Friday, February 25, 2011
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February 26, 2011
Shabbat Shalom Loved One!
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Yesterday I buried and celebrated the life of my beautiful 27 yr old daughter. Lindsay Ann would have turned 28 in April. I am sharing 2 short notes to help you follow along- especially since so many hundreds of you wrote such consoling and merciful, loving prayers and thoughts to us. The reality is; she is dancing before YHWH and her body is asleep in the earth, awaiting the resurrection at the Last Trump which is appearing closer daily… I will share my brief part but I wanted to share with you what others have shared. All I am requesting from our loving Creator YHWH for this satanic attack is 1 million souls in the Kingdom! I expect nothing less. I was allowed, along with her boss, brother and sister, and a dear friend to share some funny stories about her life at the funeral. I am sharing a few emails from loved ones and others below- but my thanks and appreciation for your prayers and help at this time is to each and every one of you Loved Ones! They (The State of Texas) are charging the truck driver with man slaughter as he was negligent and pulled directly into her car for a head on collision- she never braked, turned, or anything as there was no time for her to react, and it took 4 hrs for the jaws of life to cut her out of the wreckage. Please pray for him (truck driver) and his family. THANK YOU! I just ask you to agree with me in prayer and decree about this matter- I want---actually demand for this evil act of hasatan- that he release them- one million spirits/souls that have been blinded by the god of this world that their eyes and ears be opened to receive the good news and ENTER into the Kingdom we know biblically that we are made in YHWH’s image and as Sha’ul (Paul) stated we are spirit beings, (the real us) that have a soul (will intellect and emotions) and we live physically in a body which will return to dirt: (1Th 5:17) Pray without ceasing. (1Th 5:18) In everything give thanks: for this is the will of YHWH in Messiah Yahshua concerning you. (1Th 5:19) Quench not the Spirit. (1Th 5:20) Despise not prophecies. (1Th 5:21) Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1Th 5:22) Abstain from all appearance of evil. (1Th 5:23) And the very Elohim of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray YHWH your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Master Messiah Yahshua.
First I share that the testimony of her life has started immediately affecting lives! How do I know? Here is a recent email via Face Book from an unknown person named Rene.
February 23, 2011 at 1:29pm
Dear Mr. McCutchen, I know you don't know me and I've been torn whether to write you but my heart told me I should. My name is Rene and I was one of the first to arrive at your daughter’s accident. I've read all the comments about her from u and all that loved her and she sounded like a wonderful loving person that I wish I could have known. She has made a impact on me in her death and I'll never forget her. I'm very sorry you lost such a wonderful person in your life. My deepest condolences, Rene
On 2/24/2011 3:15 PM, Thurston McCutchen wrote:
Hey guys- much love and thanks for your prayers- funeral just finished and we just got back to the room. Packed out church she attended and had a Toddler Ministry was indeed very loving and kind- also a large group of Torah Keepers from Midland-Odessa helped them feed immediate family and close friends (Several hundred) The church holds 850 and it was full. So many people drove so far to come. Torah group in San Antonio brought 20-plus close friends to us (family members all) but they had to start driving at 2 am to get here at 10 am. Lindsay Ann’s big brother Courtney and big sister Amanda played a part in the funeral as they had found her journal with God and read her daily conversations with God. They also found her Bible with many “Postit” notes of various Scriptures she had stuck in it and how they lined up with her conversation journal with God. They read those at the funeral.
Also many friends spoke of her love. Her sister Amanda said- I thought she was MY best friend---what's with these other 1900 people----they all think she's their best friend??? It was so funny the way she said it- so many people... it was a testimony of her love for all. Many said they had never been to a funeral that was so uplifting and none ever that big- packed out never seen so many people at a funeral. Thanks for your loving prayers and help- they mean so much ---only YHWH knows how much you have helped. YOU guys are loved. That is just how she was- she loved all and judged none- I suspect she left that to YHWH as He is alone the Judge and Torah giver (Instructions often translated LAW).
Thank you so much for what you shared ... it helps to follow along ... Sounds like Yahweh wanted to rescue her dear heart from this corrupt world! I'm sure it has also caused many, many people to think seriously of their lives. All the best, Florence
Today I am reposting the first part of last week’s Study because I wanted to remind us all- LIFE IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS- (Not things!) FIRST WITH YHWH (Yahweh) our Creator through the shed blood of Yahshua (Jesus) and next with people as all the Torah and the Prophets hang on these two commandments- Love Yahweh with your whole heart, mind, and strength and love your neighbor as yourself!
Relationships! On these 2 commandments hang the entire Torah and the Prophets!
(Mat 22:36) “Teacher: which is the great command in the Torah?” (Mat 22:37) And יהושע said to him, “‘you shall love יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with your entire mind.’ (Mat 22:38) “This is the first and great command. (Mat 22:39) “And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ (Mat 22:40) “On these two commands hang all the Torah and the Prophets.”
Why is this so important concerning relationships? IF you love YHWH you will obey Him from that love- you will choose to honor what He asks of you. Let’s look closely at Yahshua’s statements about what indicates love. (John 14:15) “If you love me, you shall guard my commands.1 Footnote: 1See Ex. 20:6, vv. 21&23, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John v. 6. (John 14:16) “And I shall ask the Father, and He shall give you another Helper, to stay with you forever – (John 14:17) the Spirit of the Truth, whom the world is unable to receive, because it does not see Him or know Him. But you know Him, for He stays with you and shall be in you. (John 14:18) “I shall not leave you orphans – I am coming to you. (John 14:19) “Yet a little while, and the world no longer sees me, but you shall see me, because I live, and you shall live. (John 14:20) “In that day you shall know that I am in my Father and you in me, and I in you. (John 14:21) “He who possesses my commands and guards (keeps) them; it is he who loves me. And he who loves me shall be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and manifest myself to him.”
Remember the ten WORDS (Commands) in Exodus 20. Please note as you read them that the first four commands teach us how to love YHWH Elohim the way He declares He wants to be loved. The last six commands teach us how to love our neighbor as ourselves. Actions of obedience are critical to His definition of love. So many in this day of Laodicean believers; think in the Renewed Covenant or New Testament- Yahshua did away with the commands as He taught to love one another- that is nearly funny but very sad. We should have enough sense to see how He defines love above in His own words! We should and must understand that in the BEGINNING- Yahshua was the word and is the word- YES- it was Yahshua at Mt. Sinai – He is the word that was later made flesh and dwelled among us. Never was it a graceless Father and a graceful son- Yahshua! Yahshua never disagreed with His Father but only spoke what He heard His Father speak and did what He saw His Father do. Even Noah and Moses found grace in His eyes! Most of this last day’s assembly/body of believers in Messiah has believed in a Torah less- Lawless Yahshua (Another Jesus) and have determined that grace is a license to do away with the Torah- Instructions- defined as “LAW” in KJV. What is sin? (1Jn 3:4) Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. I must assume these last day’s believers among us think these are mankind’s laws these sinners are breaking! NOPE! These are YHWH’s instruction- TORAH- “LAW” they assume or think these have done away with. Let’s go to Yahshua’s words again- since this Scripture is part of our study this week- I am wondering what part of “THINK NOT” we just don’t understand! (Mat 5:17) “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.1 I did not come to destroy but to complete. Footnote: 1The Law and the Prophets is a term used for the pre-Messianic Scriptures. (Mat 5:18) “For truly, I say to you, till the heavens and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 16:17. (Mat 5:19) Question for us scholars- Is their still a Heaven and Earth? It seems to even us casual observers that there is- so the Torah and prophets is not done away with- no matter how we miss-define Scripture!
Here’s a quick look at Pastor Least in the Kingdom! YIKES! (Grace and Mercy- Wow- they are in the kingdom apparently!)
“Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign (Kingdom) of Heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. (Mat 5:20) “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees,1 you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens. Footnote: 1Mt. 15:3-9, Mk. 7:7-13, John 7:19, Acts 7:53, Rom. 2:23-27, Gal.
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Why is obedience in honoring loved ones so important to YHWH? If your spouse, parent or child said they loved you but never wanted to spend any time with you or ever did what you requested- it would not take that long to deduce that they did not really love or honor you would it? Their ACTIONS speak louder than their words. We, as the BRIDE OF MESSIAH must honor our husband just like wives are required to for their husbands and as the husband Messiah will love us as His own flesh; just like the husband is required to do for his wife. Same way with our Creator- we are required to DO the Gospel and commands of YHWH! Many say but do not DO! Let’s look at the Shem Tov Hebrew copy of Matthew and see what Yahshua taught- (Mat 23:2) saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Mosheh. (Mat 23:3) “Therefore, whatever he says (MOSES) for you you to guard, guard and do. But do not do according to their works, for they say, and do not do. (Eph 5:22) Wives, subject yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Master. (Eph 5:23) Because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Messiah is head of the assembly, and He is Savior of the body. (Eph 5:24) But as the assembly is subject to Messiah, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every respect. (Eph 5:25) Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it…(Eph 5:33) Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself (love here is security- taking care of her like himself- his own flesh); and the wife see that she reverence (honors-respects) her husband. Why does the Word declare this sort of method of showing love to each other. Obviously; the wife needs security and to know she is cared for and the husband needs to be honored- that is just how Yahshua created us. Not bad or wrong or lesser that the other, just different needs. When we as husbands fail as providers- and in these storms today- that is not so difficult to accomplish- so naturally the wife will try and provide for herself (The need is in her for security); and when the wife does not respect or honor her husband thinking that he must “EARN” that respect, the husband will go looking for that honor. It (The need for honor) is in him- just like Messiah was not honored in His own home town and COULD DO NO MIGHTY WORKS!
Here is the answer for our dilemmas LOVED ONES! Our need is never supplied by others- that is- we seem to want others (horizontal relationships) to do the changing and sometimes we foolishly pray- YAH change so and so- we even think and pray if our children- our boss, our husbands- our parents, our wives, our girlfriends, our boyfriends, our teachers etc. WOULD CHANGE all would be well. Loved One we cannot even change ourselves much less others. Our Heavenly Father alone can do that so our prayers need to be about obedience VERTICAL with us and the Father. IF we will obey Him vertical He can and will CHANGE US! We must humble ourselves and submit to His words. We change as He will not- He is the same yesterday, today and forever. That only leaves us to change. When we submit- forget now about horizontal relationships changing- we can only submit for ourselves- hasatan will flee and we will receive Yahshua’s peace. He has overcome this world so we can be in good cheer and FEAR NOT!
(Jas 4:4) Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with Elohim? 1 Whoever therefore intends to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of Elohim. Footnote: 1Mt. 13:22, Luke. 4:5-6, Luke. 14:33, Rom. 12:2, 1 John 2:15-17. (Jas 4:5) Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the Spirit which dwells in us intensely crave unto envy? (Jas 4:6) But He gives greater favor. Because of this He says, “Elohim resists the proud, but gives favor to the humble.”
(Jas 4:7) So then subject (Submit ourselves to His words and instructions – Torah- as this obedience is always a VERTICAL choice) yourselves to Elohim. Resist the devil1 and he shall flee from you. Footnote: 1Or adversary. (Jas 4:8) Draw near to Elohim and He shall draw near to you. Cleanse hands, sinners. And cleanse the hearts, you double-minded! (Jas 4:9) Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection. (Jas 4:10) Humble yourselves in the sight of the Master, and He shall lift you up.(Jas 4:11) Brothers, do not speak against one another. He that speaks against a brother and judges his brother speaks against Torah and judges Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of Torah but a judge. (Jas 4:12) There is one Lawgiver and Judge, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
To summarize, we cannot fix others as that is horizontal, that is to say they are on our level and much like us; we can only submit vertically to obey (for ourselves) the Father as He alone can change- and then only if we so choose! For instance we can choose to forgive others as an act of vertically obeying the Fathers commands reiterated by Yahshua (Jesus) whether they deserve it or not. Usually they do not, but since we are not the Righteous Judge, we are not allowed that right. Here are Yahshua’s own words on the matter; (Mat 6:14) “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father shall also forgive you. (Mat 6:15) “But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither shall your Father forgive your trespasses. Do we realize Loved Ones; no matter how much we know about Messiah (The Christ) Yahshua; WE MUST DO AS HE SAYS OR WE WILL BE HELL BOUND? Should not we obey Him in this manner?
Let us consider asking (for our own destinies and eternal well being) the Creator of all things- “Is there anything that I must deal with and change- that I have considered gold and silver – that to You- YHWH- is wood hay and stubble- is there anything about my life that MUST be changed before I must stand in front of you? Please help me on Yah to deal with these issues you reveal today while you are merciful and before you must judge me.
Here are this Week’s Torah Scriptures: Mishpatim “Ordinances-Judgments”
Exodus 21:1-24:18; Jeremiah 34: 8-22; 33:25-26; Matthew 5:33-7:21;
Mark, Chapter 9
These right rulings are what most justice systems are based on today!
(Exodus 21:1) “These are the right-rulings which you are to set before them: (Exodus 21:2) “When you buy a Heḇrew servant, he serves six years, and in the seventh he goes out free, for naught. (Exodus 21:3) “If he comes in by himself, he goes out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife shall go out with him. (Exodus 21:4) “If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children are her master’s, and he goes out by himself. (Exodus 21:5) “And if the servant truly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children, let me not go out free,’ (Exodus 21:6) then his master shall bring him before Elohim, and shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall serve him forever. (Exodus 21:7) “And when a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she does not go out as the male servants do. (Exodus 21:8) “If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who has engaged her to himself, then he shall let her be ransomed. He shall have no authority to sell her to a foreign people, because of him deceiving her. (Exodus 21:9) “And if he has engaged her to his son, he is to do to her as is the right of daughters. (Exodus 21:10) “If he takes another wife, her food, her covering, and her marriage rights are not to be diminished. (Exodus 21:11) “And if he does not do these three for her, then she shall go out for naught, without silver. (Exodus 21:12) “He who strikes a man so that he dies shall certainly be put to death. (Exodus 21:13) “But if he did not lie in wait, but Elohim delivered him into his hand, then I shall appoint for you a place where he is to flee. (Exodus 21:14) “But when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him even from my altar to die. (Exodus 21:15) “And he who smites his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death. (Exodus 21:16) “And he who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall certainly be put to death. (Exodus 21:17) “And he who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death. (Exodus 21:18) “And when men strive together, and one smites the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed, (Exodus 21:19) if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who smote him shall be innocent. He only pays for lost time and sees to it that he is completely healed. (Exodus 21:20) “And when a man smites his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he shall certainly be punished. (Exodus 21:21) “But if he remains alive a day or two, he is not punished; for he is his property. (Exodus 21:22) “And when men strive and they shall smite a pregnant woman, and her children come out, yet there is no injury, he shall certainly be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband lays upon him. And he shall give through the judges. (Exodus 21:23) “But if there is injury, then you shall give life for life, (Exodus 21:24) eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (Exodus 21:25) burn for burn, wound for wound, lash for lash. (Exodus 21:26) “And when a man smites the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he is to let him go free for the sake of his eye. (Exodus 21:27) “And if he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he is to let him go free.
More on our Contributory Negligence Laws of Today!
(Exodus 21:28) “And when an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox shall certainly be stoned, and its flesh is not eaten, and the owner of the ox is innocent. (Exodus 21:29) “However, if the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has been warned, and he has not kept it confined, so that it has killed a man or a woman, the ox is stoned and its owner also is put to death. (Exodus 21:30) “If a sin-covering is laid upon him, then he shall give the ransom of his life, whatever is laid on him. (Exodus 21:31) “Whether it has gored a son or gored a daughter, according to this right-ruling it is done to him. (Exodus 21:32) “If the ox gores a male or female servant, he is to give to their master thirty sheqels of silver, and the ox is stoned. (Exodus 21:33) “And when a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, (Exodus 21:34) the owner of the pit is to repay, he is to give silver to their owner, and the dead beast is his. (Exodus 21:35) “And when the ox of a man smites the ox of his neighbor and it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide the silver from it, and also divide the dead ox. (Exodus 21:36) “Or if it was known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has not kept it confined, he shall certainly repay ox for ox, while the dead beast is his.
Paybacks and principles for our expectations in our “catching the thief” who comes to kill steal and destroy and our right of demand for payment!
(Exodus 22:1) “When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and shall slaughter it or sell it, he repays five cattle for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. (Exodus 22:2) “If the thief is found breaking in, and he is smitten so that he dies, there is no guilt for his bloodshed. (Exodus 22:3) “If the sun has risen on him, there is guilt for his bloodshed, he shall certainly repay. If he has not the means, then he shall be sold for his theft. (Exodus 22:4) “If the theft is indeed found alive in his hand, whether it is an ox or donkey or sheep, he repays double. (Exodus 22:5) “When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare, and lets loose his livestock, and it feeds in another man’s field, he repays from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard. (Exodus 22:6) “When fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain, or standing grain, or the field is consumed, he who kindled the fire shall certainly repay. (Exodus 22:7) “When a man gives silver or goods to his neighbor to guard and it are stolen out of the man’s house, if the thief is found, he repays double. (Exodus 22:8) “If the thief is not found, then the master of the house shall be brought before Elohim to see whether he has put his hand into his neighbor’s goods. (Exodus 22:9) “For every matter of transgression, for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for garment, or for whatever is lost which another claims to be his, let the matter of them both come before Elohim. And whomever Elohim declares wrong repays double to his neighbor. (Exodus 22:10) “When a man gives to his neighbor a donkey, or ox, or sheep, or any beast to watch over, and it dies, or is injured, or is driven away while no one is looking, (Exodus 22:11) let an oath of יהוה be between them both, that he has not put his hand into his neighbor’s goods. And the owner of it shall accept that, and he does not repay. (Exodus 22:12) “But if it is indeed stolen from him, he repays to its owner. (Exodus 22:13) “If it is torn to pieces, then let him bring it for evidence, he does not repay what was torn. (Exodus 22:14) “And when a man borrows from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while the owner of it is not present, he shall certainly repay. (Exodus 22:15) “But if its owner was with it, he does not repay. If it was hired, he is entitled to the hire. (Exodus 22:16) “And when a man entices a maiden who is not engaged, and lies with her, he shall certainly pay the bride-price for her to be his wife. (Exodus 22:17) “If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he pays according to the bride-price of maidens.
Uh Oh! Harry Potter and his writer, the self confessed satanic author or in deep trouble! DO NOT join yourself to them --
(Exodus 22:18) “Do not allow a practiser of witchcraft to live. (Exodus 22:19) “Anyone lying with a beast shall certainly be put to death. (Exodus 22:20) “He who slaughters to a mighty one, except to יהוה only, is put under the ban. (Exodus 22:21) “Do not tread down a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim. (Exodus 22:22) “Do not afflict any widow or fatherless child. (Exodus 22:23) “If you do afflict them at all – if they cry out to me at all, I shall certainly hear their cry, (Exodus 22:24) and my wrath shall burn and I shall slay you with the sword, your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless. (Exodus 22:25) “If you do lend silver to any of my people, the poor among you, you are not to be like one that lends on interest to him. Do not lay interest on him. (Exodus 22:26) “If you take your neighbor’s garment as a pledge at all, you are to return it to him before the sun goes down. (Exodus 22:27) “For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What does he sleep in? And it shall be that when he cries to me, I shall hear, for I show favor. (Exodus 22:28) “Do not revile Elohim, nor curse a ruler of your people. (Exodus 22:29) “Do not delay giving your harvest and your vintage. Give me the first-born of your sons. (Exodus 22:30) “Likewise you are to do with your oxen, with your sheep. It is to be with its mother seven days. On the eighth day you give it to me. (Exodus 22:31) “And you are set-apart men to me, and you do not eat any meat which is torn to pieces in the field, you throw it to the dogs.
NO false Witness! Do not agree with those who are not eyewitnesses!
(Exodus 23:1) “Do not bring a false report. Do not put your hand with the wrong to be a malicious witness. (Exodus 23:2) “Do not follow a crowd to do evil, nor bear witness in strife so as to turn aside after many, to turn aside what is right. (Exodus 23:3) “And do not favor a poor man in his strife. (Exodus 23:4) “When you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall certainly return it to him. (Exodus 23:5) “When you see the donkey of him who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall certainly help him. (Exodus 23:6) “Do not turn aside the right-ruling of your poor in his strife. (Exodus 23:7) “Keep yourself far from a false matter, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I do not declare the wrong right. (Exodus 23:8) “And do not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the seeing one and twists the words of the righteous. (Exodus 23:9) “And do not oppress a sojourner, as you yourselves know the heart of a sojourner, because you were sojourners in the land of Mitsrayim. (Exodus 23:10) “And for six years you are to sow your land, and shall gather its increase, (Exodus 23:11) 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 olive yard.
Sounds pretty serious about His Sabbath and His other Feasts commanded!
(Exodus 23:12) “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. (Exodus 23:13) “And in all that I have said to you take heed. And make no mention of the name of other mighty ones, let it not be heard from your mouth. (Exodus 23:14) “Three1 times in the year you are to observe a festival to me: Footnote: 1The Festivals of יהוה are grouped in three, for three different times of the year. (Exodus 23:15) “Guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Aḇiḇ – for in it you came out of Mitsrayim – and do not appear before me empty-handed; (Exodus 23:16) and the Festival of the Harvest, the first-fruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Festival of the Ingathering at the outgoing of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field. (Exodus 23:17) “Three times in the year all your males are to appear before the Master יהוה. (Exodus 23:18) “Do not offer the blood of my slaughtering with leavened bread, and the fat of my offering shall not remain until morning. (Exodus 23:19) “Bring the first of the first-fruits of your land into the House of יהוה your Elohim. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk. (Exodus 23:20) “See, I am sending a Messenger before you to guard you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. (Exodus 23:21) “Be on guard before Him and obey His voice. Do not rebel against Him, for He is not going to pardon your transgression, for My Name is in Him. (Exodus 23:22) “But if you diligently obey His voice and shall do all that I speak, and then I shall be an enemy to your enemies and a distresser to those who distress you. (Exodus 23:23) “For My Messenger shall go before you and shall bring you in to the Amorites and the Ḥittites and the Perizzites and the Kenaʽanites and the Ḥiwwites and the Yeḇusites, and I shall cut them off. (Exodus 23:24) “Do not bow down to their mighty ones, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but without fail overthrow them and without fail break down their pillars. (Exodus 23:25) “And you shall serve יהוה your Elohim, and He shall bless your bread and your water. And I shall remove sickness from your midst. (Exodus 23:26) “None shall miscarry or be barren in your land. I shall fill the number of your days. (Exodus 23:27) “I shall send my fear before you, and cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and make all your enemies turn their backs to you. (Exodus 23:28) “And I shall send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Ḥiwwite, the Kenaʽanite, and the Ḥittite from before you. (Exodus 23:29) “I shall not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a waste and the beast of the field become too numerous for you. (Exodus 23:30) “Little by little I shall drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land. (Exodus 23:31) “And I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I shall give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. (Exodus 23:32) “Do not make a covenant with them nor with their mighty ones. (Exodus 23:33) “Let them not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me when you serve their mighty ones, when it becomes a snare to you.”
Worship YHWH- Moses was given all the Torah direct from YHWH!
(Exodus 24:1) And to Mosheh He said, “Come up to יהוה, you and Aharon, Naḏaḇ and Aḇihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra’ĕl, and you shall bow yourselves from a distance. (Exodus 24:2) “But Mosheh shall draw near to יהוה by himself, and let them not draw near, nor let the people go up with him.” (Exodus 24:3) And Mosheh came and related to the people all the Words of יהוה and all the right-rulings. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the Words which יהוה has spoken we shall do.” (Exodus 24:4) And Mosheh wrote down all the Words of יהוה, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve standing columns for the twelve tribes of Yisra’ĕl. (Exodus 24:5) And he sent young men of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and they offered burnt offerings and slaughtered peace slaughterings of bulls to יהוה. (Exodus 24:6) And Mosheh took half the blood and put it in basins and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Blood of the COVENANT and the Invitation!
(Exodus 24:7) And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that יהוה has spoken we shall do, and obey.” (Exodus 24:8) And Mosheh took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “See, the blood of the covenant which יהוה has made with you concerning all these Words.” (Exodus 24:9) And Mosheh went up, also Aharon, Naḏaḇ, and Aḇihu, and seventy of the elders of Yisra’ĕl, (Exodus 24:10) and they saw the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, and under His feet like a paved work of sapphire stone, and like the heavens for brightness. (Exodus 24:11) Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the chiefs of the children of Yisra’ĕl! And they saw Elohim, and they ate and drank. (Exodus 24:12) And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Come up to me on the mountain and be there, while I give you tablets of stone, and the Torah and the command which I have written, to teach them.” (Exodus 24:13) And Mosheh arose with his assistant Yehoshua, and Mosheh went up to the mountain of Elohim. (Exodus 24:14) And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. And see, Aharon and Ḥur are with you. Whoever has matters, let him go to them.” (Exodus 24:15) And Mosheh went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain. (Exodus 24:16) And the esteem of יהוה dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. And on the seventh day He called to Mosheh out of the midst of the cloud. (Exodus 24:17) And the appearance of the esteem (glory) of יהוה was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Yisra’ĕl. (Exodus 24:18) And Mosheh went into the midst of the cloud and went up into the mountain. And it came to be that Mosheh was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
Keep your promise of obedience that you and your house may live!
(Jeremiah 34:8) The word which came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה, after Sovereign Tsiḏqiyahu had made a covenant with all the people who were at Yerushalayim to proclaim release to them: (Jeremiah 34:9) that everyone was to set free his male and female slave, the Heḇrew man and the Heḇrew woman, no one was to keep a Yehuḏite, his brother, enslaved. (Jeremiah 34:10) And when all the heads and all the people who had come into the covenant heard that each one was to set free his male and female slaves, and not keep them enslaved any longer, they obeyed and released them. (Jeremiah 34:11) But afterward they changed their minds and made the male and female slaves return, whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection as male and female slaves. (Jeremiah 34:12) Therefore the word of יהוה came to Yirmeyahu from יהוה, saying, (Jeremiah 34:13) “Thus said יהוה 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, (Jeremiah 34:14) “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. (Jeremiah 34:15) ‘And you recently turned and did what was right in my eyes, each man proclaiming release to his neighbor. And you made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my Name. (Jeremiah 34:16) ‘But you turned back and profaned My Name, and each one of you took back his male and female slaves, whom he had set free, at their pleasure, and brought them into subjection, to be your male and female slaves.’ (Jeremiah 34:17) “Therefore; thus said יהוה: ‘You have not obeyed me in proclaiming release, each one to his brother and each one to his neighbor. See, I am proclaiming release to you,’ declares יהוה, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the scarcity of food! And I shall make you a horror to all reigns of the earth. (Jeremiah 34:18) ‘And I shall give the men who are transgressing my covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between the parts of it: (Jeremiah 34:19) the heads of Yehuḏah, and the heads of Yerushalayim, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf. (Jeremiah 34:20) ‘And I shall give them into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of those who seek their life. And their corpses shall be for food to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth. (Jeremiah 34:21) ‘And I shall give Tsiḏqiyahu sovereign of Yehuḏah and his heads into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life, and into the hand of the sovereign of Baḇel’s army that has withdrawn from you. (Jeremiah 34:22) ‘See, I am commanding,’ declares יהוה, ‘and shall bring them back to this city, and they shall fight against it and take it and burn it with fire. And I shall make the cities of Yehuḏah a ruin without inhabitant.’ ” (Jeremiah 33:25) “Thus said יהוה, ‘If my covenant is not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the laws of the heavens and earth, (Jeremiah 33:26) then I would also reject the descendants of Yaʽaqoḇ and Dawiḏ My servant, so that I should not take of his descendants to be rulers over the descendants of Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yaʽaqoḇ. For I shall turn back their captivity, and have compassion on them.’ ”
DO NOT bear false witness! Keep your word- let your yes be yes and no be no.
(Mat 5:33) “Again, you heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform your oaths to יהוה.’ (Mat 5:34) “But I say to you, do not swear at all, neither by the heaven, because it is Elohim’s throne; (Mat 5:35) nor by the earth, for it is His footstool; nor by Yerushalayim, for it is the city of the great Sovereign; (Mat 5:36) nor swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. (Mat 5:37) “But let your word ‘Yea’ be ‘Yea,’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ And what goes beyond these is from the wicked one. (Mat 5:38) “You heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ (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. (Mat 5:40) “And he who wishes to sue you and take away your inner garment, let him have your outer garment as well. (Mat 5:41) “And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. (Mat 5:42) “Give to him who asks of you, and from him, who wishes to borrow from you, do not turn away. (Mat 5:43) “You heard that it was said,1 ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ Footnote: 1Hate your enemy was “said,” not “written.” (Mat 5:44) “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those insulting you and persecuting you, (Mat 5:45) so that you become sons of your Father in the heavens. Because He makes His sun rise on the wicked and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.1 Footnote: 1Lk. 6:35, Acts 14:16-17. (Mat 5:46) “For if you love those loving you, what rewards have you? Are the tax collectors not doing the same too? (Mat 5:47) “And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Are the tax collectors not doing so too? (Mat 5:48) “Therefore, be perfect (mature), 1 as your Father in the heavens is perfect. Footnote: 1Ex. 17:1, Ps. 119:1, 1 John 2:5, Heb. 6:1. We MUST learn and do- bless those that curse us and pray for those that spitefully use us- anything else is following hasatan and disobedient to YHWH! Otherwise you are on your own- Yahshua require we obey Him if we say we love Him! (Luke 6:43) For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. (Luke 6:44) For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather grapes. (Luke 6:45) A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. (Luke 6:46) And why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? What Yahshua is saying to us- do not say you love me and not obey me- you gain nothing- no help from the Kingdom at all!
Note what was seen at the Mount of Transfiguration- MOSES (TRUTH OF TORAH/LAW) and ELIJAH (POWER OF HIS SPIRIT)
(Mar 9:1) And He said to them, “Truly, I say to you that there are some standing here who shall not taste of death at all until they see the reign of Elohim having come in power:”1 Footnote: 1vv. 2-7. (Mar 9:2) And after six days יהושע took Kĕpha, and Yaʽaqoḇ, and Yoḥanan, and led them up on a high mountain alone by themselves. And He was transformed before them. (Mar 9:3) And His garments became glittering, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth is able to whiten. (Mar 9:4) And there appeared to them Ěliyahu with Mosheh,1 and they were talking with יהושע. Footnote: 1See Mt. 17:2-9, Luke. 9:28-35, Luke. 16:31, John. 5:47, Mal. 4:4-5. (Mar 9:5) And Kĕpha responding, said to יהושע, “Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three booths, one for you, and one for Mosheh, and one for Ěliyahu,” (Mar 9:6) because he did not know what to say, for they were exceedingly afraid. (Mar 9:7) And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, the Beloved. Hear Him!” (Mar 9:8) And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them, but only יהושע. (Mar 9:9) And as they were coming down from the mountain, He ordered them not to relate to anyone what they saw, till the Son of Aḏam had risen from the dead. (Mar 9:10) And they kept this matter to themselves, debating what the rising from the dead meant. (Mar 9:11) And they asked Him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Ěliyahu has to come first?” (Mar 9:12) And He said to them, “Ěliyahu indeed, having come first, restores all matters1. And how has it been written concerning the Son of Aḏam, that He is to suffer much and be despised? Footnote: 1Mt. 17:11, Acts 3:21.
Yoḥanan – John (Yah Chanan- Yah’s mercy in Hebrew) came teaching his name Yah’s mercy- you get it one way- REPENT! We should consider the truth that there may be some things we need to repent of before He comes again and we must stand in front of Him!
Note also that Yahshua’s topic is not some big demon- the benefit of fasting and prayer; get rid of UN BELIEF- which if we can believe all things are possible! SO…Fast and Pray!
(Mar 9:13) “But I say to you that even Ěliyahu has come, and they did to him whatever they wished, as it has been written of him.” (Mar 9:14) And coming to the taught ones, He saw a large crowd around them, and scribes disputing with them. (Mar 9:15) And immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were greatly astonished, and running near, greeted Him. (Mar 9:16) And He asked the scribes, “What are you disputing with them?” (Mar 9:17) And one of the crowd answering, said, “Teacher, I brought you my son, who has a dumb spirit. (Mar 9:18) “And wherever he seizes him, he throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and gnashes his teeth, and he wastes away. And I spoke to your taught ones that they should cast him out, but they were not able.” (Mar 9:19) And He answered him and said, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to me.” (Mar 9:20) So they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into convulsions. And falling on the ground, he rolled about, foaming at the mouth. (Mar 9:21) And He asked his father, “How long has he been like this?” And he said, “From childhood, (Mar 9:22) and often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if it is at all possible for you, have compassion on us and help us.” (Mar 9:23) And יהושע said to him, “If you are able to believe, all is possible to him who believes.” (Mar 9:24) And immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, “I believe Master, help my unbelief!” (Mar 9:25) And when יהושע saw that a crowd came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You deaf and dumb spirit, I order you, come out of him, and never again enter into him!” (Mar 9:26) And crying out, and convulsing him much, it came out of him. And he became as one dead, so that many said that he was dead. (Mar 9:27) But יהושע, taking him by the hand, lifted him up, and he arose. (Mar 9:28) And when He came into a house, His taught ones asked Him separately, “Why were we unable to cast him out?” (Other Scriptures declare- BECAUSE of your unbelief!) (Mar 9:29) And He said to them, “It is impossible for this kind to come out except through prayer and fasting.” (What comes out? UNBELIEF!) (Mar 9:30) And going from there they passed through Galil. And He did not wish anyone to know, (Mar 9:31) or He was teaching His taught ones and said to them, “The Son of Aḏam is being delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill Him. And having been killed, He shall rise the third day.” (Mar 9:32) But they did not understand the word, and they were afraid to ask Him. (Mar 9:33) And they came to Kephar Naḥum, and having come in the house He asked them, “What was it you disputed among yourselves on the way?” (Mar 9:34) And they were silent, for on the way they had disputed with one another who was the greatest. (Mar 9:35) And sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.” (Mar 9:36) And He took a little child and set him in their midst, and taking him in His arms, He said to them, (Mar 9:37) “Whoever receives one of such little children in my Name receives me. And whoever receives me, receives not me, but the One who sent me.” (Mar 9:38) And Yoḥanan said to Him, “Teacher, we saw someone, who does not follow us, casting out demons in Your Name, and we forbade him because he does not follow us.” (Mar 9:39) And יהושע said, “Do not forbid him, for no one who works a miracle in My Name is able to readily speak evil of me. (Mar 9:40) “For he who is not against us is for us. (Mar 9:41) “For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My Name, because you are of Messiah, truly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward. (Mar 9:42) “And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it is better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. (Mar 9:43) “And if your hand makes you stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two hands, to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, (Mar 9:44) where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ (Mar 9:45) “And if your foot makes you stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled, than having two feet, to be thrown into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire, (Mar 9:46) where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ (Mar 9:47) “And if your eye makes you stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter into the reign of Elohim with one eye, than having two eyes, to be thrown into the fire of Gehenna, (Mar 9:48) where ‘their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ (Mar 9:49) “For everyone shall be seasoned with fire, and every offering shall be seasoned with salt. (Mar 9:50) “Salt is good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, how shall you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace among one another.”
LOVED ONES, thank you for your prayers and compassion and help for us during this time for us. May YHWH grant you every desire of your heart! Remember- Yahweh hears our prayers-(1Jn 5:14) and this is the boldness that we have in Him, that if we ask whatever according to His desire, He hears us. (1Jn 5:15) And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
Shalom,
Thurston
