Showing posts with label third temple. Show all posts
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Torah Portion Judges - The Truth About Cancer Episode 5 - Fall Feasts

10 Sept 2016  ~  7 Elul 5776
Torah Parashah Shoftim - Judges
Debarim (Deuteronomy) 16:18-21:9  RSTNE p 151
The Truth About Cancer - Episode 5C and 6A

Devarim 16:19 - this is what a king is! - Harbour Light Ministries

This week in Greg Reid’s newsletter - he wrote about how the fall “Jewish” feasts are coming up....

They are - Yom Teruah, Yom haKefferim and Sukkot

You know that I have a lot of respect for Greg.... but he only listed two and not in the right order... and called them “Jewish” feasts - because he is in a place where a lot of Christians are - not yet understanding that these are not Jewish feasts at all - they are YHUH’s feasts/set apart times with His people. 

Most people seem to refer to them as “Jewish” I believe, because for the most part, Jewish people are the only ones that keep them!!

He went on to point out that the Temple Institute has announced WHO the High Priest will be - if the 3rd temple is built in time for these feasts!!
So here we go with Christians believing that the 3rd temple is of stone and mortar.... when in fact WE are the third temple...  YHUH lives in us in the form of Ruach HaKodesh!

What is more - the 3rd temple of stone - we know - will not be of YHUH! 
I am not getting in line for that temple...  because the Word says that the abomination of desolation will be standing there!

I am going to the altar outside the camp - you know - where the red heifer was sacrificed - as a prophetic shadow of the Messiah’s crucifixion   and then where the Messiah actually died and where He will return when the mountain splits!


Let’s talk about the upcoming feasts a bit:

Yom Teruah - The feast of Trumpets - The trumpet blast... prophecy for the last trump to announce the coming of Mashiach.

Yom hakifferim  - (The day of atonement) - the 24 hour fast/ repentance day... the prophetic shadow of The Great and Terrible Day of Yahuah....  Judgement Day.

Sukkot - Tabernacles - When Mashiach comes and tabernacles with us for 1,000 years!

We need to be thinking about what you want to do on those set apart days... based on what YHUH says to do.  We want to get together....  so let’s talk about this and make plans!  :)

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Greg Reid also talked about “Cubs of the Caliphate” - an organization where children ages 5-15 are used to execute prisoners. 
There are no words for how awful this is.  We need to be praying for those kids!

This is going on in the world and what are we doing?? 
Well our media is busy talking about “Black Lives Matter”.
Hasatan is raising up and army ....  teaching children to kill... and as Greg said - “western youth ministry is still focusing on games, entertainment, and being “culturally relevant”... and allowing poke’mon go  characters on their premises.

This country - and more importantly - Christians are a joke....  playing games and not learning Truth - Truth of Torah and spiritual warfare... Most kids and adults today have no idea of either!

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Greg also reported that New Mexico and North Carolina are both pushing transgender education in schools.    They are using a “Barney- like character” who has a small piece of DNA in his genital area - which looks like a piece of candy ...

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He also gave this link:

Which talks about “a recent exhaustive study by Johns Hopkins University scientists Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R McHugh has set the entire LGBTQ agenda on its ear, as the study showed that there is absolutely no scientific evidence for either the “born that way” gay platform OR the transgender narrative.  In fact Johns Hopkins stopped doing “gender reassignment” surgery some time ago, because they said it changed nothing but the physical and did far more damage tot he whole person.” 

Greg went on to say “It’s a stunning reversal to the narrative that has been aggressively pushed on the social level and in schools and universities, not to mention the media, for over 10 years now.” 

This is a HUGE deal!  They are expecting these scientists to take a REAL beating.....  pray it is not physical as well. 

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Greg also wrote that a new book by “Rev. Bromleigh McLeneghan” (Pastor at Union church of Hinsdale in Illinois)  called “Good Christian Sex - Why Chastity Isn’t The Only Option”  - encourages single believers to engage in sex outside of marriage as long as it’s mutually pleasurable” .
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Greg also wrote of an evangelical church in Memphis that was having a mosque built across the street and the building was behind schedule so they invited the muslims to come and worship allah in their building which they call the house of god. Clearly believers do NOT understand that the Living God (if that is who they worship) is not allah! So that pastor allowed a false god to be worshiped in what they call the house of the Living God!
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He also added that a recent Gallup poll showed that nearly 50% of pastors would leave their pastoring if they could!
I can tell you that pastoring is very difficult.

BUT what I can also tell you is - that when there is no answers - no TRUTH...  when they don’t know to teach Torah - how to WALK this walk.... there is no solid foundation....  and so there is nothing to stand on... and in the challenge of leading  - we need something to stand on ... or we won’t make it long!

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Let’s go to Torah:

Torah Parashah Shoftim - Judges
Debarim (Deuteronomy) 16:18-21:9  RSTNE p 151

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D’barim 17:2-4 RSTNE p 151

-  “served other alohiym and worshiped them, either the shemesh or yarayach”  = sun and moon.

Sun god

In Buddhism the sun god is Surya
In Egyptian mythology the sun god is Ra
In Greek mythology the sun god is Appolo, and Helios,
In Hinduism the sun god is Aryaman, and Ravi, Savitr, Surya

and as near as I can tell - nearly every culture has a sun god!

So if nearly every culture has one or more... why is it such a big deal?

Who is the person that represented the sun god on earth?


“Nimrod, who was born on December 25th, the High Sabbath of Babylon, was the founder of Babylon and the city of Nineveh.
 In the history of mankind, Nimrod stands unequalled for his symbolism of evil and Satanic practices.

He is credited for having founded Freemasonry and for building the legendary Tower of Babel, in defiance of God's will. In talmudic literature, he is noted as "he who made all the people rebel against God." Pes. 94b. The legend of the Midrash recounts that when Nimrod was informed of Abraham's birth, he ordered all the male children killed, to be certain of eliminating him. Abraham was hidden in a cave, but in latter life he was discovered by Nimrod, who then ordered him to worship fire. Abraham refused and was thrown into the fire.

    The legendary symbol for Nimrod is "X." The use of this symbol always denotes witchcraft.

When "X" is used as a shortened form meaning Christmas, it actually means "to celebrate the feast of Nimrod." A double X, which has always meant to double-cross or betray, in its fundamental meaning indicates one's betrayal into the hands of Satan. When American corporations use the "X" in their logo, such as "Exxon," the historic Rockefeller firm of Standard Oil of New Jersey, there can be little doubt of this hidden meaning.
    The importance of Nimrod in any study of the occult cannot be over-emphasized. Because of the powers given him by the clothing of Adam and Eve, Nimrod became the first man to rule the whole world. He indulged that power by launching excesses and horrors which have never been equalled. Ever since the time of Nimrod, Babylon has been the symbol of depravity and lust. Nimrod also introduced the practice of genocide to the world. His grandfather, Ham, having consorted with other races, and brought children of mixed race into the world, was persuaded by his consort, the evil Naamah, to practice ritual murder and cannibalism. She informed Ham that by killing and eating fair-skinned people, his descendants could regain their superior qualities. Throughout the ensuing centuries, the fair-skinned descendants of Shem, Noah's oldest son, have ritually been slaughtered by the darker descendants of Ham and Nimrod, in the world's most persistent campaign of racial and religious persecution. Not only did Nimrod kill and eat the fair-skinned descendants of Shem, in his fury and hatred he often burned them alive. The type of human sacrifice involving the eating of the slaughtered human victims derived its name from the combined names of his uncle, Canaan, and the demon god Baal, the two names being combined to form the word "cannibal." Nimrod was also known in ancient history by the names of Marduk, Bel, and Merodach. Because of his importance in its history, Babylon was known as the Land of Nimrod. Nimrod is also cited in the most ancient Masonic constitutions as the founder of Freemasonry.”



“According to a number of ancient sources, Nimrod wore clothes which seemed to have "magical" properties. These clothes were said to have been the clothes of Adam himself; clothes of which God made for him, as soon  he realized he was naked in the Garden![2] Adam, later on, reportedly gave them to his son Seth; who passed them down through future generations. They eventually landed with Noah. And, through Noah, they eventually found their way into Nimrod's hands.”

So back to the Torah
We just read
D’barim 17:2-4

and if you go further you find that to do the things of the other people.... meant that the Yisra’elite would be killed.

Death was what was ordered - to keep out the mixing of the pagan with the things of  Yahuah.

Then later in
D’barim 17:18-20 - look what the King the melech, is supposed to do:

= “read the Torah - all the days of his chayim; that he may learn to fear YHUH”... and “shomer” (watch, keep and guard) all the words of Torah and these instructions, to do them.”

If you’ve noticed - since the B’re’shiyt - we’ve been instructed over and over and over - to “shomer” - watch, keep and guard Yahuah’s instructions!!  :)

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Then we get over to
D’varim 20: 17-18 p 153
“But you shall utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Kanaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites,  and the Yevusites: and as YHUH your Alohiym has commanded you:
18 That they teach you NOT do do after al their abominations, which they have done to their alohiym; so do not sin against YHUH your Alohiym.”

-  Yet another time YHUH called His people to be separate - not like - the pagans ...

Remember all the stuff Greg Reid talked about in his newsletter?....

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Now before we go to the video - The Truth About Cancer - finishing episode #5....

I want to remind you of two scriptures one about the priests and one from last week’s parashah that we didn’t talk about very much if at all....

Yechezkel 22:26 p 410
“Her Kohanim have violated My Torah, and have profaned My kadosh things:  they have put no difference between the kadosh and the profane, neither have they shown any difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eye from My Shabbats, and I am profaned among them.”


D’barim 14:2 p 149
“For you are a kadosh people to YHUH your Alohiym, and YHUH has chosen you to be a treasured possession, a people for Himself, above all the nations that are upon  the earth.”

STRONG’S says -
“TREASURED POSSESSION” =
סְגֻלָּה çᵉgullâh, seg-ool-law'; feminine passive participle of an unused root meaning to shut up; wealth (as closely shut up):—jewel, peculiar (treasure), proper good, special.


Clearly Yah calls us to be “set apart” / different than the world... 

We are to keep Torah - follow HIS instructions...

I believe that part of that is living differently - so that we are healthy.

Let me remind you that in the Gilyahna (The Revelation) 9:21 and 18:23
YHUH makes it clear that we are to not have anything to do with pharmakeia...  where we get pharmacy today.

Over and over throughout all of Torah - the entire Scriptures if there is a message i see - it is - I love you and I want you to be safe - so follow My instructions -  DO NOT BE LIKE THE WORLD!!

That is why we are learning these things in The Truth About Cancer.

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The Truth About Cancer video episode 5C

Summary of video


B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 1:26 p 9
“And Alohiym said, Let Us make man in Our image after Our likeness; and let them have dominion over...”
“Vay-yo’mer Alohiym na’seh adam b’tsal’menu  kid’mutenu  v’yir’du...”

b’tsal’menu = “the house of desire for authority over chaos to secure life.”

tsalm = masculine noun (likeness)  = about transferred authority and order over what destroys!

We talked about this before when we studied Skip Moen’s work...

What this is saying = to be in Yahuah’s image and likeness is to desire to control or have authority over chaos ... This reflects the “prime directive” = “to be fruitful and multiply”.  We are like YHUH in our derived authority because we are designed to bring life ordering actions in the house, but our authority is limited under Him!

kid’mutenu = according to YHUH’s likeness

d’mut = feminine noun (likeness)

“Humans are not miniature gods.. but they are capable of ACTING  in ways similar to Yahuah, when they walk according to the pathway that secures life.”

What is that? - Torah - Yahuah’s instructions.  :)

The whole word - d’mut with the prefix and suffix
kid’muteu = “Follow the path that secures a covenant of guaranteed life over chaos.”

Skip Moen goes on to say...

“Being HUMAN = acting according to Yahuah’s path to life. 
Standing against chaos.
Participating in a covenant guarantee.
Knowing what is permitted and what is not... AND
acting accordingly.

= “Any behavior that denies, negates, or rejects these goals is NOT HUMAN behavior, are not creatures that exhibit Yahuah’s  image.”

“Human being is manifest by ACTING as Yahuah would act, being the refracted image of the Alohiym who creates, sustains, and brings about order.”
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AMEIN

Monday, December 7, 2015

48th B're'shiyt Teaching - Torah Portion Vayetze - Scrolls of Ezekiel

21 Nov 2015  ~  9 Kislev 5776
Torah Parashah Vayetze ~ “He Went Out”
B’re’shiyt 28:10 - 32:2  RSTNE p 28
48th B’re’shiyt


Reading the book of Ezekiel in the order it was written will broaden your understanding!



Thanksgiving is coming up and most of us were taught that Thanksgiving was - a nice friendly sit down and give thanks meal.
You may want to watch:  Matthew Nolan’steaching on Thanksgiving from 14 Nov.

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I want to share some information Matthew Nolan taught during Sukkot.  It is very very important. 
As long as I have known, people have looked at the book of Yechezkel and got to the end of the “book” and thought this was a prophecy about the third temple being restored - complete with offerings and animal sacrifices....  But let’s look at some things Matthew points out...

Yechezkel (Ezekiel) -

Yechezkel - teaching Sukkot 2015 - by Matthew Nolan

Yechezkel is a collection of 13 scrolls written by the prophet himself - to deliver these messages to bring Yisra’el to teshuvah. 

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 32:10-12  p 376
Talks about how scrolls were sealed and dated... and this is how the scrolls of Yechezkel were found... rolled separately - all dated by the prophet - but one that was dated by a scribe - b/c the date was probably taken off ...  by the finders... as near as we can tell.... 

That is the date in Yechezkel 1:2 - We know this because it is written in 3rd person so it is easy to tell.  This is in scroll # 13.
The 13 Scrolls of Yechezkel

# 1.  8:1-19:14 - The present state of Yisra’el, temple abominations, wicked slain, the glory departs, opportunity of regather, Judah and Jerusalem’ guilt
          6th month, 1st day, 5th year of Yehoyachin’s exile
#2.   20:1-23:49  - Yisra’el, Judah and Jerusalem rebellious need for teshuvah - and opportunity for restoration.
          5th month, 10th day, 6th year of Yehoyachin’s exile

#3. 24:1 - 25:17 - Proclamation against surrounding territories
          10th month, 10th day, 9th year of Yehoyachin’s exile

#4.  29:1-16  - Proclamation against Egypt
          10th month, 12th day, 10th year of Yehoyachin’s exile

#5.  26:1- 28:26 - Proclamation against Tyre and its King (metaphor of hasatan)
          ?month, 1st day, 11th year of Yehoyachin’s exile

#6.  30:20-26 - Proclamation against Pharaoh
          1st month, 7th day, 11th year

#7.  31:1-18 - Egypt cut down like a tree
          3rd month, 1st day, 11th year of Yehoyachin’s exile

#8.  32:17-33:20 - Egypt assigned to the pit
          ? month, 1st day, 12th year

#9.  32:1 - 32:16 - Lamentation for Egypt
          12th month, 1st day, 12th year of captivity
          Egypt fall came before the fall of Jerusalem

#10.  33:21 - 39:29 - Fall of Jerusalem
          10th month, 5th day, 12th year
          PROPHECIES CLOSE HERE - no more after this point.
         
There is a problem with the dates of Scrolls 9 and 10.  Jerusalem was destroyed by fire in the 5th month of the 11th year of Yehoyachin’s exile
What we know is a copy-iest (scribe) probably messed this up. 
          11 = ayin, shin, tov, yod
          12 = ayin, shin, tov - with NO yod.


#11.  40:1- 48:35 - To shame Yisra’el into repentance - and offer an interim constitution - if both houses repent then there is a new temple with sacrifices etc going on... UNTIL Mashiach comes.   BOTH houses refused.
          “This scroll was regulated to the back of the Volume as an appendix.  = a conditional offer of national restoration contingent on both houses repenting.  This would have been an interim constitution “until the time of restoration when the Seed would come.” “  This is after 13  years of silence from YHWH.

          10th month, 4th day, 25th year of Yehoyachin’s exile.

#12. 29:17 - 30:19 - Babylon will plunder Egypt
          1st month, 12th day, 27th year of Yehoyachin’s exile.

#13.  1:1-2 - 7:27  - Priestly commission of judgment and wrath that all of Yisra’el has rejected the interim constitution of YHWH, and he has set for the sword of chapter 5. 

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So what this means is - there is no third temple with animal sacrifices - because at the time that prophecy was given - both houses of Yisra’el refused to do Teshuvah and did not take up YHWH on his offer for an interim constitution until the Messiah came....

So I invited you to read Yechezkel in the order the prophet delivered the scrolls to the princes of Yisra’el.... and understand what he was actually saying!  AMEIN!!  Baruch hashem YHWH!! :)

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Brad Scott - B’re’shiyt Study

study guide p 56

we are finishing.... verse
B’re’shiyt 1:22
“And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”

“Vay-y’varek  ‘otam  Elohiym le’mor p’ru  ur’vu  umile’u  ‘et-ham-mayim  bay-yam-miy  ve’ha’oph  yirev ba’aretz.”


p 57 in study guide

UMILe’U
          Translated as = to fill the earth or fill the waters.

          Some say - it is “replenished”... the angelic beings existed before man... and according to IS 14 - and 1/3 of angels fell with him - and roamed the earth....

from Hebrew root Mala = to fill something to overflow... more than full...

Joshua 3:15  “over-flows”

translated as fill, fulfill, 

and a couple times translated as “replenished”
also the word translated into “consecrated”
based on another definition = satisfaction, accomplished

(see scripture listed on p 57)

= to fill the waters and the seas...

“pleres” = Greek  = fill to abundance (Not about ending - full)

Mattityahu 15:37

Acts 6:5  - full

2 Yochanan 8

Mattityahu 5:17 “fill”
          = Hebrew idiom... to destroy and fulfill the law are idioms....
B/c He obeyed the law - he filled it up.

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p 58 in study guide:

B’re’shiyt 1:23
“Vaye’hiy--erev  vaye’hiy  voqer  yom cha’mishiy.”

“And there was evening and there was morning day fifth”

“And the evening and the morning were the 5th day.”

Vaye’hiy -- erev = And there was evening

vaye’hiy = and there was

voquer = morning

yom = day

CHa’MISHIY =  5th

Chumash = is name of a particular volume / commentary of first 5 books... = the five

even though this is a number, it also has a literal meaning.

cha’mishiy = armed, prepared, to be ready

#5 = grace and mercy

see p 59 in study guide on #5

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Torah Parashah Vayetze ~ “He Went Out”
B’re’shiyt 28:10 - 32:2  RSTNE p 28

1.  Yaakov goes out from Beer-Sheeva toward Charan.
He stops and sleeps on a rock - and sees a ladder/stairway with heavenly malachim (angels) ascending and descending and YHWH stood above it and blesses Yaakov - like He blessed Avraham and Yitzchak.

B’re’shiyt 28: 13- 15


2.    Yaakov gets to Charan and finds Rachel at the well.... and she takes him to her father’s (Lavan’s) house.

3.   Yaakov makes a deal with Lavan to work for the privilege to marry Rachel - 7years... he then gets stuck with Leah - and has to work 7 more years for Rachel....
4.   Billah - Rachel’s maid and Zilpah - Leah’s maid are also thrown in there as mothers of Yaakov’s children.

Wikipedia says - The Testament of Naftali, part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, says that Bilhah and Zilpah's father was named Ahotay. He was taken into captivity but redeemed by Laban, Rachel and Leah's father, who gave Ahotay a wife named Hannah, who was their mother. Rabbinic sources (Midrash Raba, and elsewhere), on the other hand, state that Bilhah and Zilpah were also Laban's daughters, through his concubines,[2] making them half-sisters to Rachel and Leah.

5.    Yaakov has lots of children

LEAH
ZIPAH
(Leah's servant)
BILHAH
(Rachel's servant)
Rachel
Reuben (1)
Gad (7)
Dan (5)
Joseph (12)
Simeon (2)
Asher (8)
Naphtali (6)
Benjamin (13)
Levi (3)



Judah (4)



Issachar (9)



Zebulun (10)



Dinah (11)




6.    B’re’shiyt 30:25-27 p 30
Yaakov asks Lavan to let him go back to his home country... and Lavan changes the requirements many times.

7.    Yaakov makes a deal about the sheep and goats...  the all white ones are Lavan’s and the speckled goats and the brown sheep are Yaakov’s.

8.   and Lavan started to not be happy with Yaakov  31:1-2

9.   31:3 YHWH tells Yaakov to take his people and things and leave and go home.  

10.            They leave - and Rachel steals the house idols of Lavan... 

11. Lavan chases them down and searches for his idols...

12.    31:32 - Yaakov declares death for anyone who stole the idols and he doesn’t know it was his beloved Rachel.

13.    Lavan and Yaakov make a covenant and Lavan leaves and goes back to his  home.

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I’d like to go back to the beginning of this Parashah and look at

B’re’shiyt 28:10-22 p 28

Yaakov has to be exhausted.

 Now we know that Rivkah is worried about Esav killing Yaakov... so look what she did in B’re’shiyt 27:46

Yitzchak told Yaakov -  in 28:2 “Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the bayit of Bethu-El your eema’s abba; and take a wife from there from the daughters of Lavan your eema’s brother.”
So Yaakov leaves... finally he’s away from his twin brother.  This must be a relief and also sad. 

remember:
Change  - even good change - is difficult.

So Yaakov gets to a “certain place” and he is so tired that he uses a stone for a pillow.

28:12  - and Yaakov has a dream of a ladder “set up on the earth and the top of it reached to the shamayim” and “heavenly malachim” (heavenly angels or messengers) were “ascending and descending on it”

and 28:13 - YHWH stood above it.

What does this ladder represent?

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In the Menorah - on one side we have three lights that stand for

“B’re’shiyt - bara - Elohiym” = YHWH

On the other side we have

“ha shamayim v’et  ha aretz.” = earth

What is the connection between the two?....
the same things as the ladder ....

..... the Aleph Tov - the shemesh - the Light of the World. 

Y’shua haMashiach. 

He is always the connection.

Interesting that YHWH meets Yaakov here... in this place.

What is so unique about this place?

After all Yaakov has just been given the bachor (first born)blessing.

But how much sense does this make?  He gets sent away by his parents?

Remember he can’t know what we know... we’ve read ahead...

He knows he is blessed - he is the one to inherit all his Father has....or the majority of it anyway...

And so it would stand to reason that he should be made the leader of the house and all the people that have followed his grandfather Avraham, and his father Yitzchak... 

-   Yaakov has a  purpose - and he is extremely important.
-   I am guessing he thought he knew what his life would look like... 

and then he gets sent away. 

He’s in the desert somewhere - on his way to his mother’s family.
Somewhere between Beer-Sheva and Charan.

He has to feel all alone in the world.

I think he has to be wondering what in the world he is supposed to do.  He thought he knew... but then life happened...

Does this sound familiar?
Do you come to places where you thought you knew what your life was supposed to look like... and then - life happens ... and it isn’t looking like you thought it would?....

So for most of my life - when things happened and messed with how i thought it was supposed to be - my response was anger.

So i am guessing that is perhaps where Yaakov is.

This comes through in the story...

He has a most amazing dream of heavenly angels or messengers ascending and descending on a ladder that represents the Mashiach Himself.... 

When Yaakov wakes - he knows something amazing happened...
and he sets his pillow /stone up and poured oil on it.

He calls the place Beth-El  - the house of Elohiym.

BUT then... is where the - perhaps anger - shows up.

Keep in mind that YHWH has just spoken the same blessing over Yaakov, that he spoke of Avraham and Yitzchak - in verses 13-15....

and what Yaakov does...
well some say it was gutsy - maybe it was angry?...  maybe there was nothing left in him to even have the energy to be angry... maybe he was where Y’shua said those people HE spoke about in the beatitudes in Mattityahu 5 were....  so broken and on their knees - knowing that there is nothing good in them....  begging YHWH for provision and life...

What does Yaakov do?

Yaakov challenges YHWH, the El of his fathers...
Yaakov tells YHWH that if YHWH will go with him on his journey and provide him bread and a safe return,

-   Then YHWH will be known not just as the El of Avraham, and Yitzchak, but also the El of Yaakov.

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On a side note recently i listened to a couple who were legitimately concerned about the choices their daughter is making.  - choices that aren’t healthy or safe.  BUT more than that - choices that don’t line up with the faith of the parents.

I can get that this is very concerning and deeply troubling... 

One of the things i said - besides acknowledging their efforts in raising her and the legitimate concern for safety...  I said... well, as difficult as it is for you - she has to make the faith she decides to have - her own.

They weren’t particularly blessed by this.  They do not understand Torah.

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But the point is - the text doesn’t say that - despite how offensive this might sound - it doesn’t say that YHWH was bothered in the least.

wow.

So what happens in the days ahead - is Yaakov must deal with Lavan - who is full of deception.  - just how the world is for all of us.

But YHWH never leaves him... In fact, He blesses and blesses Yaakov.

Now we read Torah- and read the stories of the covenants YHWH made with His people....  and we can understand how we can be part of that... 

And we can look at the world outside - the amazing beauty of the earth and heavens...  and recognize He is there...

But at some point - we have to decide if WE are going to walk in that covenant of the Word.

In many ways - we here at HLM have left the pagan practices of what we grew up with and are learning what EXACTLY we believe and exactly WHO we serve and HOW to serve HIM.

We did it stomping mad sometimes and we did it with tear stained cheeks in others....

So where are you in your faith journey?

Some where between Beit-El and a pagan land??

Remember that YHWH met Yaakov in that desert place “between”...
He will meet you there too...

The key is - when the ladder shows up - you don’t ignore it. :)

Remember the pure in lev (heart) ??
Mattityahu 5:8 p 680
          “Blessed are the pure in lev: for they shall see YHWH.”

If you are clean on the inside - have done Teshuvah - you will see YHWH in your life all around you.

And when we truly see Him all around us...  we won’t just walk in the covenant of our abba’s... but our own...   and when we figure it out....  we will RUN.

amein.