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Friday, June 24, 2016

Kadosh - Torah Portion Kidushim - May 14

14 May 2016 ~ 29 Abib (Nisan) 5776
Torah Parashah - Kidushim - (Holy People)
Uyiqara (Leviticus) 19:1-20:27 RSTNE p 95

KJV is a Catholic translation. Lew White - Harbour Light Ministries

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I want to pick out of few verses and talk about them.  I hope you read the entire parashah.

Uyiqara 19:2  p 95
“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el, and say to them, You shall be kidushim: for I YHUH your Alohim am kadosh.”

Kadosh = holy Strong’s H6918 - sacred, holy, saint, set apart

(Kidushim = holy people)

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Defilement - people can be defiled, and things and homes and land...

Cleaning up defilement

Soul ties

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Uyiara 19:12
“And you shall not swear byMy Name falsely, neither shall you defile the Name of your Alohiym:  I am YHUH.

Uyiqara 19:19 p 96
“You shall guard My chukim (statutes, ordinances).  You shall not let your cattle mate with a diverse kind:  you shall not sow your field with mixed zera:  neither shall a garment mixed of linen and wool come upon you.”

Uyiqara 19:26
“You shall not eat anything with the dahm: neither shall you use enchantment, nor observe times.”

Uyiqara 19:28 p 96
-    cutting your flesh and tattoos

Uyiqara 19:30 p 96
“You shall guard My Shabbats and reverence My Kadosh-Place: I am YHUH.” 

Uyiqara 20

          talks about sexual sins...
Uyiqara 20:13
“If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination...”

Uyiqara 20: 22-23
“You shall therefore guard all My chukim, and all My mishpatim, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell, will not spit you out.
23 And you shall not have your halacha in the customs of the nations, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them..”

Uyiqara 20:25
“You shall therefore make a difference between clean living creatures and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and you shall not make your beings abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.”

Uyiqara 20:26
“And you shall be kidushim to Me: for I YHUH am kadosh, and have separated you from other  peoples, that you should be Mine.” 

Uyiqara 19:31
“Regard not those who are mediums, neither seek after spiritists, to be defiled by them.”  (CJB says spirit mediums or sorcerers, KJ says familiar spirits or wizards)

Uyiqara 20: 27
“A man, or woman who is a spiritist, or that is a medium, shall surely be put to death....”  (CJB says spirit mediums or sorcerers, KJ says familiar spirits or wizards)

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.[1][2]
Attempts to contact the dead date back to early human history, with mediumship gaining in popularity during the 19th century. Investigations during this period revealed widespread fraud—with some practitioners employing techniques used by stage magicians—and the practice started to lose credibility.[3][4] The practice still continues into the 21st century, with high-profile fraud uncovered as recently as the 2000s.[5]
Scientific researchers have attempted to ascertain the validity of claims of mediumship. An experiment undertaken by the British Psychological Society led to the conclusion that the test subjects demonstrated no mediumistic ability.[6]
Several different variants of mediumship exist; arguably the best-known forms involve a spirit allegedly taking control of a medium's voice and using it to relay a message, or where the medium simply "hears" the message and passes it on. Other forms involve materializations of the spirit or the presence of a voice, and telekinetic activity.
The practice is associated with several religious-belief systems such as Vodoun, Spiritualism, Spiritism, Candomblé, Voodoo, Umbanda and some New Age groups.

In Spiritism and Spiritualism the medium has the role of an intermediary between the world of the living and the world of spirit. Mediums claim that they can listen to and relay messages from spirits, or that they can allow a spirit to control their body and speak through it directly or by using automatic writing or drawing.
Spiritualists classify types of mediumship into two main categories: "mental" and "physical":
            Mental mediums allegedly "tune in" to the spirit world by listening, sensing, or seeing spirits or symbols.
            Physical mediums are believed to produce materialization of spirits, apports of objects, and other effects such as knocking, rapping, bell-ringing, etc. by using "ectoplasm" created from the cells of their bodies and those of seance attendees.
During seances, mediums are said to go into trances, varying from light to deep, that permit spirits to control their minds.[7]
Channeling can be seen as the modern form of the old mediumship, where the "channel" (or channeller) allegedly receives messages from "teaching-spirit", an "Ascended Master", from God, or from an angelic entity, but essentially through the filter of his own waking consciousness (or "Higher Self").[8][9]

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I met a lady this week... 
and something just seemed very wrong to me.... 

She had a pair of “angel wings” on a chain around her neck....and eventually started telling me how her life has been changed because she found a store that has nice “angel things”  - but in the back, they have classes - about meditation and contacting our loved ones that have died (HELLO - this is a medium!)  and other similar things -and she talked about how much better she is doing.  Her dead mother speaks to her and sends her messages “all the time”... “she’s always here”. 

I didn’t need to hang out much longer. 

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This woman is not any different than most people!

The world can not tell you that YHUH says don’t get tattoos and don’t cut yourself in Uyiqara 19:28... or where the Torah speaks of homosexuality in Uyiqara 20:13.

The world thinks it is just fine to go to a medium and have them talk to the dead for you.

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Oh how our Abba Yah’s heart must hurt.

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This Torah parashah is a perfect example of why we need to know the Word.

This whole parashah - is talking about what makes us kadosh or not....

Notice Yah speaks of:

- not defiling His Name
-    not giving your children to molech (abortion could be seen as this)
-    not stealing
-    not hating
-    not taking vengeance
-    not mixing seed - of animals or of seed in field (GMO is mixing seed/DNA)
-    not wearing linen and wool (remember the two high frequency items stop each other’s signal... and so it will be negative number)
-    not committing sexual sins, including adultery, homosexuality, and beastiality
-    no mediums
-    no cutting
-    no tattoos
-    not eating unclean things

-    Having your halacha in His instructions.
-    and Keeping Shabbats.

Now think back over what I said that Yah speaks against in this Torah Parashah.... and what He says to do....

How does this fit in our world today??!!

And look at what He calls us to do?....
Keep His instructions, and his Shabbats...  How much do you know of this happening in the World today. :(

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This week I have read Lew White’s book: Reapers.  Wow.

I’d like to share a bit.... 

2 Kefa (Peter) 3:1-18 p 829


Lew writes in Reapers:



AN ANCIENT ASTROLOGICAL SYMBOL ADOPTED
At Acts 7, Stephen made bold statements against the "host of
heaven" they put everywhere, as we see in the ruins of ancient
synagogues: mosaics of the zodiac! The 'star' some have
assumed to be the star if Daud (David) mentioned at Acts 7:42 is
really another familiar symbol. Stephen said they "bowed down"
to the star. No one, ever, has bowed down to the seal of Daud's
name. It isn't even a "religious" symbol at all. It's a king's name
spelled with two Hebrew letters that later became the Greek
letter Delta.
The crux is the symbol of Sun worship known all around the
world, and many today continue to bow down to it, or wear it as a
talisman. It was a symbol of Constantine's Apollo, aka Mithras.
Hindu's know the symbol as a swastika, the Norse as the Celtic
Crux, and in the temple of Osiris it was identical to the Latin
cross. That is the symbol Stephen was referring to. The Greek
word STAUROS should have gone into the Latin word, STAURO -
but Jerome adopted the word CRUX for the Latin Vulgate, and
we've inherited the word from the Latin Vulgate into the King
James Version as cross. The cross is the ancient astrological
symbol for the Sun, Constantine's Sol Invictus.
His edict in 321 forced the whole Roman empire to pay homage
to the Sun by resting from all labors on the first day of the week.
We were warned there would be a ruler who would think to
change Torah at Danial 7:25. Constantine did it, and he picked
the one Commandment that happens to be the sign of the
everlasting Covenant. How suspicious is that?



WAS KING JAMES A CATHOLIC?
King James was born into Anglican Catholicism. He was born June 19, 1566 at Edinburgh Castle, and baptized that same year on December 17, 1566 in a Catholic ceremony at Stirling Castle. He was six months old; an age we must acknowledge is too young to walk or have meaningful speech skills. Those who adhere to the Authorized Version exclusively as being inerrant and superior to all other English versions have to admit it is a Catholic translation, and it inherited all the errors from the Latin Vulgate, including the word CRUX. The Greek word STAUROS matches the Hebrew word NAS, and is a single upright pole. When Jerome (Sophronius) translated the Latin Vulgate in the late 4th century, he avoided the Latin word STAURO (matching the Greek word STAUROS), and inserted CRUX. So the KJV today reflects the word cross, the ancient symbol of Sun worship, first brought into the new faith called Catholicism during the reign of Constantine. Another huge error is the elimination of the Name Yahuah, and the use of the Latin Dominus. Dominus was the title for the Sun deity Apollo (Sol Invictus Mithras) worshipped by Constantine. LORD is the definition of the Hebrew word BAAL. The destruction of the Name Yahuah is forbidden by the third Commandment; but to insert the translation of a proper noun (the name BAAL) in its place (LORD) is nothing short of blasphemous. The reapers will unleash Yahuah’s wrath upon this whole Earth for good reason.
The dragon has blinded us, comforting us with lies and maxims. We have inherited ONLY lies and futility (YirmeYahu 16:19).
The KJV also inherited the theonym IESV from the Latin Vulgate. This IESV is seen in the KJV underlined, IESV – a titlos, indicating it stands in place of a name. The later editions of the KJV introduced the name JESUS for the very first time on this planet. Before the 17th century, no one had ever seen or heard this name, yet all Christendom is united under it today. JESUS has no Hebrew meaning whatsoever, but the true Name does.
YOD-HAY-UAU-SHIN-AYIN: Yahusha. It means “I am your Deliverer.”
It is by our immersion into the Name of Yahusha that we are protected from the REAPERS that are coming. His Name seals us for protection on the day of wrath. Releasing the Truth will free us from the inherited errors, and is not intended to judge those who never knew. Those ignorant will receive few blows. Abiding in (practicing) the Ten Commandments will set us apart from those on the broad path to destruction.
“So Yahusha said to those Yahudim who believed Him,
‘If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones, and you shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free.’” - Yn. 8:31-32
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MARK OF THE BEAST: A RIDDLE REQUIRING WISDOM
There’s a mark identified by a behavior: buying and selling.
Those not having the behavior of buying and selling don’t have
the mark. Because it’s a riddle we have to solve, we need
wisdom to deduce who’s who, and what’s what.
DEDUCTION – Remove Elements To Reach A Conclusion
A riddle conceals something only obvious to the riddler.
If the one solving the riddle does not have the specific
information needed, they lack the wisdom to solve it.
Samson posed a riddle at Judges 14 which could never be
solved because he alone knew the allegorical components.
The world is deceived by the beast, the teaching authority of
Babel, guiding all, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave,
in what they are thinking (forehead) and behaving (right hand,
Rev. 13:1, 17). A specific behavior is described in the riddle:
that “no one should be able to buy or sell except he that has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” The verse is not saying the beastly mark, name, or number is what is keeping anyone from buying and selling. It simply says the one not having the mark, name, or number of the beast “should not be able to buy and sell.” This calls for wisdom.

What is wisdom? It’s explained in so many places, here’s one:
“See, I have taught you laws and right-rulings, as Yahuah My Alahim commanded me, to do in the land which you go to possess. And you shall guard and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these laws, and they shall say,
‘Only a wise and understanding people is this great nation!’ For what great nation is there which has Alahim so near to it, as Yahuah our Alahim is to us, whenever we call on Him? And what great nation is there that has such laws and righteous right-rulings like all this Torah which I set before you this day? Only, guard yourself, and guard your life diligently, lest you forget the Words your eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from your heart all the days of your life. And you shall make them known to your children and your grandchildren.” – Dt. 4:5-9 BYNV
This was after spending 40 years in the wilderness being trained by the manna as to how to determine which day is Shabath.
YAHUAH’S MARK KEEPS US FROM BUYING AND SELLING
A strong lesson comes from the reason for the captivity in Babel for 70 years. They failed to allow the land to rest.
Then, after a remnant returned, they started to ignore resting on the seventh day, buying and selling with traders who came into the walls on the Shabath.
“And men of Tsor dwelt there, bringing in fish and all kinds of goods, and sold them on the Shabath to the children of Yahudah, and in Yerushalayim.” Neh 13:16
The sign (mark) of the everlasting Covenant is the Shabath. Only those obeying Yahuah’s Ten Commandments have the wisdom to know how to recognize which day not to buy and sell. There is also a “Shabath of Shabaths,” a fast, which we who have wisdom know is coming, so we practice for it each year.
Some say the Romans messed-up the weekdays. Yahusha recognized all the weekly Shabaths and annual appointments of those around Him, and never mentioned one word about them being incorrect in their calculations. There has been no change attempted by anyone since He was here. The Romans simply use a pagan term for the 7th day (Saturday, Saturn’s Day), but it’s still the Shabath. It’s still blessed since Creation, and we stop buying and selling on it every week, and rest as Yahuah rested. On the tenth day of the 7th moon is a “Shabath of Shabaths” – a FAST.
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The majority of Christians have been listening to poisonous teachings, making them unprepared to stand in the day of wrath. Some may be the “survivors” whom Yahuah will call, assisted by the Natsarim who will be on Earth during the distress. The Natsarim are the elect (chosen ones) for whom the duration of the distress will be lessened. Our purpose during the distress will be to help people be restored to the Covenant. They must be helped to overcome many false teachings learned from misguided preachers. They will learn that Sun-day is not the day Yahuah blessed, and because of their distress, they will listen to us more closely. They will not argue about the true Name, and many will submit to immersion for the remission of sins, and be sealed for protection.
Those teachers who hold to the “pre-Tribulation rapture” in spite of the above texts claim that those being gathered in the end of days are those who turned to Yahuah during the distress. These things will happen rapidly, shortened for the sake of the elect. They tell their Christian assemblies that those who listen to them will be in a special group who really understand, and they will see nothing of the terrors and birth-pangs, and the fiery cataclysm at the very end of days. They believe they are “in heaven” during the distress, and will come with Yahusha when He returns. The text says we will all see Him coming, be gathered by malakim into the air to meet Him, and continue down with Him as the New Yerushalayim. We never “go to heaven” as most understand “heaven.” We will reign with Yahusha in His Kingdom of heaven located here on a renewed Earth. His Throne will be on Earth, and we will be with Him always.
Amos 5 and Yual 2 explain to us that the Day of Yahuah is a day of great darkness, and Yahusha’s words at Mt. 24 are given to us so we will be comforted when we see the sun literally turn off like a lamp. It will still be glowing RED-HOT, but it will be so dark that we would be struck with terror if we didn’t realize what was going on.
“For the Master Yahuah does no matter unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The Master Yahuah has spoken! Who would not prophesy? - Amus 3:7,8
“And there shall be signs in the Sun, and Moon, and stars, and on the Earth anxiety of nations, in bewilderment at the roaring of the sea, and agitation, men fainting from fear and the expectation of what is coming on the Earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then they shall see the Son of Adam coming in a cloud with power and much esteem. And when these matters begin to take place, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.” - Luk 21:25-28
Amein

Monday, September 21, 2015

Set Apart - Choosing Life - Torah Portion Ki Tetze - August 29

SET APART - CHOOSING LIFE - 29 Aug 2015

29 Aug, 2015  ~  14 Elul 5775
Torah Parashah - Ki Tetze  - D’varim 21:10-25:19  RSTNE p 154



The Torah Parashah = Ki Tetze  - D’varim 21:10-2:19  RSTNE p 154

D’varim 22:9-11 p 154
        “You shall not sow your vineyard with different (seed) zera; lest the fruit of your  (seed) zera that you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled (change that word in RSTNE from kadosh to defiled!!!) and forfeited.
        You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
        You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, as of wool and linen together.”


There are many teachings we can pull from this Torah parashah...  even from these 3 verses i just read.... 

For example we know that wool is a life giving item because it has an electromagnetic frequency of 500, and linen also has a frequency of 500... and the two combined = 0. -- etc....

But what i want to focus on is - the MIXING.


Remember when we learned that in B’re’shiyt 1:2 and the earth became - hay’tah tohu vavohu and v’choshek.”

hay’tah = became

tohu = confused, empty and worthless

vovohu = shockingly confused... what hasatan does to the “seen”.

and

v’choshek - DARK.

But He didn’t leave it like that!!

B’re’shiyt 1:3
        Vay-yo’mer Elohiym y’hiy ‘or vay’hiy ‘or.
And Elohiym said Let there be light: and there was light.

B’re’shiyt 1:4
        Vay’yar Elohiym ‘et-ha’or kiy-tov  vay-yav’del Elohiym beyn ha’or uveyn  ha chochek.

And Elohiym saw the light, that it was good: and Elohiym divided the light from the darkness.

that word “divided” = vay-yav’del =
        root = badal = vet-dalet-lamed
                pictograph =
                        vet= house, family, divide
                        dalet = door, move, hang, enter, open, path or way
                        lamed = staff, lead, teach, yoke, forward, tongue,                               control
        The Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew says
                Vet-dalet-lamed = to separate for a purpose.

He separated dark from light.... 

and he vay-yav’del  -- ed His people....

Sh’mot (Exodus) 19:5   p 62
        “Now therefore, if you will obey My voice indeed and shomer My brit, then you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all peoples;  for all the earth is Mine.

Sh’mot 31:13 p 73
        “Speak also to the children of Yisra’el, saying, Truly My Shabbats you shall shomer;  for it is an ot between Me and you throughout your generations;  that you may know that I am YHWH that does set you apart.”

Wayiqra (Lev) 11:44-45 p 88

Wayiqra 19:2 p 95

Dan 1:8 p 435

I Thess 5:22 p 897
        “Abstain from all forms of evil.”

Kefa Aleph (I Peter) 1:14-16 p 824

Kefa Aleph 2:9 p 824

2 Corinthians 6:14-17 p 868

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 50: 4-6 p 389

Yechezkel 14:1-11 p 402

Wayiqra 20:24-27 p 97

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Throughout the Torah, YHWH spends a lot of time telling His people how to eat.

The first sin was about eating... 

He calls us to eat different than the world.

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He separated dark from light.... 

and he vay-yav’del  -- ed His people....

YHWH calls us to be.

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He calls us to think differently than the world.

Romans 12:1-2 p 848

This is choosing hope and not fear and worry.

This is standing in defiant faith

 Yochanan Aleph (I John) 5:4-5

Gilyahna (Revelaton) 2:11, 17, 26 
      3:5,12,21 
      12:11


This is choosing to stand and walk in defiant faith - that defies how it looks around us....
        that no matter how it looks, or feels, 
no matter how “bad” the internet tells us things might be...

standing and knowing that YHWH says He will never leave us and He will never forsake us.

This is choosing to bow in gratitude  for the things we have and the things He has done and the things He will do for us...

This is choosing hope and not fear... because HE said so.

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We need to work on renewing our minds...

We do that as we study the Word.

We also do that focusing on what He has done.

Get out paper to write on....
So right now i want you to make  list of 10 things you are thankful for.
write them down...

We also have difficult times remembering who we are...

If i asked you to tell me a story about a time when things were awful for you and you weren’t proud (pleased with) of yourself, it would be easy to think of something...

and every time we think of those miserable moments...  we make that memory tree stronger...

Since this is the month of ELUL.... the time of teshuvah...

your home work is to ask YHWH to show you the trees that need cleaned up...  repent of the sin in your life...

AND also repent of building stronger trees from those places.

I want you to picture the tree with the miserableness and I want to invite you to
renounce , repent and declare the truth... over the issues i that tree...
and i want you to repent of growing that tree bigger - focusing on that negative thing....

and then i want you to picture that tree falling...  melting away... and ask YHWH to help  you destroy it by no longer thinking on that... you’ve repented - it is DONE....

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NOW i want you to think of a good memory...  a time when you got to experience something amazing.....

I want you to share that memory....  with someone near you... 

What ever memory/ situation we think about /focus on - that memory tree gets stronger...

That’s why it is important to intentionally focus on what you are grateful for...  b/c those memories get stronger.

Fear and worry and hate and anger trees can get so big they crowd the love and joy out....

but not any more... b/c we are called to be overcomers...

we will no longer ruminate on the negative things...

I want to invite you to repent of that and ask YHWH to remind you/ point it out to you - every time you try and return to that habit and then immediately make yourself go to a good memory where you were amazing.

This is how we FIGHT.

this is how we stand in defiant faith....

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This is the month of Elul - and we need to be preparing....
The fall Moedim are coming up...

Yom Teruah starts Sunday night Sept 13 and  ends Monday night Sept 14. 

Yom Kippur starts Tues night Sept 22 and ends Wed night Sept 23.

Sukkot starts at sunset  Sunday Sept 27 and goes through the 8th day - Sun night Oct 4 - Monday night Oct 5.

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We need to remember that this month  Elul - of which we are now to the 14th day...  is a month set aside for repentance and teshuvah (returning to YHWH).   Actually the 1st of Elul starts the 40 days of favor.  Repentance especially happens in the 10 days of Awe - Yamim Nora’im....  From Yom Teruah through Yom Kippur.

Prepare....  and we just talked about how we do that.

so I am inviting you to get a notebook/journal out and start to do this work... 

We have got to learn how to be overcomers and be transformed by the renewing of our minds....

because then we will be continuing in His Word and His Word (THE TRUTH) will set us free!!

So are you going to... or not? 
Are you going to just push it aside... or are you going to do it.

I’ve been reading about our brains and exercise.  I’ve been learning about how exercise facilitates learning and how exercise kicks dementia....  and i can sit around and wait....  but i am not going to wait until i “feel like it”... this is VITAL!!!
as is the renewing of our minds.

We have to stop being lazy and stop being too busy and dig into His Word and retrain our brain - make new habits of thinking - especially in those places where there is negativity.

May we know the Truth, and walk in it - with defiant faith
deifying the things that we believed that were lies....

may we choose and DO - LIFE this day...
because HE CALLED US TO BE DIFFERENT  -TO BE SET APART FROM THE WORLD....  TO BE OVERCOMERS.

AMEIN AND AMEIN.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

What do you believe?......

Shelach
June 1, 2013  ~  Sivan 23, 5773
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Torah – B’Midbar (Numbers) 13:1- 15:41
Haftarah – Y’Hoshua (Joshua) 2:1-24
B’rit Chadashah – Mark 10:1-45; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 3:7-19

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Sh’ma
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What do you believe …. Or better said…
What or whom do you believe?
Before we get into today’s teaching…  I want you to get out a piece of paper… and I want you to write down what you believe?
Recently someone asked me what I believe….  And at first I thought… Oh my, where do I start?...
If you haven’t figured this out for yourself  - you need to!
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What was this like? 
It’s not easy is it?...  There is so much….and we can have generalities in our heads and it can be kind of foggy – but when we write it down – it becomes black and white – and very definitive!
So if you have never done this… or have never done this – I encourage you to do this….
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We are planning on having a mikvah – baptism this summer…  to baptize in the name of YHWH….  And writing down your faith should be the prerequisite/ requirement…. So you know exactly.
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We started out today saying the Sh’ma as always…
It is a statement of faith… and more than that it is a call to not just hearing about or knowing the Living God… 
It is calling to DO what HE says… to Sh’ma = to hear and do…
Calling us to live our faith!  AMEIN!
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TorahB’Midbar (Numbers) 13:1-14:45 cjb p 162
Isra’el had to decide what they believed… and also whom they believed…
… The 10 who had gone into the land and said… “We can’t go in there….they are too big for us.”
…or the 2 who said – “We must go!”

B’Midbar 15:13-16 cjb p 166
Isra’el had to decide… who is to follow the commands…  YHWH said… everyone – even the foreigner…

And then…  the story if Y’hoshua where Rachav – hid the spies… and helped them escape…. In Y’Hoshua (Joshua) 2:1-24

She had to decide to trust them or not, and they her.
They gave her a scarlet thread to hang in her window….  She trusted them enough to actually do this…
… besides her family would have to stay inside… when everything in them would say “run” or “fight”!

(Interesting that it was a scarlet thread and Rabbis say that after the sin was put on the scapegoat and the other sacrificed…the scarlet thread was hung on the temple door and turned white once the scapegoat had been killed in the wilderness.)

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Messianic Jews 3:7-19 cjb p 1495
What do you believe?  Who do you trust?
Can you enter His rest?... those who were disobedient could not.
( We have come to understand that those who don’t keep Torah are disobedient)
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Mark 10:13 – 31 cjb p 1275
        Faith of a child….  And the rich man supposed to sell all and give…
Faith to be obedient – not just in the easy things – but in the difficult things… Do we believe enough for this??
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Before we continue let’s go back to…
 B’Midbar 15: 37:41
        Believing the instruction to wear tzitziyot – fringes on the corners of the garments…  
“it will help you remember and obey all my mitzvot and be holy for your God.”
        So…  you might want to consider doing this…  if you don’t already wear them!
Why??
Just because He said so!
I will tell you… every day when I put on tzitziyot – I am reminded that I am different.
I am reminded of His Torah – His instructions
And every time I put them on - I choose to follow His instructions.
You could say – “Oh Janet, it is no big deal. I can remember His instructions without putting on fringes.”
Maybe you can….. 
But HE SAID …  “SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRA’EL…”
AND He said….
TO WEAR THEM “THROUGH ALL THEIR GENERATIONS.”

~~ Again, we come back to: what or whom do you believe.
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I heard recently that you won’t mind some review… so… this is probably going to be review for most of you….
I am going to tell you what I believe….
I believe….
There is ONE God – and HE is ONE / Echad and His name is YHWH.
He is the God of the Hebrews - Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all of Isra’el.
YHWH created the heavens and the earth…. And before he started his creation he had a plan…
He created all of Creation in six (literal) days and he rested on the 7th.
The “Word” that YHWH spoke in B’resheet to create the universe was the same Word that was sent in Yochanan 1:1 that became flesh. This “Word” dwelt among us.  His name is “Y’shua”, which means YHWH is Salvation.

I believe in and keep the 7th day Shabbat.
The sacrificial system was created for the purpose of temporarily averting YHWH's wrath away from His people and their sin, as well as being a prophetic symbol for what the coming Messiah would complete (Heb 9:1-9)

YHWH knew,  (He knows everything), that man could not – not sin…
He created Adam and said he was to watch and protect Gan Eden.
In the Garden – Yah put 2 trees…
1.     The tree of life
2.   The tree of the tov and ra – function and dysfunction
B’resheet 2:15-16 – YHWH gave man choice… if man chooses to trust HIM and OBEY HIM he will be given eternal life.  If he chooses to walk outside Yah’s covenant, he will surely die.
        = In the beginning man was given instruction and has life if he obeys and death if he does not.  This is a theme throughout the Torah.
He created Adam from the ground and placed him in Gan Eden.
Adam was in the image of YHWH.
Yah separated Adam – from his side/ half… he took out Chava.
Only after the separation is gender referred to.  B’resheet 2:23
Adam messed up b/c he let hasatan in.
Adam messed up b/c he didn’t speak up – b/c he was right there- when Chava talked with the serpent/ hasatan and took the fruit.
What the enemy did with Chava –is at the root of how he deceives through all of time….  “Did YHWH really say?”…
And in Chava’s response… she added to the Word… “not to touch it”.
And hasatan said… if you eat of it… “you will be like YHWH knowing tov and ra.”….. This implies that Chava was not enough as YHWH created her to be.  This is a key lie hasatan uses today… to distort people’s thinking…. “I am not enough….”
In  YHWH’s creation – the marriage was a team.  Starting in B’resheet 4….  Sin is in the world and so YHWH’s plan in the world is distorted by hasatan….  So women are through time a lesser class to be controlled and ruled by men, (this was NOT HIS plan!)
YHWH had planned all along that a Mashiach was needed for the people.  B’resheet 5 – the meaning of the names of the men from Adam to Noach…..
        “Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow (but) the blessed God will come down teaching, (and) His death will bring (the) despairing comfort/rest.”
So Mashiach was not some after-thought given b/c man couldn’t keep Torah. 
YHWH’s plan was that he was married to the bride …  but the bride left the covenant……the Kingdom of Isra’el split after Solomon’s death and became the kingdom’s of the 1.  North known as Isra’el and the 2. South known as Judah.

        Isra’el (North) did not keep commands – even in Y’shua’s day  - this can be seen when He talks to the woman at well – who is from Samaria – the capitol of the Northern Kingdom….she tells Him – you worship in Jerusalem at the temple, but we worship here on a mountain.  The Northern Kingdom was already not keeping Torah.
The Northern kingdom was taken captive by Assyria and lost their identity completely then as Torah observant followers of YHWH in 721 BC.  They never came back… to the land of Isra’el or to Torah.  They were divorced by YHWH in Jeremiah 3.
This must have caused a stir in the heavenlies… as YHWH had made a rule in Leviticus that a man could not divorce his wife and then remarry her….
These ones from the Northern kingdom – Isra’el can be traced from Assyria – to Italy to France to Switzerland and Germany, to the Americas and to the east, etc…  These people are the ones who largely make up the Christian church today… and do not even know that they are Northern Kingdom Isra’el.  They do not understand that they should be keeping Torah and not the traditions of man and many things.
The Southern kingdom was taken captive by Babylon in Daniel’s day for 70 years.  They returned to the land… and never left Torah.  They added man’s instructions to Torah – ie Talmud etc.  They do not as a whole, understand that Y’shua is the Mashiach.  They were never divorced by YHWH  b/c  he promised that David would always have a line on the throne.
YHWH’s Spirit – known as the Ruach HaKodesh – is not separate from Him….  b/c He is one.
He had been in Isra’el as a people since they left Egypt….and as the people drew away from YHWH – he had to draw away from them… until just a few had the Ruach… the prophets.
The prophets spoke a hard word….  Calling people out of paganism and back to Torah.  Calling them to do teshuva – to repent of their sin and RETURN to YHWH and His instructions/ Torah.
Jeremiah prophesied for 40 years and it is said, never received one good word from anyone.  I have to wonder if the people of Jeremiah’s day were like the people of today….  And said things like… “Well, he might be right about this part ___ but he is not right about that___ part.”  I have to wonder what part of what they said would YHWH throw out?
Not that any  man is perfect… but today I hear so often – “Nobody has it all right.” – and in one way that may be true…. But if all that a person is teaching lines up with Torah… it is all right. 
Today the Christian community has pastors who don’t understand Torah.  YHWH is gracious enough to speak so many of them… but they don’t take that word back to Torah and line it up….  They teach from their perspective of traditions of men… not the Word.  So they will have some things right if they are in His grace… but they will miss most of truth b/c they don’t line things up with  Torah.

YHWH sent His prophets to call Isra’el back.
Isra’el = the land
Isra’el = the nation
Isra’el = all YHWH’s people.

I believe YHWH is Echad.  I do not believe in trinity.  Trinity is in all religions except Judaism and islam. 
YHWH says….  D’Varim (Deut) 6:4  “Sh’ma, Yisrael! Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.     – Echad is ONE.  Echad is one that is whole and cannot be divided. 

I believe ….YHWH sent “his son” … “his beina” – to bring Isra’el restoration –to teshuva – to return to YHWH and Torah.  His name is Y’shua.
Beina = plan to bring restoration or the one who brings restoration.
Yellied = child of.  Hebrew would have used yellied if they meant child of….
But they didn’t… YHWH meant plan not separate person.

So Y’shua was conceived in a virgin by YHWH as Ruach HaKodesh, and HE is YHWH.  (Is 44:6, Rev 22:13)

Y’shua was born in the time of Sukkot – tabernacles – b/c this is YHWH coming and tabernacling with his people – even if they didn’t know it.
He came to be the Good News (see definition later)…  to set captives free and give sight to the blind.  Is 61
He came to (Matt 5:17)….  “Don’t think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets.   I have come not to abolish but to complete.”
Better interpreted :  “I did not come to abolish Torah… But to show you how to live it.”
Y’shua confronted the religious leaders of Judaism of that day… but the only thing he corrected was man’s traditions… He never corrected them for keeping Torah – for doing what YHWH had instructed.
He never said – okay we can eat pork. 
The scripture in Mark 7:19 that says… “thus he declared all foods ritually clean” – was added to the Word in the last 800 years or less. 
He came during tabernacles... Sukkot….  He was the lamb… fulfilling each and every prophecy/direction of Pesach and  Unleavened Bread and First Fruits. 
Y’shua was crucified on a stake – probably not a “cross”.
And because he died and rose again…  my sins can be forgiven and that is amazing!
In order to have eternal life….one must first understand that he has broken YHWH's perfect law; the Torah …..and is condemned because of his sin, to eternal destruction away from the presence of almighty God (Duet 11:28, Rom 6:23). 
He must then accept the blood of Y’shua  over the door posts of his heart and believe that outside the death, burial and resurrection of Y’shua there is no other way for salvation.

What YHWH destroyed on the stake of Y’shua was the penalty that the Torah of YHWH demanded as payment for the breaking of it, and that we are no longer under the “law of sin and death” but are under grace as Paul says in Romans 6:14.  The Torah of YHWH was never abolished!!    Paul  says in Romans 3:31 “Does it follow that we abolish Torah by this trusting?  Heaven forbid!  On the contrary, we confirm Torah.”

What was destroyed at the stake of Y’shua, in fact, was the power of sin and the penalty there of over all of mankind!!
 And what was changed and “done away with” was the priestly system of sin sacrifice by mere men because of the perfect sacrifice by our true High Priest and King Messiah (Heb. 9-11).  

I Yochanan 3:4 says that "Sin is violation of Torah.”
-  Therefore, if we get rid of and don’t follow Torah, then we are removing the only definition of sin found in the Bible. 
If there is no Torah  (law/instructions), then there is no sin. 
If there is no sin, there can be no curse.  If there is no curse, then there is no need for the blood of Messiah.

So I have salvation / eternal life with YHWH!!  J  But the greater gift is …
….. Because the bridegroom died and rose…  He can remarry the bride He divorced…  the Northern Kingdom – the Christian church can be restored to covenant!! 
This is such a big deal because if they can come back into covenant – the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom….  (we call them gentile and Jew) …can be made one…
….and when they are ONE – the bride is whole… and when the bride is whole and spotless – Y’shua HaMashiach can return!! 
….Until then, He cannot return.

And when he does return… it will be on his feast days, because that is how he has done everything with his plan for restoration – always on feasts.
He will return on Yom Teruah – Feast of Trumpets.
He will judge on Yom Kippur – Day of Atonement
And He will begin his millennial reign on Sukkot – Tabernacles.
Doing exactly what the Word says about each of those feasts.
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I believe that where the Word says that Y’shua is “sitting at the right hand of YHWH.” …
        This is a Hebrew idiom / phrase that means something other than just the plain meaning of the words in the phrase.
  The "right hand" does not signify a specific location.  Rather, it's symbolic of the place of authority.
Hebrew has a word that means "hand" (yad) and a word that means "right hand" (yamin). The Hebrew name Benjamin (Ben yamin) means son of the right hand.
The right hand simply indicates authority.
When Y’shua sat at the right hand of the Father, it did not mean a seating arrangement.
It means that He sits in YHWH’s authority  = because HE is YHWH.
-Which explains why Yochanan (John)  only saw one throne and One sitting on the throne in Revelation, which of course, is exactly what Isaiah had seen there as well.
Misunderstanding this verse reinforces the myth of trinity.
        Trinity - a word that is NOT in the bible – except the books that have been messed up by man.

I believe YHWH never speaks out of both sides of His mouth.  He never says one thing and changes his mind and says another.  In fact – he said “I do not change.” 
What he said was “Sh’ma Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.  
I believe YHWH came as the Ruach HaKodesh – and it is by His Spirit that he accomplishes things on the earth. 
He was with his people as a nation when they left Egypt and as they became pagan he withdrew and only was with the prophets … and then after Y’shua ascended… YHWH returned as the Ruach…. To all his people – the nation again – because the Bride can be remarried and whole since His resurrection.
I believe in the gifts of the spirit – I Corin 12 – and that these gifts are not forever.  They are given by the bridegroom for the bride – so that she can survive before he returns to marry her.  Just like in the Hebrew marriage – the bridegroom gives the fiancé gifts – until he returns to marry her. 
I believe that Torah was given so that the people could survive the desert, go into the nations from Mt Sinai …
… and the Ruach was given so that His people could survive the desert and go into the nations with the Good News.
Good News = because the bridegroom died and rose, he can remarry the one he divorced.  The northern kingdom can come back into covenant… so that the Mashiach can return to marry His bride !!

I believe we are called to keep Torah – to follow YHWH’s instructions as best as we are able.

I believe that we are in the end of days.
I believe that hasatan prowls around like a roaring lion – to steal, to kill and to destroy.  I believe that he knows his time is limited and as he becomes more desperate…. Things will continue to get worse.
I believe there is a famine of the Word in the world and in the people of YHWH. 
I believe that the world is groaning and crying out for the Word… 
Scientists know that whatever created the world is what holds it together……
The Word created the World… and it is what holds it together – and as there is less and less of the Word in the world,  even the rocks cry out!!  …..And the World falls apart… entropy – earth quakes etc.
I believe that many – most people think they are believing truth.
 But the Word says there will only be a remnant and that they will have the testimony of Y’shua and keep Torah.  Rev 12:17 and Rev 14:12
The Word says that the shepherds will lead YHWH’s people away from truth… even though their job is to teach the difference between the holy and the profane …but that they won’t teach this… and the people will be lost and confused.
Mishlei (Prov) 29:18
“Without redemptive revelation of the Living God, My people perish.”  AMP
Without a prophetic vision, the people throw off all restraint (do what is right in their own eyes) .  But he who keeps Torah is happy.  CJB

When the bride is whole and spotless….our Messiah will come back to earth to redeem all those that are His, All of Isra’el… those who have been grafted in and those who are the blood line of Hebrews. (Rom 11, Eph 2).
Then He (YHWH) will reign from the New Jerusalem for 1000 years (1 Thes 3:13, Rev 20:4).
After that period, YHWH will raise up the rest of the dead and the entire earth will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:5).
All those that do not have their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and YHWH’s enemies will be no more (Rev 20:11-12).

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In short… who am I…..
I am a spirit filled, tongue talking Believer and follower of Y’shua HaMashiach - the Jewish Messiah of the Bible, YHWH Himself come to earth as the plan to bring restoration to Isra’el.
I believe there is One God – the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and HE is ECAHD = one that cannot be divided.
I am a "Person Of The Way", and Y’shua is the way.
 I was stuck in religion, but I got out of Babylon - SUNday Christian church.
I keep Shabbat on the 7th day, not the first.
 I decided to follow the cloud instead of the crowd.
I want the fire; I don’t want to be lukewarm.
I wear tzitziyot and my prayer closet is a Talliet. 
The moment I got out of Babylon, the doors of revelation opened wide, and YHWH began to teach me as much as I could possibly swallow. 
I have gone from starved to filled and satisfied.
I now know what and who Truth is.
I have gone from a foundation that was sand to a foundation that is the Rock.
 Almost everything people have been taught in the proclaimed christian church is false.
This includes: Messiah’s death & resurrection, the laws (instructions in the Torah) including food, the Feasts, and the true Sabbath on the 7th day.
 “The true watchman on the wall loves the sheep enough to be hated, despised, and abused by them to tell them the truth,
and I choose to tell them the truth.
I am a watchman on the wall – and I am not going to conform any longer to this world, because I am not of this world.
I have been called and set apart – part of a royal priest hood – a remnant of YHWH’s holy people… 
I am finally being transformed by the renewing of my mind…returning to  YHWH’s cycles/ Torah.
And I am going in the narrow gate, because I have the testimony of Y’shua and I keep Torah.
I am not saved by keeping Torah… but I am blessed and made more holy - as I am called to be…
I am saved only by the blood of the lamb -Y’shua the Messiah and I was washed in His blood when I repented and did teshuva – and returned back to HIM.
And praise YHWH I am more free every day and I will not go back to paganism and blindness and lies.
I have become a lover of Truth and I am His beloved.
I serve the Hebrew Messiah – His name is Y’shua and I keep Torah.
Amein.