Thursday, April 20, 2017
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April 15, 2017
Shabbat shalom Loved One! (This study attached and available at website below)
www.shabbatshalomlovedone.blogspot.com Weekly Torah Studies- with language translation
Loved one, He truly is watching over His word to perform it; not our additions and subtractions such as adding our own pagan feast dates (Moedim- His appointed times with us, or removing His commanded Feasts from our worship. What we speak must line up with His word that is forever settled in Heaven. This study is attached for printing and available at the website below. Yahweh is really restoring all things; and it is becoming obvious to many--that includes us who were once DRY BONES! All who KNOW (Not know about) HIM and call on Him will be delivered- HalleluYAH! Why are we on a different schedule of the Torah Cycle than the mainstream and the Orthodox? For me it is about restoration of all things- explanation continued at end of this week’s study!
Today’s study will be very very different and hopefully thought provoking. It took me many years to even make any decision to address my thoughts and try and deal with some troublesome ideas I’d always just dismiss for a later time. I expect it will be somewhat startling for you too, and I do not expect many will even want to consider it as possible truth- it will be a truth seeker’s challenge at the least! I give credit to my wife’s continual searching and studying like only a researcher will! She’s pretty awesome and makes me think! Let’s start today’s study with a quick review of our study last week; about us learning to put others first and walk in His love---as we learn to walk like Yahshua walked!
WHAT ARE WE DOING TO BECOME WHO WE WERE MADE TO BE? That is, we all have a calling- but are we making ourselves ready to be His Bride without---WITHOUT- spot or blemish? Will we make adjustments to our lives and learn to walk the Love Walk of the Messiah?
That is how He will know us; that is how others will know us as belonging to Him. The reason I often speak about our need to totally trust Him with our tongues is that praying in the Spirit allows us to walk in His love. There are many mockers among us and SELF directed among us as we all know we walk in a fallen world- but we are to be DIFFERENT molded in His image.
Jude 1:17 But you, beloved ones, remember the words spoken before by the emissaries of our Master יהושעMessiah, Jude 1:18 because they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own wicked lusts. Jude 1:19 these are the ones who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. Jude 1:20 But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit, Jude 1:21 keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the compassion of our Master יהושעMessiah unto everlasting life. Jude 1:22 and show compassion toward some who are doubting, Jude 1:23 but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating, even the garment defiled by the flesh.c Footnote: c See also Romans_8:5-10 and Galatians_5:19-21.
The Love Walk- empowered to walk like He walked by yielding and praying in the Ruach Ha Kodesh
Over the last few weeks I shared about our need to guard our tongues, trusting Him with our tongues for what we SPEAK will direct our lives like a bridle on a horse or a rudder on a ship! I also reminded myself and you that we must TESHUVA- or REPENT from VAIN practices. I want to remind us that REPENTING is not just admittance of sin- or even being sorry for our sin. REPENTANCE is TURNING 180 degrees from our sin and pursuing righteousness through determined and loving obedience! IF we will not repent we can expect that we are deceived and the devil will continue to manipulate and use us and our loved ones as he chooses.
Matthew 15:7 “Hypocrites! Yeshayahu rightly prophesied about you, saying, Matthew 15:8 ‘This people draw near to me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. Matthew 15:9 ‘But in vain do they worship me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.’ ” b Isaiah_29:13. Footnote:b Mark_7:7, 2 Kings_17:19.
This week would normally require I start the torah portion over in Genesis. Once again, I will only address portions of what we can chew on and consider. I will address WHAT I THINK- not thus says Yahweh about mine and others observations of returning to the ancient paths, and try and address about the timing of Passover. IF- I continue this thought process for our mid-rash- we should come to some sort of reasonable understanding of the possibility of WHEN Passover might be- in the next several weeks. I do not wish to be obstructive or offensive to what you have determined for yourself, I am only challenging my own beliefs and understanding. I will leave parts of last week’s Torah portion as I address for the next few weeks my ideas on getting the Sabbath day correct and from there, the start of the year and how the Feasts and appointments (Moedim) may fit together without all the differences of OPINION, where His body will be in more and more absolute UNION, because IMO He is restoring His ancient PATH for us to walk in.
Psalms 119:102 I have not turned aside from Your right-rulings, For You Yourself have taught me. Psalms 119:103 how sweet to my taste has Your word been, More than honey to my mouth! Psalms 119:104 From Your orders I get understanding; Therefore I have hated every false way. Psalms 119:105 Nun Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Isaiah 58:6 “Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke? Isaiah 58:7 “Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, and cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh? Isaiah 58:8 “Then your light would break forth like the morning, your healing spring forth speedily. And your righteousness shall go before you, the esteem of יהוה would be your rear guard. Isaiah 58:9 “Then, when you call, יהוה would answer; when you cry, He would say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and the speaking of unrighteousness, Isaiah 58:10 if you extend your being to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted being, then your light shall dawn in the darkness, and your darkness be as noon. Isaiah 58:11 “Then יהוה would guide you continually, and satisfy your being in drought, and strengthen your bones. And you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail. Isaiah 58:12 “And those from among you shall build the old waste places. You shall raise up the foundations of many generations. And you would be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorerof Streets (Ancient Paths) to Dwell In. Isaiah 58:13 “If you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart day, and shall call the Sabbath ’a delight,’ the set-apart day of יהוה ‘esteemed,’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words, Isaiah 58:14 then you shall delight yourself in יהוה. And I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Ya‛aqoḇ your father. For the mouth of יהוה has spoken!”
So our first decision is about repentance- that is SUBMITTING TO HIS INSTRUCTIONS
James 4:7 So then subject (Submit to His word/instruction) yourselves to Elohim. Resist the devil b and he shall flee from you. Footnote: b Or adversary. James 4:8 Draw near to Elohim and He shall draw near to you. Cleanse hands, sinners. And cleanse the hearts, you double-minded! James 4:9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to dejection. James 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Master, and He shall lift you up. James 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. James 4:12 There is one Lawgiver and Judge, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another? (Comment: This sort of judgment is referring to condemnation- as we are commanded to make right judgments- for our own walk and associations- but we are not to condemn- we are to love them and yet hate the sin-if they will not repent when confronted we are to remove ourselves from their fellowship and allow Yahweh to deal with them, that they may attain everlasting life through repentance)
(Isaiah 51:1) “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, seeking יהוה: Look to the rock you were hewn from, and to the hole of the pit you were dug from. (Isaiah 51:2) “Look to Aḇraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you. He was alone when I called him, and I blessed him and increased him. (Isaiah 51:3) “For יהוה shall comfort Tsiyon, He shall comfort all her waste places. He makes her wilderness like Ěḏen, and her desert like the garden of יהוה. Joy and gladness are found in it, thanksgiving and the voice of song.
In my opinion; so many “believers” are headed to hell and are not even aware of that likelihood. I expect that hasatan is far more devious and deceitful than we have imagined. He uses religion on us and we think we are just fine. We have been “numbed down” from reality and truth by religion- yet we desperately need RELATIONSHIP with Him and people. I have shared before about a man I met and his simple testimony of dying and being in the shadow of death---and nearly deceived by hasatan in that place. (As many of you know- Yahshua took me to hell as I interceded for a loved one- and told me that everyone born on earth is a citizen of hell until they are BORN AGAIN in His Spirit- that the gates of hell would not prevail against His believing body and then said with great force- THEY WILL NOT!) So many believers are thinking they are okay because their walk is normal in their denomination etc. where they are accepted and good to go
I will only address portions of what we can chew on and consider. I will leave parts of last week’s Torah portion as I address for the next few weeks my ideas on getting the Sabbath day correct and from there, the start of the year and how the Feasts and appointments (Moedim) may fit together without all the differences of OPINION, where His body will be in more and more absolute UNION, because IMO He is restoring His ancient PATH for us to walk in.
I will start the “thinking and considerations” very slowly; because none of us (At least I do not) like change, but how can we be restored to more truth without considering change. We can all agree that He changes not. We can likely still agree that He is restoring all things- even will bring us back to the land of Israel from where we were scattered as a result of our sins and pagan ways. So we likely still agree that we have inherited lies and things wherein there is no profit:
The Lord Will Restore Israel Jeremiah 16:14 “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when it is no longer said, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ěl from the land of Mitsrayim,’ Jeremiah16:15 but, ‘יהוה lives who brought up the children of Yisra’ěl from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had driven them.’ For I shall bring them back into their land I gave to their fathers. Jeremiah16:16 “See, I am sending for many fishermen,” declares יהוה, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. Jeremiah 16:17 “For My eyes are on all their ways; they have not been hidden from my face, nor has their crookedness been hidden from my eyes. Jeremiah 16:18 “And first I shall repay double for their crookedness and their sin, because they have defiled my land with the dead bodies of their disgusting matters, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
Jeremiah 16:19 O יהוה, my strength and my stronghold and my refuge, in the day of distress the nations shall come to You from the ends of the earth and say, “Our fathers have inherited only falsehood (Lies), futility, and there is no value in them.” a Footnote: a See also Psalms_147:19, Isaiah_2:3, Isaiah_60:2-3, John_4:22, Romans_2:20, Romans_3:2 and Romans_9:4. Jeremiah 16:20 Would a man make mighty ones for himself, which are not mighty ones? Jeremiah 16:21 “Therefore see, I am causing them to know, this time I cause them to know my hand and my might. And they shall know that My Name is יהוה!”
You and I both realize that there is much division about when we celebrate the feasts, and much of the born again ones are not even submitting to the “Sabbath” as we have learned it to be SATURDAY. Are we correct in following Judah in this concern? We even go so far as to consider others rebellious and pagan if the keep doing “Church” on the day of the SUN. Are we really so “arrived” at truth that we can point the finger at our brothers and sisters? I do not believe we are on very solid ground. In fact I will go so far as to say we are on a journey and OPEN to truth, but the ones who fight truth the hardest are those that ASSUME they have no need to change or repent because they have arrived and are now practicing TRUTH!
Are we really that hoodwinked in our following the follower? I submit today- for your prayerful consideration- we need to repent for our arrogance.
Do we really imagine we can inherit a pagan calendar as is Pope Gregory’s; and make that calendar fit the biblical commands of using the sun, moon and stars? That on the pagan calendar the days would line up perfectly to every SATURDAY and every FEAST DAY? We really have inherited LIES with our calendar and are having a difficult time with our minds in throwing it out so to speak and starting fresh with His commands! Obviously, we live in this world where a calendar is not based on His times and seasons.
I expect these changes AFTER He comes for sure- because He will teach us His ways. However; most of us have a difficult time just doing the best we can to try and obey what little we do know. My hope is that we can stop pointing the fingers and speaking against those that are staying the course so to speak with a fallen system. The Holy Set-Apart Spirit will indeed guide us to all truth but it will be a love walk- not a religious torment of others…just my opinion. I expect even those who demand the name said perfectly- according to what they RECENTLY “learned” will also have to repent- heck that should include just about all of us.
Note that the scripture says nothing about checking the barley in Israel. I will further submit that the barley will always be ripe (IF we are obedient and not under a curse by Yahweh because that can also occur) if we are following His directions according to the sun, moon and stars. Did you ever wonder why the pagan Muslims who serve a god of hate and murder, have the same symbol as our brother Judah with the sliver of the moon? Is it possible Judah inherited, under compulsion; some lies when they went into Babylonian captivity? Lies inherited, just like under Constantine, who was a sun god worshiper, believers inherited Easter (Fertility goddess) as they worshiped the sun at the “sunrise” service.
I have only started discussing this because I believe it will take time for us to go deeper and try to comprehend and return to His ancient path, and that will only happen to each of us as we allow Him to do that. Perhaps for most of us, we just aren’t ready for that much truth, so we determine NOT to even pursue looking into it. Please remember, our Elohim is loving and kind and His mercy endures forever- that is to say- He is patient and will guide us into all truth and teach us things to come. Yes, He will direct our path, but He seems to require us to start walking so He can do that. So consider this week’s thoughts only for your consideration- that we may still face some hard decision and learning curves- and the reality is we will make mistakes in becoming TRUTH SEARCHERS- but next week I hope to address more ideas on what this MAY look like- so I appeal for your mercy and yes even your thoughts- because the goal- I believe is Yahweh restoring us to His ancient path; heck- we might even do some midrash if I hear from some of you on your thoughts and impressions you have been learning from our coming KING!
WE WILL NOW ADDRESS HOW WE CAN LIVE THE LOVE WALK!How can we possibly bless those that curse us and pray for those who spitefully use us. How can we forgive others that don’t really deserve our forgiveness? Praying in the Ruach will help us walk in His LOVE!
Jude 1:16 these are grumblers, complainers, who walk according to their own lusts, and their mouth speaks proudly, admiring faces of others for the sake of gain. Jude 1:17 But you, beloved ones, remember the words spoken before by the emissaries of our Master יהושע Messiah, Jude 1:18 because they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own wicked lusts. Jude 1:19 these are the ones who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. Jude 1:20 But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit, Jude 1:21 keep yourselves in the love of Elohim, looking for the compassion of our Master יהושע Messiah unto everlasting life. Jude 1:22 and show compassion toward some who are doubting, Jude 1:23 but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating, even the garment defiled by the flesh.1 Footnote: 1 See Galatians 5:19-21, Romans 8:5-10. Jude 1:24 and to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you blameless before the presence of His esteem with exceeding joy, Jude 1:25 to the only wise Elohim, our Savior, be esteem and greatness and might and authority, both now and forever. Amĕn.
IT IS A CHOICE WE MAKE TO OBEY OUR KING AND SHOW OUR LOVE BY DOING WHAT HE SAYS! It is also a choice to choose to love others because we will be held accountable!
The power to walk in love is available to whosoever will bow their knee, humble themselves and receive the engrafted word of life- in submissive desire to obey and love Him. Available power, but rarely allowed, as most of us prefer to rule ourselves and be in control of even our words. Please consider with me; I suspect that if we will not yield our tongue to our King; which seems to provide the very direction our lives go, we have not submitted to the Creator at all. These Scriptures declare that no man can tame his tongue so we must make a determined effort to yield to the only source of power given that can control for us in righteousness. Remember, according to Yahshua (Jesus);
An obvious understanding of LOVE for our King is OBEDIENCE---this is where we should—I repeat shouldstart to study for ourselves about when His appointed times (Moedim- Feasts) are. Most of us have just accepted what was shown us by Judah and various recipes of what has been added to and subtracted from the actual words of our Creator- given to Moses.
(John 14:15) “If you love me, you shall guard my commands.1 Footnote: 1 See Exodus 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 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.”
That’s how we love Yahweh- the first four of the Ten Commandments come to mind. Next we are required to love others as ourselves- hmm…that’s the last six commandments. We will take a quick look but first let’s see Yahshua’s words- Matthew_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.” Matthew_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, Matthew_5:46 “For if you love those loving you, what reward have you? Are the tax collectors not doing the same too?
We are promised above HELP FROM HEAVEN if we will submit OUR TONGUES and do as He commands! Our tongues direct our lives.
Yahshua told me many years ago, that until we submit our tongues to Him and trusting the Ruach HaKodesh, WE HAD NOT SURRENDERED AT ALL!
(James 3:2) For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. (James 3:3) Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. (James 3:4) Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor lists. (James 3:5) Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindles! (James 3:6) And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and set on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. (James 3:7) For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: (James 3:8) But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. (James 3:9) Therewith we bless YHWH, even the Father; and therewith we curse men, which are made after the similitude of YHWH. (James 3:10) Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing; my brothers, these things ought not to be.
(Act 1:1) The first account I made, O Theophilos, of all that יהושע began both to do and to teach, (Act 1:2) until the day when He was taken up, after giving instructions through the Set-apart Spirit to the emissaries whom He had chosen, (Act 1:3) to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them for forty days, speaking concerning the reign of Elohim. (Act 1:4) And meeting with them, He commanded them not to leave Yerushalayim, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, 1 “which you have heard from me – Footnote: 1 Luke 24:49, John 14:16 & 26. (Act 1:5) because Yoḥanan truly immersed (baptized) in water, but you shall be immersed (baptized) in the Set-apart Spirit not many days from now.”
Loved One- please consider these next instructions of Yahshua (The Word who was later made flesh and dwelled among us) of vast importance in your LOVE WALK! The LOVE WALK should be the most important character enhancer we seek. Not on how perfect we think we do Torah better than this one or that one. We need His appropriated power and help to walk in His kind of love. Take note below that you and I will have no witness that will remain except by His provided method and His power! No witness remaining? Yahshua (Jesus) is pretty direct about how we may receive (or reject) His power and help. Do we really desire to be His witnesses?
(Act 1:8) “But you shall receive power when the Set-apart Spirit has come upon you, and you shall (Then)be my witnesses in Yerushalayim, and in all Yehuḏah and Shomeron, and to the end of the earth.”
(Act 2:1) And when the Day of the Festival of Weeks had come, they were all with one mind in one place. (Act 2:2) And suddenly there came a sound from the heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. (Act 2:3) And there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and settled on each one of them. (Act 2:4) And they were all filled with the Set-apart Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to speak.
The sages taught that the Festival of Weeks- (Shavuot-Pentecost) was also the anniversary of Moses receiving the Torah (Instructions-Law) at Mt Sinai. This was passed down for many generations and makes sense as it is appropriate that His power is given to walk out in obedience His Instructions as it is not burdensome but quite doable when it is written on our hearts. It also makes sense because He gave us His commands and instructions and then gives us His power to do them. Please take note that the One who mikveh’s us (baptizes) in the Holy Spirit and Fire is Yahshua, and He lets us speak as the Holy Spirit (Ruach Ha Kodesh) gives the utterance- but WE MUST OPEN OUR MOUTHS AND DO THE SPEAKING- HE WILL NOT FORCE US TO SPEAK- HE ALLOWS THE WILLING AND OBEDIENT.
(Matthew 3:4) And Yoḥanan had a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey. (Matthew 3:5) Then Yerushalayim, and all Yehuḏah, and all the country around the Yardĕn went out to him, (Matthew 3:6) and they were immersed by him in the Yardĕn, confessing their sins.(Matthew 3:7) And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, “Brood of adders! Who has warned you to flee from the coming wrath? (Matthew 3:8) “Bear, therefore, fruits worthy of repentance, (Matthew 3:9) and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Aḇraham as father.’1 for I say to you that Elohim is able to rise up children to Aḇraham from these stones. Footnote: 1John 8:33-34, Romans. 9:8. (Matthew 3:10) “And the axe is already laid to the root of the trees. Every tree, then, which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. (Matthew 3:11) “I indeed immerse you in water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to bear. He shall immerse baptize) you in the Set-apart Spirit (Holy Spirit) and fire.
Since Yahshua (Jesus) is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit and empowers the ones humble enough to yield and seek Him to walk in His love and power, we should ask for all of His power and help He has for us- He changes not and is no respecter of persons, but He watches over His word to perform it. Therefore, you can expect to receive the same power they did in the upper room or likely Solomon’s Portico. Ask Yahshua now to baptize you- raise your hands to heaven in sweet surrender and ask for him to baptize you in the Holy Spirit and Fire. And then don’t speak your normal language but speak what He gives you utterance to speak- DO NOT JUDGE WHAT HE GIVES- just open your mouth and let the rivers of living water flow from your belly. He will do what He promised. YIELD and speak. Get thirsty and hungry for Him!
(John 7:37) In the last day, that great day of the feast, (Set Apart Day following Tabernacles or the 8th Day as it is often referred to as the LAST GREAT DAY) Yahshua (Jesus) stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. (John 7:38) He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:39) (But this spoke He of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
DO NOT WORRY ABOUT INTERPRETATION- as that is not always possible unless it is one of the 9 power gifts of the Holy Spirit to benefit others. This prayer language is to build you and your faith and is not for ministering to others. (Jude 1:20) But you, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
(1 Corinthians 14:14) For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful. (1 Corinthians 14:15) What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Understand that we don’t always know what to pray for (as we ought to) and cannot usually even pray for one hour without repeating ourselves! The yielded tongue (Yielded to Him) can pray without ceasing as the Holy Spirit knows exactly what to pray for! YIELD your tongue and trust Him with the direction of your life- then YOU WILL PRODUCE FRUIT THAT WILL REMAIN! (Romans 8:26) And in the same way the Spirit does help in our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray, but the Spirit Himself pleads our case for us with groaning unutterable. (Unknown speech) (Romans 8:27) And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the set-apart ones according to Elohim. (Romans 8:28) And we know that all matters work together for good to those who love Elohim, to those who are called according to His purpose.
Sometimes the devil uses FEAR to keep us from trusting in the power of YHWH to give us His Spirit and Power, so Yahshua reminds us to trust Him. Remember Luke 10:19 reminds us the demonic realm we have authority over is represented by snakes and scorpions as all the power of hell: (Luke 10:18) And He said to them, “I saw Satan falling out of the heaven as lightning. (Luke 10:19) “See, I give you the authority to trample onserpents and scorpions (demonic realm), and over all the power of the enemy, and none at all shall hurt you.(Luke 10:20) “But do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names have been written in the heavens.”
We can rest assured that if we ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire we will not get a snake or a scorpion (representing the demonic realm) since He has all power and authority and the Keys to the Kingdom!
(Luke 11:10) “For everyone asking receives, and he who is seeking finds, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened. (Luke 11:11) “And what father among you whose son asks for bread shall give him a stone, or if he asks for a fish shall give him a snake instead of a fish, (Luke 11:12) or if he asks for an egg shall give him a scorpion? (Luke 11:13) “If you then, being wicked, (Evil) know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father from heaven give the Set-apart (Holy) Spirit to those asking Him!” WE CAN TRUST HIM WITH OUR TONGUES WITH HIS PROMISES!
Here are this week’s Torah Scriptures: Shemini-Atzeret Vezot Ha Breradrah (And this is the Blessing)
Deuteronomy 33:1- 34:12; Numbers 29:35-40; Joshua 1:1-18; 2 Timothy 3:1-17
As I mentioned earlier, his week would normally require I start the torah portion over in Genesis. Once again, I will only address portions of what we can chew on and consider. I will address WHAT I THINK- not thus says Yahweh about mine and others observations of returning to the ancient paths, and try and address about the timing of Passover as best I can over the next few weeks.
IF- I continue this thought process for our midrash- we should come to some sort of reasonable understanding of the possibility of WHEN Passover might be- in the next several weeks. I do not wish to be obstructive or offensive to what you have determined for yourself, I am only challenging my own beliefs and understanding. I will continue to leave parts of last week’s Torah portion as I address for the next few weeks my ideas on getting the Sabbath day correct and from there, the start of the year and how the Feasts and appointments (Moedim) may fit together without all the differences of OPINION, where His body will be in more and more absolute UNION, because IMO He is restoring His ancient PATH for us to walk in. Below again are the blessings bestowed on the 12 tribes of Israel
Deuteronomy 33:1and this is the blessing with which Mosheh the man of Elohim blessed the children of Yisra’ĕl before his death. Deuteronomy 33:2 and he said, “יהוה came from Sinai, and rose from Sĕʽir for them. He shone forth from Mount Paran, and came with ten thousands of set-apart ones – at His right hand a law of fire for them. Deuteronomy 33:3 Indeed, He loves the peoples, all His set-apart ones are in your hand. And they, they sat down at your feet, receiving Your Words. Deuteronomy 33:4 Mosheh commanded us a Torah, an inheritance of the assembly of Yaʽaqoḇ. Deuteronomy 33:5 And He was Sovereign in Yeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, the tribes of Yisra’ĕl. Deuteronomy 33:6 “Let Re’uḇĕn live, and not die, and let his men be numbered.” Deuteronomy 33:7And this of Yehuḏah, and he said, “Hear, יהוה, the voice of Yehuḏah, and bring him to his people. His hands shall fight for him, and you be a help against his enemies.” Deuteronomy 33:8 And of Lĕwi he said, “Your Tummim and Your Urim belong to Your kind one, whom You tried at Massah, with whom You contended at the waters of Meriḇah, Deuteronomy 33:9 who said of his father and mother, ‘I have not seen them.’ And he did not acknowledge his brothers, or know his own children, for they have guarded Your Word and watched over your covenant. Deuteronomy 33:10 “They teach your right-rulings to Yaʽaqoḇ, and Your Torah to Yisra’ĕl. They put incense before you, and a complete burnt offering on your altar. Deuteronomy 33:11 “O יהוה, bless his strength, and accept the work of his hands. Smite the loins of those who rise against him, and of those who hate him, that they rise no more.” Deuteronomy 33:12 Of Binyamin he said, “Let the beloved of יהוהdwell in safety by Him, shielding him all the day, as he dwells between His shoulders.” Deuteronomy 33:13 And of Yosĕph he said, “Blessed of יהוה is his land, with the choicest from the heavens, with the dew, and the deep lying beneath, Deuteronomy 33:14 with the choice fruits of the sun, with the choice yield of the months, Deuteronomy 33:15 with the finest of the ancient mountains, with the choicest of the everlasting hills, Deuteronomy 33:16 with the choicest of the earth and all that fills it, and the good pleasure of Him who dwelt in the bush. Let it come on the head of Yosĕph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separate from his brothers. Deuteronomy 33:17 “His splendor is like a first-born bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephrayim, and they are the thousands of Menashsheh.” Deuteronomy 33:18 And of Zeḇulun he said, “Rejoice, O Zeḇulun, in your going out, and Yissasḵar in your tents! Deuteronomy 33:19 “They call peoples to the mountain; there they bring offerings of righteousness, for they draw from the riches of the seas, and treasures hidden in the sand.” Deuteronomy 33:20 And of Gaḏ he said, “Blessed is he who enlarges Gaḏ. He dwells as a lion, and shall tear off the arm, also the crown. Deuteronomy 33:21 “And he chose the best for himself, for there the portion of the lawgiver was hidden. And he came with the heads of the people. The righteousness of יהוה he did, and His right-rulings with Yisra’ĕl.” Deuteronomy 33:22 And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub, which leaps from Bashan.” Deuteronomy 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, “O Naphtali, satisfied with pleasure, and filled with the blessing of יהוה, possess the west and the south.” Deuteronomy 33:24 And of Ashĕr he said, “Ashĕr is most blessed of sons. Let him be accepted y his brothers, and dip his foot in oil. Deuteronomy 33:25 “Your sandals are iron and bronze, and your strength as your days. Deuteronomy 33:26 “O Yeshurun, there is no one like Ěl, riding the heavens to help you, and on the clouds, in His Excellency. Deuteronomy 33:27 “The Elohim of old is a refuge, and beneath are everlasting arms. And He drives out the enemy from before you and says, ‘Destroy!’ Deuteronomy 33:28“Thus Yisra’ĕl dwells in safety, the fountain of Yaʽaqoḇ alone, in a land of grain and new wine. His heavens also drop down dew. Deuteronomy 33:29 “Blessed are you, O Yisra’ĕl! Who is like you, a people saved by יהוה, the shield of your help, and He who is the sword of Your Excellency! And your enemies are subdued for you, and you tread down their high places.”
We get the Word- Torah in us and we find success and FEAR NOT!
Joshua 1:1 and it came to be, after the death of Mosheh the servant of יהוה, that יהוה spoke to Yehoshua son of Nun, the assistant of Mosheh, saying, Joshua 1:2 “Mosheh My servant is dead, so now, arise, pass over this Yardĕn, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Yisra’ĕl. Joshua 1:3“Every place on which the sole of your foot treads I have given you, as I spoke to Mosheh. Joshua 1:4 “From the wilderness and this Leḇanon even as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Ḥittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, is your border. Joshua 1:5 No man is going to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Mosheh, so I am with you. I do not fail you nor forsake you. Joshua 1:6“Be strong and courageous, for you are to let this people inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Joshua 1:7 “Only be strong and very courageous, to guard to do according to all the Torah which Mosheh My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it right or left, so that you act wisely wherever you go. Joshua 1:8 “Do not let this Book of the Torah depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you guard to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and act wisely.
Joshua 1:9 “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, nor be discouraged, for יהוה your Elohim is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:17 “According to all that we obeyed Mosheh, so we obey you. Only, let יהוה your Elohim be with you, as He was with Mosheh. Joshua 1:18 “Whoever rebels against your command and does not obey your words, in all that you command him, is put to death. Only be strong and courageous.”
Sure resembles most cultures of the Earth today
2 Timothy 3:1but know this, that in the last days; hard (Perilous) times shall come. 2 Timothy 3:2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, thankless, wrong-doers, 2 Timothy 3:23 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, haters of good, 2 Timothy 3:4 betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of Elohim, 2 Timothy 3:5 having a form(Form of godliness but denying His power= RELIGION) of reverence 1 but denying its power. And turn away from these! Footnote: 1 See v. 13, Isaiah 24:5-6, Matthew 24:12, Romans 1:30-31, 2 Thessalonians 2:3-11.
2 Timothy 3:6 For among them are those who creep into households and captivate silly women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 2 Timothy 3:7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 2 Timothy 3:8 And as Yoḥane and Mamrĕ opposed Mosheh, so do these also oppose the truth – men of corrupt minds, found worthless concerning the belief; 2 Timothy 3:9 but they shall not go on further, for their folly shall be obvious to all, as also that of those men became. 2 Timothy 3:10 But you did closely follow my teaching, the way of life, the purpose, the belief, the patience, the love, the endurance, 2 Timothy 3:11 the persecutions, the sufferings, which came to me at Antioch, at Ikonion, and at Lustra – what persecutions I bore. Yet out of them all, the Master delivered me. 2 Timothy 3:12 and indeed, all those wishing to live reverently in Messiah יהושע, shall be persecuted.1 Footnote: 1Matthew 5:10. 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and impostors shall go on to the worse,1 leading astray and being led astray. Footnote: 1 Matthew 24:12, Revelation 22:11. 2 Timothy 3:14 But you, stay in what you have learned and trusted, having known from whom you have learned …
Loved One, I pray you and I walk in the spirit and not according to the lusts and directions of the flesh and the culture surrounding us. ESPECIALLY, I pray we open our hearts and minds to learning as He restores ALL things. Yes, I believe He will even restore His times and seasons CORRECTLY!
Note AGAIN- in the last days that there will be mockers – not having the Ruach- but we are to pray in the Ruach (Unknown tongues) as this builds us up to walk in FAITH and LOVE!
Jude 1:17 But you, beloved ones, remember the words spoken before by the emissaries of our Master יהושעMessiah, Jude 1:18 because they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own wicked lusts. Jude 1:19 these are the ones who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. Jude 1:20 But you, beloved ones, building yourselves up on your most set-apart belief, praying in the Set-apart Spirit, Jude 1:21 keep yourselves in the LOVE of Elohim, looking for the compassion of our Master יהושע Messiah unto everlasting life. Jude 1:22 and show compassion toward some who are doubting, Jude 1:23but others save with fear, snatching them out of the fire, hating, even the garment defiled by the flesh.1 Footnote: 1 See Galatians 5:19-21, Romans. 8:5-10.
WALKING IN LOVE- PRAYING IN THE RUACH HA KODESH, is our prayer goal, that we may each repent quickly wherever we miss and stumble, and the snares set by hasatan- all miss us. I further pray we ALWAYS forgive and speak forgiveness and blessings on those who do and have done evil against us. They need our love of the Father (Our obedience) to break forth free and come to our King! This is how they will recognize us; that we have love for one another and our King!
Once again we must understand; it is the LOVE AND KINDNESS of Yahweh that draws men to repentance- not our knowledge! We are expected to reveal His nature and love people since we are born of His seed. Loved One, I pray YOU and I make every effort to love the Creator according to His desires; and love our neighbor as ourselves! That we REPENT of our learned ways that are filled with pagan ritual both in Christianity and Judaism. Oh, and thanks again for praying for Billie and me!
Blessings to your home Loved One,
Thurston
Does the statement above mean we are not to grab the tzitzit of Yehuda and take hold and learn from them? Of course not, we absolutely should learn of them and from them- just not ingest and keep that which is traditions that go against His words! Especially since we are the ten (Ten scattered northern tribes who are still scattered for Easter and sun god day worship which parallels closely as a pig slop eating prodigal brother)
Let’s look once again together; (Zechariah 8:22) ‘And many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek יהוה of hosts in Yerushalayim, and to pray before יהוה.’ (Zechariah 8:23) “Thus said יהוה of hosts, ‘In those days (Now? YES and from here forward!) Ten men (Ten tribes scattered) from all languages of the nations take hold, yea, they shall take hold of the edge of the garment of a man, a Yehuḏite 1, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that Elohim is with you.” ’ ” Footnote: 1John 4:22.
