Happy New Year?? May YHWH bless and direct you!

January 2, 2010 Happy New Year?? May YHWH bless and direct you!

(John 4:24) YHWH is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.

Shabbat Shalom Loved One!

This week we have started the “New” year of 2010. Some people around the world have celebrated by overeating and drinking alcohol to intoxication. Others have made New Year’s resolutions which are customs and traditions of making changes in our lives and celebrating the hopeful changed results we expect for the coming year. Is December 31st (midnight) really a new year? Unless you subscribe to Pope Gregory’s authority to override the Creator’s reckoning of time, it is not. Is midnight even the “magical” moment that the day changes? Recently I saw a small book on catechism by the Catholic Church stating “nowhere in Scripture does it indicate the Sabbath that we are to worship is on Sunday. (The venerable Day of the Sun) However, even Protestants agree that the Pope is Vicar or Christ on the Earth and they too submit to Sunday worship.” In Genesis YHWH created the evening and morning, the first day, which indicates the day start at sundown; not at 12 midnight! (Gen 1:4) YHWH saw that the light was good; and YHWH separated the light from the darkness. (Gen 1:5) YHWH called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Today we are so far removed from YHWH’s Moedim (appointed times and seasons) that most of us don’t really have a clue what time it is as YHWH runs His Universe based on His astronomical calculations. Why should we consider making some changes? Why does it even matter? Let’s take a close look at what believers in Messiah’s day were told. They were told there was no need for them to be concerned as they understood these Moedim (appointments- Times and Seasons) and would not be surprised at all. Only the WORLD would be deceived and sudden destruction would come upon THEM! Not on children of the Day: (1Th 5:1) Now, brothers, as to the times and the seasons (Moedim) you do not need to be written to. (1Th 5:2) For you yourselves know very well that the day of יהוה comes as a thief in the night. (1Th 5:3) For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. (1Th 5:4) But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. (1Th 5:5) For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. (1Th 5:6) So, then, we should not sleep, as others do, but we should watch and be sober. (1Th 5:7) For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.



Perhaps there are more appropriate actions for changing our destinies and the outcomes of our NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS! We remember some weeks back our study was about Abraham’s intercession for Lot and his family living among wickedness of the whoring culture of Sodomy (Sodom and Gomorah) and that is a picture of what is happening today in the USA and elsewhere. It is getting darker and darker with the passing of days, weeks, months and years. We might want to consider interceding before our Heavenly Father for our loved ones as our New Year Resolve or we can expect fire to consume them also as Peter (Kefa) warned. (2Pe 3:3) Know this first of all, that in the last day’s mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, (2Pe 3:4) and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." (2Pe 3:5) For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of YHWH the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water, (2Pe 3:6) through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water. (2Pe 3:7) But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and destruction of ungodly men. (2Pe 3:8) But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with YHWH one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. (2Pe 3:9) YHWH is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2Pe 3:10) But the Day of YHWH will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (2Pe 3:11) Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, (2Pe 3:12) looking for and hastening the coming of the Day of YHWH, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!



Remember all things are possible for YHWH, the only reason they are not possible for you and I is our UNBELIEF! What gets rid of unbelief? PRAYER AND FASTING according to Yahshua! Prayer AND Fasting, not prayer without fasting or fasting without prayer! If we really care about our loved ones we will seek YHWH’s face with prayer and fasting and quit worrying…Yahshua promises in Revelation to throw the fearful (worriers) into hell with the adulterers, murderers etc. Why? Because, if that is who we become under great fiery trials we have trusted the power of hasatan to do us harm, more than the power of YHWH to deliver us! (Could this apply to you and me? NOT IF we pray and fast and overcome! Perhaps PRAYER AND FASTING might be the more appropriate way to “ring in the New Year” of Pope Gregory! Now we turn our hearts and minds to this week’s study of Jacob dying and leaving instructions for his 12 sons who are brothers!



Here are the Torah Scriptures for the week: Vayechi: “And he lived”

Genesis 47:28-50:26

1 Kings 2:1-12; 1 Peter 1:3-9, Judges, Chapters 10, 11, and 12

(Gen 47:28) And Yaʽaqoḇ lived in the land of Mitsrayim seventeen years. So the length of Yaʽaqoḇ’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years. (Gen 47:29) And the time for Yisra’ĕl to die drew near, and he called his son Yosĕph and said to him, “Now if I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and show kindness and truth to me. Please do not bury me in Mitsrayim, (Gen 47:30) but I shall lie with my fathers, and you shall take me up out of Mitsrayim and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I do as you have said.” (Gen 47:31) And he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him, and Yisra’ĕl bowed himself on the head of the bed. Gen 48:1 And after these events it came to be that it was said to Yosĕph, “See, your father is sick.” And he took with him his two sons, Menashsheh and Ephrayim. Gen 48:2 And Yaʽaqoḇ was told, “See, your son Yosĕph is coming to you.” And Yisra’ĕl strengthened himself and sat up on the bed. Gen 48:3 And Yaʽaqoḇ said to Yosĕph, “Ěl Shaddai appeared to me at Luz in the land of Kenaʽan and blessed me, Gen 48:4 and said to me, ‘See, I am making you bear fruit and shall increase you and make of you an assembly of peoples, and give this land to your seed after you as an everlasting possession.’ Gen 48:5 “And now, your two sons, Ephrayim and Menashsheh, who were born to you in the land of Mitsrayim before I came to you in Mitsrayim, are mine – as Re’uḇĕn and Shimʽon, they are mine. Gen 48:6 “Your offspring whom you shall bring forth after them are yours, and let them be called by the name of their brothers in their inheritance. Gen 48:7 “And I, when I came from Paddan, Raḥĕl died beside me in the land of Kenaʽan on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath that is Bĕyth Leḥem.”



The blessing of Ephraim who will be a last days’ multitude joined to Judah:



(Eze 37:15) And the word of יהוה came to me, saying, (Eze 37:16) “And you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it, ‘For Yehuḏah and for the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ (Eze 37:17) “Then bring them together for yourself into one stick, and they shall become one in your hand. (Eze 37:18) “And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what you mean by these?’ (Eze 37:19) say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕph, which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give them unto him, with the stick of Yehuḏah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.” ’ (Eze 37:20) “And the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes. (Eze 37:21) “And speak to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the children of Yisra’ĕl from among the gentiles, wherever they have gone, and shall gather them from all around, and I shall bring them into their land. (Eze 37:22) “And I shall make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. And one sovereign shall be sovereign over them all, and let them no longer be two nations, and let them no longer be divided into two reigns. (Eze 37:23) “And they shall no longer defile themselves with their idols, nor with their disgusting matters, nor with any of their transgressions. And I shall save them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I shall cleanse them. And they shall be my people, and I be their Elohim, (Eze 37:24) while Dawiḏ My servant is sovereign over them. And they shall all have one shepherd and walk in my right-rulings and guard my laws, and shall do them. (Eze 37:25) “And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Yaʽaqoḇ My servant, where your fathers dwelt. And they shall dwell in it, they and their children and their children’s children, forever, and my servant Dawiḏ be their prince forever. (Eze 37:26) “And I shall make a covenant of peace with them – an everlasting covenant it is with them. And I shall place them and increase them, and shall place my set-apart place in their midst, forever. (Eze 37:27) “And my Dwelling Place shall be over them. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be my people. (Eze 37:28) “And the gentiles shall know that I, יהוה, am setting Yisra’ĕl apart, when my set-apart place is in their midst – forever.” ’ ”



Gen 48:8 And Yisra’ĕl saw Yosĕph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?” Gen 48:9 And Yosĕph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom Elohim has given me in this place.” And he said, “Please bring them to me, and let me bless them.” Gen 48:10 and the eyes of Yisra’ĕl were dim with age, and he was unable to see. And he drew them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. Gen 48:11 And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “I had not thought to see your face. But see, Elohim has also shown me your seed!” Gen 48:12 So Yosĕph brought them from between his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the earth. Gen 48:13 And Yosĕph took them both, Ephrayim with his right hand toward Yisra’ĕl left hand, and Menashsheh with his left hand toward Yisra’ĕl right hand, and brought them near him. Gen 48:14 And Yisra’ĕl stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephrayim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Menashsheh’s head, consciously directing his hands, for Menashsheh was the first-born. Gen 48:15 And he blessed Yosĕph, and said, “The Elohim before whom my father’s Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq walked, the Elohim who has fed me all my life long to this day, Gen 48:16 the Messenger who has redeemed me from all evil – bless the youths! And let my name be called upon them, and the name of my father’s Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq. And let them increase to a multitude in the midst of the earth.” Gen 48:17 and when Yosĕph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from the head of Ephrayim to the head of Menashsheh. Gen 48:18 And Yosĕph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one is the first-born, put your right hand on his head.” Gen 48:19 but his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also becomes a people, and he also is great. And yet, his younger brother is greater than he, and his seed is to become the completeness of the nations.” Gen 48:20 and he blessed them on that day, saying, “In you Yisra’ĕl shall bless, saying, ‘Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!’ ” Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh. Gen 48:21 And Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “See, I am dying, but Elohim shall be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers. Gen 48:22 “And I, I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.” Gen 49:1 And Yaʽaqoḇ called his sons and said, “Gather together, so that I declare to you what is to befall you in the last days: Gen 49:2 “Gather together and hear, you sons of Yaʽaqoḇ, and listen to Yisra’ĕl your father. Gen 49:3 “Re’uḇĕn, you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of exaltation and the excellence of power. Gen 49:4 “Boiling like water, you do not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he went up to my couch. Gen 49:5 “Shimʽon and Lĕwi are brothers; their weapons are implements of violence. Gen 49:6 “Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their assembly; because they slew a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an ox in pleasure. Gen 49:7 “Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Yaʽaqoḇ and scatter them in Yisra’ĕl. Gen 49:8 “You, Yehuḏah, your brothers praise you; your hand is on the neck of your enemies; your father’s children bow down before you. Gen 49:9 “Yehuḏah is a lion’s cub; from the prey you have gone up, my son! He bowed down, he crouched like a lion. And like a lion, who does rouse him? Gen 49:10 “The scepter shall not turn aside from Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples. Gen 49:11 “Binding his donkey to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes. Gen 49:12 “His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk. Gen 49:13 “Zeḇulun dwells at the seashore, he is for a haven for ships, and his border is unto Tsiḏon. Gen 49:14 “Yissasḵar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens, Gen 49:15 and he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a subject to slave labor. Gen 49:16 “Dan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl. Gen 49:17 “Dan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward. Gen 49:18 “I have waited for your deliverance, O יהוה! Gen 49:19 “Gaḏ, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel. Gen 49:20 “Bread from Ashĕr is rich, and he gives delicacies of a sovereign. Gen 49:21 “Naphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance. Gen 49:22 “Yosĕph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall. Gen 49:23 “And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him. Gen 49:24 “But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Yaʽaqoḇ – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ĕl – Gen 49:25 from the Ěl of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. Gen 49:26 “The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on the head of Yosĕph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

Gen 49:27 “Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at night he divides the spoil.” Gen 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra’ĕl, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, he blessed each one according to his own blessing. Gen 49:29 And he commanded them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people, bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Ḥittite, Gen 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Maḵpĕlah, which is before Mamrĕ in the land of Kenaʽan, which Aḇraham bought with the field of Ephron the Ḥittite as a possession for a burial site. Gen 49:31 There they buried Aḇraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Yitsḥaq and Riḇqah his wife, and there I buried Lĕ’ah – Gen 49:32 the field purchased, and the cave which is in it, from the sons of Ḥĕth.” Gen 49:33 and when Yaʽaqoḇ ended commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people. Gen 50:1 and Yosĕph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him. Gen 50:2 And Yosĕph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Yisra’ĕl. Gen 50:3 and forty days were completed for him, for so are completed the days of embalming. And the Mitsrites wept for him seventy days. Gen 50:4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Yosĕph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If, now, I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying, Gen 50:5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “See, I am dying, bury me in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Kenaʽan.” And now, please let me go up and bury my father, and return.’ ” Gen 50:6 And Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.” Gen 50:7 And Yosĕph went up to bury his father. And with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Mitsrayim, Gen 50:8 and all the house of Yosĕph, and his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds they left in the land of Goshen. Gen 50:9 and there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great company. Gen 50:10 and they came to the threshing-floor of Ataḏ, which is beyond the Yardĕn, and they lamented there with a great and very heavy lamentation. And he observed seven days of mourning for his father. Gen 50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Kenaʽanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Ataḏ, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the Mitsrites.” That is why its name was called Aḇĕl Mitsrayim, which is beyond the Yardĕn. Gen 50:12 and his sons did to him as he had commanded them, Gen 50:13 for his sons brought him to the land of Kenaʽan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Maḵpĕlah, before Mamrĕ, which Aḇraham bought with the field from Ephron the Ḥittite as property for a burial site. Gen 50:14 and after he had buried his father, Yosĕph returned to Mitsrayim, he and his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father. Gen 50:15 and when Yosĕph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Yosĕph hates us, and pays us back all the evil which we did to him?” Gen 50:16 and they sent word to Yosĕph, saying, “Before your father died he commanded, saying, Gen 50:17 ‘This is what you are to say to Yosĕph, “I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.” ’ And now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the Elohim of your father.” And Yosĕph wept when they spoke to him. Gen 50:18 and his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, “See, we are your servants.” Gen 50:19 And Yosĕph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of Elohim? Gen 50:20 “And you, you intended evil against me, but Elohim intended it for good, in order to do it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive. Gen 50:21 “And now, do not fear, I provide for you and your little ones.” So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. Gen 50:22 and Yosĕph dwelt in Mitsrayim, he and his father’s household. And Yosĕph lived one hundred and ten years. Gen 50:23 And Yosĕph saw Ephrayim’s children to the third generation. The children of Maḵir, son of Menashsheh, were also brought up on Yosĕph’s knees. Gen 50:24 And Yosĕph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but Elohim shall certainly visit you and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ.” Gen 50:25 And Yosĕph made the children of Yisra’ĕl swear, saying, “Elohim shall certainly visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here.” Gen 50:26 And Yosĕph died, being one hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Mitsrayim.



Death of King David who warns: keep Torah YHWH will keep His promise!



(1Ki 2:1) And the days of Dawiḏ drew near to die, and he commanded Shelomoh his son, saying,

(1Ki 2:2) “I am going the way of all the earth. And you shall be strong, and be a man. (1Ki 2:3) “And guard the Charge of יהוה your Elohim: to walk in His ways, to guard His laws, His commands, His right-rulings, and His witnesses, as it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, so that you do wisely all that you do and wherever you turn; (1Ki 2:4) so that יהוה does establish His word which He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons guard their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their being,’ saying, ‘there is not to cease a man of yours on the throne of Yisra’ĕl.’ (1Ki 2:5) “And also, you know what Yo’aḇ son of Tseruyah did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Yisra’ĕl, to Aḇnĕr son of Nĕr and Amasa son of Yether, that he slew them, and shed the blood of battle in peace, and put the blood of battle on his belt that was around his waist, and on his sandals that were on his feet. (1Ki 2:6) “So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his grey hair go down to the grave in peace. (1Ki 2:7) “But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gilʽaḏite, and let them be among those who eat at your table, for so they came to me when I fled from Aḇshalom your brother. (1Ki 2:8) “And see, with you is Shimʽi son of Gĕra, the Binyamite from Baḥurim, who cursed me with a grievous cursing in the day when I went to Maḥanayim. But he came down to meet me at the Yardĕn, and I swore to him by יהוה, saying, ‘I shall not put you to death with the sword.’ (1Ki 2:9) “And now, do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man and know what you should do to him, and shall bring his grey hair down to the grave with blood.” (1Ki 2:10) And Dawiḏ slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of Dawiḏ. (1Ki 2:11) And the days that Dawiḏ reigned over Yisra’ĕl was forty years. He reigned seven years in Ḥeḇron, and in Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years. (1Ki 2:12) And Shelomoh sat on the throne of his father Dawiḏ. And his reign was firmly established.



Note that without fiery trials and TESTS there is no faith no TESTIMONY!

(1Pe 1:3) Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah, who according to His great compassion has caused us to be born again to a living expectation through the resurrection of יהושע Messiah from the dead, (1Pe 1:4) to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in the heavens for you, (1Pe 1:5) who are protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be revealed in the last time, (1Pe 1:6) in which you exult, even though for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by manifold trials, (1Pe 1:7) in order that the proving (Testing) of your belief – much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire – might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at the revelation of יהושע Messiah, (1Pe 1:8) whom having not seen, you love; in whom you exult with unspeakable and esteemed joy, yet not seeing, but believing, (1Pe 1:9) obtaining the goal of your belief: a deliverance of lives. (1Pe 1:10) Concerning this deliverance the prophets have sought out and searched out, prophesying concerning the favor for you, (1Pe 1:11) searching to know what, or what sort of time, the Spirit which was in them was pointing out concerning Messiah, when it was bearing witness beforehand the sufferings of Messiah, and the esteems that would follow, (1Pe 1:12) to whom it was revealed that they were serving, not themselves, but you, in these matters which now have been announced to you through those who brought the Good News to you by the Set-apart Spirit sent from heaven – into which messengers (Angels) long to look into.



Here we (Ephraim- the scattered tribes or Lost Sheep of Israel) go serving Astarte (EASTERS) again! Judges 10:1 After Aḇimeleḵ there arose Tola son of Pu’ah, son of Doḏo, a man of Yissasḵar, to save Yisra’ĕl. And he dwelt in Shamur in the mountains of Ephrayim. Judges 10:2 and he ruled Yisra’ĕl twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamur. Judges 10:3 and after him arose Ya’ir, a Gilʽaḏite, and he ruled Yisra’ĕl twenty-two years. Judges 10:4 and he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns, which are called Hawoth Yair to this day, which are in the land of Gilʽaḏ. Judges 10:5 And Ya’ir died, and was buried in Qamon. Judges 10:6 And the children of Yisra’ĕl again did evil in the eyes of יהוה, and served the Baʽals and the Ashtoreths, and the mighty ones of Aram, and the mighty ones of Tsiḏon, and the mighty ones of Mo’aḇ, and the mighty ones of the children of Ammon, and the mighty ones of the Philistines – and forsook יהוה and did not serve Him. Judges 10:7 Therefore the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl. And He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon. Judges 10:8 And they crushed and oppressed the children of Yisra’ĕl that year – for eighteen years – all the children of Yisra’ĕl who were beyond the Yardĕn in the land of the Amorites, in Gilʽaḏ. Judges 10:9 and the children of Ammon passed over the Yardĕn to fight against Yehuḏah, and against Binyamin, and against the house of Ephrayim, so that Yisra’ĕl had great distress. Judges 10:10 and the children of Yisra’ĕl cried out to יהוה, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have both forsaken our Elohim and served the Baʽals!” Judges 10:11 so יהוה said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, “Was it not from the Mitsrites and from the Amorites and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines that I saved you? Judges 10:12 “And the Tsiḏonians and Amalĕq and Maʽon oppressed you. And you cried out to me, and I saved you from their hand. Judges 10:13 “But you, you have forsaken me and served other mighty ones. Therefore I do not save you again. Judges 10:14 “Go and cry out to the mighty ones which you have chosen, let them save you in your time of distress.” Judges 10:15 and the children of Yisra’ĕl said to יהוה, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever is good in your eyes; only deliver us today, please.” Judges 10:16 so they put away the foreign mighty ones from their midst and served יהוה. And His being was grieved with the trouble of Yisra’ĕl. Judges 10:17 Then the children of Ammon were called together and encamped in Gilʽaḏ. And the children of Yisra’ĕl gathered together and encamped in Mitspah. Judges 10:18 and the people, the heads of Gilʽaḏ, said to each other, “Let the man who is the first to fight against the children of Ammon be head over all the inhabitants of Gilʽaḏ.” Judges 10:1 After Aḇimeleḵ there arose Tola son of Pu’ah, son of Doḏo, a man of Yissasḵar, to save Yisra’ĕl. And he dwelt in Shamur in the mountains of Ephrayim. Judges 10:2 and he ruled Yisra’ĕl twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried in Shamur. Judges 10:3 and after him arose Ya’ir, a Gilʽaḏite, and he ruled Yisra’ĕl twenty-two years. Judges 10:4 and he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns, which are called Hawoth Yair to this day, which are in the land of Gilʽaḏ. Judges 10:5 And Ya’ir died, and was buried in Qamon. Judges 10:6 And the children of Yisra’ĕl again did evil in the eyes of יהוה, and served the Baʽals and the Ashtoreths, and the mighty ones of Aram, and the mighty ones of Tsiḏon, and the mighty ones of Mo’aḇ, and the mighty ones of the children of Ammon, and the mighty ones of the Philistines – and forsook יהוה and did not serve Him. Judges 10:7 Therefore the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl. And He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon. Judges 10:8 And they crushed and oppressed the children of Yisra’ĕl that year – for eighteen years – all the children of Yisra’ĕl who were beyond the Yardĕn in the land of the Amorites, in Gilʽaḏ. Judges 10:9 and the children of Ammon passed over the Yardĕn to fight against Yehuḏah, and against Binyamin, and against the house of Ephrayim, so that Yisra’ĕl had great distress. Judges 10:10 and the children of Yisra’ĕl cried out to יהוה, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have both forsaken our Elohim and served the Baʽals!” Judges 10:11 so יהוה said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, “Was it not from the Mitsrites and from the Amorites and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines that I saved you? Judges 10:12 “And the Tsiḏonians and Amalĕq and Maʽon oppressed you. And you cried out to Me, and I saved you from their hand. Judges 10:13 “But you, you have forsaken me and served other mighty ones. Therefore I do not save you again. Judges 10:14 “Go and cry out to the mighty ones which you have chosen, let them save you in your time of distress.” Judges 10:15 and the children of Yisra’ĕl said to יהוה, “We have sinned! Do to us whatever is good in your eyes; only deliver us today, please.” Judges 10:16 so they put away the foreign mighty ones from their midst and served יהוה. And His being was grieved with the trouble of Yisra’ĕl. Judges 10:17 Then the children of Ammon were called together and encamped in Gilʽaḏ. And the children of Yisra’ĕl gathered together and encamped in Mitspah. Judges 10:18 and the people, the heads of Gilʽaḏ, said to each other, “Let the man who is the first to fight against the children of Ammon be head over all the inhabitants of Gilʽaḏ.” Judges 12:1 and the men of Ephrayim gathered together, and passed over toward Tsaphon, and said to Yiphtaḥ, “Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and did not call us to go with you? We are going to burn your house over you with fire!” Judges 12:2 And Yiphtaḥ said to them, “My people and I were in a great struggle with the children of Ammon. And when I called you, you did not save me out of their hands. Judges 12:3 “And I saw that you would not save me, then I took my life in my hands and went over against the children of Ammon. And יהוה gave them into my hand. And why have you come up to me today to fight against me?” Judges 12:4 Yiphtaḥ then gathered together all the men of Gilʽaḏ and fought against Ephrayim. And the men of Gilʽaḏ smote Ephrayim, because they had said, “You Gilʽaḏite are fugitives of Ephrayim in the midst of Ephrayim, in the midst of Menashsheh.” Judges 12:5 And Gilʽaḏ captured the fords of the Yardĕn that faced Ephrayim. And it came to be, when the fugitives from Ephrayim said, “Let me pass over,” the men of Gilʽaḏ said to him, “You are an Ephrayimite!” If he said, “No,” Judges 12:6 then they would say to him, “Please say, ‘Shibboleth’!” And he would say, “Sibboleth,” for he was unable to pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Yardĕn. And at that time there fell forty-two thousand Ephrayimites. Judges 12:7 And Yiphtaḥ ruled Yisra’ĕl six years. And Yiphtaḥ the Gilʽaḏite died and was buried in one of the cities of Gilʽaḏ. Judges 12:8 and after him, Iḇtsan of Bĕyth Leḥem ruled Yisra’ĕl. Judges 12:9 and he came to have thirty sons and thirty daughters – he sent abroad and brought in thirty daughters for his sons. And he ruled Yisra’ĕl seven years. Judges 12:10 And Iḇtsan died and was buried at Bĕyth Leḥem. Judges 12:11 and after him Ělon the Zeḇulunite ruled Yisra’ĕl. And he ruled Yisra’ĕl ten years. Judges 12:12 and Ělon the Zeḇulunite died and was buried at Ayalon in the land of Zeḇulun.



Thanks loved ones for your much needed prayers for protection and provision for us now; that YHWH would draw many to Himself and that I would be given what to speak and do as I teach and minister Torah (TRUTH) Moses and Elijah (Spirit and repentance) across South Africa. I pray for you and your loved ones as you intercede here for the many coming to Torah and Spirit!


Shalom to your home Loved One!

Thurston