Saturday, July 17, 2010
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July 17, 2010
Shabbat Shalom Loved One!
May YHWH give you an ear to hear and the courage to obey Him! Don’t be among those that stone the watchmen. Let the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit) guide you into all truth and teach you of things to come. www.Shabbatshalomlovedone.blogspot.com for our weekly Torah Study and timely messages And www.seedtime2harvest.com for ordering our DVD’s and timely messages for this summer and fall (9-11) and listen to our weekly radio program at www.walkwithchristgospelradio.com called Shabbat Shalom Loved One normally at from 7 pm Eastern to 8:30 pm every Friday! Loved One, please fast and pray as we will each need to be free from all unbelief to hear Him!
Last week I shared about this coming Feast of Trumpets. You may ask, why is understanding that particular Feast of YHWH (Not Jewish only Feast) so important? It is NOT the LAST TRUMP! However; it is still of vast import because I suspect it is the start of the last seven trumps which are Feast Days before the Feast of Trumpets 2017 which I believe is the LAST TRUMP. (1Co 15:50) And this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood are unable to inherit the reign of Elohim, neither does corruption inherit incorruption. (1Co 15:51) See, I speak a secret to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, (1Co 15:52) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1Co 15:53) For this corruptible has to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality. I also believe that this coming Feast of Trumpets is the season of the judgment of His body “The Church” first which He promised to judge prior to judging the heathens. (1Pe 4:17) It is time for judgment to begin from the House of Elohim. And if firstly from us, what is the end of those who do not obey the Good News of Elohim? (1Pe 4:18) And if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where shall the wicked and the sinner appear? (1Pe 4:19) So then, those who suffer according to the desire of Elohim should commit their lives to a trustworthy Creator, in doing well. (Won’t it be great for us who belong to Messiah Yahshua to have a “glorified” body; where we can eat like Yahshua did and actually walk through walls etc?)
I have known Michael Rood, travelled with him and have questioned him thoroughly about his understandings of Scripture and his insights that have come from following Torah 30 plus years- with a Holy Spirit filled passion few of us approach; you should not be surprised that when he makes a calculation or statement concerning the Feast of Trumpets 2010- I listen and pray! Do I accept Michael’s calculations blindly? Not at all! When Michael came out with his “Jonah Code” understanding about these patterns and time frames many years ago, I flatly rejected it as I saw no Scriptures for his timings; until I fasted and prayed years later (2008) and was shown much the same time patterns with different details. You most likely will need to fast and pray also to hear for yourself! Recently Michael announced his recent findings via email to many of us and it is an Awakening blast of the Trumpet! Many of you know the phrase “No man knows the day or hour” that Yahshua (Jesus) spoke telling of the times of the end is a Hebrew idiom for the Feast of Trumpets. WHY? It is the only Feast that cannot be foretold as it is on the first sliver of the seventh New Moon; whereas the rest of the Feast Days are later on in any given month, giving you time to foretell them. Most of you also know that YHWH runs His Universes based on His astronomical and agricultural (Month of the Abiv) witness calendar as He alone can make the Sun and moon standstill or go forwards or backwards and therefore Pope Gregory nor anyone else can interfere with His calendar and His scheduled Moedim (Feasts or Appointments He has with His people). Since the moon circles the planet earth every 29.54 days we will always have a 29 day month or a 30 day month and never a 28 or 31 day month as Pope Gregory determined. What does this mean? Simply this; if you cannot see the New Moon sliver on the 29th it is automatically considered the New Moon and beginning of any month (Biblically) on the 30th day from the last sighting of the first sliver of the (Re) New (ed) Moon. What if you could use NASA calculations of illumination of the New Moon and see that it would literally be physically impossible to see the New Moon on the 29th day due to lack of illumination pre calculated by NASA until after September 2010 which would be the calculated month this year of the seventh New Moon Biblically? (Feast of Trumpets) Would YHWH warn us that precisely?
Many of you also know that after a 40 day fast in 2008 I was told (among other things) “Rockets fly on the Feast of Trumpets 2010”! Due to Michael’s alert calculations using NASA;s moon illumination percentages and his astute understanding of the calendar YHWH uses to run His Creation which He alone has placed the greater Light (Sun) and lesser light (Moon) and the planets and stars in their courses for days, seasons, and years, something of Biblical proportions Michael has announced! Remember YHWH confirmed to me after my fast in 2008 that the Feast of Trumpets 2010 would start the last seven years prior to His arrival at the Feast of Trumpets 2017! You may want to order the 4.5 hr teaching- Fullness of the Gentiles and How then shall we live? Twin DVD set at www.seedtime2harvest.com for $25.
What is this Biblical proportions announcement of Michael’s that starts the awakening Trumpet blast of Joel’s (Read the Bible Book of Joel) announcements and warnings? What is Michael’s profound calculation announcement?
The Feast of Trumpets 2010 just happens to fall on September 11, 2010! 9-11-2010
What are the odds of that? Perhaps YHWH loves us and really expects us understand.
We are supposed to understand the Times and seasons of the Lord (Feasts-Moedim-Appointments) (1Th 5:1) Now, brothers, as to the times and the seasons, you do not need to be written to. (If we were keeping these Feasts as they were, we would also understand their timings) (1Th 5:2) For you 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. (1Th 5:8) But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the breastplate of belief and love, and as a helmet the expectation of deliverance. (1Th 5:9) Because Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master יהושע Messiah, (1Th 5:10) who died for us, so that we, whether awake or asleep, should live together with Him. (Wrath is not the Seals and Trumps- only the Bowls of Wrath) Now, in all diligence to His word, we should be sober, alert, watching and praying. IF these events are really approaching; we should soon see civil unrest as the financial world collapses beginning in the USA. IF these events are truly this September 11, then the great troubles spoken of in Joel 1, 2, and 3 and Revelations must soon come to pass.
This Week’s Torah Scriptures: Words Devarim
Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22; Isaiah 1:1-27; 1Timothy 3:1-7; Matthew 12:32-36;
1 Kings Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 19
Why are WORDS so important? Remember in Genesis YHWH framed the worlds with His spoken words! Yahshua said, “(John 6:63) “It is the Spirit that gives life, the flesh does not profit at all. The words that I speak to you are Spirit and are life.1 Footnote: 1See v. 68, and 1 Cor. 15:45. Word and Spirit are in unity. So, we can see that agreeing with Yahshua’s words are spirit and will bring life; but other words are spirit and bring death!
(Deu 1:1) These are the words which Mosheh spoke to all Yisra’ĕl beyond the Yardĕn in the wilderness, in the desert plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laḇan, and Ḥatsĕroth, and Di Zahaḇ, (Deu 1:2) eleven days’ journey from Ḥorĕḇ by way of Mount Sĕʽir to Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa. (Deu 1:3) And it came to be in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Mosheh spoke to the children of Yisra’ĕl according to all that יהוה had commanded him concerning them, (Deu 1:4) after he had smitten Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, and Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Eḏreʽi. (Deu 1:5) Beyond the Yardĕn, in the land of Mo’aḇ, Mosheh undertook to declare this Torah, saying, (Deu 1:6) “יהוה our Elohim spoke to us in Ḥorĕḇ, saying, ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. (Deu 1:7) ‘Turn and set out on your way, and go into the mountains of the Amorites, and to all the neighboring places in the desert plain, in the mountains and in the low country, and in the Negeḇ and on the seacoast, to the land of the Kenaʽanites and to Leḇanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates. (Deu 1:8) ‘See, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which יהוה swore to your fathers, to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ, to give to them and their seed after them.’ (Deu 1:9) “And I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am unable to bear you by myself. (Deu 1:10) ‘יהוה your Elohim has increased you, and see you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens. (Deu 1:11) ‘יהוה Elohim of your fathers is going to add to you a thousand times more than you are, and bless you as He has spoken to you!
Choosing Leaders
(Deu 1:12) ‘How do I bear your pressure and your burden and your strife, by myself? (Deu 1:13) ‘Choose men, wise and understanding, and known to your tribes, and let me appoint them as your heads.’ (Deu 1:14) “And you answered me and said, ‘The word which you have spoken to us to do is good.’ (Deu 1:15) “And I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you, leaders of thousands, and leaders of hundreds, and leaders of fifties, and leaders of tens, and officers for your tribes. (Deu 1:16) “And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, ‘When hearing between your brothers, judge righteously between a man and his brother or the stranger who is with him. (Deu 1:17) ‘Do not show partiality in right-ruling; hear the small as well as the great. Do not be afraid of anyone’s face, for the right-ruling belongs to Elohim. And the case which is too hard for you, bring it to me, and I shall hear it.’ (Deu 1:18) “And I commanded you at that time all the words which you should do. (Deu 1:19) “Then we set out from Ḥorĕḇ, and went through that entire great and awesome wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as יהוה our Elohim had commanded us. And we came to Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa. (Deu 1:20) “And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which יהוה our Elohim is giving us. (Deu 1:21) ‘See, יהוה your Elohim has set the land before you. Go up and possess it, as יהוה Elohim of your fathers has spoken to you. Do not fear, nor be discouraged.’ (Deu 1:22) “And all of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we would come.’ (Deu 1:23) “And the matter was good in my eyes, so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. (Deu 1:24) “And they turned and went up into the mountains, and came to the wadi Eshkol, and spied it out. (Deu 1:25) “And they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us. And they brought back word to us, saying, ‘The land which יהוה our Elohim is giving us is good.’ (Deu 1:26) “But you would not go up and rebelled against the mouth of יהוה your Elohim, (Deu 1:27) and grumbled in your tents, and said, ‘Because יהוה was hating us, He has brought us out of the land of Mitsrayim to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. (Deu 1:28) ‘Where are we going to? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are greater and taller than we, the cities are great and walled up to the heavens, and we saw the sons of the Anaqim there too.” ’ (Deu 1:29) “Then I said to you, ‘Have no dread or fear of them. (Deu 1:30) ‘יהוה your Elohim, who is going before you, He does fight for you, according to all He did for you in Mitsrayim before your eyes, (Deu 1:31) and in the wilderness, where you saw how יהוה your Elohim has borne you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ (Deu 1:32) “Yet in this matter you are putting no trust in יהוה your Elohim, (Deu 1:33) who is going before you in the way to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in fire by night and in a cloud by day. (Deu 1:34) “And יהוה heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and took an oath, saying, (Deu 1:35) ‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land of which I swore to give to your fathers, (Deu 1:36) except Kalĕḇ son of Yephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and his children I give the land on which he walked, because he followed יהוה completely.’ (Deu 1:37) “And יהוה was enraged with me for your sakes, saying, ‘You do not go in there, either. (Deu 1:38) ‘Yehoshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Strengthen him, for he shall cause Yisra’ĕl to inherit. (Deu 1:39) ‘And your little ones and your children, who you say are for a prey, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they are going in there. And to them I give it, and they are to possess it. (Deu 1:40) ‘But you turn and take your journey into the wilderness by the Way of the Sea of Reeds.’ (Red Sea) (Deu 1:41) “Then you answered and said to me, ‘We have sinned against יהוה. We ourselves are going up, and we shall fight, as יהוה our Elohim commanded us.’ And when each one of you had girded on his battle gear, you were ready to go up into the mountain. (Deu 1:42) “And יהוה said to me, ‘Say to them, “Do not go up nor fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be smitten before your enemies.” ’ (Deu 1:43) “I spoke to you but you would not listen and rebelled against the mouth of יהוה, and acted proudly, and went up into the mountain. (Deu 1:44) “Then the Amorites who dwelt in that mountain came out against you and chased you as bees do, and drove you back from Sĕʽir to Ḥormah. (Deu 1:45) “And you returned and wept before יהוה, but יהוה would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you. (Deu 1:46) “So you dwelt in Qaḏĕsh many days, according to the days that you dwelt.
Don’t pick fights until He says fight!
(Deu 2:1) “Then we turned and set out into the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds (Red Sea), as יהוה spoke to me, and we went round Mount Sĕʽir, many days. (Deu 2:2) “And יהוה spoke to me, saying, (Deu 2:3) ‘You have gone around this mountain long enough, turn northward. (Deu 2:4) ‘And command the people, saying, “You are about to pass over into the border of your brothers, the descendants of Ěsaw, who live in Sĕʽir, and they are afraid of you. So be on your guard. (Deu 2:5) “Do not strive with them, for I do not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Sĕʽir to Ěsaw as a possession. (Deu 2:6) “What food you buy from them with silver you shall eat. And also, what water you buy from them with silver you shall drink. (Deu 2:7) “For יהוה your Elohim has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your wandering through this great wilderness. These forty years יהוה your Elohim has been with you, you have not lacked any matter.” ’ (Deu 2:8) “And when we passed beyond our brothers, the descendants of Ěsaw who dwell in Sĕʽir, away from the way of the desert plain, away from Ěylath and Etsyon Geḇer, we turned and passed over by way of the Wilderness of Mo’aḇ. (Deu 2:9) “And יהוה said to me, ‘Do not distress Mo’aḇ, nor stir yourself up against them in battle, for I do not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ” (Deu 2:10) (The Ěmites had dwelt there formerly, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anaqim. (Deu 2:11) They were also reckoned as Repha’ites, like the Anaqim, but the Mo’aḇites call them Ěmites. (Deu 2:12) And the Ḥorites formerly dwelt in Sĕʽir, but the descendants of Ěsaw dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, as Yisra’ĕl did to the land of their possession which יהוה gave them). (Deu 2:13) “‘Now rise up, and pass over the wadi Zereḏ.’ So we passed over the wadi Zereḏ. (Deu 2:14) “And the time we took to come from Qaḏĕsh Barnĕa until we passed over the wadi Zereḏ was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of battle was consumed from the midst of the camp, as יהוה had sworn to them. (Deu 2:15) “And also, the hand of יהוה was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed. (Deu 2:16) “And it came to be, when all the men of battle had finally perished from among the people, (Deu 2:17) that יהוה spoke to me, saying, (Deu 2:18) ‘this day you are to pass over at Ar, the boundary of Mo’aḇ. (Deu 2:19) ‘And when you come near the children of Ammon, do not distress them nor stir yourself up against them, for I do not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’ (Deu 2:20) (That was also reckoned as a land of Repha’ites. Repha’ites formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, (Deu 2:21) a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anaqim. יהוה destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, (Deu 2:22) as He had done for the descendants of Ěsaw, who dwelt in Sĕʽir, when He destroyed the Ḥorites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day. (Deu 2:23) And the Awwim who dwelt in villages as far as Azzah, the Kaphtorim who came from Kaphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place). (Deu 2:24) ‘Arise, set out and pass over the wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Siḥon the Amorite, sovereign of Ḥeshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and stir up yourself against him in battle. (Deu 2:25) ‘This day I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples under all the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, shall tremble and shake because of you.’ (Deu 2:26) “Then I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Qeḏĕmoth to Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon, with words of peace, saying, (Deu 2:27) ‘Let me pass over through your land on the highway. I shall go on the highway and turn neither to the right nor to the left. (Deu 2:28) ‘What food you sell me for silver I shall eat, and what water you give me for silver I shall drink. Only let me pass over on foot, (Deu 2:29) as the descendants of Ěsaw who dwell in Sĕʽir and the Mo’aḇites who dwell in Ar did for me – until I pass over the Yardĕn to the land יהוה our Elohim is giving us.’ (Deu 2:30) “But Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon would not let us pass over, for יהוה your Elohim hardened his spirit and strengthened his heart, to give him into your hand, as it is this day. (Deu 2:31) “And יהוה said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Siḥon and his land over to you. Begin to possess – in order to possess his land.’ (Deu 2:32) “And Siḥon and all his people came out against us to fight at Yahats, (Deu 2:33) and יהוה our Elohim gave him over to us, so we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. (Deu 2:34) “And we took all his cities at that time, and we put the men, women, and little ones of every city under the ban, we left none remaining. (Deu 2:35) “Only the livestock we took as plunder for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we captured. (Deu 2:36) “From Aroʽĕr, which is on the edge of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is by the wadi, as far as Gilʽaḏ, there was not one city too high for us. יהוה our Elohim gave all to us. (Deu 2:37) “Only you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon – anywhere along the wadi Yabboq, or to the cities of the mountains, or wherever יהוה our Elohim had forbidden us. (Deu 3:1) “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And Oḡ sovereign of Bashan came out against us, him and all his people, to battle at Eḏreʽi. (Deu 3:2) “And יהוה said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at Ḥeshbon.’
YHWH continues His deliverance for His people!
(Deu 3:3) “So יהוה our Elohim also gave into our hands Oḡ sovereign of Bashan, with all his people and we smote him until he had no survivors remaining. (Deu 3:4) “And we captured all his cities at that time. There was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the district of Argoḇ, the reign of Oḡ in Bashan. (Deu 3:5) “All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns. (Deu 3:6) “And we put them under the ban, as we did to Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon, putting the men, the women, and the children of every city under the ban. (Deu 3:7) “But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves. (Deu 3:8) “And at that time we took the land, from the hand of the two sovereigns of the Amorites, that was beyond the Yardĕn, from the wadi Arnon to Mount Ḥermon (Deu 3:9) “(Tsiḏonians call Ḥermon, Siryon – and the Amorites call it Senir), (Deu 3:10) all the cities of the plain, all Gilʽaḏ, and all Bashan, as far as Salḵah and Eḏreʽi, cities of the reign of Oḡ in Bashan. (Deu 3:11) “For only Oḡ sovereign of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Repha’ites. See, his bedstead was an iron bedstead. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man. (Deu 3:12) “And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroʽĕr, which is by the wadi Arnon, and half the mountains of Gilʽaḏ and its cities, I gave to the Re’uḇĕnites and the Gaḏites. (Deu 3:13) “And the rest of Gilʽaḏ, and all Bashan, the reign of Oḡ, I gave to half the tribe of Menashsheh – all the district of Argoḇ, with all Bashan, called the land of the Repha’ites. (Deu 3:14) “Yaʽir son of Menashsheh had taken all the district of Argoḇ, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maʽaḵathites, and called them after his own name: the Bashan of Hawoth Yaʽir, to this day. (Deu 3:15) “And to Maḵir I gave Gilʽaḏ. (Deu 3:16) “And to the Re’uḇĕnites and the Gaḏites I gave from Gilʽaḏ as far as the wadi Arnon, the middle of the wadi as the border, as far as the wadi Yabboq, the border of the children of Ammon, (Deu 3:17) and the desert plain, with the Yardĕn as the border, from Kinnereth as far as the Sea of the Araḇah, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah on the east. (Deu 3:18) “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘יהוה your Elohim has given you this land to possess. All you sons of might, pass over armed before your brothers, the children of Yisra’ĕl. (Deu 3:19) ‘But let your wives and your little ones, and your livestock – I know that you have much livestock – stay in your cities which I have given you, (Deu 3:20) until יהוה has given rest to your brothers as to you, and they also possess the land which יהוה your Elohim is giving them beyond the Yardĕn. Then you shall return, each man to his possession which I have given you.’ (Deu 3:21) “And I commanded Yehoshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that יהוה your Elohim has done to these two sovereigns. יהוה does the same to all the reigns which you are passing over. (Deu 3:22) ‘Do not fear them, for יהוה your Elohim Himself fights for you.’
YHWH chooses Joshua for leadership and Moses dies
(Deu 3:23) “And I pleaded with יהוה at that time, saying, (Deu 3:24) ‘O Master יהוה, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your strong hand, for who is a mighty one in the heavens or on earth who does according to Your works and according to Your might? (Deu 3:25) ‘I pray, let me pass over and see the good land beyond the Yardĕn, this good hill country, and Leḇanon.’ (Deu 3:26) “But יהוה was enraged with me, for your sake, and would not listen to me, and יהוה said to me, ‘Enough of that! Speak no more to me about this matter. (Deu 3:27) ‘Go up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and look with your eyes, for you do not pass over this Yardĕn. (Deu 3:28) ‘But charge Yehoshua, and strengthen him and make him brave, for he shall pass over before this people and causes them to inherit the land which you see.’ (Deu 3:29) “And we dwelt in the valley opposite Bĕyth Peʽor.
YHWH is weary of transgressions against His Torah (Instructions) which is SIN!
(Isa 1:1) This is the vision of Yeshayahu son of Amots, which he saw concerning Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim in the days of Uzziyahu, Yotham, Aḥaz, Ḥizqiyahu – sovereigns of Yehuḏah. (Isa 1:2) Hear O heavens, and listen, O earth! יהוה has spoken, “I have reared and brought up children, but they have transgressed against me. (Isa 1:3) An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master’s crib – Yisra’ĕl does not know, my people have not understood.” (Isa 1:4) Alas, sinning nation, a people loaded with crookedness, a seed of evil-doers, sons acting corruptly! They have forsaken יהוה, they have provoked the Set-apart One of Yisra’ĕl, they went backward. (Isa 1:5) Why should you be beaten anymore? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints. (Isa 1:6) From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment. (Isa 1:7) Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire; strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is laid waste, as overthrown by strangers. (Isa 1:8) And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. (Isa 1:9) Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah. (Isa 1:10) Hear the word of יהוה, you rulers of Seḏom; give ear to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Amorah! (Isa 1:11) “Of what use to me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats. (Isa 1:12) “When you come to appear before me, who has required this from your hand, to trample my courtyards? (Isa 1:13) “Stop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to me. New Moons, Sabbaths, the calling of meetings – I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly. (Isa 1:14) “My being hates your New Moons and your appointed times, they are a trouble to me, I am weary of bearing them. (Isa 1:15) “And when you spread out your hands, I hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood. (Isa 1:16) “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Stop doing evil! (Isa 1:17) “Learn to do well! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. (Isa 1:18) “Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Want to eat the good of any land?
(Isa 1:19) “If you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the land; (Isa 1:20) but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword,” for the mouth of יהוה has spoken. (Isa 1:21) How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. (Isa 1:22) Your silver has become dross; your wine is mixed with water. (Isa 1:23) Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them. (Isa 1:24) Therefore the Master declares, יהוה of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, “Ah, I shall be eased of my adversaries, and I shall be avenged of my enemies. (Isa 1:25) “And I shall turn my hand against you, and shall refine your dross as with lye, and shall remove your entire alloy. (Isa 1:26) “And I shall give back your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After this you shall be called the city of righteousness, a steadfast city.” (Isa 1:27) Tsiyon shall be redeemed with right-ruling, and her returning ones with righteousness. (Isa 1:28) And the destruction of transgressors and of sinners is together, and those who forsake יהוה shall be consumed. (Isa 1:29) They shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees which you have desired. And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens which you have chosen. (Isa 1:30) You shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water. (Isa 1:31) The strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark. And both shall burn together, with no one to extinguish. (1Ti 3:1) Trustworthy is the word: If a man longs for the position of an overseer, he desires a good work.
YHWH’s methods of choosing Leaders
(1Ti 3:2) An overseer, then, should be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, sensible, orderly, kind to strangers, able to teach, (1Ti 3:3) not given to wine, no brawler, but gentle, not quarrelsome, no lover of money, (1Ti 3:4) one who rules his own house well, having his children in subjection with all reverence, (1Ti 3:5) for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how shall he look after the assembly of Elohim? (1Ti 3:6) Not a new convert, lest he become puffed up with pride and fall into the judgment of the devil. (1Ti 3:7) And he should even have a good witness from those who are outside, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
Word are important- be aware and guard your tongue!
(Mat 12:32) “And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Aḏam, it shall be forgiven him, but whoever speaks against the Set-apart Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. (Mat 12:33) “Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree rotten and its fruit rotten, for a tree is known by its fruit. (Mat 12:34) “You brood of vipers, how are you able to speak what is good – being wicked? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. (Mat 12:35) “The good man brings forth what is good from the good treasures of his heart, and the wicked man brings forth what is wicked from the wicked treasure. (Mat 12:36) “And I say to you that for every idle (careless) word men speak, they shall give an account of it in the Day of Judgment. (Mat 12:37) "For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
Kings provoking YHWH and Jezebel ruling Ahab
(1Ki 16:1) Then the word of יהוה came to Yĕhu son of Ḥanani, against Baʽasha, saying, (1Ki 16:2) “Because I raised you up out of the dust and made you ruler over my people Yisra’ĕl, but you walked in the way of Yaroḇʽam, and made my people Yisra’ĕl sin, to provoke me with their sins, (1Ki 16:3) see, I am going to sweep away Baʽasha and his house, and shall make your house like the house of Yaroḇʽam the son of Neḇat. (1Ki 16:4) “Anyone belonging to Baʽasha who dies in a city the dogs eat and anyone belonging to him who dies in a field the birds of the heavens eat.” (1Ki 16:5) And the rest of the acts of Baʽasha, what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl? (1Ki 16:6) So Baʽasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirtsah. And his son Ělah reigned in his place. (1Ki 16:7) Moreover, the word of יהוה came by the prophet Yĕhu son of Ḥanani against Baʽasha and his house, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of יהוה in provoking Him with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Yaroḇʽam, and because he smote them. (1Ki 16:8) In the twenty-sixth year of Asa sovereign of Yehuḏah, Ělah son of Baʽasha began to reign over Yisra’ĕl in Tirtsah, two years. (1Ki 16:9) And his servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him as he was in Tirtsah drinking himself drunk in the house of Artsa, who was over his house in Tirtsah. (1Ki 16:10) Then Zimri came in and smote him and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa sovereign of Yehuḏah, and reigned in his place. (1Ki 16:11) And it came to be, when he began to reign, as soon as he was seated on his throne, that he smote all the household of Baʽasha. He did not leave him one male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends. (1Ki 16:12) So Zimri destroyed the entire house of Baʽasha, according to the word of יהוה, which He spoke against Baʽasha by Yĕhu the prophet, (1Ki 16:13) for all the sins of Baʽasha and the sins of Ělah his son, by which they had sinned and by which they had made Yisra’ĕl sin, in provoking יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl with their worthlessness’s. (1Ki 16:14) And the rest of the acts of Ělah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl? (1Ki 16:15) In the twenty-seventh year of Asa sovereign of Yehuḏah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirtsah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. (1Ki 16:16) And the people who were encamped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired and also smote the sovereign.” So all Yisra’ĕl set up Omri, the commander of the army, to reign over Yisra’ĕl that day in the camp. (1Ki 16:17) And Omri went up, and all Yisra’ĕl with him, from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirtsah. (1Ki 16:18) And it came to be, when Zimri saw that the city was captured, that he went into a high place of the sovereign’s house and burned the sovereign’s house down upon himself with fire, and died, (1Ki 16:19) because of the sins which he had sinned in doing evil in the eyes of יהוה, in walking in the way of Yaroḇʽam, and in his sin which he had committed to make Yisra’ĕl sin. (1Ki 16:20) And the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy he made, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl? (1Ki 16:21) Then the people of Yisra’ĕl were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tiḇni son of Ginath, to make him reign, and half followed Omri. (1Ki 16:22) But the people who followed Omri were stronger than the people who followed Tiḇni son of Ginath. And Tiḇni died and Omri reigned. (1Ki 16:23) In the thirty-first year of Asa sovereign of Yehuḏah, Omri became sovereign over Yisra’ĕl, and reigned twelve years. He reigned six years in Tirtsah. (1Ki 16:24) And he bought the hill of Shomeron from Shemer for two talents of silver, and built on the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, Shomeron, after the name of Shemer, owner of the hill. (1Ki 16:25) And Omri did evil in the eyes of יהוה, and did evil more than all those before him, (1Ki 16:26) and walked in all the ways of Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat, and in his sin by which he had made Yisra’ĕl sin, provoking יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl with their worthlessness’s. (1Ki 16:27) And the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the mighty that he attained, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl? (1Ki 16:28) So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Shomeron. And Aḥaḇ his son reigned in his place. (1Ki 16:29) In the thirty-eighth year of Asa sovereign of Yehuḏah, Aḥaḇ son of Omri became sovereign over Yisra’ĕl. And Aḥaḇ son of Omri reigned over Yisra’ĕl in Shomeron twenty-two years. (1Ki 16:30) And Aḥaḇ son of Omri did evil in the eyes of יהוה, more than all those before him. (1Ki 16:31) And it came to be, as though it had been a light matter for him to walk in the sins of Yaroḇʽam son of Neḇat, that he took as wife Izeḇel the daughter of Ethbaʽal, sovereign of the Tsiḏonians. And he went and served Baʽal and bowed himself to it, (1Ki 16:32) and rose up an altar for Baʽal in the house of Baʽal, which he had built in Shomeron. (1Ki 16:33) And Aḥaḇ made an Ashĕrah (Easter fertility Goddess). And Aḥaḇ did more to provoke יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl than all the sovereigns of Yisra’ĕl before him. (1Ki 16:34) In his days Ḥi’ĕl of Bĕyth Ěl built Yeriḥo. He laid its foundation at the cost of Aḇiram his first-born, and at the cost of his youngest son Seḡuḇ he set up its gates, according to the word of יהוה, which He had spoken through Yehoshua son of Nun.
Elijah with power of words by relationship with YHWH withholds rain!
(1Ki 17:1) And Ěliyahu the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilʽaḏ, said to Aḥaḇ, “As יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl lives, before whom I stand, there shall be no dew or rain these years, except at my word.” (1Ki 17:2) And the word of יהוה came to him, saying, (1Ki 17:3) “Go away from here and turn eastward, and hide by the wadi Kerith, which flows into the Yardĕn. (1Ki 17:4) “And it shall be that you drink from the stream, and I shall command the ravens to feed you there.” (1Ki 17:5) And he went and did according to the word of יהוה, for he went and dwelt by the wadi Kerith, which flows into the Yardĕn. (1Ki 17:6) And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the stream. (1Ki 17:7) And it came to be after a while that the stream dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. (1Ki 17:8) Then the word of יהוה came to him, saying, (1Ki 17:9) “Rise up, go to Tsarephath, which belongs to Tsiḏon, and dwell there. See, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.” (1Ki 17:10) And he rose up and went to Tsarephath, and came to the gate of the city and saw a widow there gathering sticks. And he called and said to her, “Please bring me a little water in a vessel to drink.” (1Ki 17:11) And as she was going to get it, he called and said to her, “Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand.” (1Ki 17:12) And she said, “As יהוה your Elohim lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar. And see, I am gathering a couple of sticks and shall go in and prepare it for myself and my son, and we shall eat it, and die.” (1Ki 17:13) And Ěliyah said to her, “Do not fear, go and do as you have said, but make me a small cake from it first, and bring it to me. And afterward make some for yourself and your son. (1Ki 17:14) “For thus said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, ‘The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor the jar of oil run dry, until the day יהוה sends rain on the earth.’ ” (1Ki 17:15) So, she went and did according to the word of Ěliyahu, and she and he and her household ate for many days. (1Ki 17:16) The bin of flour was not used up, nor did the jar of oil run dry, according to the word of יהוה which He spoke by Ěliyahu.
Resurrection power
(1Ki 17:17) And after these events it came to be that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was very severe until there was no breath left in him. (1Ki 17:18) And she said to Ěliyahu, “What have I to do with you, O man of Elohim? Have you come to me to bring my crookedness to be remembered, and to kill my son?” (1Ki 17:19) And he said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms and took him to the upper room where he was dwelling, and laid him on his own bed, (1Ki 17:20) and cried out to יהוה and said, “O יהוה my Elohim, have You also brought evil on the widow with whom I am sojourning, to kill her son?” (1Ki 17:21) And he stretched himself out on the child three times, and cried out to יהוה and said, “O יהוה my Elohim, I pray, let the life of this child come back to him.” (1Ki 17:22) And יהוה heard the voice of Ěliyahu, and the life of the child came back to him, and he lived. (1Ki 17:23) And Ěliyahu took the child and brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. And Ěliyahu said, “See, your son lives!” (1Ki 17:24) And the woman said to Ěliyahu, “Now by this I know that you are a man of Elohim, and that the word of יהוה in your mouth is truth.” (1Ki 18:1) And after many days it came to be that the word of יהוה came to Ěliyahu, in the third year, saying, “Go, present yourself to Aḥaḇ, and I give rain on the earth.” (1Ki 18:2) Thereupon Ěliyahu went to present himself to Aḥaḇ. And the scarcity of food in Shomeron was severe. (1Ki 18:3) And Aḥaḇ had called Oḇaḏyahu, who was over his house. Now Oḇaḏyahu feared יהוה exceedingly. (1Ki 18:4) And it came to be, while Izeḇel cut down the prophets of יהוה, that Oḇaḏyahu had taken one hundred prophets and hidden them, fifty to a cave, and had fed them with bread and water. (1Ki 18:5) And Aḥaḇ had said to Oḇaḏyahu, “Go into the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis, it could be that we find grass to keep the horses and mules alive, and not have any livestock cut off. (1Ki 18:6) And they divided the land between them to pass over it, Aḥaḇ went one way by himself, and Oḇaḏyahu went another way by himself. (1Ki 18:7) And as Oḇaḏyahu was on his way, then see, Ěliyahu met him. And he recognised him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is that you, my master Ěliyahu?” (1Ki 18:8) And he answered him, “It is I. Go, say to your master, ‘Ěliyahu is here.’ ” (1Ki 18:9) and he said, “What have I sinned, that you are giving your servant into the hand of Aḥaḇ, to kill me? (1Ki 18:10) “As יהוה your Elohim lives, there is no nation or reign where my master has not sent to look for you. And when they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made the reign or nations swear that they could not find you. (1Ki 18:11) “And now you say, ‘Go; say to your master, “Ěliyahu is here” ’! (1Ki 18:12) “And it shall be, as soon as I am gone from you that the Spirit of יהוה takes you away to a place I do not know. And I shall come to report to Aḥaḇ, and when he does not find you, he shall kill me. But I your servant have feared יהוה from my youth. (1Ki 18:13) “Was it not reported to my master what I did when Izeḇel slew the prophets of יהוה, how I hid one hundred men of the prophets of יהוה, fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water? (1Ki 18:14) “And now you say, ‘Go; say to your master, “Ěliyahu is here!” ’ Then he shall slay me.” (1Ki 18:15) And Ěliyahu said, “As יהוה of host’s lives, before whom I stand, I shall indeed show myself to him today.”
Okay, if I can trust you I will report to the king!
(1Ki 18:16) Oḇaḏyahu then went to meet Aḥaḇ and informed him, and Aḥaḇ went to meet Ěliyahu. (1Ki 18:17) And it came to be, when Aḥaḇ saw Ěliyahu, that Aḥaḇ said to him, “Is that you, O disturber of Yisra’ĕl?” (1Ki 18:18) And he answered, “I have not disturbed Yisra’ĕl, but you and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken the commands of יהוה, and you have followed the Baʽals. (1Ki 18:19) “And now, send and gather all Yisra’ĕl to me on Mount Karmel, the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baʽal, and the four hundred prophets of Ashĕrah (Easter prophets), who eat at Izeḇel’s table.” (1Ki 18:20) Aḥaḇ then sent for all the children of Yisra’ĕl, and gathered the prophets on Mount Karmel. (1Ki 18:21) And Ěliyahu came to all the people, and said, “How long would you keep hopping between two opinions? If יהוה is Elohim, follow Him; and if Baʽal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. (1Ki 18:22) And Ěliyahu said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of יהוה, but the prophets of Baʽal are four hundred and fifty men. (1Ki 18:23) “Now let them give us two bulls. And let them choose one bull for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but set no fire. And I, I prepare the other bull, and shall lay it on the wood, but set no fire. (1Ki 18:24) “And you shall call on the name of your mighty one, and I, I call on the Name of יהוה. And the Elohim who answers by fire, He is Elohim.” So all the people answered and said, “The word is good.” (1Ki 18:25) And Ěliyahu said to the prophets of Baʽal, “Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many. And call on the name of your mighty one, but set no fire.” (1Ki 18:26) So they took the bull which was given them, and prepared it, and called on the name of Baʽal from morning even until noon, saying, “O Baʽal, answer us!” But there was no voice and no one answered. And they leaped about the altar which they had made. (1Ki 18:27) And it came to be at noon, that Ěliyahu taunted them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a mighty one; he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or it could be that he is asleep and has to be awakened!” (1Ki 18:28) And they cried aloud, and cut themselves, according to their ruling, with knives and spears, until the blood gushed out on them. (1Ki 18:29) And it came to be when midday was past that they prophesied until the time of bringing the evening offering. But there was no voice and no one answered, and no one paying attention. (1Ki 18:30) Then Ěliyahu said to all the people, “Come closer to me.” And all the people came closer to him. And he repaired the altar of יהוה that was broken down. (1Ki 18:31) And Ěliyahu took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Yaʽaqoḇ, to whom the word of יהוה had come, saying, “Yisra’ĕl is your name.” (1Ki 18:32) And with the stones he built an altar in the Name of יהוה. And he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed. (1Ki 18:33) And he arranged the wood, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” (1Ki 18:34) Then he said, “Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time. (1Ki 18:35) And the water flowed around the altar, and he filled the trench with water too.
Relationship brings His power against hell’s plans!
(1Ki 18:36) And it came to be, at the time of bringing the evening offering, that Ěliyahu the prophet came near and said, “יהוה Elohim of Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yisra’ĕl, let it be known today: You are Elohim in Yisra’ĕl, and I your servant, have done all these matters by your word. (1Ki 18:37) “Answer me, O יהוה, answer me, and let this people know that you are יהוה Elohim, and you shall turn their hearts back to you again.” (1Ki 18:38) Then the fire of יהוה fell and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. (1Ki 18:39) And all the people saw, and fell on their faces, and said, “יהוה, He is the Elohim! יהוה, He is the Elohim!” (1Ki 18:40) And Ěliyahu said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baʽal, do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them, and Ěliyahu brought them down to the wadi Qishon and slaughtered them there. (1Ki 18:41) And Ěliyahu said to Aḥaḇ, “Go up, eat and drink, because of the sound of the noise of rain.” (1Ki 18:42) And Aḥaḇ went up to eat and to drink. And Ěliyahu went up to the top of Karmel, and he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, (1Ki 18:43) and said to his servant, “Go up, please, look closely toward the sea.” So he went up and looked closely, and said, “Not a speck.” And seven times he said, “Go again.” (1Ki 18:44) And it came to be the seventh time, that he said, “See, a little cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming out of the sea!” And he said, “Go up, say to Aḥaḇ, ‘Hitch up, and go down before the rain stops you.’ ” (1Ki 18:45) and in the meantime, it came to be that the heavens became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain, while Aḥaḇ rode and went to Yizreʽĕl. (1Ki 18:46) And the hand of יהוה was on Ěliyahu. And he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Aḥaḇ to the entrance of Yizreʽĕl.
Jezebel and her wicked spirits accuse and speak death against YHWH’s anointed and even declares her own judgment!
(1Ki 19:1) And when Aḥaḇ reported to Izeḇel all that Ěliyahu had done, also how he slew all the prophets with the sword, (1Ki 19:2) Izeḇel sent a messenger to Ěliyahu, saying, “So let the mighty ones do to me, and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.” (1Ki 19:3) And he feared, and rose up and ran for his life, and went to Be’ĕrsheḇa, which belongs to Yehuḏah, and left his servant there. (1Ki 19:4) But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree, and prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, יהוה, take my life, for I am no better than my father’s!”
Sometimes we become fearful of the wicked plans against us- but fear not YHWH laughs and holds them in derision!
(1Ki 19:5) And he lay and slept under a broom tree, and see, a messenger (Angel) touched him, and said to him, “Rise, eat.” (1Ki 19:6) And he looked and saw by his head a cake baked on coals, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank, and turned and lay down. (1Ki 19:7) And the messenger (Angel) of יהוה came back the second time, and touched him, and said, “Rise, eat, for the journey is too much for you.” (1Ki 19:8) And he rose up and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights as far as Ḥorĕḇ, the mountain of Elohim. (1Ki 19:9) And there he went into a cave and spent the night there. And see, the word of יהוה came to him, and said to him, “What are you doing here, Ěliyahu?” (1Ki 19:10) And he said, “I have been very jealous for יהוה Elohim of hosts, for the children of Yisra’ĕl have forsaken your covenant. They have thrown down your altars, and they have slain your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.” (1Ki 19:11) And He said, “Go out, and stand on the mountain before יהוה.” And see, יהוה passed by, and a great and strong wind tearing the mountains and breaking the rocks in pieces before יהוה – יהוה was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake – יהוה was not in the earthquake, (1Ki 19:12) and after the earthquake a fire – יהוה was not in the fire, and after the fire a still small voice. (1Ki 19:13) And it came to be, when Ěliyahu heard it, that he wrapped his face in his robe and went out and stood at the cave opening. And see, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Ěliyahu?” (1Ki 19:14) And he said, “I have been very jealous for יהוה Elohim of hosts, for the children of Yisra’ĕl have forsaken your covenant. They have thrown down your altars, and they have slain your prophets with the sword, and I am left, I alone, and they seek my life, to take it.” (1Ki 19:15) And יהוה said to him, “Go, and return on your way to the Wilderness of Damascus. And you shall go in and anoint Ḥaza’ĕl as sovereign over Aram. (1Ki 19:16) “And anoint Yĕhu son of Nimshi as sovereign over Yisra’ĕl. And anoint Elisha son of Shaphat of Aḇĕl Meḥolah as prophet in your place. (1Ki 19:17) “And it shall be that whoever escapes the sword of Ḥaza’ĕl, Yĕhu does kill. And whoever escapes from the sword of Yĕhu, Elisha does kill. (1Ki 19:18) “And I shall leave seven thousand in Yisra’ĕl, all whose knees have not bowed to Baʽal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.” (1Ki 19:19) And he went from there, and found Elisha son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he was with the twelfth. And Ěliyahu passed by him and threw his robe on him. (1Ki 19:20) And he left the oxen and ran after Ěliyahu, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I follow you.” And he said to him, “Go, turn back, for what have I done to you?” (1Ki 19:21) And he turned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen and slaughtered them and cooked their flesh, using the implements of the oxen, and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he rose up and followed Ěliyahu, and became his servant. (Want YHWH’s anointing? Become His servant!)
May YHWH bless you and keep you, lift up His countenance on you, make His face to shine upon you, and give you His peace- the Sar Shalom- Prince of Peace- Loved One! Fear not what man can do- only Fear YHWH who can kill soul and body and cast into hell’s fires! YHWH is still on the throne- we should learn now to worship Him in spirit and truth- no matter what storm appears- He is the Creator of all things and if necessary, He will create what it is you need! Praise Him who made Heaven and Earth and all things seen and unseen! He loves you and sent His only begotten son- Yahshua; to deliver you- to heal, set apart, make whole and save you! (Isa 55:6) Seek יהוה while He is to be found, call on Him while He is near. (His word- Yahshua- the word made flesh who dwelt among us is all powerful!) (Isa 55:7) Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to יהוה, who has compassion on him, and to our Elohim, for He pardons much. (Isa 55:8) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares יהוה. (Isa 55:9) “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa 55:10) “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, (Isa 55:11) 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. Speak His words Loved One and LIVE!
Shalom to your home Loved One,
Thurston
