480
H2351</sup> with pitch.<sup>H3724</sup> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">“make thee
and ark……… <b>rooms shall thou make in the
ark</b>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">This is
very interesting when we read what Yehoshua says to his Talmidin:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Joh 14:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in my Father's
house are many mansions: if <i>it were</i> not <i>so,</i> I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua
says: “in my Father’s house are many mansions (rooms, or abode). Can you see
the relation between Noach’s ark and Yehoshua speaking to his disciples? The
rooms are not physical in </span><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua’s </span><span lang="EN-GB">midrash.<br />
I have explained before in another place that the Torah is so important because
it tells us about the physical redemption of our forefathers and also it
represent the “carnal man ‘in each of us:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Co 15:44</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> it is sown a natural body, it is raised a
spiritual body; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Co 15:45</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and so it has been
written, “The first man Aḏam became a living being,” the last Aḏam a
life-giving Spirit. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The first
man: Our forefathers were living “under” the first Adam nature the carnal man.
We are living “under “the last Adam Yehoshua HaMoschiach the life giving spirit.
Can you see?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Therefore
as we read the Torah we should always see our carnal nature in what happened to
our forefathers. All those above twenty who left Egypt were destroyed, because of
unbelief, as it is written somewhere in the book of Hebrew. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">More about
Yom Kippur:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Money for atonement was required</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">: Sh’mot (Exodus 30:11-16)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Exo 30:12</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “When you take the census of the children of Yisra’ĕl,
to register them, then each one shall give an </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">atonement
(Kopher </span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">כּוֹפֶר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB">)* for his life</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, when you register them, so that there is no plague
among them when you register them. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:13 “Everyone among those who are registered is to give this: half a
sheqel according to the sheqel of the set-apart place, twenty gĕrahs being a
sheqel. The half-sheqel is the contribution to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:14 “Everyone passing over to be registered, from twenty years old
and above, gives a contribution to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:15 “The rich does not give more and the poor does not give less than
half a sheqel, when you give a contribution to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, to make
atonement for yourselves.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:16 “And you shall take the silver for </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US">the atonement</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <b>(Kippur </b></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">כִּפּוּר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>) </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>from the children
of Yisra’ĕl, and give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. And it shall
be to the children of Yisra’ĕl for a remembrance before </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US">to make atonement (</span></b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">כָּפַר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><b><span lang="X-NONE">kaphar</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">)</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> for yourselves.”</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Something amazed me which is not visible in the
English language or other languages:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Ve have three time the word
"atonement"<span> </span>verse12,and 16
with no difference in English, not so in Hebrew where we have the word
"Kaphar" written Kaf, Peh, resh, while the two others words <b>"Kopher"</b> and <b>"Kippur"</b> have a
"vav" add in two different places.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">The letter "vav" in ancient-Hebrew, the
form of writing used in Moshe's time was: </span><img height="15" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg" width="9" /><span><span> </span><span class="apple-style-span">a picture of a tent peg. The tent pegs were made of wood and
may have been Y-shaped to prevent the rope from slipping off.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">As the pictograph
indicates, this letter represents a peg or hook, which is used for securing
something. The meaning of this letter is to add or secure. (Jeff Benner,
Anciennt-Hebrew.org)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span class="apple-style-span">The letter Kaph is </span><img height="15" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg" width="17" /><span class="apple-style-span"><span> </span><span lang="EN-US">, the meanings of this letter
are bend and curve from the shape of the palm as well as <b>to tame or subdue as</b> <b>one who
has been bent to another's will</b>.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">The letter Peh is<span> </span></span><img height="10" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg" width="23" /><span><span> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span">The Semitic word "pey" means <b>a "mouth",</b> this pictograph closely resembles <b>a mouth</b> and is similar to the later
Semitic letters for the letter "pey".</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span class="apple-style-span">This pictograph has the meanings of <b>speak and blow</b> from the functions of
the mouth as well as the edge of something, as the lips are at the edge of the
mouth.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span class="apple-style-span">The letter<span> </span></span><img height="16" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.jpg" width="15" /><span lang="EN-US">* <span class="apple-style-span">the head of a
man. This letter has the meanings of head or man as well as chief, top,
beginning or first.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","serif";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">*All pictographs and explanation are from Jeff
Benner, Ancient-Hebrew.org</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">The word "Kaphar" according to the
pictographs can mean:" I am the head and with my mouth I will
subdue". By adding the letter "vav" we can add the meaning of
"secure" of what my mouth as said!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">You may say, "brother Daniel where do you get
all these meanings"? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Is not Yehowah who say:</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><img height="15" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.jpg" width="17" /><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="position: relative; top: -2pt;">Yeshayahu 49:</span></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE" style="position: relative; top: -2pt;">16 </span></b>Behold, I have graven thee upon the <u><span style="background: yellow none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">palm</span></u>s of my hands; thy walls are
continually before me.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Look is not Yehowah who says"I am the
beginning and the End", the Alef and the Tav!</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><img height="16" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image005.jpg" width="15" /><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Is not Elohim who speak: </span><img height="10" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg" width="23" /><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Yeshayahu 46:9</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Remember the former things of
old: for I am El, and there is none else; I am Elohim, and there is none like
me,</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span><b>10</b> Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">And why the "vav" </span><img height="15" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.jpg" width="9" /><span lang="EN-US">? Is not Moschiach Yeshua who secures our salvation and stand as our
propitiation before our Father in heaven? </span><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">I would
like to add a commentary I read from Nathan Lawrence from Hoshana Rabbah
concerning atonement and the half shekel </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Nathan Lawrence ask the question, in brackets ( ) my
comments:</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Do these passages in the Torah imply that YHVH grants man absolution
based on something other than the shedding of blood, and by logical extension,
does this call into question our redemption from sin through our faith in
Yeshua the Messiah’s blood atonement?</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the Apostolic Scriptures (New Testament(Brit Chadasha)), there is no
question that when the concept of <span>atonement
</span>(i.e., to make ransom for or to cover over man’s sins) is presented it
is related to the blood of Yeshua/Yehoshua, the Lamb of YHVH, being shed for
the remission of man’s sins, which is the means through which reconciliation
between Elohim and man occurs. In the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament/Tanak),
however, the idea of atonement is somewhat broader and at times more
generalized in scope. Herein lies the confusion and the misconceived disparity
between the Former (Old) and Latter (New) Testaments/Covenant. Are they in
opposition to one another, or is the latter the logical outgrowth of the former
and compliments or elucidates the former?</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When sin occurs, a price must be paid. The sinner must
give something of value to the one sinned against as a penalty for breaking the
laws or dictates of the superior authority or lawgiver. This is how justice is
maintained in the universe. The same system holds true in secular societies.
Governments establish laws by which its citizens are governed. When those laws
are violated, the governing body exacts a penalty against the offender (e.g.,
community service, a fine, a prison sentence, or even death). Biblically, where
atonement was involved, humans had to pay or give something. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the Torah, there are examples of men buying
themselves temporary covering for sins committed by sacrificing animals, giving
offerings and oblations, making interceding prayers, paying a half-shekel in
support of the Temple sacrificial system, negating themselves by repentance and
humbly looking upon a brazen snake on a pole, or by burning incense, which is
symbolic of the prayers of YHVH’s people (Rev. 8:4). But in the long term, an
intercessory prayer, the paying of a half shekel </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(see Exod.30:12-16 above)<i>, the
waving of incense, the giving of war booty, etc. was not sufficient to ransom a
man’s soul from the grip of eternal death. Even the innocent animals sacrificed
under the Levitical system were in themselves powerless to do this. Since the
soul that sins shall die (Ezek. 18:4) and all humans have sinned, or violated
the Torah-law of YHVH and all were conceived in sin (Ps. 14:1-3; 51:5; Jer.
17:9; </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The death of some innocent animal and the shedding of
its blood was the very basis of the sacrificial and atonement system in the
Torah. And this all pointed to Yeshua/Yehoshua the Redeemer who would die once
and for all for all men (Heb. 10:10).</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>Job/Yov knew that he needed a Redeemer (Job
19:25). David also knew that animal sacrifices could not redeem man in the
ultimate sense nor could a man redeem another man. He knew that the price of
man’s redemption was costly (Ps. 49:7-8 </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 49:7 A brother does not
redeem anyone at all, Neither give to Elohim a ransom for him;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Psa
49:8 for the redemption of their lives is costly, And it shall cease forever<i>) and this led him to the conclusion that
only Elohim could redeem man from the power of the grave through bodily
resurrection </i>(<i> </i></span><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 49:15 But
Elohim does redeem my being From the power of the grave, For He does receive
me. </span><span lang="EN-US">Selah)</span><i><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>Isaiah spoke of one who would take man’s sins
upon himself making his soul an offering for sin (Isa. 53:10). Jacob
historically and prophetically spoke of his Redeemer who redeemed him from
“all evil” (Gen. 48:16) and related it to the Messenger of YHVH (Gen.
31:11-13). </span></i><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">So why do some
scriptures seem to speak of a bloodless atonement? The atonement for the soul
mentioned in Numbers 31:50 </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">“So we have brought an offering for </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, what every man found of ornaments
of gold: armlets and bracelets and signet rings and earrings and necklaces, to
make atonement for ourselves before </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the Roman Catholic doctrine, people pay money to
the priest when somebody dies in order <b>that he “intercede” for the death</b>, and
so make him able to “go to heaven”. Of course death will not see the
resurrection before Messiah comes back, either for the first resurrection to
reign with Messiah or for the second resurrection for judgment. Money given to
the priest cannot affect man’s destiny) </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">was but a temporary spiritual bandaid in a specific
time and situation for certain individuals. The mention of atonement in these
verses is a subset of the greater concept of atonement as presented in the Hebrew
Scriptures. But beyond that, the portion of the war booty the Israelites paid
to make atonement for their lives went directly to the priests who used it to
fund the Tabernacle sacrificial system (Num. 31:54). Therefore, through the war
booty, Israel
was helping to purchase animals for sacrifice. So, their donation of war booty
was directly tied to sacrificial system, which involved the shedding of blood
for expiatory purposes.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Another Torah
passage that seems to suggest the possibility of a bloodless atonement is
Exodus 30:11–16 </span></i><span lang="EN-GB">(as we have seen above).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">(Exo 30:11</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> spoke to Mosheh, saying, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:12 “When you take the census of the children
of Yisra’ĕl, to register them, then each one shall give an atonement for his
life to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, when you register them, so that there is no plague among them
when you register them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:13 “Everyone among those who are registered
is to give this: half a sheqel according to the sheqel of the set-apart place,
twenty gĕrahs being a sheqel. The half-sheqel is the contribution to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:14 “Everyone passing over to be registered,
from twenty years old and above, gives a contribution to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Exo 30:15 “The rich does not give more and the poor
does not give less than half a sheqel, when you give a contribution to </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, to make
atonement for yourselves.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Exo 30:16 “And you shall take the silver for the atonement from the
children of Yisra’ĕl, and give it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. And
it shall be to the children of Yisra’ĕl for a remembrance before </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span>, to make
atonement for yourselves.”)</span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>Where the
Israelites were instructed to pay a half-shekel, which during the Second Temple
became an annual Temple
tax (Neh. 10:32; Matt. 17:24). This money went, in part, toward, the service
(verse 16) and constructing of the Tabernacle of Moses (e.g., <span>Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the OT, </span>Vol.
1, p. 459; Exod. 38:21–31) and later toward the purchase of the animals the
priests sacrificed (<span>The Temple and Its
Service</span>, by Alfred Edersheim, p. 48). In this way, the people were
participating vicariously in the act of sacrificing an innocent animal as an
offering or atonement for their sins. Again, the Scriptures reveal that this
sacrificial system merely pointed the way to the Greater Sacrifice that would
come later in the Person of Yeshua, the Redeemer of Israel (Read Isa. 53.). On the
point that paying the half-shekel was a merely a temporary solution to the
problem of man’s sin, Keil and Delitzsch say in their commentary on this
passage,</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As expiation [atonement] for souls, it pointed to the
unholiness of Israel’s nature, and reminded the people continually, that by
nature it was alienated from God, and could only remain in covenant with YHWH
and live in His kingdom on the ground of His grace, which covered its sin (<span>Ibid</span>.)<span>.</span></span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Keil and Delitzsch’s point is further strengthened in
Exodus 30:16, which says,</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And you shall take the atonement money of the children
of Israel, and shall appoint
it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a <span>memorial </span>unto the children of Israel before
YHVH, to make atonement for your souls. (emphasis added)</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The giving of the half-shekel was <span>a memorial </span>to what? The Hebrew word
for <span>memorial </span>is “<span>zikrown” </span>(<span>Strong’s </span>H2146) meaning </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">reminder, token, record</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. According to the <span>TWOT</span>, a “<span>zikrown” </span>is
an object or act which brings something else to mind or which represents
something else. As used in Scripture, it may be a reminder of a historical fact
or event, or it may remind a person of their Creator. </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How was the
giving of the half-shekel a memorial for the Children of Israel? First,
it reminded them of their sinfulness, of the fact that their sin would cost
them something, and that the silver they paid for their sin would be used to
purchase an innocent lamb, bull or goat to be sacrificed on their behalf. They
furthermore could not escape the fact that sin was ever with them and that no
matter how they tried not to sin, they still sinned, and they had to pay a
price or penalty for that sin, and there was no escaping this vicious cycle.
Something had to be done for man to break him out of this place of no escape. </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Only YHVH, the
Lawgiver and Judge had the power and authority to find a permanent solution.
Man did not have the power to redeem himself (Psalm 49:7,15), or to grant
himself clemency from his sin, or to change his heart so that he would not sin.
Therefore, among those who were earnestly endeavouring to walk in
righteousness, to live without sinning, the paying of the half-shekel doubtless
was a constant reminder or memorial of their helplessness, and of their need of
help from above. In retrospect, we now know that that help came in the person
of the Messiah, Redeemer of Israel.
Prior to this, Isaiah prophesied that the “Arm of YHVH” (Isa. 53:1) would be
extended toward sinful man in the personage of a messianic figure who would
come to earth and redeem man from sin through his own sacrificial death (e.g.,
Isa. 53, entire chapter). </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Long before the
prophets of Israel penned their scrolls, Job/Yov, one of the most ancient
figures in Scripture and whose name is on what is thought by many to be the
oldest book in the Bible, knew that sacrificing animals could not permanently
atone for man’s sin. Though he made sacrifices for him and his children (Job
1:5), he came to the place of crying out to YHVH for a permanent solution to
the high cost of sin, when he declared in Job 19:24–27,</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that he shall
stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy
this body, yet in my flesh shall I see Eloah, whom I shall see for myself, and
my eyes shall behold, and not another; though my heart be consumed within me.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yeshua/Yehoshua the Messiah and Redeemer of Israel is the only one who has fulfilled this
prophecy in the entire history of the people of Israel. The half-shekel the
Israelites paid along with the daily sacrifices reminded them of their
perpetual sinfulness and of their need for a permanent Redeemer who would once
and for all atone for their sins and free them from the penalty, guilt and grip
of sin. That person was Yeshua/Yehoshua.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Let’s continue
exploring some other aspects of the half-shekel as it relates to the subject of
atonement.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Beyond Israel’s
contribution toward the construction and upkeep of the sacrificial system that
the paying of the half-shekel afforded, we need to ask, as does Arthur W. Pink
in his commentary on Exodus 30:11–15, why does the Torah place the command
about the half-shekel between the instructions for building the Golden Altar
(Exod. 30:1–10) of Incense and the Bronze Laver (Exod. 30:17-21)? Furthermore,
he asks what was the significance of the amount of silver given, why was this
tax levied on those twenty years of age and older, what is the link between the
census of Israel and Israel’s paying of the Temple tax, why was it paid
annually and what do all these things have to do with atonement or ransom for
their souls? Additionally, doesn’t Scripture tell us that the Israelites had
already been redeemed at the Red Sea (Exod.
15:13)? If so, why did they need to be redeemed again (<span>Gleanings in Exodus</span>, p. 289ff)? Understanding the answers to
this question will perhaps help us to understand the deeper purpose of the
half-shekel, its prophetic implication and how paying it made atonement for
their souls. </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To answer these
questions, we need to first understand that, in Hebraic thought, redemption is
not a one-time event that happens at the beginning of one’s spiritual journey
as one comes into relationship with the Elohim of Israel. Redemption or salvation in
the typical Christian paradigm is viewed as a one-time event that happens when
one “gets saved” or is “born again.” This is not the Hebraic or biblical model.
Redemption or salvation is more than <span>an
event</span>, it is <span>a process</span>.
It is true that one is <span>initially </span>saved
at the beginning of one’s conversion <span>from
</span>the kingdom of spiritual darkness <span>to
</span>the kingdom of Elohim’s light, but Scripture teaches us that redemption
is <span>also </span>a life-long and ongoing
process, and that there is even a <span>future
</span>redemption. Redemption in the future will culminate in what is known in
Hebraic thought as “The Final Redemption” when captive and scattered Israel
will be liberated and returned to the land of its promised inheritance, when
the resurrection of the righteous dead will occur, when Messiah will defeat all
of Israel’s enemies and will rule the earth from Jerusalem. The Apostolic
Scriptures reveal that after this occurs, the resurrected and glorified Saints
will rule as kings and priests under the kingship of Messiah Yeshua.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I explained in
another Midrash the four steps of redemption as it is written in the Torah and
confirm what Nathan Lawrence write:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Exo 6:6 “Say, therefore, to the children of Yisra’ĕl, ‘I am </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, and <b>I shall bring you out from under the burdens of the Mitsrites</b>, and <b>shall deliver you from their enslaving</b>,
and <b>shall redeem you</b> with an
outstretched arm, and with great judgments, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Exo 6:7 and <b>shall
take you as My people, and I shall be your Elohim</b>. And you shall know that
I am </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> your Elohim who is bringing you out from under the burdens of
the Mitsrites. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I shall bring you out from under the
burdens of the Mitsrites: <b>Passover</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I shall deliver you from their
enslaving: <b>Giving of the Ruach HaQodesh
to follow the Torah (Shavuot)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and shall deliver you: <b>This is Yom Kippur when Messiah will come
back to establish<span> </span>Yehowah’ Kingdom and
judge the nations.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">and shall take you as My People and I
shall be your Elohim. <b>This corresponds
to the last great day of the Feats of Tabernacle, pointing to the Olam aba,
eternal life.)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The next thing that we need to understand is this: The
Tabernacle of Moses was a prophetic picture of this past-present-future
redemptive process. What Israel
did with respect to the Tabernacle is the spiritual model or pattern that all
Believers in the Elohim of Israel
must follow to have a spiritual relationship with Elohim.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(The tabernacle is also a picture of Yehowah’s
Kingdom in this world and how Yehowah through the building 'details of the
tabernacle unveil what He is about to do. See the midrash on the Tabernacle)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now with these
things in mind, let’s answer the questions we asked earlier about the relevance
of the half-shekel and how Israel’s
paying it served to atone for their souls.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Israel’s sins
were atoned for at their first Passover in Egypt, which was the first step in
the process of redemption. This initial process culminated in Israel’s baptism in the waters of the Red Sea (Exod. 15:13). This is a prophetic picture of the
Believer being baptized for the remission of sins (Mark 16:15–16 and Acts
2:37–41 cp 1Cor. 10:2). This initial process is modelled in the Tabernacle of
Moses. The Altar of the Red Heifer, which stood just outside the Tabernacle,
modelled the Passover lamb whose blood was smeared on the Israelites’ doors. It
was a picture of atonement being made at the <span>beginning </span>of one’s spiritual walk with the Elohim of Israel. Nothing
sinful or unclean (unatoned for or unredeemed) could enter the Tabernacle. In
the future, Yeshua/Yehoshua, the Redeemer of Israel—of
which the red heifer was a prophetic type, would be crucified outside the walls
of Jerusalem
(Heb. 9:11–14 and 13:8–13) fulfilling the prophetic shadow-picture of the red
heifer. Once a priest or individual was spiritually or ritually purified by the
ashes of the red heifer, the priest (or individual, hypothetically) was allowed
to enter the Tabernacle to minister to and enter into spiritual relationship with
the Elohim of Israel.
Once inside, the priest (or individual, hypothetically or in a spiritual sense)
would first come to the Altar of Sacrifice—a picture of the Passover meal.
This altar reminds us of the fact that even after <span>initial </span>redemption (at the Altar of the Red Heifer), we are
still mortal sin-prone beings. We will sin again and will still need the
atoning grace and mercy of the Elohim of Israel as we progress along our
spiritual journey. It was on this altar that the continual twice daily offerings
were made. The purpose of these sacrifices was to atone for Israel’s sins that she would commit <span>after </span>her initial atonement and
redemption at the Passover in Egypt
and at Red Sea.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Next, one would
come to the Bronze Laver, which is a picture of spiritual cleansing. It was
here that the priests washed their hands and feet daily before ministering to
YHVH. This not only speaks of initial immersion for the remission of sins, but
ongoing cleansing of our actions (hands) and direction/walks (feet) by the water
of YHVH’s Word (Eph. 5:26 cp. Heb. 10:22) and by his Spirit (Tit. 3:5), which
the Gospel and Book of Acts accounts show often came upon man at the time of
water baptism.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now, why is the
passage in Exodus 30 about the half-shekel positioned between the Scriptures
that command the construction of the Bronze Laver and the Altar of Incense,
which sat in front of the veil to the Holy of Holies—the inner most part of the
Tabernacle’s sanctuary? It was at the Altar of Incense that the deepest worship
of Elohim occurred. This is a picture of the Saints’ prayers going up to heaven
as sweet smelling incense before the throne of Elohim (Rev. 8:4). In the
Tabernacle of Moses, the Altar of Incense was positioned just in front of what
is commonly called the Mercy Seat or <span>Kapporet</span>.
The term <span>Mercy Seat </span>as found in
many of our English Bibles derives from </span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the Hebrew word <span>kapar
</span>(<span>Strong’s </span>G3722) (see
previous explanation),<i> which according to
the <span>Theological Wordbook of the Old
Testament </span>(<span>TWOT </span>1023)
means <span>to make an atonement, make
reconciliation, purge. </span>The Mercy Seat or the golden “lid” covering the
Ark of the Covenant located in the Holy of Holies or <span>D’veer </span>(i.e., the inner shrine of the Tabernacle of Moses), is
the Hebrew word <span>kapporet </span>(<span>Strong’s </span>G3727, <span>TWOT </span>1023c) meaning <span>the place of atonement </span>or <span>the place where atonement was made</span>.
The <span>TWOT </span>defines what happened
at the <span>kapporet </span>as follows:</i></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It was from the … Mercy Seat that [YHVH] promised to
meet with the men [of Israel]
(Num. 7:89). The word, however, is not related to mercy and of course was not a
seat. The word is derived from the root “to atone.” The Greek equivalent in the
LXX (Septuagin) is usually <span>hilasterion</span>,
“place or object of propitiation,” a word which is applied to [Messiah] in Rom.
3:25. The translation “mercy seat” does not sufficiently express the fact that
the lid of the ark was the place where the blood was sprinkled on the Day of Atonement.
“Place of atonement” would perhaps be more expressive.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What is the message here? Why does YHVH’s Torah
position the command for Israel
to pay the silver half-shekel <span>between </span>the
instructions to build the Bronze Laver and the Altar of Incense? Simply this,
YHVH was trying to teach his people that man <span>cannot </span>enter into an intimate spiritual relationship with his
Creator, his Heavenly <u>Father <span>until </span>he
has had his sins atoned for</u>, been spiritually cleansed by the “washing” of
the Word of Elohim and by the work of the Spirit of Elohim in one’s heart and
mind. Only then, can one enter into the holy (set-apart) Tabernacle or sanctuary,
stand before his Creator and offer up to him prayer and praise.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">(The bronze laver
as described in the midrash on the building of Tabernacle is very interesting
compare to gold and silver which are pure metals. In Hebrew the word for brass
is: Strong’s # 5178 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">נחשׁת</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">n<sup>e</sup>chôsheth <i>nekh-o'-sheth, written
nun,chet,shin, Tav;</i></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">For <u>H5154</u>; <i>copper</i>; hence, something
made of that metal, that is, <i>coin</i>, a <i>fetter</i>; figuratively <i>base</i>
(as compared with gold or silver): - brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of
brass), filthiness, steel.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">H5154 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">נחוּשׁה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">n<sup>e</sup>chûshâh<span> </span>n<sup>e</sup>chûshâh
<i>nekh-oo-shaw',</i> <i>nekh-oo-shaw'</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Feminine of <u>H5153</u>; <i>copper</i>: - brass, steel. Compare <u>H5176</u>.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">H 5176 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">נחשׁ</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">nâchâsh <i>naw-khawsh'</i></span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 4pt 0cm 2pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The same as <u>H5175</u>; <i>Nachash</i>, the name of two persons
apparently non Israelites: - Nahash.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">H 5175 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">שׁ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span dir="LTR"></span> nâchâsh <i>naw-khawsh'</i> From <u>H5172</u>;
<b>a <span>snake</span></b>
(from its <i>hiss</i>): - <b>serpent</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">So we see that the word “</span><span lang="EN-GB">n<sup>’</sup>chôsheth” comes
from the word “nachasch” which mean “serpent” or “snake”. Remember that HaSatan
is also called that” Old serpent “(Revel.12:9). Where now is the relationship
between the Brass laver, HaSatan and the serpent and the washing of the hands
and feet?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">HaSatan is pictured by the serpent who is the
father of lie! The brass laver was located outside the Qadosh place in the Tent
of meeting,<span> </span>in the Tabernacle courtyard.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">In the Qadosh Place could only enter the priests who
were taught in the Torah belonged the tribe of Levy. Outside in the courtyard
the children of Israel
came to bring sacrifice to the Priest.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Priest had to wash his hands and sometime feet
when entering the Qadosh place, before doing the service. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Brass is an impure metal which contain many other
particle which make it impure. Brass is a picture of the impure nature of man.
The Priest has to wash his hands and feet in the brass laver representing the
removal of impurity (by washing with water) in action and walk outside Messiah.
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Brass
unlike gold and silver is a compounded alloy of different metals which
represent</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB">the imperfection or impurity of our flesh.</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The half shekel
was made of silver, which represents redemption or Elohim’s ransom price for
man’s sin. In fact, the entire Tabernacle rested on a silver foundation. The
vertical boards of the Tabernacle itself were set in posts of silver (Exod.
26:15–30) made from the half-shekels that came from the people (Exod.
38:25–27). This teaches us that the redemption of humanity is at the very
foundation of the whole Tabernacle system</span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">All, both rich
and poor were to give a half-shekel. This teaches us that all men are equal
before Elohim, that he is not a respecter of persons, that all equally need
redemption from sin, and that no man’s sin is greater or less than that of
another. A shekel, which was a unit of measure, was comprised of twenty <span>gerahs </span>(Exod. 30:13). The half-shekel
was ten <span>gerahs</span>. Albert W.Pink
points out that ten is the biblical number of human responsibility and points
to the Ten Commandments, which represent man’s legal responsibility before
YHVH. In sinning, man has violated these Ten Commandments and brought upon
himself the resulting death penalty. Paying the ten <span>gerahs </span>of silver was an object lesson to teach the Israelites
the important principle that there is a price to pay when we break Elohim’s
laws (<span>Gleanings in Exodus</span>, p.
291). Those ten “<span>gerahs” </span>went,
in part, toward purchasing the animals used in the on-going sacrifices on the
Altar of Sacrifice in the Tabernacle. </span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Pa9" style="text-indent: 24pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The paying of
the half-shekel annually shows that even after Israel had been redeemed
initially at the beginning of their spiritual walk, they still sinned, a price
still had to be paid for that sin, and an atonement of blood had to still be
paid for each and every sin. That was under the Levitical sacrificial system.
Since Yeshua/Yehoshua came and died on the cross/stake paying for our sins once
and for all, we now have only to confess our sins, repent of them and YHVH will
cleanse us of unrighteousness and forgive us of our sins on the merit of Yeshua/Yehoshua’s
having paid the price for our sins by his blood atonement (1 John 1:9; Heb.
10:1–22).</span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Pa9" style="text-indent: 24pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We will now
answer the question why the command to give the half-shekel was tied to the
numbering of Israel.
Scripture teaches us that the numbering of something indicates ownership (Pink,
p. 290). A person counting his money, or a shepherd his sheep is a sign of
possession. YHVH’s numbering of Israel was his way of saying, “These are mine.
These redeemed people are my treasured possession!” (Exod. 19:5–6). Only a
redeemed people can be the people of YHVH. They have been called out of the
world to be his special people.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Pa9" style="text-indent: 24pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Finally, only
those of age twenty and above were subject to paying the half-shekel. Why age
twenty? The Torah reveals that this is the age of accountability. At this age,
a man was old enough to go to war (Num. 1:3). Furthermore, YHVH held all those
who were twenty and above accountable for the sins of Israel in the
wilderness (Num. 14:29; 32:11). YHVH reckoned that by age twenty a person
should have the maturity to know the difference between good and evil and be
able to make right choices. This was also the age when an Israelite male should
take full accountability for his sins and those of his household, assuming he
was married. In other words, by age twenty, a person should be walking as a
fully redeemed Israelite before YHVH.</span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Pa9" style="text-indent: 24pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Again, there are
those who would lift from Scripture a single passage like Exodus 30:15–16 or
Numbers 31:50 and attempt to formulate doctrines inconsistent with the rest
Scripture. For example, some have attempted to use these passages to “prove”
that one can atone for one’s sins through other means than the shedding of
blood. This, frankly, is a weak attempt to circumvent some very prominent
Scriptures and biblical patterns that teach that only through the shedding of
blood can atonement be made. Eventually, it is an attempt to invalidate the
Messiahship of Yeshua/Yehoshua, the Lamb of Elohim slain from the foundation of
the world who came as the arm of YHVH to take away the sins of the world (Rev.
13:8; Isa. 53:1; John 1:29).</span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Pa9" style="text-indent: 24pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If one takes a
single passage from the Torah that speaks about atonement being made for souls,
and does not consider the broader meaning and spiritual context of the Hebrew
word “<span>kaphar” </span>or <span>atonement </span>and the context in which
that word is used, then one may well fall into the trap of snipping a twig from
the tree and calling it the trunk </span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Pa9" style="text-indent: 24pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Numbers 31:50
and Exodus 30:11–16 cannot be taken as doctrinal statements defining the <span>whole </span>concept of atonement, or in
some way inferring that Scripture teaches that atonement can occur <span>without </span>the shedding of blood.
Scripture nowhere implies that one can do an “end run” around the shedding of
blood for the atoning or remission of one’s sins. If the shedding of blood is
not necessary to atone for man’s sins then YHVH lies when he clearly states in
Leviticus 17:11, “For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given
it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by
reason of the life that makes atonement” (NAS). Do we make void a foundational
truth of Torah from the lips of YHVH by our misunderstanding of a few obscure
(to us) verses in the Torah? Elohim forbid! May it never be so!</span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="Pa9" style="text-indent: 24pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Make no mistake
about it, the sinner has two choices: namely, to pay or atone for his sin with
his own blood (Ezek. 18:10-13, 20), or for someone else to step in, to die in
his place thus redeeming, atoning, or ransoming him from the guilt and penalty
of his own sin, which is eternal death. Job knew he needed a redeemer and that
his own righteousness could not save him from eternal death (Job 19:24-27). </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Do you know
this? Who is your Redeemer?</span></i></b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="square">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Moshe makes atonement for the
sins of the children of Israel
(carnal man)</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Sh’mot
32:30 Compare with Hebrew 7:25</span></span></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="square">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Animals used for atonement Vayiqra
1:3-4 Compare Hebrew 1 Kefa (Peter) 1:10, Ephesians 5:27</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Atonement to be made by the
priest Vayiqra 4:20 Compare: Hebrew 4:14, 9:14-15</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Atonement made by sprinkling of
the blood and burning ( annihilation) of the flesh Vayiqra 4:25-26 Compare:
Hebrew 9:13-14</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Sacrifice represents the sweet
and pleasant odour to Abba Yehowah Vayiqra 4:31 Compare: Romans 12:1</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Atonement for the sins of the
High Priest <span> </span>Vayiqra 5:10</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua was WITHOUT sin: </span><b><span lang="EN-GB">Heb 4:15</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>For<sup>G1063</sup> we have<sup>G2192</sup>
not<sup>G3756</sup> an high priest<sup>G749</sup> which cannot<sup>G1410
G3361</sup> be touched with the feeling of<sup>G4834</sup> our<sup>G2257</sup>
infirmities;<sup>G769</sup> but<sup>G1161</sup> was in<sup>G2596</sup> all
points<sup>G3956</sup> tempted<sup>G3985</sup> like as<sup>G2596 G3665</sup>
<i>we are, yet</i> without<sup>G5565</sup> sin.<sup>G266</sup> </span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur<span> </span>personal atonement as also corporate
Isarel</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span>a)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">for
the priest first<span> </span>concerning his
ignorance: Vayiqra (Leveticus) 5:18</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span>b)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">For
the priest and the people: Vayiqra 9:7</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span>c)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">For
the assembly: Vayiqra 16</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27pt; text-indent: -9pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>Scapegoat = Hebrew “<b>Azazel</b>”, meaning the goat of departure</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>§<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The incense = Hebrew “Quetoreh”,
meaning fumigation, perfume.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Compare with: Revelation 8:3-4</span></span></span></div>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="square">
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua the supreme sacrifice
(Hebrew 10:10) pointing to the death on the stake which point to the red
heifer on the altar.</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The High priest sprinkled the
mercy seat with blood during Yom Kippur (Vayiqra 16:14)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua sprinkled many nations
with his blood ( YeshaYahu 52:15)</span></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.2pt; margin-right: 1.8pt; margin-top: 1.2pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(Isa 52:15 [RNKJV])</span></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 1.8pt; margin-top: 1.2pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>So shall he
sprinkle many nations</b>; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for
that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had
not heard shall they consider.<b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"></span></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 1.2pt; margin-right: 1.8pt; margin-top: 1.2pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">The high priest had to
wash his clothes after performing the sacrifice (Vayiqra 16:23)<b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"></span></b></span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua’s garment was stained
with blood, and he was wearing pure white robe of righteousness (Rev.
3:4-5, 7:9, 13-14)</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -54pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Symbol;"><span><img alt="*" height="17" src="file:///C:\Users\Danjan\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif" width="17" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">The two goats of Vayiqra 16:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Azazel
represents the entire removal of sin’s defilement from the tabernacle and the
camp of Israel,
out into the wilderness</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 103:12</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> As far as east is from west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Azazel was
sent into the wilderness alive to make atonement for our sins:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">YeshaYahu </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Isa 53:6</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> We all, like
sheep, went astray, each one of us has turned to his own way. And </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> has laid on Him (Yehoshua) the crookedness of us all.
</span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Isa 53:12</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Therefore I give Him (Yehoshua) a portion among the
great, and He divides the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His
being unto death, and He was counted with the transgressors, and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the
transgressors</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></i></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">There
is may be another aspect of the two goats of Yom Kippur:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">First
we see the sacrifice of Moschiach and his work in the first Goat who through
HIS Blodd make atonement for all those who believe in His Name</span><span lang="EN-GB">:</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:7 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he shall take <b>the two goats</b>,
and present them before YHWH at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:8 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for YHWH, and the
other lot for the scapegoat.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:9 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which YHWH's lot fell, and offer
him for a sin offering.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:10 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">But <b>the goat, on which the lot
fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before YHWH, to make an
atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness</b>.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:11 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for
himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall
kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:12 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the
altar before YHWH, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring
it within the vail:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:13 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he shall put the incense upon the fire before YHWH, that the cloud
of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die
not:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:14 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his
finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he
sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:15 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>Then shall he kill the goat of the
sin offering, that is for the people</b>, and bring his blood within the
vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:16 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And <b>he shall make an atonement
for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and
because of their transgressions in all their sins:</b> and so shall he do for
the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of
their uncleanness.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:17 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he
goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have
made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the
congregation of Israel.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:18 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he shall go out unto the altar that is before YHWH, and make an
atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, <b>and of the blood of the goat</b>, and put
it upon the horns of the altar round about.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:19 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times,
and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:20 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 0.0001pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And when he hath made an end of <b>reconciling
the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall
bring the live goat:</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>Now let us look at Azazel if we can find an
explanation:</b></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 1.2pt 1.8pt 1.2pt 0cm;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(Lev 16:21 [RNKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of <b>the live goat, and confess over him all the
iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their
sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the
hand of a fit man into the wilderness:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:22 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And <b>the goat shall bear upon him
all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in
the wilderness</b><b> (midbar in Hebrew, an
open field not a desert)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:23 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall
put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place,
and shall leave them there:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:24 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on
his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt
offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:25 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:26 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes,
and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:27 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin
offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall
one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins,
and their flesh, and their dung.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:28 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:29 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh
month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no
work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that
sojourneth among you:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:30 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse
you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before YHWH.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>(Lev 16:31 [RNKJV])</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto
you, and <u>ye shall afflict your souls</u>, by a statute for ever.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">The Goat was left alive in the wilderness, is it not also a picture of
Moschiach Yeshua who is alive for ever more, the wilderness been a picture of the
world we are living today, scattered in the four corners of the earth! Is not
Yeshua who bear our sin? "<b>confess over him all
the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all
their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by
the hand of a fit man into the wilderness</b><b>"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">The wilderness in Hebrew is not a desert place as it is often
understand, but a land of pasture; It is the Hebrew word "midbar"
from the word "dabar" (words).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;">We shall mediate upon this aspect to gain more understanding of the
scapegoat.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur the great and terrible
day</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">:</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Teruah
the first day of the seventh month correspond to the last trump (1<sup>st</sup>
Corinthians 15:51 and Rev. 11:15-18, also Matt. 24:31 at the end of the great
tribulation Mattityahu 24:21 prior the wrath of Elohim and the seven bowl (Rev.
Chapters 15 -16) and the coronation of the Great King.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">- The day
of restitution of all things:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Act 3:20</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and that He sends </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> Messiah, pre-appointed for you, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Act 3:21 whom heaven needs to receive until the times of restoration of all
<span>matters</span>, of which Elohim spoke
through the mouth of all His set-apart prophets since of old. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Azazel a
euphemism for Yehoshua who has become our scapegoat, and also for the all
world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Some
scholars say that Azazel is a picture of HaSatan, as it is written in the book
of Enoch (quotation from Eddie Chemney on “The Feats of YHWH”:</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i><span lang="EN-US">The Hebrew word for scapegoat is </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">azazel</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">Azazel</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> was seen as a type of satan (</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">Ha satan</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">) in the intertestamental Book of Enoch (8:1). The sins of the people and
thus the punishment of the people were laid upon </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">azazel</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> the scapegoat. He would bear the sins of the people and the punishment
of the people would be upon him. </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">Azazel</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"> being sent into the wilderness is understood to be a picture of satan (</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-style: normal;">Ha satan</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">) being cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:20). </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">HaSatan
is a Hebrew word meaning: “the adversary”.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">There is
controversy wither Azazel is a picture of HaSatan or a picture of Yehoshua who
carry our sins away!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Shaul says
that the god of this world is HaSatan:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">2.Co 4:4</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in whom the god of this world hath blinded the
minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Messiah,
who is the image of God, should shine unto them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The
scriptures tell us that it is Yehoshua who took our sins away and it is he who
has been made propitiation for our sins:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rom 3:24</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> being declared right, without paying, by His favour through the
redemption which is in Messiah </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>,</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rom 3:25</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <b>whom
Elohim set forth as atonement, through belief in His blood</b>, to demonstrate
His righteousness, because in His tolerance Elohim had passed over the sins
that had taken place before, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Jn 2:2</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and <b>He
Himself is an atoning offering for our sins</b>, and not for ours only but also
for all the world. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Also in:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">2Co 5:21 for He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that <b>in Him we might become the righteousness of
Elohim.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">In 1<sup>st</sup>
Kefa (Peter) 4:18, Kefa speaks of three kind of people: righteous, ungodly, and
sinner.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1.Pe 4:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And
if </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">the righteous<i> one</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> is
scarcely saved, where shall </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">the wicked</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">the sinner</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> appear?</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">It is said
in Judaism that three books are open according to Daniel 7:10 (books is
plural).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Dan 7:10</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> “A stream of fire was flowing and coming forth
from His presence, and a thousand thousands served Him, and ten thousand times
ten thousand stood before Him, the Judge was seated, and the books were opened.
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">■The book of the righteous with eternal life</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Php 4:3</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and I also ask you, true companion, help these women
who laboured with me in the Good News, with Qlemes also, and the rest of my
fellow workers, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">whose names are in
the Book of Life</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">■The book of the eternal condemned</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 13:8</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and all those dwelling on the earth, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">whose names have not been written in the Book of Life</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> of the slain Lamb, from the foundation of the world
shall worship him. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 17:8</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about
to come up out of the pit of the deep and goes to destruction. And those
dwelling on the earth, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">whose names are not
written in the Book of Life </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">from the foundation
of the world, shall marvel when they see the beast that was, and is not, and
yet is. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">■The book of those whose fate is not decided
until the Day of Judgment</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">The book of
life: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 3:5</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “He who overcomes shall be dressed in white robes,
and I shall by no means blot out </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">his
name from the Book of Life,</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> but I shall
confess his name before My Father and before His messengers. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">■The resurrection of the death corresponds to
the end of the tribulations according to Shaul (1<sup>st</sup> Corinthians
15:52), and the catching up of the saints in the air:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Co 15:52</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">at the last trumpet</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">. For
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Th 4:17</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Then we, the
living who are left over, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">shall be caught
away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air – and so we
shall always be with the Master</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 11:15</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and
the seventh messenger sounded, and there came to be loud voices in the heaven,
saying, “</span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">The reign of this world has
become <span>the reign</span> of our Master</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">and of His Messiah</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, and He shall reign forever and ever!</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">■Which also announce the punishment of the
wicked:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:14</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And
I looked and saw a white cloud, and sitting on the cloud was One like the Son
of Aḏam, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:15</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place,
crying with a loud voice to the One sitting on the cloud, “Send Your sickle and
reap, because the hour has come for You to reap, because </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">the harvest of the earth is ripe</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">.” </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:16</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and the One sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle
on the earth and the earth was reaped. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:17</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place
which is in the heaven and he too held a sharp sickle. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and another messenger came out from the altar, having
authority over the fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him having the sharp
sickle, saying, “</span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">Send your sharp
sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because her grapes are
ripe.”</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:19</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth
and gathered the vine of the earth, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">and
threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of Elohim.</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:20</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and
blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about
three hundred kilometres. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">■<b>The
saints (Qadosh one) are not appointed to wrath</b>:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Th 1:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and to wait for
His Son from the heavens, whom He raised from the dead, </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US">who is delivering us from the wrath to come.</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Th 5:9</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>because </i><b>Elohim did not appoint us to wrath</b><i>, but to obtain deliverance through our
Master </i></span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> Messiah, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">■The fall harvest: This time period, from Yom
Teruah to Succoth last fifteen days. Revelation 14 speaks of two ends time’s
harvest of which the fall harvest are a shadow picture.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">●Harvest of the saints for their rewards</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:4</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> They are those who
were not defiled with women, for they are maidens. They are those following the
Lamb wherever He <span>leads</span> them on.
They were redeemed from among men, being first-fruits to Elohim and to the
Lamb. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:5<i> and in their mouth was
found no falsehood, for they are blameless before the throne of Elohim. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 24:30</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And
then the sign of the Son of Aḏam shall appear in the heaven, and then all the
tribes of the earth shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of Aḏam coming on
the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 24:31<i> “And He shall send His
messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His
chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">●<b>Harvest
of the wicked</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:15</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And
another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place, crying with a loud voice to
the One sitting on the cloud, “Send Your sickle and reap, because the hour has
come for You to reap, because the harvest of the earth is ripe.” </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:16</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and the One sitting on the cloud thrust in His sickle
on the earth and the earth was reaped. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:17</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and another messenger came out of the Dwelling Place
which is in the heaven and he too held a sharp sickle. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And another messenger came out from the altar, having
authority over the fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him having the sharp
sickle, saying, “Send your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of
the earth, because her grapes are ripe.” </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:19</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> and the messenger thrust his sickle into the earth
and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of
the wrath of Elohim. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 14:20</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and
blood came out of the winepress, up to the bridles of the horses, for about
three hundred kilometres. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">■<b>The
seven bowls of judgement on Babylon</b>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 18:23</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And
the light of a lamp shall not shine in you any more at all. And the voice of
bridegroom and bride shall not be heard in you any more at all. For your
merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your drug sorcery all the
nations were led astray. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Rev 19:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “Because true and
righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great whore who
corrupted the earth with her whoring. And He has avenged on her the blood of
His servants shed by her.”</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">THE FAST of YOM KIPPUR</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Today many
people are fasting. We can see a fast for the Muslim during their Ramadan. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">We see also
fasting in the world for people, some to lose weight.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Fasting
exist since the ancient time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">What is the
difference for Yehowah’s people to fast?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">What is the
difference here during Yom Kippur?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">We know a
fast cannot impress Elohim. Yehowah do not delight in a fast which is done by
tradition:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Isa 58:3</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> <span>They say</span>, ‘Why have we fasted, and
You have not seen? Why have we afflicted our beings, and You took no note?’
“Look, in the day of your fasting you find pleasure, and drive on all your
labourers. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Isa 58:4 </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">“Look, you fast for strife and contention, and to
strike with the fist of wrongness. You do not fast as you do this day, to make
your voice heard on high. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●Individual fast shall be kept
secret:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 6:16</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “And when you
fast, do not be sad-faced like the hypocrites. For they disfigure their faces
so that they appear to be fasting to men. Truly, I say to you, they have their
reward. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 6:17</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash
your face, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Mat 6:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but
to your Father who is in the secret place. And your Father who sees in secret
shall reward you openly. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>●<b>Yom Kippur is a day of corporate fasting for all Israel</b>:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Lev 16:29</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>And <i>this</i>
shall be<sup>H1961</sup> a statute<sup>H2708</sup> for ever<sup>H5769</sup>
unto you: <i>that</i> in the seventh<sup>H7637</sup> month,<sup>H2320</sup> on
the tenth<sup>H6218</sup> <i>day</i> of the month,<sup>H2320</sup> ye shall
afflict<sup>H6031 (H853)</sup> your souls,<sup>H5315</sup> and do<sup>H6213</sup>
no<sup>H3808</sup> work<sup>H4399</sup> at all,<sup>H3605</sup> <i>whether it
be</i> one of your own country,<sup>H249</sup> or a stranger<sup>H1616</sup>
that sojourneth<sup>H1481</sup> among<sup>H8432</sup> you: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">There is no
mention of fasting in this verse!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">To afflict
the soul is understood in Hebraic thought that one should fast:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Isa 58:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> “Is it a fast that
I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his being? Is it to bow down his head
like a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Do you call this a fast,
and an acceptable day to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>? </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Ezr 8:21</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> I then proclaimed
a fast there, at the river of Ahawa, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">to
humble(afflict/ani Heb.) ourselves</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">
before our Elohim, to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones
and all our possessions, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 35:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> But
I, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth; </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">I
humbled(afflicted) my being with fastings</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">; And
my prayer would return to my own bosom.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">We see
clearly that fasting is to afflict the soul. Let us see the Hebrew meaning:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Afflict: Strong’s # H6031 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">ענה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-GB">‛ânâh <i>aw-naw'
written: Ayin,nun,he.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">A primitive root (possibly rather identical with <u>H6030</u> through the
idea of <i>looking</i> down or <i>browbeating</i>); <b>to <span>depress</span></b>
literally or figuratively, transitively or intransitively (in various
applications). (<i>sing</i> is by mistake for <u>H6030</u>.): <b>- abase self, afflict</b> (-ion, self),
answer [by mistake for <u>H6030</u>], chasten self, deal hardly with, defile,
exercise, force, gentleness, <b>humble
(self),</b> hurt, ravish, sing [by mistake for <u>H6030</u>], speak [by mistake
for <u>H6030</u>], submit self, weaken, X in any wise.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">To depress,
to abase self, chasten elf, deal hardly, humble, force, submit self.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">When we
look at this fast which is for all Israel at the time of Yom Kippur, knowing
that Yom Kippur is the time of Judgment; we understand that Yehowah is showing
His people that they should remember that the day will come to mourn and
afflict the soul for the sins of the all house of Israel and there will be the
intervention of Elohim to remove sins.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">During the
fast of Yom Kippur we acknowledge that our salvation is not in us but only by
Elohim’s favour.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">David writes:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 25:18</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Look
upon mine affliction (was David fasting?) and my pain; and forgive all my sins.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 51:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Hide thy face from
my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 69:5</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> O Elohim, You
Yourself know my foolishness; And my guilt has not been hidden from You.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Psa 103:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> He
has not done to us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our
crookednesses.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">This time
came when Yehoshua gave his life by taking our sin upon himself at Passover.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua
fulfilled the requirement of Passover but also the requirement of Yom Kippur.
Those who are in Messiah, are no more under the Judgment of Elohim.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1Th 5:9</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> Because Elohim did
not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> Messiah, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">How do we know that Yehoshua has fulfilled the
requirement of Yom Kippur?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">Yehoshua
is our High Priest and has entered the Holy of Holy in the heavens with his own
blood once for all. Yom Kippur is the only day when the High Priest enter the
Holy of Holy!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Heb 9:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> But </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">Messiah, having become a High Priest </span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">of the coming good <span>matters</span>, through the greater and more perfect Tent not made with
hands, that is, not of this creation, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Heb 9:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">entered into the
Most Set-apart (Holy of Holy) Place once for all</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, not
with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">having obtained everlasting redemption</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Heb 10:10</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> By
that desire we have been set apart through the offering of the body of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> Messiah once for all. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Heb 10:11</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> And
indeed every priest stands day by day doing service, and repeatedly offering
the same slaughter <span>offerings</span>
which are never able to take away sins. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Heb 10:12</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> But He,
having offered </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US">one slaughter <span>offering</span> for
sins for all time,</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> sat down at the right hand of Elohim, </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Heb 10:13</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> waiting
from that time onward until His enemies are made a footstool for His feet.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Heb 10:14</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US">For by one offering He has
perfected for all time those who are being set apart. </span></b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Heb 10:1</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> for the Torah,
having a shadow of the good <span>matters</span>
to come, and not the image itself of the matters, was never able to make
perfect those who draw near with the same slaughter <span>offerings</span> which they offer continually year by year</span></i><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">We need Messiah
Yehoshua to make us acceptable before Elohim!</span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">●</span><span lang="EN-GB">Yom Kippur will be the day at the End of the
great tribulation</span><span lang="EN-US"> the day of the sounding of the great trump.(Matt.24:31)</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Joe 1:14</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">Set apart a fast</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">.
Call an assembly, gather the elders, </span></i><b><span lang="EN-GB">all
the inhabitants of the land</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB">, into the House of
</span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> your
Elohim, and cry out to </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span>. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Joe 1:15</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> Alas for
the day! For the day of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> is near, and it comes as destruction</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-US">Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Joe 2:1</span></b><i><span lang="EN-GB"> blows a ram’s horn
(shofar) in Tsiyon, and sound an alarm in My set-apart mountain! Let all the
inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of </span></i><span dir="RTL" lang="HE">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-US"><span dir="LTR"></span> is coming, for it is near: </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Joe 2:2</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US"> a day of
darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds
spread over the mountains – a people many and strong, the like of whom has
never been, nor shall there ever be again after them, to the years of many
generations. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB">May Yehowah
bless all His children who have chosen the way of life in Messiah Yehoshua.
Amen!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>PUTTING
THINGS IN RIGHT CONTEXT.<br />
From Parasha Shlach Lecha</b> we read in chapter 13 from those spying the Land of
Canaan following:<br />
Nb 13:33 And there we saw <b>the GIANTS</b>,
<b>the sons of Anak</b>, [which come] of
the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in
their sight.<br />
The Hebrew text is more clear (see first picture)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">In the bok of b'reshit we read
about the same "nephilyim"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>Gen 6:4</b> There were GIANTS in
the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of Elohim came in
unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became
mighty men which were of old, men of renown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">See the Hebrew text in the 2nd
picture. The difficulty comes because some have use the term
"nephilyim" in the context of "sons of Elohim" to be
"angels", or bad "angels" taking women to themselves.<br />
First let see what the word "nephilyim" means:<br />
H5303 נְפִיל nphiyl (nef-eel') n-m.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">נְפִל nphil (nef-eel')<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
(properly) a feller, i.e. a bully or tyrant.<br />
[from H5307]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">FROM THE ROOT WORD<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
H5307 נָפַל naphal (naw-fal') v.<br />
to fall.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">The second difficulty comes from
the term <b>"sons of Elohim".</b>
Here it must be emphasized that the term "Elohim" can also be used
for men as we see in Psalm 82<br />
Ps 82:1 A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he
judgeth among <b>the gods (Elohim).</b><br />
Ps 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?
Selah.<br />
Ps 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.<br />
Ps 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid [them] out of the hand of the wicked.<br />
Ps 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness:
all the foundations of the earth are out of course.<br />
Ps 82:6 <b>I (Yehowah) have said, Ye [are]
gods (Elohim)</b>; and all of you [are] children of the most High.<br />
Ps 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.<br />
Ps 82:8 Arise, O God (Elohim/Yehowah), judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit
all nations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Here the "elohim" are
the judges of Ysrael.<br />
In <b>B'reshit/Gen 6</b>, the "sons of
Elohim" are not the sons of YHWH rather the sons of the judges among
Seth's descendants who lusted after the daughters of Qayin, and thus FALLED
from their given position by corrupting themselves with pagans women, as we see
in Badmidbar/Number 13:33 that the "nephilyim" were <b>the SONS OF ANAK</b>, who himself was the
son of Ham (b'reshit/Gen. 9:18).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">JUDGES:<br />
Ex 21:5 And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my
children; I will not go out free:<br />
Ex 21:6 Then his master shall bring him unto <b>the JUDGES (Elohim)</b>; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto
the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he
shall serve him for ever. (see the third picture)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">Another example:<br />
1S 2:25 If one man sin against another, <b>the
JUDGE(Elohim) </b>shall judge him: but if a man sin against Yehowah, who shall
intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their
father, because Yehowah would slay them. (see picture 4). Here we see clearly
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Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysraelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16113865169416396372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6596844591611460984.post-37228997645535622292015-10-10T03:55:00.002-07:002015-10-10T03:57:21.515-07:00ORACLES OF GOD Romans 3:2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Algerian","serif";"><span style="color: black;">This article is not from me as mentioned under the title, but worthy to be posted. Please consider that the writters have not recognized who are these "gentiles/Goyim", but brinf light and better understanding for all those who think that even today, "Jews" have a superiority in the eyes of Yehowah!</span> </span></i></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Algerian","serif";">The Oracles</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <br />
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Plain Truth About Romans 3:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></span></div>
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</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Dale Carmean and Jack M. Lane</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">What were these oracles? Were they a secret law of some kind, or perhaps a
hidden oral tradition God gave only to the priests? Was the calendar really a
part of the oracles God gave Moses? Why were the oracles an advantage for the
Jews? This passage has always been a mystery to many. Here at last is the truth
about this enigmatic portion of scripture!</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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Would you adopt ritualistic hand washing ceremonies or repetitive washings of
pots and pans, all for the sake of religious posturing? Would you look for ways
to avoid taking care of your elderly parents, or seek to avoid other
obligations, then hide behind your religion as an excuse? The Pharisees did
these things. Would you? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Would you think to conspire against Yeshua Messiah, or
bring hard questions to Him for the purpose of tripping Him up, rather than to
learn the truth of God? The Scribes did just that. Would you? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If you were a religious leader, and you saw the
Messiah (and you were pretty sure it <i>was </i>the Messiah) walking among the
people, teaching, performing miracles, and changing lives, would you see it as
a direct threat to your own power base and prestige in the community? Would you
do everything you could to destroy the man who was taking the people away from
following you? The Jewish leaders of Yeshua ' day did that. Would you? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Which would you rather be, a disciple of Messiah or a
disciple of the Pharisees? Most of us would answer, "Well, a disciple of Messiah,
of course! What kind of questions are these, anyway?" We'll soon see that
these are very important questions! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHO WERE THE PHARISEES?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">During the time of Yeshua and the apostles, the
Pharisees were perhaps the most wealthy and influential sect of Judaism. In
this context, the word "Jew" can often be used interchangeably with
the word "Pharisee," as the Pharisees represented the dominant
thought and philosophy of mid-first century Judaism. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Scribes and Pharisees were portrayed in the
gospels as men who were less than honorable in their spiritual intent, while
being scrupulous about certain physical things. Yeshua spoke of the hyper-religious people of His day
(and throughout all time) as people who would overlook a plank in their own eye
while trying to get a speck out of someone else's eye (Matthew 7:3-5). Another
comparison Yeshua used is that these
people would strain their soup to get out a gnat that had fallen in there,
without realizing that they themselves were swallowing an entire camel (Matthew
23:24)! These were metaphors for overlooking the really important things while
concentrating too much on little, picky things which were comparatively
unimportant. As the expression goes, the Pharisees were "majoring in the
minors." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Although by their own physical, carnal standards the
Pharisees seemed very righteous, Messiah could see through to their hearts, and
He knew how unrighteous they really were! They were religious, but they were
not righteous. Their hostile and angry attitudes were very evident, not only to
the One who had created all men, but also to the writers of the gospel
accounts, who have described the Pharisees for us with incisive sharpness. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Actually, the behavior of the Pharisees can be
understood in the context of their political and social environment. They were
zealously trying to preserve Judaism as a distinct culture (which they
considered to be God's culture) against the pagan Greek influences of the Roman
Empire, which was occupying their land at the time. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But Yeshua warned His disciples against the leaven, or
more specifically the <i>doctrine</i>, of the Pharisees and Sadducees (Matthew
16:6-12). Leavening, of course, is the agent which puffs up bread dough as it
permeates the dough. Once the dough is leavened, it can never again become
unleavened. Therefore, the leavening of the doctrines of the Pharisees was to
be strictly avoided. Once someone's mind becomes permeated with the
thinking of the Pharisees, it's difficult to root it out. Better to avoid
it in the first place. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Vine's Dictionary reflects on the nature of the
Pharisees this way: "In their zeal for the Law they almost deified it and
their attitude became merely external, formal, and mechanical. They laid
stress, not upon the righteousness of an action, but upon its formal
correctness" (<i>Vine's Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament
Words</i>, article "Pharisees"). The phrase "formal
correctness" reminds one of the stuffiness and falsity of the formal
etiquette practiced in previous generations by those wishing to be considered,
by others, as "socially correct." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But the Pharisees' approach went even further. If they
had, in effect, deified the law, that would mean that they worshipped the law
itself, not the Lawgiver. They could see things to do, but not the reasons why.
From this, and from their actions recounted in the Gospels, we can conclude
that the Pharisees were a carnal bunch of people. They literally wore their
religion on their sleeve (Matthew 23:5)! (Of course, later, after Messiah's
ascension and the giving of the Holy Spirit beginning on the day of Pentecost,
many Pharisees became members of the Assembly, eventually including the Apostle
Paul [Acts 23:6]!) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To the carnal and unconverted, those who can see only
the physical things of life, carnal thinking is the natural outcome. Any righteousness
in these people can only be physical because their religion and outlook are
physical. This is the case today among some religious people. Many walk by
sight, and not by faith! Their religion is the most important thing, not their
relationship to God or His children. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But to those God has called, who are able to taste and
see that the Lord is good (Psalm 34:8), who begin to walk by faith rather than
by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7), the Pharisees' approach to life is the antithesis
of this new way of life, and followers of "the Way" must avoid
allowing the leaven of the Pharisees' and Sadducees' doctrines to enter into
them, lest it spread, puff up, and leaven the whole lump. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">MOSES' SEAT</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In Matthew chapter 22, Yeshua is deftly answering questions put to Him by
various Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes. The questions were not intended to
enlighten the questioners or educate the people as much as they were intended
to embarrass Yeshua, trap Him, and make Him look foolish. But Yeshua was able
to deflect the questions, and teach valuable lessons while at the same time
magnifying the law and making it even more honorable. Finally, in verse 46,
"And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone
dare question Him anymore." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At that point, a lesser man might have retired from
the scene grinning smugly, knowing he had won the debate. Instead, Yeshua did
something people find remarkable: He seemed to commend the Scribes and
Pharisees, and appeared to back them up as authorities in the community!
"Then Yeshua spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, saying: 'The
Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. Therefore whatever they tell you
to observe, that observe and do...'" (Matthew 23:1-3). Some have even used
this scripture as their authority to follow some of the practices of the
Pharisees, since the Scribes and Pharisees sat in Moses' seat. But is this the
correct understanding? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What does it mean to sit in Moses' seat? Was there an
actual chair in the synagogue, or is it a figurative title? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"Yeshua conceded that the scribes sat 'on Moses'
chair' (Matt. 23:2), i.e., that it was their business to teach God's will as
revealed in the law of Moses. But he warned the people and the disciples
against the scribes' example. They did not practice what they preached." (<i>The
New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology</i>, Volume 3, p. 482,
article "Scribe") </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And the chair? "In the synagogues it was
customary for the preacher to stand to read the Scriptures and to sit to
expound them (Lk. 4:16-21). The expression 'Moses' seat' (Matt. 23:2) may
therefore be figurative, indicating the authority of the teacher who, like
Moses, speaks in God's name. ... The most respected members of the synagogue
congregation [that is, the ones who contributed the most money! -Ed.] sat in
the front seats (Mk. 12:39), a practice which led to unhealthy class
distinctions (Jas. 2:2-4). There is later evidence for a special chair ('Moses'
seat') for the chief elder of the synagogue...." (<i>ibid.</i>, p. 589,
article "Sit") </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The idea of sitting in Moses' seat, then, is that such
a person was in an authoritative position to preach and proclaim the <i>Torah</i>,
the teachings of Moses. Many scriptures show that while we, in the New Covenant
Assembly of God, are not under the curse of the law (which is the penalty of
the law), God's laws are still applicable to us today! They must be written on
the hearts of those who are under the New Covenant, and must be obeyed by those
who call themselves Messiahians. In this regard, what Messiah meant was:
"To the extent that these men preach the law of Moses, do what they say.
God's law must be obeyed. But don't follow after their examples." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yeshua was not
telling the multitudes and His disciples to become Pharisees, to do what the
Pharisees do, or that if they wanted to please God they should look to the
Pharisees. He continued: "... but do not <i>do </i>according to their
works; for they say, and do not do. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear,
and lay them on men's shoulders ... all their works they do to be seen by men.
... They love the best places ... and to be called by men, 'Rabbi, Rabbi'"
(verses 3-7). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Is this the kind of behavior Messiah wanted His
disciples to emulate? Would He have wanted us to adopt the customs and
traditions of the scribes and Pharisees? Not at all! In the next few verses, Yeshua
commanded His followers to live just the
opposite way of life! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yet, Yeshua was
referring to the Pharisees and scribes as those who had some authority. Did
that authority extend to us today, in the New Covenant Assembly of God? Only to
the extent we are under the authority of "Moses' seat." Since we are
not under the authority of the Jews, since we have a direct relationship with
God as our personal Father, we realize that we each have the responsibility to
obey God, in the magnified and honorable way Yeshua taught us, and as the Spirit of God gives us
the ability to obey. We are not under any obligation to the "Moses'
seat" of ancient synagogue worship. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Following Yeshua ' comment about Moses' seat comes the
well-known series of denunciations of the scribes and Pharisees. <i>Seven times</i>
Messiah thunders, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!"
Sin after sin was revealed by the One Who can read all hearts. The force of the
vehemence Messiah used against these men practically withers the reader under
the intense blast, even after all these centuries! It should be abundantly
clear that Messiah did not want His followers to pattern their lives or
behavior after the Scribes and the Pharisees. Whatever authority the Scribes
and Pharisees may have had, they were not being held up as examples the people
should follow. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHAT ADVANTAGE HAS THE JEW?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now that we have a proper perspective of the religious
Jews, and have set a backdrop for our story, let's examine a verse that has
been consistently taken out of context and used to "prove" things
that it simply does not prove at all! This verse has been used countless times
to make a certain point, but that point has actually been <i>read into</i> the
verse each time! The verse simply is not talking about the subject it is said
to address! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We find this much misused verse in Romans chapter 3: <i>"What
advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision? Much in
every way! Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God"</i>
(verses 1-2). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What is this passage talking about? Out of context
like this, it can mean practically anything, or nothing at all. It would be a
fairly simple matter for a speaker or author to drop this passage into a sermon
or article to "prove" that the Jews had it right, and we should
follow their practice in one area or another, whatever the speaker or author
happens to be addressing at the time. In other words, this verse has very frequently
been used, out of context, as a "proof text." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We have often seen this passage used to back up the
observance of the Hebrew calendar by the clergy in organized Assemblies which
follow this calendar. Since there is no calendar given in scripture, they
reason, then God must have given it to Moses orally, and it must have been
passed down orally through all the centuries, with the Jews holding the
responsibility of these oracles, or the oral tradition. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We have been led to believe that the Jews had these
oracles, and that the advantage was that they had the calendar! Therefore, we
should not only do what they said, but also what they did, as God-ordained
authorities -- but only in matters of the calendar! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">On the surface, completely out of context, that might
appear to be what the passage is referring to. That's what speakers and authors
have told their congregations and readers it means! But is that the correct
understanding? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHAT ARE THE ORACLES?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Many writers and sermon speakers today mention the
Talmud and the Mishnah, a collection of Jewish writings and commentaries
completed in the second and third century A.D.. It is claimed that these are
the oracles referred to in Romans 3:2. The contents of the Talmud and Mishnah
are reportedly the sum total of all the oral traditions passed down from Moses
to Aaron, from Levite to Levite, from rabbi to rabbi, down through the
centuries, supposedly unchanged, until they were written down in the second
century A.D., long after Paul wrote Romans 3:2. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Could these oral traditions be called oracles? Yes,
they could. They are the oracles, or spoken traditions, of the Jews. They may
or may not have begun with Moses or include any authentic quotations from
Moses. They may or may not have contained some of the calendar laws. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The question at hand is: Are these Jewish oracles that
comprise the Talmud and Mishnah the same oracles referred to in Romans 3:2?
Most of us have heard, many times over, year after year, that this is the case.
Now we must face this issue squarely and challenge our long-held belief. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The English word "oracle" is defined,
theologically, as "a command or revelation from God," and ultimately
derives from the Latin <i>orare</i>, "to speak" (<i>The American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language</i>). Naturally, then, it sounds as
if the word might refer to an oral law, or an oral tradition, or some oral
command given by Moses, or even by God Himself. Someone had to speak what was
spoken, and if no authorship is listed, surely it must be from God. However,
this is fallacious reasoning! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">God's Assembly must not build doctrine or
understanding based only on English or Latin words, or on unfounded
suppositions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The New Testament Greek uses the word <i>logion</i>
(Strong's #3051) four times, which the King James translators and others translated
as "oracles" each time it occurred. <i>Logion</i> bears a linguistic
relationship to another Greek word with which we are already familiar: <i>logos</i>.
Although the word <i>logos</i> means "word," or "intelligent
speech," <i>logion</i> means <i>"sentence, declaration, ... the declaration
of God, ... the historical manifestations of this Word of God"</i> (Spiros
Zodhiates, <i>The Complete Word Study Dictionary, New Testament</i>). According
to Zodhiates, then, the word <i>logion</i> might even refer at times to the
physical life of Yeshua , although that does not seem to be the case in the
four verses where the word is used. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Let's see the four verses where <i>logion</i> has been
translated "oracles." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Acts 7:38: "This is he [Moses] who was in the
congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai,
and with our fathers, the one who received the living<i> oracles</i> [Margin:
sayings] to give to us" (NKJV). NIV renders this verse "... and he
received living words to pass on to us." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Romans 3:2: "Much in every way! Chiefly because
to them were committed the<i> oracles</i> [Margin: sayings, Scriptures] of
God" (NKJV). "... they have been entrusted with the very words of
God" (NIV). "... the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of
God" (NRSV). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hebrews 5:12: "For though by this time you ought
to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the<i>
oracles</i> [Margin: sayings, Scriptures] of God; and you have come to need
milk and not solid food" (NKJV). "In fact, though by this time you
ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of
God's word all over again" (NIV). "For though by this time you ought
to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements of the
oracles of God" (NRSV). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1 Peter 4:11: "If anyone speaks, let him speak as
the<i> oracles</i> [Margin: utterances] of God" (NKJV). "If anyone
speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God" (NIV).
"Whoever speaks must do so as one speaking the very words of God"
(NRSV). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The honest reader must admit that there is nothing in
these verses about secret oral commands from God, or rules concerning the
calendar, or that the Jews had things right in some regards. It simply is not
there. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Understanding the word <i>logion</i> as it is used in
these other contexts will help us to properly understand the meaning of its
usage in Romans 3:2. Notice the three other uses of <i>logion</i>: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(1) Moses "received the living oracles <b><i>to
give to us</i></b>," not to hide or keep secret, as some have said. These
are the oracles of God. They are not secret, nor are they oral traditions. They
are the Holy Scriptures! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(2) The people to whom the book of Hebrews was
addressed needed to be<i> <b>taught once again</b></i> (not for the first time)
the first principles of the oracles of God, which are outlined in the following
chapter. No secret oral tradition here, either. They needed to get back to
basics -- God's spiritual law! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">These oracles with which <b>the Jews were entrusted
were nothing other than God's Word -- the holy scriptures!</b> How can that be?
Remember what Paul wrote to Timothy: "All scripture is given by
inspiration of God" (2 Timothy 3:16). Inspiration and expiration describe
breathing. An alternate rendering might be, "All scripture is
God-breathed." Some translations render that verse in this manner. The
word used for the Spirit of God is translated from the word <i>pneuma</i>, so
the Holy Spirit (<i>hagios pneuma</i>) might even be understood as "Holy
Air." (See also John 3:1-12.) The oracles are "the declaration of
God, ... the historical manifestations of this Word of God." They are the
God-breathed scriptures of the Bible! They are the Word's Word! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(3) Again, note how Peter wrote (in 1 Peter 4:11) that
if someone is to address an assembly of God's people, his sermon or
presentation should be, not so much "<b><i>as</i></b> the oracles of
God," but "as one speaking the very words (oracles) of God."
That is, he must be fluent in the doctrine of the Bible, and be able to convey
the truth of the Bible by being so yielded and "in tune" with God
that God can inspire the speaker. (Remember, prophecy was a common practice in
the first century Assembly!) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">ARE THE ORACLES THE TALMUD?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Let's look again at the persistent notion that the
oracles of God are the Talmud and/or the Mishnah. One reason this is not the
case is that the Talmud and Mishnah were written down over a period of several
generations, in the second and third centuries A.D. They are basically a
compilation of Jewish rules and regulations, and endless commentaries from many
viewpoints on various aspects of Jewish life. There is nothing in the book of
Acts or any of Paul's epistles to indicate he ever quoted from these oral
regulations, or even had them in mind when he wrote. There is much to indicate
that Paul was against man-made rules and regulations that were held to be as important
or more important than scripture! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"All right then," some people reason,
"the Talmud and Mishnah are simply the written-down forms of the secret
oral law handed down among the priests, Levites and rabbis, from generation to
generation. It <i>was</i> a secret oral law during the time of Messiah and the
apostles. Therefore, the Talmud must be the oracles Paul was referring to,
because it was not yet written down!" </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But is that sound reasoning? Certainly, if a set of
laws or traditions is passed on orally, it can be considered an oracle. It is,
after all, spoken! We might go so far as to admit that the Talmud is <i>an</i>
oracle, and the Mishnah another. But are they the right ones? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Talmud and the Mishnah were the man-made oracles
of the Jews. Please note what Paul said in Romans 3:2: "Unto them were
entrusted the oracles<i> <b>of God</b></i>"! Not the oracles of men, Jews,
rabbis, Levites, even Moses or Aaron! They were (and still are) <b><i>God's</i></b>oracles!
What Paul was referring to was not a man-made law or a set of customs and
traditions of men, at all! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Please recall, the Jewish laws and customs were the
very things Yeshua railed against, time
after time! This article began with several examples. Matthew chapter 23 is a
record of Yeshua taking the Jews to task
for following these very rules<i> <b>instead of</b></i> God's laws! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">No, the Jewish customs and traditions, and oral
history and law, and endless commentaries from a variety of rabbis, are <i>not </i>the
oracles of God referred to in Romans 3:2. God's oracles, His declarations, are
His Word, the Bible. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHY ARE THE ORACLES AN ADVANTAGE?</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It seems people are so keen on seeing the word
"oracles" in the verse that they fail to see the surrounding words.
Paul said in this verse that the Jews (more specifically, the Jewish converts
in the Assembly) had a great advantage, simply because they had these oracles,
and were entrusted with them down through the ages! That is the intent of the
verse, and the meaning of that intent becomes crystal clear when we put the
verse where it belongs: Back in its context! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So many times a passage of scripture is misused,
usually without intending to do so, by taking it out of context.
"Liberating" a verse from its context can easily allow its intended
meaning -- God's intended meaning -- to be lost. This is what has happened.
Paul meant something very specific when he wrote the words found in Romans 3:2,
and we have missed it every time, because we have been told the verse meant
something else. God's purpose would better be served if we were to understand
every verse of the Bible as fully as we can, so we won't be easily misled.
Let's find out what Paul meant here. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Why was it advantageous for the Jews to have been
entrusted with God's holy scriptures? We'll see why as we explore, from
beginning to end, the book of Romans. Romans 3:2 turns out to be a pivotal
scripture in the main theme of the book of Romans! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">EXPLORING THE BOOK OF ROMANS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The congregation in Rome was comprised of both Jews
and Gentiles. The Hellenistic Gentiles coming into the Assembly would have had
a different culture and background than the Jews, and Paul sought to address
both elements of society in the congregation, comparing and contrasting the two
approaches to true Messiahianity. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In chapter one, Paul begins by commending them all for
their faith, which was famous in the Assemblies throughout the empire (verse
8). He then identifies the gospel as the power of God to save believers, both
Jew and Greek (verse 16). Paul then critiques the "wise fools" (Greek
philosophers and others) who refuse to believe in the Creator of the creation,
and the problems those God-rejecting people make for themselves and others by
thinking they can sin freely and not be culpable for their actions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In chapter two, Paul shows that evil results in evil
and good results in good, for the Jew as well as the Gentile, for God is not a
respecter of persons (verses 9-11). In fact, if the Gentile converts don't know
God's law, yet do the things the law requires, they "are a law to
themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts" (verses
14-15). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Jews, who trusted in having the law and boasted
about their special connection with God, were warned that the letter of the law
and physical circumcision, so important to the Jews, were in fact nothing! Paul
was telling them that having the law, and even knowing what the law says, is
not what it takes. Nor is physical circumcision all-important, as the Jews had
thought. Why? Because the Gentile converts, who did what the law required on a <i>spiritual</i>
level, would judge (Greek <i>krino</i>; the implication is to condemn) the Jews
who <i>had </i>the law, and <i>knew </i>the law, and did some of what it
required<i> physically</i>, yet did not do what the law required spiritually!
Just the fact that the Gentiles did what the law required would stand as a condemnation
of the Jews, who knew the law but did not fulfill its requirements. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely
on the law and brag about your relationship to God; if you know his will and
approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; if you are
convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the
dark, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in
the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth -- you, then, who teach others,
do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? You
who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who
abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who brag about the law, do you dishonour
God by breaking the law? As it is written: 'God's name is blasphemed among the
Gentiles because of you'" (verses 17-24, NIV). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It's rather easy to see that these things Paul listed,
and the result of such misbehavior, are quite applicable to the teachers and
leaders of the Assembly in other times, as well (i.e., today)! The epistle of
James goes further into this subject, and would be a good epistle to study in
this context. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paul continues, "For circumcision is indeed
profitable if you keep [that is, obey] the law; but if you are a breaker of the
law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision" (verse 25)! To be
circumcised, and then to become uncircumcised, by surgery or any other means,
was an unthinkable horror to the religious Jew. The implications were enormous.
It was simply inconceivable! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is
that circumcision which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one
inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, and not in the
letter [of the law]; whose praise is not from men but from God" (verses
28-29). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The word "praise" is a pun, or a play on
words, since "Judah" means "praise." Paul is saying that
one's Jewishness is not because he is circumcised, or even because he might
hold to the letter of the law. One's Jewishness, on the spiritual level, comes
from God, when someone enters into the New Covenant with Him, and writes His
laws on their circumcised hearts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paul has spent much of chapter two deflating the egos
of the Jewish Assembly members in Rome, letting them know that a righteous
Gentile will sail into the kingdom long before a self-righteous,
"ethnocentric" Jew would. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">By this time, as the letter from Paul was being read,
the Jews in the congregation might have been sitting rather low in their seats.
Their previous faith and confidence in being special to God simply because of
who they were began to shrivel. Paul was hitting them pretty hard, trying to
shrink them down in their own sight. About that time they may well have begun
to think, "Well, then, what's the use of being a Jew, anyway?" </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paul asks that very question at this point! "What
advantage then has the Jew, or what is the profit of circumcision?"
(Romans 3:1) Now Paul begins to give the Jews new hope. "Much in every
way! Chiefly because..." </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here is the reason why it is advantageous to be a Jew.
Not because of being circumcised. Not because of having the letter of the law.
Not because they were special people. Here's why: <i>"...because to them
were committed the oracles of God"</i> (verse 2)! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Jews had been given <i>God's law</i> all along,
from the days of Moses on, through the splitting of Israel into two nations,
through the Babylonian captivity, and on up to the time Paul wrote these words!
The Gentiles had never heard of many of these laws before, and were learning
them for the first time in Sabbath services. The Jewish converts, for the most
part, already knew God's law! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Paul has carefully spent time dislodging the Jews from
their concept of why having the law was important. Then he begins to explain
that having the law was very important, after all, but for a different reason
than the Jews had understood before! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What effect might the hearing of God's holy, righteous
law for the first time have had on these Gentile converts? What might they have
thought about God's laws? Moses had predicted, back in the wilderness,
"Surely I have taught you statutes and judgments, <i>just as the LORD my
God commanded me</i>, that you should act according to them in the land which
you go to possess. Therefore be careful to observe them; for <i>this is your
wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all
these statutes,</i> and say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.' For what great nation is there that has God so near to
it, as the LORD our God is to us, for whatever reason we may call upon Him? And
<i>what great nation is there that has such statutes and righteous judgments as
are in all this law which I set before you this day?"</i> (Deuteronomy
4:5-8) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Israel was a small fledgling race, barely more than a
collection of tribes related through ancestry, just beginning their journey to
nationhood. Moses was asking what great and mighty nation in the ancient world
could possibly compare to the nation who had the Eternal as their God. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Jews of Paul's day could indeed boast about having
had God's law all along. The Jewish converts had a great advantage over the
Gentile converts because they were already familiar with what God expected of
His people. Paul was admonishing them not to think too highly of themselves
because of this advantage, but to actually put it to use! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A Gentile who obeys the law and exercises faith in God
is better than a Jew who knows the law backward and forward, but does not live
according to it! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That is the background of Romans 3:2! Chances are, you
have never heard this explanation before! The verse is not talking about
calendars, oral Jewish traditions, or the authority of the Pharisees! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">LET GOD BE TRUE</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Jews had the advantage over the Gentile converts
because they had God's law entrusted to them. Since we know that most Jews of
the time were secular in nature, and not devoted to God (much like our society
today), might that have had an effect on the veracity of the scriptures? What
would happen if the Jews, to whom the scriptures were entrusted, did not
believe them or were not obedient to them? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Continuing in Romans: "For what if some [Jews]
did not believe? Will their unbelief make the faithfulness of God without
effect? Certainly not!" (Romans 3:3-4) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">God's Torah will stand, even if those who are
entrusted with it fail to live up to it. "Indeed, let God be true [Margin:
found true] but every man a liar" (verse 4). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But some of the Messiahians reading or hearing this
letter from Paul might then swing to the opposite extreme, thinking that strict
obedience, or pious activity (doing something to show God their religiosity),
would bring about their salvation. Paul then goes on to explain that
law-keeping will not justify anyone. All, both Jews and Gentiles, are under the
penalty of sin, because there is none righteous. The purpose of the Torah is to
bring us to the knowledge of sin (verse 20). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"But now the righteousness of God <b><i>apart
from the Torah</i></b> is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the
Prophets" (verse 21). Did you notice it? The Law and the Prophets
witnessed to (testified to) the very thing the New Testament Assembly is built
on: God's righteousness, apart from the Torah. God's righteousness, through
faith and by grace, has justified us, through the redemption of Messiah's
sacrifice (verses 21-25)! No one has ever justified himself or herself before
God by his or her own actions. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What did that mean for the Jewish converts? They had
known the Torah, because they had grown up with it, and had performed various
"deeds of the Torah," so they had the advantage of being able to
recognize sin in their lives more quickly than the Gentile converts would be
able to recognize sin. <b>But it was the grace of God, through the sacrifice of
Messiah, that eventually saved both Jew and Gentile. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"Where is boasting [about the law] then? It is
excluded. ... Therefore we conclude that a man is justified [Margin: declared
righteous] by faith apart from the deeds of the law. Or is He the God of the
Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also,
since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the
uncircumcised through faith" (verse 27-30). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Torah does not save us. It teaches us what sin is.
Does that mean that the law then becomes meaningless, useless, to be discarded
like a map once we have found our destination? That tired old analogy doesn't
hold water, because God's righteousness in us is not a destination, but the
journey itself! The Torah of God isn't a road map to be discarded -- it's a
lamp to our feet (Psalm 119:105, 130; Proverbs 6:23)! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If there is any doubt about whether the Torah is still
important, notice Paul's next words: "Do we then make void the Torah
through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we <i>establish</i> the Torah"
(verse 31)! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Or his later question: "What shall we say then?
Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who
died to sin live any longer in it?" (Romans 6:1-2) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"What then? Shall we sin because we are not under
Torah but under grace? Certainly not!" (verse 15) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"Therefore the Torah is Qadosh (Holy), and the
commandment holy and just and good" (Romans 7:12). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A NEW LIFE AHEAD</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Romans chapter eight is one of the most inspiring
passages in all the Bible for those who have truly caught the vision and look
forward eagerly to the resurrection and the Kingdom of God. Those Assembly
members who first heard it read to them were undoubtedly transfixed, lifted
above their daily, humdrum existence, and given a vivid word painting of God's
plan for them, transcending any cultural differences they may have had, or any
human tendencies to divide along ethnic lines. They could picture themselves in
the arms of their loving Father. There can be no thoughts of Jew or Greek, no
concerns about law or circumcision, when this chapter is read. It uplifts the
soul, it stretches the imagination, it takes the listener to another level of
thought. When the congregational reader had finished reading this portion of
the epistle, the members of the assembly no doubt felt bonded together more
closely than ever! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Following such an uplifting section of his letter,
Paul brings the message back to the present, in a way designed to convey the
listener into a state of unrest and being ill at ease, so the listeners would
be able to compare the vision of the kingdom to their own mundane physical
concerns. Again, in verses 30-32, Paul warns of Gentiles who have achieved the
righteousness of faith, while Israel, trying to be righteous through deeds of
the law, failed to become righteous. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Israel (like so many people today) had a zeal, but it
was to establish their own righteousness, rather than allowing God to build
them up into a righteous people (Romans 10:1-3). They turned their advantage --
being entrusted with the knowledge of God's Word, the scriptures -- into a
disadvantage. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">However, God used the fall of Israel as an opportunity
to bring salvation to the Gentiles! Israel's fall became riches for the world
(Romans 11:11-12). Then, it is God's intention to graft the Israelite branches
back into the tree, and ultimately all Israel will be saved, along with the
Gentiles. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Following a great many exhortations, Paul encourages
the Assembly members, both Jews and Gentiles, "Therefore receive one another,
just as Messiah also received us [Margin: you], to the glory of God"
(Romans 15:7). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE PASSAGE IN CONTEXT</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now, if we read Romans 3:2 in its context, we should
be able to gain the correct understanding of Paul's meaning. Here is the
context: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the
law; but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. So,
if those who are uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their
uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then those who are physically
uncircumcised but keep the law will condemn you that have <b><i>the written
code</i></b> and circumcision but break the law. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly,
nor is true circumcision something external and physical. Rather, a person is a
Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart -- it
is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but
from God. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">"Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the
value of circumcision? Much, in every way. For in the first place the Jews were
entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Will their
faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Although everyone
is a liar, let God be proved true...." (Romans 2:25 - 3:4, NIV). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">As we can now see, Paul is not making a doctrinal
statement, or even a dogmatic statement, about the oracles. Paul is speaking
throughout the entire book of Romans about how the Jewish converts and the
Gentile converts approach the law of God and the grace of God from different
perspectives. Paul is comparing and contrasting the two experiences, and is
attempting to refine the congregation into one unified whole. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WHAT IT MEANS FOR US TODAY</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The purpose of this study was not only to gain a
better understanding of the scriptures and people involved, but also to help us
protect ourselves against being deceived. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There is a great misunderstanding about Romans 3:2. We
must be on guard against being misled. It is possible for us all to
misunderstand something, in all innocence. But be aware that Satan is quite
well aware of the misunderstanding, and would like to gain the greatest
advantage against us by perpetuating the misunderstanding! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When someone today uses an argument like, "The
Jews had the oracles of God; therefore, what I'm telling you about the calendar
[or any other matter] is true," that speaker or author may most likely be
misled and deceived himself. There's nothing evil or sinister about not
fully understanding a scripture. It's part of our growth process to find out
what these things really mean! No evil can be imputed under such a
circumstance. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It is possible, though, that once in awhile a speaker
or writer may actually know better, but for some reason may deliberately try to
mislead people by tricking them and deceiving them into believing what he is
saying, because he is using this "Bible proof." This is not to say
that this happens frequently, but it is possible. We can't judge people's
motives, but we can be on our guard against being misled! We must! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">One of the instructions Messiah and the New Testament
authors had for us in the Assembly is to be aware, be vigilant, and not be
deceived! (For example, note the following scriptures: Luke 21:8; Galatians
6:7; 2 Timothy 3:13; James 1:16.) </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The questions presented at the beginning of this
article are indeed very serious. Would you participate in some of the
hypocritical religious practices of the Jews, especially those practices which
go against everything for which Messiah stands? Would you acknowledge the
ancient Pharisees' rule over you today? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We should stop to consider what authority they did
have. Was it of God? The authority of the Pharisees came primarily from the
fact that God allowed <i>all</i> the various man-made sects of Judaism,
including the sect of the Pharisees, to grow in their own directions and
develop their own ideas (not unlike the way God is allowing His Assembly to
grow in many directions at once today). Indeed, the Pharisees would have had no
authority at all unless God had allowed it. (See John 19:10-11 and Romans
13:1-6. Although these references are about civil rulers, rather than religious
leaders, the principle applies.) </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The ancient Pharisees were just another carnal,
power-grabbing sect of self-righteous social climbers, and were <b><i>not</i></b>
God's representatives on earth. They finally gained control of the Temple in
the mid first century; after that, Levitical service (by the descendants of
Levi) was replaced by rabbinical service (the Pharisees were not Levites). It
seems noteworthy that God had the Romans sack and destroy the Temple only a few
short years after the Pharisees gained control of it! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If we do not accept the authority of the Pharisees
(whether real or imagined) in our lives today, or in our religious practices,
why would we suddenly lose our ability to think, and to prove things for
ourselves, simply because someone stands up in front of a congregation and
tells us a story? The sermon speaker may say something like, "The
Jews had the oracles. What are the oracles? Why, those are..." and then
the speaker tells what he thinks the oracles were (because that is what he was
taught). Then he continues, "So, since the Jews had these oracles [calendar
rules, etc.], we must look to the Jews as our authority." Nonsense! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This is a gross misuse and abuse of scripture! This is
a prime example of taking a scripture out of context, putting a different
"spin" on it, blowing it up out of all proportion, and sending it on
its way as a full-fledged doctrine! Yet, that is exactly what has happened with
this one verse, <b><i>and it got past every one of us!</i></b>Why? Simply
because we never took the time to study the verse in context! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Was Paul telling us in Romans 3:2 that the Jews had the
authority to set the calendar? Of course not! </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Were either Yeshua or Paul telling us today to follow the
observances and practices of the Pharisees of their day? There are some who
think that's exactly what they meant, and will tell you so at the top of their
literary lungs, "shouting in print" by the extensive use of upper
case letters in their publications. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But the truth is, unless we meet in Jewish synagogues,
looking to the customs and traditions of ancient rabbis, even rejecting the New
Covenant and the Master who made us, the fact that the Pharisees "sat in
Moses' seat" is meaningless to us today. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The truth is, the customs and traditions of ancient
Judaism, even in matters of setting the calendar, have no direct bearing on us
today, in God's New Covenant Assembly. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The truth is, the Jews have no authority over how a Messiahian
lives his or her life. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The truth is, Romans 3:2 is not talking about a secret
oral law from God <i>or</i> about the calendar calculations. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The truth is, we have never realized the truth about
Romans 3:2 until now. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Is Yeshua YHWH the Father?</span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Ti 2:15</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>Study
to shew thyself approved unto YHWH, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In this <i>midrash </i>we are going
to look at the scriptures to see if what many in the body of <i>Moschiach </i>says: "<i>Yeshua </i>is YHWH in the flesh",
believing that the <i>Father </i>is <i>Yeshua</i>!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I have struggle
many years with different approach, saying: <i>Yeshua
</i>is the<i>Angel of YHWH, Yeshua </i>is <i>YHWH the Father</i>, <i>Yeshua </i>is <i>Elohim</i>, meaning
he is also the Father.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">What does the
scriptures says? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Christians will
tell you that in the so called <i>"Old
Testamen" "Jesus" </i>is there. Many <i>messianic </i>will also have similar statements, only changing the name
wit <i>Yeshua</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Is it true that
when it is written in <i>b'reshit/Gen. </i>1:26:
<i>"let US make man in our own
image..."</i> that <i>Elohim </i>is
speaking with <i>Yeshua</i>?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Is it true that
when the <i>three</i> <i>messengers of YHWH </i>appear to <i>Abram</i>
they are two messengers with <i>Yeshua</i>,
or as I have also read, <i>The Father, the
Son and the "Holy Spirit", </i>or for some others <i>two messengers with Yeshua</i>? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I have been
surprise to see that even some good scholars who say to be <i>"Jew"</i> in order to give proof that there research are more
accurate than a <i>Goy/Gentile</i> promote <i>Yeshua </i>to be <i>YHWH in the flesh.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">This statement
disturb me, because it is to pretend that <i>YHWH
</i>changed is nature and took the form of a human in order to be among his
people. Can we see that in the scriptures?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">We are going to
see these points and give room to the scriptures to explain <i>YHWH's </i>Heart toward His people.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Before reading I
will encourage you to lay beside all false conclusion and pray for an open
heart and a right understanding. You may be surprise at the conclusion, just
keep your heart for correction if necessary, you will not be the first, I have
adjust my opinion many times in the last 10 years:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Ti 3:16</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>All
scripture is given by inspiration of YHWH, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Ti 3:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>That
the man of YHWH may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First, one major error that many do, is that they take the <i>Brit HaChadsha </i>and try to explain what
they read outside the <i>Torah</i>, thus try
to place the "car before the ox". Every serious scholar will say that
the Torah is the foundation of all interpretation, <i>Prophets </i>and <i>Brit HaChadsha.</i>
This include the apostles and even our Master <i>Yeshua.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yochanan/John </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(at least if it is he who wrote the book) had a very deep understanding
in <i>Hebrew </i>interpretation. Since more
than 20 centuries, the <i>Greek mind </i>has
invaded the whole world and formed a philosophical thinking which cannot match
with the <i>Scriptures </i>written by <i>Hebrew people for Hebrew minded </i>people.
The Greek mind is abstract in its structure and is based on the <i>ego </i>of man, to determine what is right
or what is wrong.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This is not the purpose of this <i>midrash
</i>to go into details, suffice to say that we should make real effort to see
from a <i>Hebrew </i>perspective in order to
understand. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">DO NOT TRY to understand what is NOT WRITTEN just
because you THINK that this is the meaning! You will be wrong. Search and
establish thing by two or three witness:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 19:15</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>One
witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in
any sin that he sinneth: </i><b>at the
mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be
established</b><i>.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 18:16</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But if
he will not hear thee, </i><b>then take
with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every
word may be established.</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We will see that the scriptures is filled with many verses which confirm
one another in a perfect sense.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Let us go back to the <i>Book of
Yochanan:</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In the
beginning</b><i> </i>(b'reshit in Hebrew)<i> was the Word, and the Word was with YHWH,
and the Word was YHWH.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>The
same was in the beginning with YHWH</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>All
things were made by him</b><i>; and without
him was not anything made that was made</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now first let us see that in 1560 C.E. many translators like <i>William Tendale</i> who got hold on the
Septuagint the Greek documents translated differently as those taking hold on
the <i>Latin Vulgate from Jerome:</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First the <i>King James version 1611</i>
who follow <i>Jerome Vulgate:</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>In the
beginning was the Word, & the Word was with God, and the Word was God</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>The
same was in the beginning with God</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>All
things were made </i><b>by him</b>, <i>and without</i> <b>him</b> <i>was not any thing made
that was made. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In him</b>
<i>was life, and the life was the light of
men</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now let us look at two witness of the time:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Bishops from 1568</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In the
begynnyng</b><i> was the worde, & the
worde was with God: and that worde was God.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>The
same was in the begynnyng with God</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>All
thynges were made</i> <b>by it</b>: <i>and without </i><b>it,</b> was made nothyng that was made. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In it</b>
<i>was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of
men</i>, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Geneva from 1587</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:<i>1</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>In the beginning was that Word, and that Word
was with God, and that Word was God.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>This
same was in the beginning with God.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>All
things were made</i> <b>by it</b>, <i>and </i><b>without
it</b> <i>was made nothing that was made.</i>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In it</b>
<i>was life, and that life was the light of
men</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the two translation from <i>Bishops
</i>and the <i>Geneva</i>, like in the
translation from <i>Tyndale</i>, they all
follow the <i>Septuagint </i>and using the
impersonal pronoun "<b>it"</b>,
while those using the <i>Latin Vulgate </i>use
the personal pronoun "<b>him".</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So we read in the <i>Bishops</i>:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the same word became fleshe</b>, <i>and
dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten
sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Geneva give it so:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And</i>
<b>that Word</b> <i>was made flesh, and dwelt among vs, (and we sawe the glorie thereof, as
the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne of the Father) full of grace and trueth.</i>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We see the consistency in the "it", the Word who became flesh,
while all others scriptures based on <i>Latin
Vulgate </i>read "him" suggesting what is NOT in the text.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Let us now investigate what the Torah and the Word
have in common with the words of Yochanan.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In the
beginning (b'reshit)</b><i> Elohim created
the heaven and the earth</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And the
earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Let there be light: and
there was light. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim saw the light, that it was good: and Elohim divided the light from the
darkness.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:5</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was
evening and there was morning, the first day. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:6</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Let there be a firmament
in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:7</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:8</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was
morning, the second day.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said,</b> <i>Let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it
was so. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:10</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>And Elohim
called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he
Seas: and Elohim saw that it was good. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:11</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And the
earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and Elohim saw that
it was good. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
there was evening and there was morning, the third day. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Let there be lights in
the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be
for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:15</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And let
them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth:
and it was so.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: he made the stars also</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And to
rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness:
and Elohim saw that it was good.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly
above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:21</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the
waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after
his kind: and Elohim saw that it was good. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:22</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in
the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:23</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:24</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Let the earth bring
forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast
of the earth after his kind: and it was so. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:25</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind,
and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and Elohim saw
that it was good. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:26</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:27</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>So
Elohim created man in his own image, in the image of Elohim created he him;
male and female created he them.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:28</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim blessed them, and</i> <b>Elohim said</b><i> unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the
earth. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:29</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
Elohim said</b>, <i>Behold, I have given you
every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every
tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for
meat.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:30</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And to
every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that
creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb
for meat: and it was so. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:31</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And
there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ten times: <i>"Elohim
said"</i></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>Remember what we read before:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:1</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the beginning
(b'reshit)</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> was that Word, and that Word was with God, and that Word was God.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>This
same was in the beginning with God.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>All
things were made</i> <b>by it</b>, <i>and </i><b>without
it</b> <i>was made nothing that was made.</i>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In it</b>
<i>was life, and that life was the light of
men</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The Greek word
for "Word" is <i>"logos",
</i>while in Hebrew it is <i>"dabar".</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Let us see
definition from both words:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Strong's <b>G3056</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">λο</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">́</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">γος</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">logos</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <i>log'-os</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">From <u>G3004</u>; <b>something <i>said</i></b> (<b><u>including the <span>thought</span></u></b>);</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">G3004</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">egō</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">leg'-o</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A
primary verb; properly <b>to “lay” forth</b>,
that is, (figuratively) <i>relate</i> (in words [usually of systematic or set <i>discourse</i>;
whereas <u>G2036</u> and <u>G5346</u> generally refer to <b>an <i>individual</i> expression or speech</b> respectively; while <u>G4483</u> is properly to <i>break</i> <i>silence</i>
merely, and <u>G2980</u> means an <i>extended</i>
or random harangue]); by implication to <i>mean:</i> - ask, bid, boast, call,
describe, give out, name, <b>put forth, say
(-ing, on),</b> shew, speak, tell<b>,
utter.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Now the same
with the word <i>"dabar":</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">H1697</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">דּבר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">dâbâr</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <i>daw-bawr' written dalet,beth, resh</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">From <u>H1696</u>;
a <i>word</i>; by implication <b>a <i>matter</i>
(as <i>spoken</i> of)</b> of <i>thing</i>; adverbially a <i>cause: - </i>act,
advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), +</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">H1696</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">dâbar</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <i>daw-bar'</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">A primitive root; perhaps properly <b>to <i>arrange</i></b>; but used
figuratively (of words) to <i>speak</i>; rarely (in a destructive sense) <b><i>to <span>subdue</span></i></b><i>: </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">"Something said including the thoughts" </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">We should ask where is the place of the thoughts in <i>Adam </i>or <i>mankind</i>, is it not part of the <i>Nefesh,
the Soul</i>?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">So Elohim is <i>Ruach </i>but like he gave to us he has <i>THOUGHTS:</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Elohim uses <i>allegories </i>in order to help us to understand part of what He want
us to know. Many times throughout the Scriptures, <i>Elohim </i>is painted with human attributes to gives us insight of His
character and will. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Isa 55:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>For my
thoughts</b> <i>are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, saith YHWH. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What are the <i>thoughts </i>of <i>Elohim</i>?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Strong's # H4284</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">מחשׁבה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">macha</span><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">̆<span lang="EN-US">sha</span>̂<span lang="EN-US">ba</span>̂<span lang="EN-US">h</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">From <u>H2803</u>; a <i>contrivance</i>, that is,
(concretely) a <i>texture</i>, <i>machine</i>, or (abstractly) <i>intention</i>,
<i>plan</i> (whether bad, a <i>plot</i>; or good, <i>advice</i>): - cunning
(work), curious work, device (-sed), <b>imagination,
invented, means, purpose, thought</b>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">H2803</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">châshab</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">khaw-shab'</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A primitive root; properly to <i>plait</i> or
interpenetrate, that is, (literally) to <i>weave</i> or (generally) <b>to <span>fabricate</span></b>;
figuratively to <i>plot</i> or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence <b>(from the mental effort) </b>to <i>think</i>,
<i>regard</i>, <i>value</i>, <i>compute: - </i>(make) account (of), <b>conceive,</b> consider, count, cunning
(man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine,
impute, <b>invent</b>, be like, mean, <b>purpose</b>, reckon (-ing be made), regard,
think.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";"><span> </span><span> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Could it be what
we read in <i>b'reshit/Gen. </i>chapter 1: <i>"Elohim said". </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The <i>Word/dabar/logos/Thoughts of the mind of
Elohim</i> were spoken by <i>Elohim</i>
(said) and created everything <i>Elohim </i>had
intentionally prepared beforehand?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Let us go
further and see throughout the <i>Tanak </i>what
is the position of <i>"the Word"</i>:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 15:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>After
these things</i> <b>the word of YHWH came
unto Abram</b> <i>in a vision, saying, Fear
not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 15:4</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And,
behold, </i><b>the word of YHWH came unto
him</b><i>, saying, This shall not be thine
heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.</i>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Num 11:23</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
YHWH said unto Moses</b><i>, Is YHWH's hand
waxed short? thou shalt see now </i><b>whether
my word shall come to pass</b><i> unto thee
or not. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Num 27:21</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And he
shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the
judgment of Urim before YHWH: at </i><b>his
word shall they go out</b><i>, and </i><b>at his word they shall come in</b><i>, both he, and all the children of Israel
with him, even all the congregation. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Sa 3:21</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
YHWH appeared again in Shiloh: for YHWH revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh </i><b>by the word of YHWH</b><i>.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Sa 23:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>The Spirit
of YHWH spake by me, and </i><b>his word
was in my tongue</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ki 6:11</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came to Solomon</b>, <i>saying,</i>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ki 13:18</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He said
unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and </i><b>an angel spake unto me by the word of YHWH</b><i>, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat
bread and drink water. But he lied unto him</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ki 13:20</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And it
came to pass, as they sat at the table, </i><b>that the word of YHWH came unto the prophet </b><i>that brought him back:</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ki 17:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto him</b> (Eliyah<i>),
saying</i>, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ki 18:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And it
came to pass after many days, that </i><b>the
word of YHWH came to EliYah</b><i> in the
third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the
earth. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Ki 7:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Then
Elisha said, Hear ye </i><b>the word of
YHWH</b><i>; Thus saith YHWH, To morrow
about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two
measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Ki 20:4</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And it
came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that </i><b>the word of YHWH came to him,</b><i> saying,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ch 17:3</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And it
came to pass the same night, that </i><b>the
word of Elohim came to Nathan</b><i>,
saying, </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ch 22:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But </i><b>the word of YHWH came to me (David)</b><i>, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly,
and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because
thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Ch 36:21</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>To
fulfil </i><b>the word of YHWH by the mouth
of Jeremiah,</b><i> until the land had
enjoyed her Sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to
fulfil threescore and ten years. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Psa 33:6</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>By the
word of YHWH </b><i>were the heavens made;
and all the host of them by the breath (Ruach) of his mouth. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Psa 147:18</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>He (YHWH) sendeth out his word,</b> <i>and
melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Isa 45:23</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>I have
sworn by myself, the </i><b>word is gone
out of my mouth</b><i> in righteousness, and
shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The foundation of Yochanan 1:14</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Isa 55:11</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>So
shall <u>my word</u> be that goeth forth out of my mouth: <u>it</u> shall not
return unto me void, but <u>it</u> shall accomplish that which I please, and <u>it</u>
shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. (to be read in the light of <i>Yochanan chapter 1:14)</i></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Here we see why the English translators using the
Septuagint used the impersonal pronoun "it" </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jer 1:11</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Moreover
</i><b>the word of YHWH came unto me</b><i>, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I
said, I see a rod of an almond tree</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jer 1:13</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And </i><b>the word of YHWH came unto me the second
time</b><i>, saying, What seest thou? And I
said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jer 21:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>The
word which came unto Jeremiah from YHWH</b><i>,
when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the
son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jer 34:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>The
word which came unto Jeremiah from YHWH</b><i>,
when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of
the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and
against all the cities thereof, saying, </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jer 36:27</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>Then
the word of YHWH came to Jeremiah</b><i>,
after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at
the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 6:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto me (Yechezk'el)</b><i>, saying</i>, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 12:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And in
the morning came </i><b>the word of YHWH
unto me</b><i>, saying,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 14:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto me,</b> <i>saying</i>,
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 15:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto me</b>, <i>saying,</i>
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 17:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto me</b>, <i>saying</i>,
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 21:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto me,</b> <i>saying,
</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 22:17</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto me</b>, <i>saying</i>,
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 29:17</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And it
came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first
day of the month, </i><b>the word of YHWH
came unto me</b><i>, saying,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 30:20</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And it
came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of
the month, that </i><b>the word of YHWH
came unto me</b><i>, saying,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eze 31:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And it
came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the
month, that </i><b>the word of YHWH came
unto me</b><i>, saying,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hos 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>The
word of YHWH that came unto Hosea</b><i>,
the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of
Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jon 3:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto Jonah the second time</b>, <i>saying</i>, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mic 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>The
word of YHWH that came to Micah</b> <i>the
Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he
saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hag 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>In the
second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the
month, </i><b>came the word of YHWH by
Haggai</b><i> the prophet unto Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the
high priest, saying,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hag 2:20</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
again the word of YHWH came unto Haggai</b> <i>in
the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zec 1:7</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Upon
the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in
the second year of Darius, </i><b>came the
word of YHWH unto Zechariah</b><i>, the son
of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying, </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zec 7:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH came unto Zechariah</b>, <i>saying</i>,
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zec 8:18</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And
the word of YHWH of hosts came unto me</b>, <i>saying</i>,
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Now that we have
seen how the <b>Word of YHWH</b> came in
the <i>Tanak</i>, let us see if we find a
parallel in the <i>Brrit HaChadasha (N.T.)</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 4:4</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But he
answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by </i><b>every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of YHWH</b><i>. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 8:16</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>When
the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils:
and he cast out the spirits </i><b>with his
word, </b><i>and healed all that were sick: </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 13:19</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>When
any one heareth </i><b>the word of the
kingdom</b><i>*, and understandeth it not,
then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart.
This is he which received seed by the way side.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">* The <b>word of the Kingdom<i>: </i>An idiom for "the Word of YHWH"</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 13:20</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But he
that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth </i><b>the word</b><i>, and anon with joy receiveth it;</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mar 2:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive
them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached </i><b>the word</b><i> unto them.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mar 4:15</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
these are they by the way side, </i><b>where
the word is sown</b><i>; but when they have
heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in
their hearts. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mar 4:33</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
with many such parables </i><b>spake he</b><i> </i><b>the
word</b><i> unto them, as they were able to
hear it. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mar 16:20</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
they went forth, and preached everywhere, YHWH working with them, and </i><b>confirming the word</b><i> with signs following. Amein. .</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luk 1:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Even as
they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and </i><b>ministers of the word</b><i>;</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luk 8:11</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Now the
parable is this: </i><b>The seed is the
word of YHWH</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luk 8:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Those
by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and </i><b>taketh away the word out of their hearts,</b><i> lest they should believe and be saved</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luk 8:15</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But
that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, </i><b>having heard the word, keep it,</b><i> and bring forth fruit with patience.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>In the
beginning was the Word<i>,</i></b><i> and </i><b>the Word was with YHWH</b><i>, </i><b>and the Word was YHWH. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And </i><b>the Word was made flesh,</b><i> and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and
truth.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 2:22</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>When
therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said
this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and </i><b>the word which Yehoshua</b><i> had
said. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 12:48</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He that
rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: </i><b>the word that I have spoken</b><i>, the same shall judge him in the last day. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 14:24</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He that
loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and </i><b>the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me
(read Yeshayahu 55:10-11).</b><i> </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 17:6</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>I have
manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine
they were, and thou gavest them me; and </i><b>they have kept thy word</b><i>. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 17:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>I have
given them </i><b>thy word</b><i>; and the world hath hated them, because
they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Act 4:31</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together;
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and </i><b>they spake the word of YHWH</b><i>
with boldness</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Act 6:7</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And </i><b>the word of YHWH increased;</b><i> and the number of the disciples multiplied
in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the
faith. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Act 11:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And the
apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also
received </i><b>the word of YHWH</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Act 13:48</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, </i><b><u>and glorified the word of YHWH</u>:</b><i> and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Act 13:49</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And </i><b>the word of YHWH</b><i> was published throughout all the region.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Act 19:20</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>So
mightily grew </i><b>the word of YHWH</b><i> and prevailed</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rom 10:17</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>So then
faith cometh by hearing, and hearing </i><b>by
the word of YHWH</b><i>.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Co 14:36</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>What?
came </i><b>the word of YHWH</b><i> out from you? or came it unto you only? </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eph 1:13</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>In whom
ye also trusted, after that ye heard </i><b>the
word of truth</b><i>, the gospel of your
salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy
Spirit of promise</i>, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eph 5:26</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>That he
might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by </i><b>the word,</b><i> </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Eph 6:17</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is </i><b>the word of YHWH: </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Col 3:16</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Let </i><b>the word of the Messiah</b><i> dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching
and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
with favour in your hearts to the Master</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Ti 4:5</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>For it
is sanctified by </i><b>the word of YHWH </b><i>and prayer</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jas 1:<i>18</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>Of his own will begat he us with </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">the word of truth</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, that we should be a kind of
firstfruits of his creatures. </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jas 1:21</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Wherefore
lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with
meekness </i><b>the engrafted word</b><i>, </i><b>which
is able to save your souls</b><i>.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Do we see that the WORD is able to save our
soul?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Pe 1:23</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Being
born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, </i><b>by the word of YHWH,</b><i> which liveth and abideth for ever. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Pe 3:5</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>For
this they willingly are ignorant of, that </i><b>by the word of YHWH</b><i> the
heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:</i>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Jn 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>That
which was from the beginning (b'reshit), which we have heard, which we have
seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of </i><b>the Word of life</b><i>;</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 1:9</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>I John,
who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and
patience of Yehoshua the Messiah, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for </i><b>the word of YHWH, </b><i>and for the testimony of Yehoshua the Messiah. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:13</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>And he
(Yeshua) was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called THE
WORD of YHWH</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Yeshua the Prophet like Moshe:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 18:<i>15</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span></span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">YHWH thy Elohim will raise up
unto thee a Prophet <u>from the midst of thee, of thy brethren,</u> like unto
me; </span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">unto him ye shall hearken; </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 18:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>According
to all that thou desiredst of YHWH thy Elohim in Horeb in the day of the
assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of YHWH my Elohim, neither let
me see this great fire any more, that I die not. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 18:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
YHWH said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Deu 18:18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span><b>I will raise them up a Prophet from among
their brethren</b><i>, like unto thee, and
will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall
command him.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 14:5</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because </i><b>they counted him (Yeshua) as a prophet. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mar 6:4</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But
Yehoshua said unto them, </i><b>A prophet
is not without honor, but in his own country,</b><i> and among his own kin, and in his own house.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 4:19</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>The
woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that </i><b>thou art a prophet</b><i>. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 6:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Then
those men, when they had seen the miracle that Yehoshua did, said, </i><b>This is of a truth that prophet that should
come into the world (referring to the word of Moshe in D'varim 18) .</b><i> </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 7:40</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Many of
the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is </i><b>the Prophet (not "a" prophet but
"THE" Prophet).</b><i> </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2Co 4:4</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>In whom
the elohim of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest
the light of the glorious evangel of </i>the Messiah, <b>who is the image of YHWH</b>*<i>,
should shine unto them.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">* The "image " of <i>Elohim </i>is not a "N.T." concept but comes from hidden
passage which YHWH has embedded in his Word the Torah of truth like </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gen 1:26</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Elohim said, Let us make </i><b>man</b>
(Adam)<i> </i><b>in our image</b><i>, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Exo 31:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
YHWH spake unto Moses, saying,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Exo 31:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>See, </i><b>I have called</b><i> </i>by name <b>Bezaleel</b><i> the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah: </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Exo 31:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span><i>And I have filled him with the spirit of
Elohim, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of
workmanship,</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Col 1:15</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>Who is
the image of the invisible Elohim</b>, <i>the
firstborn of every creature: </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Heb 1:3</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Who
being the brightness of his glory, and </i><b>the
express image of his person</b><i>, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged
our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Col 1:15</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>Who is
the image of the invisible Elohim</b><i>,
the firstborn of every creature: </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yeshua the SON of Elohim, Son
of YHWH, Son of the Most Hight*</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">* another term to speak of
YHWH.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 14:33</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Then
they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art
</i><b>the Son of Elohim.</b><i> </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 16:16</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
Simon Kepha answered and said, Thou art the Messiah, </i><b>the Son of the living Elohim. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mar 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>The
beginning of the evangel of Yehoshua the Messiah, </i><b>the Son of YHWH</b><i>; </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mar 15:39</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and
gave up the spirit, he said, Truly this man was </i><b>the Son of the Almighty</b><i>.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Luk 1:32</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He
shall be great, and shall be called </i><b>the
Son of the Highest</b><i>: and YHWH Elohim
shall give unto him the throne of his father David:</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:34</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And I
saw, and bare record that this is </i><b>the
Son of YHWH</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:49</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Nathanael
answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, </i><b>thou
art the Son of YHWH</b><i>; thou art the
King of Israel.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 3:18</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He that
believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten </i><b>Son of YHWH</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 6:69</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And we
believe and are sure that thou art the Messiah, </i><b>the Son of the living Elohim</b><i>.</i>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 11:27</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>She
saith unto him, Yea, master: I believe that thou art the Messiah, </i><b>the Son of YHWH</b><i>, which should come into the world.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 20:31</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But
these are written, that ye might believe that Yehoshua is the Messiah, </i><b>the Son of YHWH</b><i>; and that believing ye might have life through his name</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Jn 3:8</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He that
committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For
this purpose </i><b>the Son of YHWH</b><i> was manifested, that he might destroy the
works of the devil.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Jn 4:9</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>In this
was manifested the love of YHWH toward us, because that YHWH sent </i><b>his only begotten Son</b><i> into the world, that we might live through
him.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Jn 5:10</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He that
believeth on </i><b>the Son of YHWH</b><i> hath the witness in himself: he that
believeth not YHWH hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record
that </i><b>YHWH gave of his Son</b><i>. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Jn 5:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>He that
hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not </i><b>the Son of YHWH</b><i> hath not
life. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 2:18</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
unto the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write; These things saith </i><b>the Son of YHWH</b><i>, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like
fine brass;</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Believers called "Son of
Elohim"</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 1:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>But as
many as received him, to them gave he power to become </i><b>the sons of YHWH</b><i>, even to
them that believe on his name:</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rom 8:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>For as
many as are led by the Spirit of YHWH, they are </i><b>the sons of YHWH</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rom 8:19</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>For the
earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of </i><b>the sons of YHWH</b><i>.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Gal 4:6</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
because </i><b>ye are sons</b><i>, YHWH hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son
into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Jn 3:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called </i><b>the sons of YHWH</b><i>: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Jn 3:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Beloved,
now are we </i><b>the sons of YHWH</b><i>, and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Yeshua has brethren:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 20:17</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Yehoshua
saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to
</i><b>my brethren</b><i>, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to
my Elohim, and your Elohim.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Heb 2:11</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>For
both he that sanctifieth and they who are set apart are all of one: for which
cause he is not ashamed </i><b>to call them
brethren</b><i>,</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Heb 2:12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>Saying,
I will declare thy name unto </i><b>my
brethren</b><i>, in the midst of the
assembly will I sing praise unto thee.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">We, believers are called to be like Yeshua:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rom 8:29</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>For
whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate </i><b>to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn
among many brethren. </b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Difficult passages:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Joh 17:5</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine
own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Was it Yeshua (the word
made<span> </span>flesh) who had the glory before the
world was?</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Psa 138:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>I will worship toward Your holy temple, and
give thanks to Your name for Your mercy, and for Your truth; for <b>You have magnified <u>Your Word</u> above
all Your name</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Col 1:16</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>For by him* (The Word) were all things
created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible,
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things
were created by him, and for him: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">* We have seen that some early translators of the 16th
century call teh Word "it" instead of "him" for those
translating from the <i>Latin Vulgate from
Jerome.</i> This is more coherent with our study of the scriptures as we have
established.</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Yeshua is subject to the Father:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Co 15:25</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>For he</b>
(Yeshua) <i>must reign, till he (YHWH) hath
put all enemies under his feet. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Co 15:26</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>The
last enemy that shall be destroyed is death</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Co 15:27</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><b>For he</b>
(YHWH) <i>hath put all things under</i> <b>his </b>(Yeshua) <b>feet</b><i>. But when he saith, all
things are put under </i><b>him</b>
(Yeshua), <i>it is manifest that</i> <b>he</b> (YHWH) <i>is excepted, which did put all things under</i> <b>him </b>(Yeshua). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1Co 15:28</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
when all things shall be subdued unto</i> <b>him</b>
(Yeshua), <b>then shall the Son also
himself be subject unto him (</b>YHWH) <i>that
put all things under</i> <b>him</b>
(Yeshua), <i>that YHWH may be all in all</i>.
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:3</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And I
heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of YHWH is
with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and </i><b>YHWH himself shall be with them, and be
their Elohim.</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
YHWH shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for
the former things are passed away. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:5</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And he
that sat upon the throne said, Behold, </i><b>I
(YHWH) make all things new</b><i>. And he
said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:6</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And he
said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I
will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.</i>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Rev 21:7</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span> </span><i>He that overcometh shall inherit all things;
and I will be his Elohim, and he shall be my son...........................................</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:23</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And the
city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: </i><b>for the glory of YHWH did lighten it</b><i>, and the Lamb is the light thereof</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:5</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And
there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the
sun; for </i><b>YHWH Elohim giveth them
light</b><i>: and they shall reign for ever
and ever. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:<i>16</i></span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span>I </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yehoshua</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the assemblies. </span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I am the root and the offspring of David</span></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, and the bright and morning
star</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:18</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>For I
testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If
any man shall add unto these things, </i><b>YHWH
shall add unto him the plagues</b><i> that
are written in this book:</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span> </span><i>And if
any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, </i><b>YHWH shall take away his part out of the
book of life</b><i>, and out of the holy
city, and from the things which are written in this book. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Midrash in the First
Century</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Yochanan/John was an
Hebrew (Jew) speaking and thinking Hebraic. When he wrote the Gospel of “John”,
he had a specific word in his mind:</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Isa 55:10 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven,
and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth
and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Isa 55:11 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So <b>shall my word be that goeth forth out of my
mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.</b></span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(John 1:14 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">first born</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
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</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Rev 19:10 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said
unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that
have the testimony of Y</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">e</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">h</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">o</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">shua: worship </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span>: for the testimony of Y</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">e</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">h</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">o</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">shua is the spirit of prophecy.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Rev 19:11 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and
he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth
judge and make war.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Rev 19:12 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were
many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Rev 19:13 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and
his name is called T</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">HE WORD</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span>.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Is there any question, can we now conclude that
Yeshua IS the Word made flesh according to the scriptures<span> </span>and that He is NOT the Father, can we say
that Yeshua is the Image of Elohim but NOT Yehowah Elohim?<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">May Yehowah bless you and keep you as you walk
in the path of life, following the steps of our Master Yeshua HaMoschiach.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">THE FALL FEAST, THE
MILLENIUM REIGN OF MASHIACH, THE NUMBER SEVEN, AND THE ALEF-TAV</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Daniel ben Ya’acov Ysrael</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Traditional
eschatology regarding the plan of redemption of YHWH is known as the First
coming of Mashiach during the Spring Feasts, while the second coming is
believed to occur during the Fall Feast. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">In this paper, I
will present a different interpretation on the eschatological view of the time of
redemption and the Millennium.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Please before
everything, be patient and read to the end, before bringing your opinion or
even to judge me. I have been among those who have followed many “so called
teachers” and fall into their biased view of the lasts days’ eschatology.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I will agree
with many that the Feast are a shadow of the time line redemption of mankind, but
no more as it is presented by the majority of believers.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">If you have read
my paper: <a href="http://danielbenyaacovysrael.blogspot.fr/2014/04/counting-omer-and-return-of-mashiach.html">http://danielbenyaacovysrael.blogspot.fr/2014/04/counting-omer-and-return-of-mashiach.html</a></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">You will know
that I am convinced that Mashiach will return, not as many believe during the 7<sup>th</sup>
month but during the spring season, rather during Shavuot. We will easily accept that when Yeshua the Groom comes back to reign he is already married to His bride the royal Qehilah? Assembly? This paper will explain why and explain
what is about to pass during the fall season.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">First some
explanation, I have posted recently in my Facebook a short commentary based on
the lunar calendar, the only calendar Yehovah is using to count time.<br />
<b>Quote from my Facebook posting:<br />
</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">CRISTAL NIGHT 1938!<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Did you know
that the Nazis organized the terrible evil "Cristal Night" plan which
initiated WWII, on the 9th - 10th of November 1938?<br />
Now look at the picture below, it was in the HEBREW CALENDAR, and happened just
AFTER YOM KIPPUR from the Hebrew calendar.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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month started in the Hebrew calendar March 31, and YOM KIPPUR was on November
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="uficommentbody"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The picture below show that in this year, Yom Kippur falls
just before the “Cristal Night”, the night the Nazis used to accuse the Jews of
destroying the “Reichstag” Building, just before the season of joy (Succoth).<br />
Don’t think that I am sarcastic, because nobody can have even a smile on this
calamity, but for history sake, I would like to bring in remembrance that
during the destruction of the Temple in 70CE by Titus, more than 1 Million
(1 000 000) Jews were killed by the Romans. Nobody today remember
them!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Again, it is of
importance to understand that the Calendar of YHWH start after the vernal
equinox (tekufah), the Spring season. With this in mind we understand better the dating, based on
the Roman pagan calendar</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Second important point, majority of people believe today that the book
of Revelation is a last day events and ignore what it is really written, they
like to connect the book of Daniel and Revelation to mingle the prophecies. For
my concern, I believe that Daniel is a past event in many points, and what is
to come is written for the sake of the believers partly in Revelation, but not
as it is presented by the many.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First reason: Many things had to come shortly after the message was
delivered.<br />
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Revelation of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">יהושע</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Messiah, which Elohim gave Him to
show His servants what has <b>to take place
with speed</b>. And He signified it by sending His messenger to His servant Yoh</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">̣</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">anan, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave
to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth <b>to come to pass quickly;</b> and he did signify <i>it</i> , having sent through his messenger to his
servant John, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave
to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth <b>to come to pass quickly</b>; and he did signify <i>it</i> , having sent through his messenger to his
servant John, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 1:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> The Revelation of Yeshua HaMashiach, which
Elohim (God) gave unto him, to shew unto
his servants things which <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>must shortly
come to pass</b></span>; and he sent and signified <i>it</i>
by his angel unto his servant John: </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
Rev 4:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> After this I
looked, and, behold, a door <i>was</i> opened
in heaven: and the first voice which I heard <i>was</i>
as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will
shew <b>thee things which must be hereafter</b>.
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 4:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> After these things I saw, and lo, a door
opened in the heaven, and the first voice that I heard <i>is</i> as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying,
`Come up hither, and I will shew thee what it behoveth <b>to come to pass after these things</b>;' </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 4:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">immediately</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was set in the
heaven</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, and upon the throne is <i>one</i>
sitting, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 8:12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the fourth angel <b>trumpeted.</b> And the third <i>part</i>
of the sun, and the third <i>part</i> of the
moon, and the third <i>part</i> of the stars, <b>was struck</b>, that the third <i>part</i> of them might be darkened, and the third <i>part</i> of the day might not appear; and in the same
way the night. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 8:13</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I saw, and I heard one angel flying in
mid-heaven, saying with a great voice, Woe! Woe! Woe to those dwelling on the
earth, from the rest of the voices of the trumpet of the three angels being
about to trumpet! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>The first Woe is past (past verbal from)</b>: behold, there come <b>yet two Woes hereafter</b>. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a
voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>The
first woe did go (past verb) forth</b>, lo, there come yet <b>two woes after these things</b>.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And <b>the
sixth messenger did sound,</b> and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the
altar of gold that is before God, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> saying to the sixth messenger who had the
trumpet, `<b>Loose (on the spot)</b> the
four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;' </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>The
first woe has departed;</b> behold, after these things come two woes. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the sixth angel <b>trumpeted</b> <b>(past)</b>. And I
heard one voice out of the four horns of the golden altar before God, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 9:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> saying to the sixth angel who had the
trumpet, <b>Release (present) the four
angels</b>, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Are this events to come or already past?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Another view:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A bit more:<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And he carried me away into a
desert, by <i>the</i> Spirit. And I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast, filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads
and ten horns. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the woman was clothed in purple and
scarlet, and being gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a
golden cup in her hand, filled with abominations and unclean things of her
fornication. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:5</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And on her forehead was a name having been
written: Mystery, Babylon the Great*, the Mother of the Harlots and of the
Abominations of the Earth. <br /><b>* The question is: Who is Babylon the Great harlot?</b><br />The answer is given us in Revelation 18:20, </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><p class="bible" id="66_18_2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #d9e6f3; caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.4em 2px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="verseid:66.18.2" id="66.18.2" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0071ee; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;"><span class="verse" style="color: #238554; font-size: 17.25px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Rev 18:2</span> </a> <span class="highlight_66_18_2">And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, <b>Babylon the great is fallen, </b>is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.</span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><p class="bible" id="66_18_10" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fbf0d9; caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.4em 2px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="verseid:66.18.10" id="66.18.10" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0071ee; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;"><span class="verse" style="color: #238554; font-size: 17.25px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Rev 18:10</span> </a> <span class="highlight_66_18_10">Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is <b>thy judgment come.</b></span></p><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="verseid:66.18.20" id="66.18.20" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0071ee; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;"><span class="verse" style="color: #238554; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Rev 18:20</span> </a> <span class="highlight_66_18_20">Rejoice over her,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gra" style="color: #757575;"><i style="color: #757575;">thou</i></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>heaven, and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gra" style="color: #757575;"><i style="color: #757575;">ye</i></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>holy apostles and prophets; <b>for God hath avenged you on her.</b></span></span><br /><p class="bible" id="66_19_2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #fbf0d9; caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.4em 2px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="verseid:66.19.2" id="66.19.2" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0071ee; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;"><span class="verse" style="color: #238554; font-size: 17.25px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Rev 19:2</span> </a> <span class="highlight_66_19_2">For true and righteous<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gra" style="color: #757575;"><i style="color: #757575;">are</i></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and <b>hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.</b></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 18pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">confirmed by the words of Yeshua in Matt: 23<br /></span></span></span></span><br /><p class="bible" id="40_23_37" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #d9e6f3; caret-color: rgb(32, 38, 56); color: #202638; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 23px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0.4em 2px; orphans: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="verseid:40.23.37" id="40.23.37" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #0071ee; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;"><span class="verse" style="color: #238554; font-size: 17.25px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Mat 23:37</span> </a> <span class="highlight_40_23_37">O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gra" style="color: #757575;"><i style="color: #757575;">thou</i></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="gra" style="color: #757575;"><i style="color: #757575;">her</i></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wings, and ye would not!</span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:6</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I saw the woman being drunk from the
blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I
marveled, seeing her, with a great marveling. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:7</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the angel said to me, Why did you marvel?
I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast supporting her, the
one having the seven heads and the ten horns. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:8</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> The beast which you saw was, and is not, and
is about to come up out of the abyss, and goes to perdition. And those dwelling
on the earth will marvel, the ones whose names have not been written on the
Book of Life from the foundation of the world, seeing the beast, that it was a
thing, and is not, yet now is. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Here <i>is</i>
the mind having wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains, where the woman
sits on them. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:10</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the kings are seven. The five fell, and
the one is, <i>and</i> the other has not yet
come. And when he does come, he must remain a little. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:11</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the beast which was, and is not, even he
is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes to perdition. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the ten horns you saw are ten kings who
have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive authority as kings one hour
with the beast. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> These have one mind, and their power and
authority they shall give up to the beast. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> These will make war with the Lamb, and the
Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and the
ones with Him <i>are</i> the called and elect
and faithful ones. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:15</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And he says to me, The waters which you saw,
where the harlot sits, are peoples and crowds and nations and tongues. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the ten horns which you saw on the beast,
these will hate the harlot, and will make her desolated and naked. And they
will eat her flesh, and will burn her down with fire. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> For God gave into their hearts to do His
mind, and to act in one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the
Words of God shall be fulfilled. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 17:18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And <b>the
woman whom you saw is the great city, </b>having a kingdom over the kings of
the earth. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Question:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Is Rome
(papacy) a great city? You answer!</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">QUESTION: Where and when in the TaNaHk (Torah, writtings and prophet) and in history the pope has been called a "prophet" (Rev. 16:13, 19:20, 20:10)</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:1</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And after these things</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, I heard a great voice of a large multitude in Heaven, saying,
Hallelujah! The salvation and the glory and the honor and the power of the Lord
our God! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> For true and
righteous <i>are</i> His judgments, because He
judged the great harlot who defiled the earth with her fornication. And He
avenged the blood of His slaves out of her hand. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And a second
time they said, Hallelujah! Also her smoke goes up to the ages of the ages. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the twenty
four elders, and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God sitting
on the throne, saying, Amen! Hallelujah! </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:5</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And a voice
came out from the throne, saying, Praise our God, all His slaves, and the ones
fearing Him, the small and the great. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:6</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I heard as
a sound of a numerous crowd, and as a sound of many waters, and as a sound of
strong thunders, saying, Hallelujah! Because the Lord God Almighty reigned. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:7</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Let us rejoice
and let us exult, and we will give glory to Him, because the marriage of the
Lamb came, and His wife prepared herself. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:8</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And it was given to her that she be clothed
in fine linen, pure and bright; for the fine linen is the righteousness of the
saints. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And he says to
me, Write: Blessed <i>are</i> the ones having
been called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These
Words of God are true. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:10</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I
fell before his feet to worship him, but he said to me, Behold! Stop! I am a
fellow-slave of yours, and of your brothers, having the testimony of Yehoshua.
Worship God. For the testimony of Yehoshua is the spirit of prophecy. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:11</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I
saw Heaven being opened. And, behold! A white horse, and He sitting on it
having been called Faithful and True, and He judges and wars in righteousness. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And His
eyes <i>were</i> as a flame of fire, and on His
head many diadems, having a name that had been written, which no one knows
except Himself; </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and
having been clothed in a garment which had been dipped in blood. And His name
is called The Word of God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the
armies in Heaven followed Him on white horses, being dressed in fine linen,
white and pure. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:15</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And out
of His mouth goes forth a sharp sword, that with it He might smite the nations.
And He will shepherd them with an iron rod. And He treads the winepress of the
wine of the anger and of the wrath of God Almighty. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And He has on <i>His</i>
garment and on His thigh a name having been written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF
LORDS. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I
saw one angel standing in the sun. And he cried with a great voice, saying to
all the birds flying in mid-heaven, Come and gather together to the supper of
the great God, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> that you may eat the flesh of kings, and <i>the</i> flesh of chiliarchs, and <i>the</i> flesh of strong ones, and <i>the</i> flesh of horses, and of the ones sitting on
them, and <i>the</i> flesh of all, both freemen
and slaves, even of the small and great. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I
saw the beast and the kings of the earth, and their armies being assembled to
make war with the <i>One</i> sitting on the
horse, and with His army. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the beast was seized, and with this one
the false prophet doing signs before it, by which he led astray those having
received the mark of the beast, and those worshiping its image. The two were
thrown alive into the Lake of Fire burning with brimstone. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 19:21</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the
rest were killed with the sword of the <i>One</i>
sitting on the horse, the <i>sword</i> having
gone forth from His mouth. And all the birds were filled from their flesh. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Changing of time period:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I saw
an angel coming down out of Heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great
chain on his hand. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And he laid
hold of the dragon, the old serpent who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him
a thousand years, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and threw him into the abyss, and shut him
up, and sealed over him, that he should not still lead astray the nations,
until the thousand years are fulfilled. And after these things, he must be set
loose a little time. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I saw
thrones, and they sat on them. And judgment was given to them, and the souls of
the ones having been beheaded because of the witness of Yehoshua, and because
of the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor its image, and had
not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand. <b>And they lived and reigned with Mssiah a thousand years. </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:5</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> But <b>the
rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were ended</b>. <b>This <i>is</i>
the first resurrection</b>. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:6</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Blessed and holy <i>is</i>
the one having part in the first resurrection. The second death has no
authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will
reign with Him a thousand years. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:7</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And whenever the thousand years are ended,
Satan will be set loose out of his prison, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:8</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and he will go to mislead the nations in the
four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them in war, whose number
<i>is</i> as the sand of the sea. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And they went up over the breadth of the land
and encircled the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. And fire from God
came down out of Heaven and burned them down. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:10</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the Devil leading them astray was thrown
into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet <i>were</i>. And they were tormented day and night to
the ages of the ages. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:11</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I saw a Great White Throne, and the <i>One</i> sitting on it, from whose face the earth and
the heaven fled; and a place was not found for them. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I saw the dead, the small and the great,
standing before God. And books were opened. And another Book was opened, <i>which is</i> the <i>Book</i>
of Life. And the dead were judged out of the things written in the books,
according to their works. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:13</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death
and hell gave up the dead in them. And they were each judged according to their
works. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And death and hell were thrown into the Lake
of Fire. This is the second death. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 20:15</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And if anyone was not found having been
written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the Lake of Fire. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">When the First resurrection does occur?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">First we should know as the different verses tell us, that “tribulation”
started just after the departure of Yehoshua HaMashiach. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The death of Ya’acov HaTzadik (James) brought the irreversible downfall
and way out from repentance, which had for apogee the destruction of the Temple
in 70CE by Titus.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 24:29</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and <b>immediately after the affliction
(tribulations) of those days</b> the sun will be darkened and the moon will not
give her light, and the stars will fall from the heaven, and the powers of the
heavens will be shaken. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 24:30</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and then
the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the heavens. And then all the tribes
of the land will wail. And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of
heaven with power and much glory. <i>Dan. 7:13</i>
</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Mat 24:31</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> and <b>He will send His angels with a great sound
of a trumpet, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends
of <i>the</i> heavens to their ends</b>. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<br />
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(John 11:24 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Martha saith unto him, I know that <b>he
shall rise again in the resurrection <u>at the last day</u>.</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Phil 3:11 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If by any means <b>I might attain
unto the resurrection of the dead</b>.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(1Pet 1:3 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Blessed be the El and Father of our Master Y</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">e</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">h</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">o</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">shua the Messiah, which according
to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively <b>hope by the resurrection </b>of Y</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">e</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">h</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">o</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">shua the Messiah from the dead,</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Rev 20:6 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Blessed and holy is he that hath part in
the first resurrection</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">:
on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of יהוה and
of Messiah, and shall reign with him a thousand years.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Now before going a step further, let see what Yehoshua
says in the same book of Revelation :<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:8</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And <b>I, John, <i>was</i> the one seeing and
hearing these things</b>. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship
before the feet of the angel showing me these things. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And he said to me, Behold! Stop! For I am
your fellow-slave, and of your brothers the prophets, and of the ones keeping
the Words of this Book. Do worship to God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:10</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And he said to me, <b>Do not seal the Words of the prophecy of this Book, </b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">because the time
is near.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:11</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> The one acting unjustly, let him still act
unjustly; and the filthy, let him still be filthy; and the righteous, let him
still do righteousness; and the holy, let him still be holy. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:12</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And, behold, I am coming quickly, and My
reward <i>is</i> with Me, to give to each as
his work is. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After the chapter 19 we have chapter 21 and 22 who show another aspect
of this book:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And <b>I
saw a new heaven and a new earth</b>, for the first heaven and the first earth
passed away, and the sea no longer is. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And <b>I,
John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven</b> from God,
having been prepared as a bride, having been adorned for her Husband. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 21:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And I heard a great voice out of Heaven,
saying, <b>Behold, the tabernacle of God
with men! </b>And He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His people,
and God Himself will be with them as their God. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:3</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And every curse will no longer be. And <b>the throne of God and the Lamb will be in
it; and His slaves will serve Him. </b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:4</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And they will see His face; and His name <i>will be</i> on their foreheads. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Rev 22:5</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>And
night will not be there; and they have no need of a lamp or a light of the sun,
because the Yehovah Elohim will illumine them</b>. And they shall reign to the
ages of the ages. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Let me now explain a concept which is not what we
understand today:</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“the ages of the ages”, sometime translated as:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Forever and ever</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Forevermore</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The Greek word is “aion”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">G165 </span><b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: Gentium;">αἰών</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EL"> </span><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">aion</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> (ai-own') n.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">1. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(properly)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> an age</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">2. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(by extension)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> perpetuity (also past)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">3. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(by implication)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> the world</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">4. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(specially, Jewish)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> a Messianic period (present or future)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Today we understand the word « forever » to be an unlimited
time without end!</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Not so in Hebrew understanding.<br />
</span><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">H5769 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">עוֹלָם עוֹלָם</span><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="HE">
</span><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">`owlam</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> (o-lawm') (or lolam {o-lawm'}) n-m.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">1. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(properly)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> concealed, i.e. the vanishing point</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">2. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(generally)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> time out of mind (past or future)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">3. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(practically)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> eternity</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">4. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(frequentatively, adverbially, especially with prepositional prefix)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> always</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">From:</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"><br />
H5956 </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">עָלַם</span><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="HE"> </span><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">`alam</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> (aw-lam') v.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">to veil from sight, i.e. conceal (literally or
figuratively</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Designing a long
period of time, in Hebrew understanding the “age” can represent 2000 years.<br />
</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">So when somebody
tells you that “forever” is always and without end, be careful what you are
reading. The word actually refers more to a very long period until it vanishes
out of our mind or from the generation’s mind. The context will determine what
is behind he word “forever”.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">With that in mind we
will now look at the Fall Feast.<br />
If you have read my paper concerning the returning of Mashiach during Shavuot
(see the link above), we will have now to understand why it is so. <br />
A careful inspection of the scriptures will give us some important clues
concerning Succoth, the Feast of Tabernacle:<br />
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Deut 16:13 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy
wine</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Exod 23:16 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And <b>the feast of harvest</b>,
the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and <b>the feast of ingathering</b>, </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">which is</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>in the end of the year</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
(Tekufah/Equinox)</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the
field.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This
particular Feast take place at the Tekufah (Equinox) season <b>after the gathering of the fruits, <u>and
not before</u></b>. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">At the End of
the Feast of Succoth remains one special day:<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Lev 23:39 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Also in the
fifteenth day of the seventh month, <b>when
ye have gathered in the fruit of the land</b>, ye shall keep a feast unto יהוה
seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, <b>and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Lev 23:40 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And ye shall
take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees,
and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice
before יהוה your Elohim seven days.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Lev 23:41 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And ye shall
keep it a feast unto יהוה seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for
ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Lev 23:42 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ye shall dwell
in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Lev 23:43 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That your
generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am יהוה your Elohim.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Lev 23:44 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And Moses
declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of יהוה.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For those
keeping YHWH calendar, the Lunar Shabbat they will have no problem to see how
perfect is YHWH’ commandment.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The first day of
Succoth fall <b>every year on the Full
Moon,</b> the 15 of the Lunar month, thus <b>De
Facto the 8<sup>th</sup> days is also the Shabbat</b> (22<sup>nd</sup> of the
month) and the conclusion of the Feast of Succoth with an extra day which is a
picture of the “Olam HaBa” the life after the Millennium.<br />
<br />
Most f Christian bibles translate this way </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Ps 81:3 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, <b>in the time appointed</b>, on our solemn feast day.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">More
accurate is following :</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Ps 81:3 [ESV2011])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Blow the trumpet at the new moon, <b>at
the full moon</b>, on our feast day.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Ps 81:3 [ISV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Blow the ram’s horn when there is a New Moon, <b>when there is a full moon</b>, on our festival day,</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Indeed the Full moon is a Shabbat
day. This psalm 81 was written for the deliverance of the Children of Ysrael
from the bondage of Mitzrayim (Egypt)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Ps 81:4 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the Elohim of Jacob.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Ps 81:5 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This he
ordained in Joseph for a testimony</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, when he went out through the
land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Ps 81:6 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I removed his
shoulder from the burden</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: his hands were delivered from the pots.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Ps 81:7 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thou calledst
in trouble, and I delivered thee</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">; I answered thee in the secret place of
thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We know that the children of Ysrael left Egypt during
the Full moon.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I have shown in the beginning of this paper that in 1938 was the
beginning of the WWII with the beginning of the extermination of many of the
Jewish people, BUT not only; this war caused more than 60 millions people’s
life. When twenty years before, during WWI (14-18), almost 10 million people
died.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WWII started with the
“Cristal night” during the Yom Kippur on Yehovah’s calendar. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What are the Fall Feasts?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In my paper “Yom Teruah 2014” <a href="http://danielbenyaacovysrael.blogspot.fr/2014/09/yom-teruah-2014.html">http://danielbenyaacovysrael.blogspot.fr/2014/09/yom-teruah-2014.html</a></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I explain that this day is
a day of alarm, to inform the people that something is coming. In fact ten days
later is Yom Kippur. Here also in my paper:<b>
<a href="http://danielbenyaacovysrael.blogspot.fr/2014/10/yom-kippur.html?spref=fb">http://danielbenyaacovysrael.blogspot.fr/2014/10/yom-kippur.html?spref=fb</a></b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I explain the dual view of
Yom Kippur, for the one atonement, for the others judgment. Yom Kippur is the
day the world will be judged. The believers are not to be judged as we have
already undergone our judgment as explained by Sha’ul and Kefa:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(2Thess 1:3 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We are bound to thank </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> always for
you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and
the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(2Thess 1:4 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">So that we ourselves glory in you in the assemblies of </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> for your patience and faith in
all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(2Thess 1:5 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Which is <b>a manifest token of the
righteous judgment</b> of </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, that ye may
be counted worthy of the kingdom of </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, for which ye also suffer:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(1Pet 4:17 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For <b>the time is come that judgment must begin
at the house of יהוה: </b>and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of
them that obey not the gospel of יהוה?</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Judgment on the House of Ysrael started
after the departure of Yehoshua (tribulation).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(2Thess 2:13 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But we are
bound to give thanks alway to יהוה for you, brethren beloved of the Master,
because יהוה hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through
sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(1Thess 5:9 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For יהוה hath not appointed us to wrath,
but to obtain salvation by our Master Y</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">e</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">h</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">o</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">shua the Messiah,</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The wrath of Elohim will fall upon the
ungodly, those who reject the truth.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">THE
FEAST OF SUCCOTH IS A SHADOW OF THE MILLENIUM PERIOD. </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Are you surprised? Have you read that this particular
Feast take place only after the harvest has been finished? </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">What represent the number seven?</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Gen 2:1 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thus the heavens and the earth <b>were
finished</b>, and all the host of them.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Gen 2:2 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And <b>on the seventh day</b> Elohim
ended his work which he had made; and <b>he
rested on the seventh day </b>from all his work which he had made.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The seven day is the day of rest (Shabbat)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Exod 20:8 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Exod 20:9 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Exod 20:10 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But the
seventh day is the Sabbath of </span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Cardo","serif";">יהוה</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> thy Elohim</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: in it thou shalt not do any
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The shabbat is
also a shadow of the Millennium reign of Mashiach:<br />
<br />
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:3 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have
sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were
finished from the foundation of the world.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:4 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And
Elohim did rest the seventh day from all his works.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:5 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:6 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Seeing
therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was
first preached entered not in because of unbelief:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:7 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Again, he
limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is
said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:8 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For if Joshua had given them rest, then
would he not afterward have spoken of another day.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:9 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There remaineth
therefore <b>a rest</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
(Shabbat)</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> to the people of Elohim.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Heb 4:10 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">For he that is
entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as יהוה did from
his.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The verse 9 used the word :<br />
</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">G4520 </span><b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: Gentium;">σαββατισμός</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EL"> </span><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">sabbatismos</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> (sab-bat-is-mos') n.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">1. a
"sabbatism"</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">2. </span></b><b><i><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">(figuratively)</span></i></b><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> the repose</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From :<br />
</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">G4521 </span><b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: Gentium;">σάββατον</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EL"> </span><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">sabbaton</span></b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE"> (sab'-bat-on) n.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">1. the Sabbath
(i.e. Shabbath)</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">2. a day of weekly
repose from secular avocations</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span face=""Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="X-NONE">3. the observance
or institution itself</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">We
see how believer have a great expectation in the 1000 years of Shabbat. </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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month is a shadow of things to come at the end of the age<br />
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</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The eight days of Succoth is called
“shemini atzereth”.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The sages interpreted this to mean that God asks all
who made pilgrimage for Sukkot to tarry <i>(atzeret),</i> which comes from the
Hebrew root word meaning "to hold back" with Him one additional day.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Num 29:35 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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day</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> ye shall
have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:</span></span></span></span></div>
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« Olam Haba », the eternal life as we have seen in revelation 21 when
Yehovah will dwell among His people. </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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Mashiach return at Shavuot to take his bride (see my post), Yom Teruah herald
the coming of judgment, before Succoth come the last gathering from among the
nations* those who have repented before Yom Kippur. Believers at this time are
not among the pagans.</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 33:13</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> And of Yosĕph he said, “Blessed of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "TITUS Cyberbit Basic","serif";">יהוה</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> is his land, with the choicest from
the heavens, with the dew, and the deep lying beneath, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 33:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> with <b>the choice fruits</b> of the sun, with the
choice yield of the months, </span></span></span></span></div>
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of the ancient mountains, with the choicest of the everlasting hills, </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 33:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> with the choicest
of the earth and all that fills it, and the good pleasure of Him who dwelt in
the bush. Let it come on the head of Yosĕph, and on the crown of the head of
him who was separate from his brothers. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Deu 33:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> “His splendour is
like a first-born bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With
them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten
thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh.” </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Ephraïm has filled the earth with his seed. Now still
many need to repent and leave their idolatry and false belief, to enter the
household of Elohim. The year will soon come that the trumpet (alarm) will
sound at Yom Teruah, after that the door will be closed. </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Jas_5:7</span></u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (KJV) Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the
coming of the Master. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for <b>the precious fruit of the earth</b>, and hath long patience for it,
until he receive the early and latter rain*.</span></span></span></span></div>
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later rain refer directly to fall and spring time, thus directly with
abundance.</span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Deut 11:13 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And it shall
come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I
command you this day, to love יהוה your Elohim, and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul,</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Deut 11:14 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">That I will
give you the rain of your land in his due season, <b>the first rain and the latter rain,</b> that thou mayest gather in <b>thy corn</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (Spring)</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, and thy wine</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
(Fall)</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">,</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
and thine oil</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (Olive/Fall)</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Come, and let us return</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
(repentance/Shuv)</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
unto יהוה: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will
bind us up.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(Hos 6:2 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">After two days</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">
(End of the time of Mashiach*)</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> will he revive us: in the third day he
will raise us</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>up</b></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(resurrection)</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">, and we shall live in his sight.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Then shall we know, if we follow on to
know יהוה</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">: his going forth is prepared as the
morning; and <b>he shall come unto us as
the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">Daniel ben Ya’acov Ysrael</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">In this paper, I
would like to approach the Feast of Shavuot as it is presented in the Torah.
Today many believers have come to a new conclusion, saying that we should count
seven weeks and add fifty days more in order to celebrate the Feats of Shavuot.
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<b>Further I will explain the SPIRITUAL aspect of the Omer and how it apply to
our life today!</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; line-height: 115%;">I will try to
look from the Torah, writings from witness of the time and facts what we really
know and how we can rely on this saying.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">First what does the Torah says, does the Torah told us that the Ten
Words (law) was given to the Children of Ysrael after Moshe descended Mount Sinai after 40 days, thus making 7
weeks and 50 days more, or can we see a pattern of 7 weeks (shavuat) and the
next day be the Chag (Feast)?<br />
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
<b>In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the
land of Egypt,</b> in this day they have come into the wilderness of Sinai, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">They left Egypt on the 15 of the first month, in
this time every month had 30 days. So 15 days for the first month, plus 30 days
for the 2<sup>nd</sup> month and we have 15 + 30 = 45 days. Let us read more:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:2</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
and they journey from Rephidim, and enter the wilderness of Sinai, and
encamp in the wilderness; and Israel encampeth there before the mount. </span></span></span></div>
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and <b>Moses hath gone up unto God, and Yehovah</b> calleth unto him out
of the mount, saying, `Thus dost thou say to the house of Jacob, and declare to
the sons of Israel,…………….</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">This makes it clear that Moshe went to Yehowah on
the third month of coming out of Egypt and this Mount is Sinai. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">how</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> I bare you on
eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Exod 19:5 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then
ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">is</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> mine:</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">are</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of
Israel.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Exod 19:7 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before
their faces all these words which the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yehowah </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> commanded
him.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Exod 19:8 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And all the people answered together, and said, All that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yehowah</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> hath spoken we will
do. And <b>Moses returned the words of the people unto </b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yehowah</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Here we see Moshe returning to Yehowah after having told to the Children of
Ysrael what Yehowah told him !</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Exod 19:10 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> said unto
Moses, Go unto the people, and <b>sanctify them <u>to day and to morrow</u></b>,
and let them wash their clothes,</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Exod 19:11 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And <b>be ready <u>against the third day: for the third day </u></b></span><b><u><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span></u></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> will
come down</span></u></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">No
error, Yehowah says that He will come down on the third day on Mount Sinai!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:12</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
`And thou hast made a border <i>for</i>
the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, going up into the
mount, or coming against its extremity; whoever is coming against the mount is
certainly put to death; </span></span></span></div>
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cometh not against him, for he is certainly stoned or shot through, whether
beast or man it liveth not; in the drawing <b>out of the jubilee cornet</b>
they go up into the mount.' </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:14</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And Moses
cometh down from the mount unto the people, and sanctifieth the people, and
they wash their garments; </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:15</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and he
saith unto the people, `Be ye prepared for the third day, come not nigh unto a
woman.'</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And it
cometh to pass, on the third day, while it is morning, that there are voices,
and lightnings, and a heavy cloud, on the mount, and the sound of a trumpet
very strong; and all the people who <i>are</i>
in the camp do tremble. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And Moses
bringeth out the people to meet God from the camp, and they station themselves
at the lower part of the mount, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and mount
Sinai <i>is</i> wholly a smoke from the
presence of Yehowah, who hath come down on it in fire, and its smoke goeth up
as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mount trembleth exceedingly; </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and the
sound of the trumpet is going on, and very strong; Moses speaketh, and God doth
answer him with a voice. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And Yehowah
cometh down on mount Sinai, unto the top of the mount, and Yehovah calleth for
Moses unto the top of the mount, and Moses goeth up. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Here the verse 13 show clearly in the Young Literal
translation what the Hebrew text really says: (see picture below). The word
“yovel” (Jubilee) is in the Hebreew text, many time not translated as in the
KJV. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The first question coming to mind
is: When dos the Yovel year comes?<br />
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</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Lev 25:8 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto
thee, <b>seven times seven years</b>; and <b>the space of the seven sabbaths of
years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.</b></span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Lev 25:9
[KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Then shalt thou cause <b>the trumpet of the jubile
to sound</b> on the tenth </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">day</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet
sound throughout all your land.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Lev 25:10
[KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And <b>ye shall hallow the fiftieth year</b>, and
proclaim liberty throughout </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">all</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you;
and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every
man unto his family.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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Something amazing! the timing of the coming to the Mount Sinai, at Shavuot to
receive the Ten Words are directly connected to the Yovel year! How do we know?<br />
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</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:14</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
And </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "titus cyberbit basic" , "serif";">יהושע</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> returned in
the power of the Spirit to Galil, and news of Him went out through all the
surrounding country. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:15</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And He was
teaching in their congregations, being praised by all. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And He came to
Natsareth, where He had been brought up. And according to His practice, He went
into the congregation on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And the scroll of
the prophet Yeshayahu was handed to Him. And having unrolled the scroll, He
found the place where it was written: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> “The Spirit of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "titus cyberbit basic" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> is upon Me,<sup>1</sup></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> because
He has anointed Me to bring the Good News to the poor. He has sent Me to heal
the broken-hearted, <b>to proclaim release to the captives </b>and recovery of
sight to the blind, to send away crushed ones with a release, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> to proclaim the acceptable year of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "titus cyberbit basic" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and having rolled up the scroll, He gave it back to the
attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all in the congregation were fixed upon
Him. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Luk 4:21</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and He began to say to them, “<b>Today this Scripture
has been filled in your hearing</b>.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The prophet
Yeshyahu/Isayah</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Isa 61:1 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Spirit of the Master </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> is upon me; because </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> hath anointed me to preach good
tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, <b>to
proclaim liberty to the captives</b>, and the opening of the prison to them
that are bound;</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Isa 61:2
[NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">To proclaim the acceptable year of </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>, </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and the day of
vengeance of our Elohim;</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> to comfort all that mourn;</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The « liberty to the captive” is directly connected to the year of the
Yovel!<br />
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Lev 25:8 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto
thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years
shall be unto thee forty and nine years.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Lev 25:9
[KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Then shalt thou cause the
trumpet of the jubile to sound</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> on the tenth </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">day</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> of the
seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound
throughout all your land.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Lev 25:10
[KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and <b>proclaim
liberty throughout </b></span><b><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">all</span></i></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> the land unto all the inhabitants</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto
his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><br />
<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yeshua didn’t mention the last part of Yeshyahu 61 :2 « </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and the day of vengeance of our Elohim</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> » </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">because
it will be at another time period.<br />
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</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yeshua
was proclaiming the Yovel in the Land. We learn also that the coming to Mount
Sinai, muts have happened in the Yovel year, what an amazing revelation, when
Yehowah sent Moshe to set the captive free, the Children of Ysrael. Baruch
HaShem Yehowah!<br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>TRADITION (Judaism):<br />
</b><b><span lang="EN-US">The
traditional festival of Pentecost as the birthday of the Torah</span></b> <span lang="EN-US">"the time
our Law was given", when Israel became a constitutional body and "a
distinguished people," remained the sole celebration after the Exile. The
Shabu'ot prayers and Maḥzor have references to this and particularly to the
precepts deduced from the Pentateuch. The cabalists arranged a special "tiḳḳun"
for Pentecost eve, consisting of excerpts from the beginning and end of every
book of the Bible and Mishnah, which abridgment they considered tantamount to
the reading of the complete works, and accepted as the approval of the Law.
Apparently the custom of studying the Law all night of Pentecost is old (Zohar,
Emor, 98a); but there is no record of the practise prior to the Safed cabalists
headed by Isaac Luria in the sixteenth century. The custom has since been
observed in the eastern states of Europe, and particularly in the Orient.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="anchor5"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Tiḳḳun Lel Shabu'ot.</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The reading occupies the pious till morning; others
finish it at midnight. The collection is called "Tiḳḳun Lel Shabu'ot"
(="Preparation for Pentecost Eve"; comp. the "Tiḳḳun Lel
Hosha'na Rabbah" for Tabernacles). The Pentateuch reading contains three
to seven verses from the beginning and the end of every "parashah"
("sidra"). Some of the important sections are read in full, as
follows: the days of Creation (Gen. i. 1-ii. 3); the Exodus and the song at the
Red Sea (Ex. xiv. 1-xv. 27); the giving of the Decalogue on Mount Sinai (<i>ib.</i>
xviii. 1-xx. 26, xxiv. 1-18, xxxiv. 27-35; Deut. v. 1-vi. 9); the historical
review and part of "Shema'" (<i>ib.</i> x. 12-xi. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">25). </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The same method is used with the excerpts from the
Prophets: the important ch. i. of Ezekiel (the "Merkabah") is read in
full. The Minor Prophets are considered as one book: the excerpts are from Hos.
i.1-3, Hab. ii. 20-iii. 19, and Mal. iii. 22-24 (A. V. iv. 4-6). Ruth is read
in full; and of the Psalms, Ps. i., xix., lxviii., cxix., cl. The order of the
twenty-four books of the Scriptures is different from the accepted one:
probably it is an ancient order, as follows: (Torah) Five Books of Moses;
(Prophets) Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel; (Minor
Prophets) [Hagiographa] Ruth, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of
Solomon, Lamentations, Daniel, Esther, Chronicles, Ezra = 24 books. Next, the
excerpts from mishnayyot are read, the beginning and end of every treatise, in
all sixty-three, with some important chapters in extenso; next, the "Sefer
Yeẓirah"; the 613 precepts as enumerated by Maimonides (</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><a href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4566-commandments-the-613">see Commandments, The 613</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">). Later, excerpts from the Zohar bearing on the subject
were added, with opening and concluding prayers. The whole reading is divided
into thirteen parts, after each of which a "Ḳaddish di-Rabbanan" is
recited.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Zohar calls the time between Passover and
Pentecost the "courting days of the bridegroom Israel with the bride
Torah." Those who participate in the tiḳḳun celebration are the Temple-men
= "</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> of the King [God]." </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Zohar has two epigrams
on Pentecost: (1) "In the twin month [zodiac sign of Gemini] the twin Law
[written and oral] was given to the children of twin Israel [Jacob and
Esau]." (2<b>) "In the third month [Siwan]</b> the treble Law
[Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa] was given to the third [best]
people" (Zohar, Yitro, 78b). (source Jewish Encyclopedia)</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6596844591611460984" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Josephus Flavius
(1<sup>st</sup> Century) Kohen and Historian. Antiquities of the Jews Book 3
chapter 10: 5-6:<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">5. In the month of Xanthicus, which is by us
called <i>Nisan, </i>and is the beginning of our year, on <b>the fourteenth day
of the lunar month,</b> <b>when the sun is in Aries</b>, (for in this month it
was that we were delivered from bondage under the Egyptians,) the law ordained
that we should every year slay that sacrifice which I before told you we slew
when we came out of Egypt, and which was called the <i>Passover; </i>and so we
do celebrate this passover in companies, leaving nothing of what we sacrifice
till the day following. The feast of unleavened bread succeeds that of the
passover, and falls on the fifteenth day of the month, and continues seven
days, wherein they feed on unleavened bread; on every one of which days two
bulls are killed, and one ram, and seven lambs. Now these lambs are entirely
burnt, besides the kid of the goats which is added to all the rest, for sins;
for it is intended as a feast for the priest on every one of those days. But on
the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of the month,
they first partake of the fruits of the earth, for before that day they do not
touch them. And while they suppose it proper to honor God, from whom they
obtain this plentiful provision, in the first place, they offer the
first-fruits of their barley, and that in the manner following: They take a
handful of the ears, and dry them, then beat them small, and purge the barley
from the bran; they then bring one tenth deal to the altar, to God; and,
casting one handful of it upon the fire, they leave the rest for the use of the
priest. And after this it is that they may publicly or privately reap their
harvest. They also at this participation of the first-fruits of the earth,
sacrifice a lamb, as a burnt-offering to God. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">6. <b>When a week of weeks has passed over after this
sacrifice, (which weeks contain forty and nine days,) on the fiftieth day,
which is Pentecost</b>, but is called by the Hebrews <i>Asartha, </i>which
signifies <i>Pentecost, </i>they bring to God a loaf, made of wheat flour, of
two tenth deals, with leaven; and for sacrifices they bring two lambs; and when
they have only presented them to God, they are made ready for supper for the
priests; nor is it permitted to leave any thing of them till the day following.
They also slay three bullocks for a burnt-offering, and two rams; and fourteen
lambs, with two kids of the goats, for sins; nor is there anyone of the
festivals but in it they offer burnt-offerings; they also allow themselves to
rest on every one of them. Accordingly, the law prescribes in them all what
kinds they are to sacrifice, and how they are to rest entirely, and must slay
sacrifices, in order to feast upon them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Deut 16:9 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Seven weeks shalt thou number
unto thee</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put
the sickle to the corn.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Deut 16:10
[NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And thou shalt keep the feast of
weeks unto </span></b><b><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">יהוה</span></b><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> thy Elohim </span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give
unto </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> thy Elohim, according as </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "cardo" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> thy Elohim hath blessed thee:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Torah in the book of Devarim (Deuteronomy) tells
us that this Feast (Chag) is called “Feast of Weeks”. (Celebration of weeks verse 10), and that the
weeks are to be counted (verse9)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Another interesting point:<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:16</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
And it cometh to pass, <b>on the third day</b>, while it is morning,
that there are voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud, on the mount, and the
sound of a trumpet very strong; and all the people who <i>are</i> in the camp do tremble. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And Moses
bringeth out the people to meet God from the camp, and they station themselves
at the lower part of the mount, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and mount
Sinai <i>is</i> wholly a smoke from the
presence of Yehovah, <b>who hath come down on it in fire</b>, and its smoke
goeth up as smoke of the furnace, and the whole mount trembleth exceedingly; </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:19</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> and the
sound of the trumpet is going on, and very strong; Moses speaketh, and God doth
answer him with a voice. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Exo 19:20</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And Yehovah
cometh down on mount Sinai, unto the top of the mount, and Yehovah calleth for
Moses unto the top of the mount, and Moses goeth up……………………………………….</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Exod 20:18 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And all the people are seeing the voices, <b>and
the flames</b>, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and the
people see, and move, and stand afar off,</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">In the days of Yeshua!</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Acts 2:1 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Acts 2:2
[KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And suddenly there came a <b>sound from heaven</b>
as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
sitting.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Acts 2:3
[KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And there appeared unto them <b>cloven tongues
like as of fire</b>, and it sat upon each of them.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><br />
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THE WORD of YEHOWAH IS LIKE FLAMME</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Jer 23:29 [NRKJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Is not my word like as a fire? saith </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">יהוה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock
in pieces?</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We see the similarity !<br />
<br />
Opponent of these view says that it is not possible and we need to add 50 days
in order to have the “sweet wine” and the harvest of wheat. <br />
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First of all the word for sweet wine:<br />
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Acts 2:13 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Others
mocking said, These men are full of <b>new wine</b>.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">New wine :<br />
</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">G1098 </span><b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">γλεύκος</span></b><span lang="EL" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">gleukos</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> (glyoo'-kos) n.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1. sweet wine</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2. <i>(properly)</i> fresh, unfermented juice, but used of the more sugary,
fermented wine (and therefore highly inebriating)</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">For those like me who have experience in wine
making (for 30 years wine was my business a,d I am born in a family of wine
makers), they will know that in order to keep a wine sweet, you need to stop
the fermentation, by adding alcohol, thus making the wine sweet from the
remaining unfermented natural sugar from the grapes. If you don’t do that,
every time the temperature goes over 28 degrees, the wine will again start its
process of fermentation.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">CONCLUSION: A wine to which the fermentation was stop can be kept from
year to year in a jar or bottle today without problem. So the conclusion that
it needs to be wine which was just harvested does not stand. Yeshua drank wine
at the meal with his disciples before his trial! (Matt. 26:29)</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Another details, sweet wine is and eventual was made from the “Muscat”
grapes which find its origin in Greece and may have been planted during the
Greek occupation before the Romans. Its harvest take place in the latest when
the grapes have reached the full maturity around September , thus was probably
from the former harvest. <br />
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THE BOOK OF RUTH:<br />
The book speak about grain harvest and was probably during thee Feats of
Shavuot. Here a details seems to confirm that the harvest of barley AND wheat
were very close to one another:<br />
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</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Ruth 2:22 [KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">It is</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee
not in any other field.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Ruth 2:23
[KJV])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz <b>to
glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest;</b> and dwelt with
her mother in law.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">APOCRYPHA :</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Tob 2:1</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Now when I was come
home againe, and my wife Anna was restored vnto me, with my sonne Tobias, in
the feast of Pentecost, which is <b>the holy Feast of</b> <b>the seuen weekes</b>,
there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sate down to eate. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Ma 12:26</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Then Maccabeus
marched forth to Carnion, & to the Temple of Atargatis, and there he slew
fiue and twenty thousand persons. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Ma 12:27</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And after he had put
to flight, and destroyed them, Iudas remooued the hoste towards Ephron, a
strong citie, wherin Lysias abode, and a great multitude of diuers nations, and
the strong yong men kept the wals, and defended them mightily: wherin also was
great prouision of engines, and darts. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Ma 12:28</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> But when Iudas and
his company had called vpon Almighty God (who with his power breaketh the
strength of his enemies) they wanne the citie, and slew twentie and fiue
thousand of them that were within. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Ma 12:29</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> From thence they departed
to Scythopolis, which lieth sixe hundreth furlongs from Ierusalem. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Ma 12:30</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> But when the Iewes
that dwelt there had testified that the Scythopolitans dealt louingly with
them, and entreated them kindely in the time of their aduersitie: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Ma 12:31</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> They gaue them
thankes, desiring them to be friendly stil vnto them, and so they came to
Ierusalem, <b>the feast of the weekes approching</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2Ma 12:32</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> And after <b>the
feast called Pentecost</b>, they went foorth against Gorgias the gouernour of
Idumea, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The spring harvest</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Various herbs and legumes were
harvested in spring, but the most important spring crops were cereals: barley
and wheat. A spring ritual took particular note of the cereals: Newly harvested
grain could not be eaten until the firstfruits of grain had been offered on the
"day after the Sabbath" of the Festival of Unleavened Bread
(Leviticus 23:9-1, 14). Pentecost, near the end of the grain harvest, included
grain and loaf offerings (verses 16-17). Pentecost was also called "the
Feast of Harvest" (Exodus 23:16).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Although
barley and wheat were both planted in the autumn, barley matured faster and
would be harvested sooner. The firstfruits of grain offered during the Festival
of Unleavened Bread would have been barley. "In the early stages of the
Israelite settlement the most important cereal was barley...because of the
necessity to settle fringe areas and barley's tolerance of harsh
conditions" (Oded Borowski, <i>Agriculture in Iron Age Israel, </i>1987,
page 7).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">"The amount and distribution
of rainfall together with soil conditions limit the area in Eretz-Israel where
wheat is cultivated to the coastal valleys, the Valley of Jezreel, the Upper
Jordan Valley, and the Beth-shan Valley. [The Israelites did not conquer these
areas at first (Judges 1:19).] In the northern Negev, wheat does well only in
rainy years, which are not frequent" (page 89).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">"Wheat
ripens later than barley and, according to the Gezer Manual, was harvested
during the sixth agricultural season,<i> yrh qsr wkl</i> (end of
April to end of May)" (page 88; also see the chart on page 37 of
Borowski's book, reproduced below).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">"Where the climate is
warmer, as in the Shephelah and the Jordan Valley, crops mature earlier than in
regions where the climate is cool, as in the Judean hill-country and the
Galilee" (page 57). In Galilee, for example, part of the grain harvest
would be completed after Pentecost, especially in years in which Pentecost came
as early as mid-May. Even though all the crop might not be harvested by
Pentecost, Pentecost celebrated the entire grain harvest, including the
small amount of grain to be harvested shortly after the festival.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The summer harvest</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">After Pentecost, most of the
harvest was fruit: grapes, olives, dates, figs, pomegranates and numerous
fruits, seeds and vegetables of less importance.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Deuteronomy 11:10-11 contrasts
Egypt's irrigated vegetable gardens with Canaan's hilly terrain and seasonal
rains, implying that vegetables were less common in Canaan. Proverbs 15:17
indicates that vegetables were among the least-esteemed foods. The Bible has
few references to gardens, cultivated vegetables and wild plants. "The
small number of references to vegetables and the low regard in which vegetables
were held suggest very strongly that vegetables...did not constitute an
important part of the Iron Age diet in Eretz-Israel" (page 139).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Now let's look at the major crops
after Pentecost. Grapes were the first major crop to ripen: "In a good
year, when the [grain] yield was great, threshing and grape picking
overlapped" (page 62). That would be in June, technically in spring, since
summer doesn't officially start until the solstice, about June 22.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The importance of grapes and
olives is illustrated by the fact that the Essenes had wine and oil first fruits
festivals similar to the biblical firstfruits offering for grain. These
festivals also indicate the relative timing of these crops. The new wine
festival came 50 days or seven weeks after Pentecost. Until new wine was
offered, no one could drink any of the new juice (Temple Scroll, columns
19-21). Fourteen weeks after Pentecost, shortly before the Feast of Trumpets,
was the new olive oil festival. No one could use new olives until some oil had
been offered (columns 21-22).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The grape harvest was usually
completed before Tabernacles, but most of the olive harvest came <u>after</u> the
autumn Holy Days.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">In ancient Israel the primary
harvest season extended from April to November. This harvest period might be
subdivided into three seasons and three major crops: the spring grain harvest, the
summer grape harvest and the autumn olive harvest. These harvests have a rough,
rather than a precise, correspondence with the festivals. Some grain might be
harvested after Pentecost, threshing and grape-picking might overlap, and the
olive harvest came both before and after the Festival of Tabernacles.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">THE PURPOSE OF SHAVUOT!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Seven
weeks during which time we are to eliminate all carnal nature as mentioned by
Sha’ul/Paul:<br />
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Gal 5:19 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And manifest also are the
works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Gal 5:20 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Gal 5:21 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">envyings, murders,
drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also
said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Toutes ces choses viennent de l’homme charnel pour lequel il nous est
demandé de nous</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Défaire !</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Pour les remplacer et nous élever vers les attributs de YHWH</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(2Pet 1:5 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">And this same also--all
diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and
in the worthiness the knowledge,</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(2Pet 1:6 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and in the knowledge the
temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the
piety,</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(2Pet 1:7 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and in the piety the
brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(2Pet 1:8 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">for these things being to
you and abounding, do make </span><i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">you</span></i><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> neither
inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(2Pet 1:9 [YLT])</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">for he with whom these
things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the
cleansing of his old sins;</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The “counting of the Omer”
from Pesach (Passover) to Shavuot (Pentecost) is a process – </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">a daily task – that
reflects like a mirror our spiritual lives.
If we are not counting the Omer as </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">God tells us to do, it is
reflective of the fact that we are not overcoming sin and temptation</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and distractions
in our lives. If we fail to count one
day, but repent, and begin counting from that time, then God forgives us, and
we go onward and forward. But it is
better if we are faithful from beginning to end. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>The Omer count is a reflection of our spirituality</b>. Are we developing the attributes of </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">God and
His Spirit</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">/Ruach</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> in
our lives? Are
we growing daily,
constantly, in love – joy
– peace – longsuffering (patience) – gentleness –
goodness – faith – meekness – moderation
(self control)? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Each day of the forty-nine day Omer count is
like a building block to salvation. It
is a </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">tool to develop and grow
in spiritual maturity, so that we are ready when Christ comes, so that </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">we will be a pure and
perfect “Bride” for the KING of the Universe! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Think about such a high calling! Are you faithfully “counting the Omer”? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Even more, the Omer count is a pattern – a
template – to TEACH us what we should be </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">doing EVERY DAY OF OUR
LIVES – “COUNTING THE OMER” AND DEVELOPING THE TRAITS OF GOD'S </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">RUACH
HAQODESH ( Set Apart Spirit) </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> IN OUR LIVES –
EVERY DAY – DAY-BY-DAY – TILL THE MESSIAH, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">YEHOSHUA</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">,
RETURNS FOR HIS BRIDE! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Each and every day should be an “Omer count”
day in our journey to spiritual perfection.
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Each day we should “number
the days,” and “count the days,” as we journey onward and upward to that
thrilling time when </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Yehoshua HaMashiach</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> will come again, bringing
the Kingdom of God with Him!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Spiritual Struggle </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> The Believer life is a life of spiritual
struggle. We must learn to keep our eyes
on the goal.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Paul understood that we
must endure to the end – that we must be FAITHFUL till our </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">dying day, or till Christ
returns (whichever comes first!). Paul
wrote, of his own spiritual battle: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“Do you not know that in a
race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? RUN in such a way that you may WIN it. Athletes exercise self-control in all things;
they do it to receive a perishable wreathe, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as
though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it, so that after
proclaiming to others I myself should not be disqualified” (I Cor.9:24-27,
NRSV). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Notice this
in the Amplified
Parallel Bible: “Do
you not know
that in a race all
the </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">runners compete, but [only]
one receives the prize? So RUN [your
race] so that you may lay </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">hold [of the prize] and
make it yours. . . </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“Therefore I do not run
uncertainly (without definite aim). I do
not box like one beating </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">the air and striking
without an adversary. But [like a boxer]
I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it,
for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining
to it, I
MYSELF SHOULD BECOME
UNFIT [not stand
the test, be unapproved and rejected as a
counterfeit].” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Seven Weeks of Concentrated
Overcoming </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> It
is a remarkable
fact that there
are “seven weeks”
that we count
the Omer. These </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">provide us seven optimal
weeks to work on ourselves – seven weeks of concentrated, distilled </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“overcoming.” Paul also
wrote about this battle in the second letter to the Corinthians. He declared, “For though we walk (live) in
the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using
mere human weapons. For the weapons of
our WARFARE are not physical [weapons of flesh
and blood], but
they are mighty
before God for
the overthrow and
destruction of strongholds,
[inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasoning and every proud
and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we
lead every thought and purpose away captive into the OBEDIENCE of the Messiah,
the Anointed One, being in readiness to punish every [insubordinate for his] disobedience,
when your own submission and OBEDIENCE [as an Assembly] are fully secure and
complete” (II Cor.10:3-6). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Notice! We are not yet “fully secure and complete.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Rather, as
Paul himself wrote
to the Philippians,
again quoting the
Amplified Parallel </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Bible, “[For my determined
purpose is] that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply
and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and
understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and clearly], and that I
may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection
[which it exerts over believers], and that I may so share His sufferings as to
be continually TRANSFORMED [in spirit into His likeness even] to His death,
[in the hope]
that IF POSSIBLE
I may attain
to the [personal
and moral] </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">RESURRECTION .
. . Not
that I have
now attained [this
ideal], or have
already been made perfect,
but I PRESS
ON TO LAY
HOLD OF (GRASP)
and make my
own, that for
which Messiah Yeshua has laid hold of me and made me His own.”
(Phil.3:10-12). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Notice Paul’s
attitude! He did not believe or claim to
already have salvation, but sought </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">to progressively GROW up
into the likeness of Christ, so that “IF POSSIBLE” he may attain to the
resurrection of the righteous dead, or salvation! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Paul goes on, saying, “I do
not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">own [yet]; but one thing I
do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting
what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I PRESS ON TOWARD
THE GOAL TO WIN the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus
is calling us upward.” So, Paul
declares, “So let those [of us] who are spiritually mature and full-grown have
this mind and these convictions; and if in any respect you have a different
attitude of mind, God will make that clear to you also” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(verses 13-15). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Once we begin the Bliever
life, there is a lot of overcoming to do – straining forward to </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">make sure that we will
enter the Kingdom of God and attain to salvation! We must “PRESS </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">ON,” we must “STRAIN
FORWARD,” and make sure that we win the ultimate prize! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">A Program for Overcoming
Since counting the Omer pictures overcoming sin and developing the
righteous-ness and character of God in our lives, and becoming more and more
Christ-like (see Gal.4:19), we should use these days to pray about overcoming
and growing in God’s holiness and righteous character. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Each day it is helpful to pray that day
especially about the characteristic of God which we </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">are working on developing
in our lives, pertinent to that day. For
example, the Jews derive seven major characteristics of God which are mentioned
in the Old Testament, which can be applied to the Omer
count. These seven
attributes are also
characteristic of the
“seven patriarchs” mentioned in
the Scriptures – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron, Joseph, and David. The characteristics are: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Chesed Loving-kindness Abraham </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Gevurah Strength, Power Isaac
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Tiferet Harmony, Peace Jacob
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Netzach Victory, Triumph Moses
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Hod Glory, Majesty Aaron
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Yesod
Foundation Joseph
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Malkut Sovereignty David </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Developing Positive Godly
Character Traits </span></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> We can also use each day to work on one of
the attributes of God’s Holy Spirit in our </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">lives. Paul wrote to the brethren in Galatia, these
plain and instructive words: “But the
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, meekness, temperance: against such
there is no
law. And they
that are Christ’s
have crucified the
flesh with the affections [or, “passions,” marginal
reading] and lusts. If we live in the
Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one
another” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(Galatians 5:22-26). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> There are actually nine fruits of the Spirit
listed here. But if we combine
gentleness and 54 </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">meekness, which
go together, and
faith and self-control
(temperance), then we
have seven combinations of Divine
Attributes. The apostle Paul lists them in Galatians 5:19-20. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">1. Love </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">2. Joy </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">3. Peace </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">4. Patience (Long-suffering) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">5. Gentleness, Goodness </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">6. Faith (Faithfulness) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">7. Meekness, Self Control </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Counting the Omer, for forty-nine days, till
Pentecost, helps us to concentrate during this </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">period and
focus our minds
on overcoming our
sins and weaknesses
and developing the attributes of God in our lives. This helps us to have a PLAN of
overcoming! It is Biblically-based! And it will help you to be a true overcomer
in your life! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> To make the most of the Omer season, and the
days of counting the Omer, it is vital to </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">spend extra time in
earnest, heartfelt prayer every day, to put your heart into your prayers for </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">spiritual growth
and overcoming. As
Jeremiah wrote, “Arise,
cry out in
the night, at the
beginning of the
watches, pour out
your heart like
water before the
presence of YHWH!” (Lamentations 2:19). Become the embodiment of prayer like David
who wrote, “I am all prayer” (Psalm 109:4, Tanakh, marginal reading). The apostle James wrote, “The prayer of the
righteous is powerful and effective” (James 5:16, NRSV). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">The Seven Sefirot and
Fruits of the Spirit </span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Chesed
– loving-kindness. This
is also known
as Ahavah (love).
This quality is </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">associated with Abraham,
the father of the faithful, who loved God so much he was willing to </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">sacrifice Isaac, his true
son, if God so required it. Abraham was
also noted for his hospitality. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">This quality refers to
unconditional acceptance and love of others – out-going concern and care. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b> Love</b>
is also the first of the fruits of God's Holy Spirit! Love is the bedrock of the Law of </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">God – the first great
commandment is to love God, and the second is to love our neighbor. “For this
is the love
of God, that
we keep his
commandments: and his
commandments are not grievous” (I John 5:3). “Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law”
(Rom.13:10). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Gevurah – Strength.</b> This quality is also known as Yirah – awe or
fear. This quality is </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">connected with Isaac. It refers to strength that comes from
containment, the power to contain </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and hold
the energy of
love. It is
the power of
inhibition, the power of discrimination and judgment that allows one to make wise,
right choices. Isaac’s name means
“laughter.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Joy </b>is the second fruit of the Spirit
of God – unbounded laughter and happiness.
God’s </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Word says, “The joy of YHWH
is your strength” (Neh.8:10). Thus true
joy is a source of </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">strength – gevurah. “Rejoice in the Lord alway,” Paul wrote; “and
again I say, Rejoice. Let </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">your moderation be known to
all men” (Phil.4:4-5). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Tiferet – Beauty</b>. This quality is also known as
Rachamim – mercifulness. “It is also a </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">symbol of PEACE because it
represents the perfect BALANCING of the
left and right sides, integrating love
and containment . . .
Tiferet is associated
with Jacob” (Joel
Ziff, Mirrors in Time, p.105). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Peace </b>is the third attribute of God’s
Spirit! Jesus Christ said, “In me ye
shall have peace” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">(John 16:33). “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto
you: not as the world giveth, give I unto
you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27).
Paul also wrote: “And the peace
of God, which
passeth all understanding, shall keep your
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus” (Phil.4:7). Jacob was a man of peace. He was noted as a peace-maker. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Netzach – Victory,</b> Triumph. This begins the second triad (or division of
three qualities) </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of the Sefirot. This quality is associated with Moses, who
triumphantly led Israel out of Egypt “with
a high hand.”
This quality translates
chesed, gevurah, and tefirat into
bold action and accomplishment with power, energy,
planning, and activity. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Gentleness
and meekness</b> are
two of the
fruits of the
Spirit of God
which seem to fit
together. These also
are defining characteristics of
Moses. Why did
Moses achieve such netzach – such victory and success? Because he was a man God could use and work
with, a man to whom “success” would not “go to his head” and cause him to swell
up like a puffed balloon. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">We read of Moses: “Now the man Moses was very meek, above all
the men which were upon </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">the face of the earth”
(Num.12:3). And David writes of the
quality of gentleness, speaking of </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">God Himself, “Thy
gentleness hath made me great” (Psalm 18:35).
He wrote, “It is God that </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">girdeth me with strength,
and maketh my way perfect” (Psa.18:32).
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> The
apostle James tells
us: “But the
wisdom that is
from above is
first pure, then </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">peaceable, gentle,
and easy to be entreated,
full of mercy
and good fruits,
without partiality [favoritism],
and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of
righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace” (James 3:17-18). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Hod – Glory.</b> This is the quality that lights up a person's
face, the inner strength that </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">causes the face to “glow”
with confidence, peacefulness, serenity, dignity, honor, and majesty. It is associated with Aaron, the brother of
Moses. Aaron was noted as a “peace”
maker, and a man of honor. Sometimes he
went too far in seeking to be a “peace-maker,” as when he molded the golden
calf for the rebellious Israelites. He
sought to preserve the people in unity, so he fell into a spiritual trap. Nevertheless, he was a noteworthy man of God,
and a man of wisdom and inner strength.
God’s word says of such a man, “Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of
a thing? a
man’s wisdom maketh
his face to
shine, and the
BOLDNESS [strength] of his face shall be changed” (Eccl.8:1). God also says, “Behold, how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in UNITY! It is like the precious ointment upon the
head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments” (Psa.133:1-2). A
key part of
true “glory” is
humility, meekness –
otherwise hod becomes puffed up
pride and false glory – vanity! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Goodness</b> is the sixth fruit of the
Spirit of God. This also was a strong
quality in Aaron, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">and a quality we must
strive to inculcate into our innermost character. David writes, “Good and upright is YHWH: therefore
will he teach
sinners in the
way” (Psa.25:8). Yeshua Messiah declared, “A
good man out of the
good treasure of
the heart bringeth
forth good things” (Matt.12:35). Paul wrote, “For we are his workmanship,
created unto GOOD WORKS, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in
them” (Eph.2:10). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Yesod – Foundation</b>. This quality is the integration of both
netzach and hod, and is the </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">balance between power and
presence. Joseph, the son of Jacob, became
the prime minister of </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Egypt, and virtual ruler of
the world, after suffering slavery as a teenager, and imprisonment for a crime
he never committed.
Yet after these
harrowing trials he
rose by God’s
miraculous deliverance to an
exalted governmental position.
He is the
embodiment and epitome
of this characteristic. Joseph by his suffering and continual growth
and strength through contact with God, and His Spirit, became the foundation of
the world, delivering the whole earth from the ravages of the most terrible
famine mankind had seen up to that time.
His wisdom and planning and spiritual strength provided a way to save
his own family, and millions of others.
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Longsuffering</b> is the fourth fruit of
the Spirit of God. Certainly, this
characteristic was </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">well-illustrated in
the life of
Joseph. Despite his
trials and tests, tribulations
and suffering, Joseph remained
faithful to God
and worshipped Him
through it all.
His long-suffering and patience and endurance in well-doing
finally led to his exaltation to high office where he could serve in
a much greater
capacity. The apostle
Paul wrote: “Cast
not away therefore
your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of PATIENCE, that after ye
have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall
come will come, and will not tarry” (Heb.10:35-37). James added, “My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations [trials, sufferings]; knowing this, that
the trying of your faith worketh patience.
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing” (James 1:2-4). </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Connected with this trait is the quality of “self
control” – self mastery – which is also one </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">of the fruits of God’s Holy
Spirit. Self-control and long-suffering
go together like hash browns and eggs.
They are two aspects of the same quality – endurance – and constitute a
“foundation” for true achievement! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <b>Malchut
– Kingdom,</b> kingship,
royalty, sovereignty. This quality represents </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">manifestation, the
translation of energy
into action and
activity – and
means literally </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">“KINGDOM.” Malchut is associated with the Shekinah – the
“Presence” – of God. King David is
connected to this Sefirah as he is the one whom God used to bring the Kingdom
of God to fruition and accomplishment as a type, in his day. He was himself a type of the Messianic King, Yeshua
– and the promised Messiah was to be born of his descendants, of his royal
lineage. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> These powerful Seven Sefirot of God – these
SEVEN manifestations of the Holy Spirit –</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">are mighty
vehicles to spiritual
growth and becoming
godlike. If we
will meditate on
these attributes of God, and ponder them, and reflect upon them, and study
them in the Scriptures, and spend time thinking about them, and considering HOW
we might express them more fully and completely in our own daily lives – these
divine spiritual energies will provide us a powerful tool </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">to use to become the true
SONS OF GOD in actual spiritual image and character likeness. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> What a glorious destiny God has in store for
those who serve Him, obey Him, count the </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">omer and
make the omer
count in character
growth and development! One
day soon, God willing, we will shine like the sun in
its glory, and endure like the sun, as masters of eternity, ever-ruling sons in
the expanding family of God, forever and ever!
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> As
you “count the
omer,” make the
omer counting practice
really COUNT – for
you! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Enter into the dazzling,
radiant JOY of “counting the omer” faithfully, and you will be blessed!<br />
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CHAG SAMEACH SHAVUOT!<br />
Daniel ben Ya’acov Ysrael</span></span></span></div>
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