tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18593761674051918722024-03-28T20:29:26.006-07:00Deborah's Drash N NoshTorah Wisdom Torah Truth In Messiah YeshuaRabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-13411331402704974432024-02-04T11:56:00.000-08:002024-02-04T11:56:12.679-08:00Courage<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yt-vk_VLJwvaRUUDnNNHy44uf3UARcTPkcjMLdssiQnj9fepcU1ZPhbxIiX8mNhWH0x3wjpANw-zMUg-E63tAI_wgMU456zCWuRCxiZel4zVVu5wV50Eu3rJEduoBx69Qur3JcpeMUR-sopUGZRKDPannNgWJvQn2trSM5kJ3XhbtzxyGY19saleIBo/s4437/DMMTeachingTraining.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="4437" height="40" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-yt-vk_VLJwvaRUUDnNNHy44uf3UARcTPkcjMLdssiQnj9fepcU1ZPhbxIiX8mNhWH0x3wjpANw-zMUg-E63tAI_wgMU456zCWuRCxiZel4zVVu5wV50Eu3rJEduoBx69Qur3JcpeMUR-sopUGZRKDPannNgWJvQn2trSM5kJ3XhbtzxyGY19saleIBo/s320/DMMTeachingTraining.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">COURAGE<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Today, it takes courage to boldly proclaim His Word</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Standing up for what is Holy.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Sharing Yeshua in a World that hates God</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Not going along with friends who want us to join them in their sin</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">To walk in Obedience</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Saying no to compromise and standing for Truth</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Before the Resurrection, the Apostle's courage crashed when they thought
all hope was lost when Messiah Yeshua was Crucified and they hid in fear
(except for a few women and John), however after the Resurrection they were
transformed with His power and His Glory and received courage, they probably
thought they never would have! </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">King David was a model of courage. His spiritual awareness enabled
him to cope with the most challenging of situations. His Psalms have served as
inspiration in times of joy and in times of trouble and distress. Here is
a selection of Psalms that will help increase courage by repeating them
regularly and hiding them in your heart.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">Yes, Avraham was a courageous man and obedient to YHVH ELOHIM. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">However, who was the most courageous person of all? YESHUA HA
MASHIACH!</span></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">He faced, rejection, mockery, scorning, beating, and finally death, a
death He did not deserve, but He took our place so that we would not have to
experience eternal punishment and separation of YHWH ELOHIM our Father for our
sins. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">He knows everything we have gone through or will go through.</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">..</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Isa 53:3 TLV) He was despised and rejected by men, a man of
sorrows, acquainted with grief, One from whom people hide their faces. He was
despised, and we did not esteem Him.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Isa 53:4 TLV) Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our
pains. Yet we esteemed Him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Isa 53:5 TLV) But He was pierced because of our transgressions,
crushed because of our iniquities. The chastisement for our shalom was upon
Him, and by His stripes, we are healed.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Isa 53:6 TLV) We all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us
turned to his own way. So Adonai has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">We all have gone through:</span></b><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Rejection by loved ones.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Loss of a loved one</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Sickness</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Financial Battles</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Loneliness</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Stress</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Despair</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Doubt</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Fea</span><span face=""Aptos",sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">r </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Being misunderstood and judged wrongly.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">People who disappoint you, especially those who you
thought were your friends.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Leadership who may disappoint you.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Loss of a job</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; padding: 0in;">Etc. Etc. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">He did not leave us comfortless but gave us His Ruach to abide within us
and also, He left us the greatest gift...His Word is filled with His promises as
He speaks to our hearts & comforts us and gives us the courage to face each day
as it comes. <br />
<!--[endif]--></span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">May we continue to love one another and pray for each other to be strong
in Him and the Power of His might in Messiah Yeshua. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Joh 15:12 TLV) “This is My commandment, that you love one another
just as I have loved you.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Joh 15:13 TLV) No one has greater love than this: that he lay down
his life for his friends.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Joh 15:14 TLV) You are My friends if you do what I command you.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Joh 15:15 TLV) “I am no longer calling you servants, for the
servant does not know what his master is doing. Now I have called you friends because everything I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Joh 15:16 TLV) “You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I selected
you so that you would go and produce fruit, and your fruit would remain. Then
the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;">(Joh 15:17 TLV) “These things I command you, so that you may love
one another.”</span><span face=""Segoe UI", sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Psalms
of David – Courage<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 3:4 TLV) But You, Adonai, are a shield around me, my glory
and the lifter of my head.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 3:7 TLV) I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people all
around who have taken their stand against me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 3:8 TLV) Arise, Adonai! Deliver me, my God! For you strike
all my enemies on the cheek. You shatter the teeth of the wicked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 3:9 TLV) Deliverance belongs to Adonai. Let Your blessing be
on Your people. Selah</span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><br /></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 9:10 TLV) Adonai is a stronghold for the oppressed, a high
tower in times of trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 9:11 TLV) Those who know Your Name trust You</span><span lang="X-NONE">—for You, Adonai, never have forsaken those who seek You.</span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><br /></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 16:8 TLV) I have set Adonai always before me. Since He is at
my right hand, I will not be shaken.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">(Psa 16:11 TLV) You make known to me the path of life. Abundance
of joys are in Your presence, eternal pleasures at Your right hand.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i>(Psa 17:7 TLV) Be wonderful with Your lovingkindness, O Savior of
those taking refuge at Your right hand from those rising up against them.</p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 17:8 TLV) Protect me like the pupil of the eye. Hide me in
the shadow of Your wings,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 18:3 TLV) Adonai is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.
My God is my rock, in Him I take refuge, my shield, my horn of salvation, my
stronghold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 18:29 TLV) For You light up my lamp. Adonai my God shines in
my darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 18:36 TLV) You gave me the shield of Your salvation. Your
right hand upholds me, Your gentleness makes me great.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 18:36 TLV) You gave me the shield of Your salvation. Your
right hand upholds me, Your gentleness makes me great.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 20:2 TLV) May Adonai answer you in the day of trouble! May
the Name of the God of Jacob set you up securely on high.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 20:8 TLV) Some have chariots, some have horses, but we
remember the Name of Adonai our God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 20:9 TLV) They have collapsed and fallen, but we rise up and
support each other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 20:10 TLV) Adonai, save the king! Answer us on the day we
call!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 22:5 TLV) In You our fathers put their trust. They trusted,
and You delivered them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 23:1 TLV) A psalm of David. Adonai is my shepherd, I shall
not want.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 23:2 TLV) He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads
me beside still waters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 23:3 TLV) He restores my soul. He guides me in paths of
righteousness for His Name</span><span lang="X-NONE">’s sake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 23:4 TLV) Even though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me: Your rod and Your
staff comfort me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 23:5 TLV) You prepare a table before me in the presence of
my enemies. You have anointed my head with oil, my cup overflows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 23:6 TLV) Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the
days of my life, and I will dwell in the House of Adonai forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 40:14 TLV) Adonai, please deliver me! Adonai, come quickly
to help me!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 42:12 TLV) Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why are you
murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of
my countenance and my God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 46:2 TLV) God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present
help in trouble.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 46:3 TLV) Therefore we will not fear, though the earth
change, though the mountains topple into the heart of the seas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 51:12 TLV) Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a
steadfast spirit within me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 51:13 TLV) Do not cast me from Your presence</span><span lang="X-NONE">—take not Your Ruach ha-Kodesh from me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 51:14 TLV) Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and
sustain me with a willing spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 55:24 TLV) But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit
of destruction. Bloodthirsty, deceitful men will not live out half their days.
But I</span><span lang="X-NONE">—I will trust in You.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 56:12 TLV) in God I trust, I will not be afraid. What can
man do to me?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 61:4 TLV) For You have been a refuge for me, a tower of
strength before the enemy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 62:2 TLV) My soul, wait in stillness, only for God</span><span lang="X-NONE">—from Him comes my salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 62:3 TLV) He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress</span><span lang="X-NONE">—I will never be moved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 62:9 TLV) Trust in Him at all times, you people. Pour out
your heart in His presence. God is our refuge. Selah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
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heart are the pilgrim roads.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 91:1 TLV) He who dwells in the shelter of Elyon, will abide
in the shadow of Shaddai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 91:2 TLV) I will say of Adonai, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“He
is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
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mountains</span><span lang="X-NONE">—from where does my help come?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 121:2 TLV) My help comes from Adonai, Maker of heaven and
earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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who call on Him in truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></i></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-11701742889099495922023-11-21T08:43:00.000-08:002023-11-21T08:43:52.581-08:00Emunah Life in Messiah Yeshua – Perfect Shalom<p style="text-align: center;"><b> Emunah Life in Messiah Yeshua - His Perfect Shalom</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt </b></p><p>(Isa 26:2 TLV) Open the gates! Let the righteous nation enter—one that keeps faith.</p><p>(Isa 26:3 TLV) You keep in perfect peace one whose mind is stayed on You because he trusts in You.</p><p>(Isa 26:4 TLV) Trust in Adonai forever, for the LORD Adonai is a Rock of ages.</p><p><b>So what does EMUNAH mean?</b></p><p><b>Faithfulness/Faithfull H530</b></p><p>אֱמ וּנָה</p><p>’emûnāh: A noun meaning truth, faithfulness. It is used to describe God's character and His actions in Deu_32:4. The psalmists often use this word in their praise of the Lord and His faithfulness (Psa_33:4; Psa_100:5; Psa_119:90). When people are faithful, good comes their way (2Ch_19:9; Pro_12:22; Pro_28:20). The word ’emûnāh is also used with righteousness to describe the character (Pro_12:17; Isa_59:4; Jer_5:1).</p><p>So when we say ‘Emunah Life in Messiah Yeshua’ we are speaking of a life lived in faithfulness to Him and His Word and His faithfulness to us shown through Messiah Yeshua.</p><p><b>The Amplified Bible translation</b></p><p>(Isa 26:2 AMP) "Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter, The one that remains faithful and trustworthy.</p><p>(Isa 26:3 AMP) "You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You--in both inclination and character], Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation].</p><p>(Isa 26:4 AMP) "Trust [confidently] in the LORD forever [He is your fortress, your shield, your banner], For the LORD GOD is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].</p><p>Because of HIS FAITHFULNESS, we can have complete confidence in His Word and in His promises. As Isaiah says, He will keep us in perfect SHALOM when we keep our minds focused on His faithfulness and His Word.</p><p>He is FOREVER FAITHFUL, that is His character, so we can put our whole TRUST in Him because He is watching over HIS WORD to perform it in our lives every day.</p><p>If we are not walking in perfect Shalom, then we are not focusing on His Word but on the lies of the enemy. Daily meditate on these scriptures and let your mind be renewed with His Truth, His Righteousness, His Love, His Faithfulness to you.</p><p>Fear and doubt are a lack of trust in His Word and His Promises. Remind yourself daily that you can trust your Heavenly Father/Abba with your life, your needs, your healing, your deliverance, your peace, your protection, and whatever else concerns the life of your family, Life, Home, and Ministry because of the redemption you have in Messiah Yeshua.</p><p><b>Key Words</b></p><p><b>Peace / Shalom H7965</b></p><p>שָׁל וֹ ם</p><p>šālôm: A masculine noun meaning peace or tranquility. This Hebrew term is used 237 times in the Old Testament/Tenach and is used to greet someone (Jdg_19:20; 1Ch_12:18 [19]; Dan_10:19). It is common in Hebrew to ask how one's peace is (Gen_43:27; Exo_18:7; Jdg_18:15), which is equivalent to asking "How are you?" Moreover, this word was often used to describe someone's manner of coming or going; sometimes this took the form of a blessing: Go in peace (Jdg_8:9; 1Sa_1:17; Mal_2:6). Another common expression involved dying or being buried in peace (Gen_15:15; 2Ch_34:28; Jer_34:5) Peace is present with the wise but absent from the wicked (Pro_3:2, Pro_3:17; Isa_57:21; Isa_59:8). It is often pictured as coming from God; Gideon built an altar and called the altar Yahweh-shalom (the Lord Is Peace; Num_6:26; Jdg_6:24; Isa_26:3).</p><p><b>Trust/Batach H982</b></p><p>בָׁטַ ח</p><p>bāṭaḥ: A verb indicating to trust, to be confident. It expresses the feeling of safety and security that is felt when one can rely on someone or something else. It is used to show trust in God (2Ki_18:5; Psa_4:5 [6]; Jer_49:11); in other people (Jdg_9:26; Jdg_20:36; Isa_36:5-6, Isa_36:9); or in things (Psa_44:6 [7]; Jer_7:4; Hab_2:18). In addition, this expression can also relate to the state of being confident, secure, without fear (Jdg_18:7, Jdg_18:10, Jdg_18:27; Job_11:18; Pro_28:1).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Shalom Shalom in Messiah Yeshua</b></p><p><b>From our Devotional " <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Days-Emunah-Life-Messiah-Yeshua-Devotional/dp/B09C3LLQQX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NR6KD7JQYXFN&keywords=rabbin+deborah+brandt&qid=1700584842&sprefix=rabbin+d%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-1" target="_blank">40 Days of Emunah Life in Messiah Yeshua"</a></b></p><p><br /></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-50801399572980439842023-11-16T10:16:00.000-08:002023-11-16T10:16:07.512-08:00The Importance of Discipleship<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Shalom In Yeshua. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I see many posts about revival among the young people in our country and about thousands that are getting saved at evangelistic rally's, which is wonderful! However, the responsibility does not STOP there, the next most important step, is <b>DISCIPLESHIP</b> so they enemy cannot steal the WORD that was sown. </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Questions:</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">#1. Has there been follow up?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">#2. Have you tried to schedule someone to disciple them?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">#3. Or have you left them to drown in a sea of misinformation and wrong teachings, vs. true discipleship in the WORD?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">#4. Were they told they needed to count the cost of discipleship?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Every time I hear about hundreds and thousands being saved,<b> I ask myself have you made provision to disciple them? This is SO important!!!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I heard one evangelist say that hundreds got saved at his rally, then he told those who were just saved to lead someone else, at that very moment to Jesus/Yeshua? Before you lead someone else to Yeshua you need to know what salvation entails, know what it means to repent and truly give your life to Messiah. Those newly saved have no idea how to lead someone to Messiah and discipleship, let alone they have not even been discipled themselves? It seems this evangelist was more interested in numbers vs getting them discipled for Yeshua.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Before I became a committed to serving God and became a truly born-again believer, I would sit and watch Billie Graham crusades on the TV, I would cry and pray, then I would be back in the world the next day, because it was not a true commitment to Messiah Yeshua, it was emotional, based upon conviction of the WORD, but not commitment to THE WORD Yeshua.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I would be walking down the street and people would come up to me who were Christians and shared the word, the seed was planted, but commitment came latter. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Praise The Father for His mercy, that even while still in the world, I made a true commitment to him almost 50 years ago, and have not looked back since. Yes, my family thought I was nuts, my friends thought I was nuts, but I didn't care, I knew that Messiah Yeshua loved me and my life was changed, my sins forgiven and there was no turning back. I found good churches along my journey, where I grew in the Word, then 25 years ago, I returned to my Jewish Roots and grew even more. Discipleship is a NON-STOP journey, you never stop learning or growing, His Word is NEW every morning, great is His faithfulness. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is why I am so committed to discipleship, where we even have a school<a href="https://www.deborahsmessianicministries.com/Judaic%20Studies%20Institute.htm" target="_blank"> "The Judaic Studies Institute"</a> that is a place where people can be discipled based upon what they can afford, even if it is $0 dollars! </span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">You need to be a discipled, before you can disciple someone else. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Sower Parable</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:1 TLV) Again Yeshua began to teach by the sea. A large crowd gathered around Him, so He got into a boat on the sea and sat down. And the crowd was by the sea on the land.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:2 TLV) He began teaching them many things by parables, and in His teaching, He said to them:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:3 TLV) “<b>Listen! Behold, a Sower went out to spread some seed.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:4 TLV) It happened that as he sowed, some fell beside the road; and the birds came and ate it up.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:5 TLV) “Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it didn’t have much soil. It sprang up immediately, because the soil wasn’t deep.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:6 TLV) But when the sun came up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:7 TLV) “Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew and choked it, and it yielded no crop.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:8 TLV) “And others fell into the good soil and were producing fruit, springing up and increasing. They yielded a crop, producing thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:9 TLV) And He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:10 TLV) When Yeshua was alone, those around Him with the Twelve started asking Him about the parables.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:11 TLV) And He told them, “To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God. But for those who are outside, everything is in parables, so that</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:12 TLV) ‘Seeing, they may see and not perceive, and hearing, they may hear and not understand, so they may not turn back and be forgiven.’”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:13 TLV) He said to them, “Don’t you grasp this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:14 TLV) <b>The Sower sows the word.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:15 TLV) T<b>hese are the ones beside the road where the word is sown. Whenever they hear, satan comes quickly and takes away the word that has been sown in them.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:16 TLV) “These are the ones sown on<b> rocky ground.</b> When they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:17 TLV) And they have no root in themselves but last only a short while. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:18 TLV) And others are the ones <b>sown among the thorn</b>s. They have heard the word;</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:19 TLV) but the worries of the world, the seduction of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Mar 4:20 TLV) “<b>And those are the ones sown on the good soil</b>. They hear the word and accept it and produce fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”</span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yeshua said that there was a cost to count to truly be HIS DISCIPLE </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Luk 14:25 TLV) Now great crowds were traveling with Yeshua; and He turned and said to them,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Luk 14:26 TLV) <b> “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—and yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Luk 14:27 TLV) Whoever does not<b> carry his own cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Complete Jewish New Testament Commentary - David Stearn</span></b></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">If anyone... does not hate his father [and] ... mother ... he cannot be my talmid. One hears Luk_14:26 selectively misquoted in exactly this way, and on this basis a case is made that Yeshua is a cruel madman. But the key to his warning is, of course, the phrase, "<b>and his own life besides</b>." The theme of <b>these verses is not alienation from one's family but the cost of discipleship: </b>nothing, not love for father or mother or even one's own life, is to take precedence over loyalty to God and his Messiah (see Mat_16:24). He must renounce all that he has (Luk_14:33), acknowledging that if God is to be primary in his life, possessions and even social relationships, in and of themselves, must be secondary. Being Messianic is more than merely acknowledging facts about Yeshua.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Luk 14:33 TLV) So in the same way, <b>whoever does not renounce all that he has, cannot be My disciple</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>He must renounce all that he has</b> (Luk_14:33), acknowledging that if <b>God is to be primary in his life,</b> possessions and even social relationships, in and of themselves, must be secondary. Being Messianic is more than merely acknowledging facts about Yeshua. Jewish NT Commentary</span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></i></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The early Apostles were very aware and very serious about the importance of discipleship and had a plan to ground the new Gentile converts to the Way of Messiah and Torah.</b> This is laid out in the Didache document and is given detailed attention in the book <span><b>“The Way of Life – The Rediscovered Teachings of the
Twelve Jewish Apostles to the Gentiles” </b></span><span><b>Toby Janicki Author, Published by Vine of David
Copyright 2017 by Vine of David, a publishing ministry of First Fruits of Zion,
Inc.</b> </span></span></div></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>(Mar 8:31 TLV) Then He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and ruling kohanim and Torah scholars, and be killed, and after three days rise again.</div><div>(Mar 8:32 TLV) He was speaking openly about this. And Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.</div><div>(Mar 8:33 TLV) But turning around and looking at His disciples, He rebuked Peter. He said, “Get behind Me, satan! You are not setting your mind on the things of God, but the things of men.”</div><div>(Mar 8:34 TLV) Then He called the crowd, along with His disciples, and said to them, <b>“If anyone wants to follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and keep following Me.</b></div><div>(Mar 8:35 TLV) <b>For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the sake of the Good News will save it.</b></div><div>(Mar 8:36 TLV) <b>For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?</b></div><div>(Mar 8:37 TLV) For what could a man give in exchange for his soul?</div><div>(Mar 8:38 TLV) <b>For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this unfaithful and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels!”</b></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><b>(</b>Mat 19:29 TLV) And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, <b>for My name’s sake, will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life.</b></div><div>(Mat 19:30 TLV) But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”</div><div style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: bold;">The Biblical Pattern for Discipleship in the First Century</div></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The <i>Didache</i>, also known as The Teaching of the Twelve
Apostles</b>, is a brief anonymous early
treatise, dated by most modern scholars to the first century. <b>It provides a
window into the faith and practice of the earliest Gentile disciples and the
instructions they received from the Jewish apostles.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The <i>Didache</i> was considered an early discipleship
manual for those coming to faith—its wisdom and simplicity are still relevant
for us today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The <i>Didache</i> picks up right where the Apostolic Decree
leaves off, teaching and clarifying for Gentiles their relationship to the
Torah and place in Messianic Judaism. It was written by the early Jewish
believers in Yeshua and contains teaching that claims to have its origin with
the twelve apostles.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Some scholars feel its earliest version might have been
written as early as 50 CE, which places it within the first generation of
disciples of Yeshua. It may even contain material older than many of Paul’s
epistles and the Gospel of John. It also contains teachings of Yeshua that are
not found in the canonical Gospels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The <i>Didache</i> offers us an incredible window into the
daily life of believers at a time when Christianity still functioned as a sect
within Judaism and not a separate religion. It shows us practical life in early
Messianic Judaism</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The same open posture of Acts 15 seems to be reflected in
the <em>Didache</em>. The <em>Didache</em> is allegedly a collection of
apostolic instructions for Gentile believers. When discussing the question of
how much Torah a Gentile is obligated to keep, <b>the <em>Didache</em> recommends
keeping all of it, but leaves the matter up to an individual’s capacity:</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">If
you are able to bear all the yoke of the Lord [i.e., Torah], you will be
perfect; but if you are not able, do as much as you are able to do. (<em>Didache</em>
6:2)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The <em>Didache</em> agrees with Numbers 15:15-16. <b>There is
not supposed to be a different Torah for Gentile believers. The Gentile
believers are not supposed to have a different type of worship or religion.
</b>There is only one Torah for God’s people. The only question left open is to
what extent the Gentile believer is obligated. Most of the Torahs of the Torah
apply equally to Jewish and Gentile disciples of Yeshua.<br />
<br /><b>
In the days of the apostles, the Gentile believers kept most of those things
along with the Jewish believers as part of their participation in their shared
religion</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The title <b>Didache</b> means “teaching” and it's
taken from the first word of the book, the work is also known by the longer
title <b>“The teaching of the 12 apostles”</b> and also the longer title <b>”The
teaching of the Lord to the gentiles through the 12 apostles”</b> which is the
complete first line of the book. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 107%;">[1] JSI </span></span><!--[endif]--></span><o:p></o:p>Class Cliff Notes for “The Way of Life” Study in the
Didache by Toby Janicki</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Biblical Discipleship provides the tools, every new and seasoned believer needs to know how to correctly study His Word and walk in the callings He has placed upon our lives as His children. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Contact JSIstudentinfo@gmail.com to learn about Messianic Discipleship via The Judaic Studies Institute</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-7963212760009156172023-10-08T06:45:00.007-07:002023-10-08T06:45:55.322-07:00Israel Under Attack - Pray for the Peace of Yerushalayim<p> </p><div class="WordSection1">
<h5 align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 8.85pt; margin-right: 9.85pt; margin-top: 2.85pt; margin: 2.85pt 9.85pt 0in 8.85pt; text-align: center;">PRAYERS
FOR ISRAEL <span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h5>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 113.7pt; margin-right: 114.6pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 114.6pt 0in 113.7pt; text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Bishop Dominique<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> B</span>ierman</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 8.85pt; margin-right: 9.8pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 9.8pt 0in 8.85pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">PUT ON THE ARMOUR OF GOD AS IN EPHESIANS<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>6.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 113.7pt; margin-right: 114.6pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 114.6pt 0in 113.7pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">START WITH PRAISE AND<span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;"> </span>WORSHIP</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 8.85pt; margin-right: 10.0pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 10pt 0in 8.85pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">PRAY IN THE SPIRIT FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN PROCEED TO<span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;"> </span>DECLARE THESE<span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span>PRAYERS</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.85pt;"><b>Zechariah 12:6-10 </b>Heavenly
Father, we call on You in this time of Israel’s trouble to make the leaders of
the Arab nations like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among
sheaves. As they try to consume all the surrounding peoples in Israel, let
Jerusalem remain intact in her<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>place.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.9pt;">YHVH, save the dwellings of the Israelis so
that the honor of the house of David and of Jerusalem’s inhabitants may be
shown to the world. <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">In </span>this day
YHVH, be a shield to those who live in Jerusalem and throughout Israel, so that
the feeblest among them will be like David, and the house of David will be like
Elohim, like the Angel of YHVH going before them. Come, YHVH Elohim, and
destroy <b><i>all </i></b>the nations that
attack<span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt;"> </span>Israel.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.05pt;">Come YHV and pour out on the house of David
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. Let them
look on You, the One they have pierced, then they will mourn for You as one
mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for You as one grieves for a<span style="letter-spacing: -0.95pt;"> </span>firstborn son.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 8.1pt;"><b>Psalm 83 </b>O Elohim, do not keep silent; be not quiet O
Elohim, be not still. See how Your enemies are astir, how Your foes rear their
ugly heads. With cunning they conspire against<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;">
</span>Your People; they plot against those You cherish. ***they say, “Come,
let us destroy them as a<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more”.
With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You,
these Muslim terrorist groups throughout the Middle East. Even Russia and China
have joined them to lend strength to the descendants of<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span>Lot.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 13.75pt;">We call out to You, O Elohim, to do to them as
You did to Midian, as You did to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon, who
perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground. Make their leaders like
Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, who said, “Let us
take possession of the pasturelands of YHVH.” Make them like tumbleweed, O
Elohim, like chaff before the wind. As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets
the mountains ablaze, so pursue them with Your tempest and terrify them with
Your storm. Cover their faces with<span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;"> </span>shame
so that men will seek Your Name, O YHVH. May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
may they perish in disgrace. Let them know that You, whose Name is YHVH Elohim
– that You alone are the Most High over all the<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>earth.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 13.95pt;"><b>Psalm 2:1-6 </b>Why are the nations in an uproar and the
peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand and the
rulers take counsel together against You YHVH and<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>against Your anointed One, Yeshua HaMashiach, saying, ‘Let us
tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!’ YHVH, You sit in
the heavens and You laugh, You scoff at them.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;">
</span>You speak to them in Your anger and terrify them in Your fury, saying,
‘But as for Me,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>YHVH Elohim, I have
installed My King, Yeshua HaMashiach upon Zion, <b><i>My holy<span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt;"> </span>mountain</i></b>.’</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.7pt;"><b>Ezekiel 35:2-4,15 </b>Son of
man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophecy against it and say to it,
‘Thus says YHVH Elohim, “Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and <b>I
will </b>stretch out My hand against you
and make you a desolation and a waste. <b>I will </b>lay waste your cities and
you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am YHVH. As you
rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate,
so <b>I will </b>do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all
Edom (Amalek), <b><i>ALL </i></b>of it.” Then
they will know that I am YHVH.</p>
<h4 style="margin-right: 6.9pt;"><u>PROPHETIC
PRAYER<span style="letter-spacing: -0.35pt;"> </span>DECLARATIONS</u></h4>
<h5 style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 14.5pt; margin-top: 3.45pt; margin: 3.45pt 14.5pt 0in 5pt;">“As you did not obey Yahveh and did not execute
His fierce wrath on Amalek, so Yahveh<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>has
done this thing to you this day.” 1 Samuel<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>28:18</h5>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 6.9pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 6.9pt 0in 5pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Declare Morning and Night and as many times as you feel led to
during the<span style="letter-spacing: -0.65pt;"> </span>day!</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 20.25pt;">Abba Shebashamayim (Father in Heaven) Mighty
Elohim, YHVH Tzva’ot (Lord of Hosts)<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>we
declare that YOU have a battle with Amalek from generation to generation and we
ask You to DO this battle today in our generation that You may blot out the
name of Amalek from under heaven!</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 9.5pt;">Hineni (here I am) Yahveh to wage war against
Amalek that has been very wicked attacking our lives and Israel from the rear
and sneaking against the weak, the children, the women and all our weak places.
Our battle is not against flesh and blood and we wage YOUR war against Amalek
with the spiritual weapons of Prayer, Fasting and Praise. You are fighting this
battle and we say, ‘let Yahveh arise and let all YOUR enemies, the <u>Amalekites and all their friends and allies </u>be
scattered seven ways away from us, from Your Bride and from Israel in Yeshua’s
Mighty Name!’</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 9.1pt;">YHVH we ask You to execute Your FIERCE Wrath
against Amalek today and we execute YOUR Fierce Wrath against Amalek TODAY. We
totally annihilate and destroy you Amalek from all of our lives, families,
affairs, ministries, congregations and all of Israel in Yeshua’s Name! We
declare that we will PURSUE and we will surely OVERTAKE and RECOVER <b><i>ALL </i></b>that you have stolen Amalek!
With the two edged sword (the Word of God) in our hands and the High Praises of
Elohim in our mouths we bind you Amalek with chains and all your friends and
allies with fetters of iron we inflict the punishment and execute the judgment
and vengeance<span style="letter-spacing: -0.95pt;"> </span>that is already
written against you Amalek, today! In Yeshua’s<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;">
</span>Name.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span>We recover A<b><i>LL </i></b>the souls that have fallen prey to you Amalek in
Replacement Theology Christianity! We recover <b><i>ALL </i></b>the Land of Israel that has been stolen through the false
Oslo Accords and “Land for peace” agreements for You YHVH have a Land Covenant
with Israel up to 1000 generations! We recover <b><i>ALL </i></b>the wealth that has been stolen due to<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>ANTI-SEMATISM, ANTI-JUDAISM and
persecution against the Jews through Christian Crusades, Spanish Inquisition,
Pogroms, the Nazi Shoa (Holocaust) and the<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>like!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 7.75pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.05pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 6pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span>We pursue, we overtake and we recover <b><i>ALL </i></b>territory stolen in our lives,
our families, our ministries and Kad-Esh MAP Ministries. We break your power
Amalek in every Congregation<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>of the
Living YHVH in Israel and in all nations due to the deception of Replacement
Theology! We uproot Replacement Theology in all of our lives, ministries and
all over the Body of Messiah that the very name of Amalek and Replacement
Theology will be blotted out of the face of the earth and under heaven and we
recover all the believers captive in Replacement Theology in Yeshua’s Mighty<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>Name!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 5.4pt; margin-top: 3.45pt; margin: 3.45pt 5.4pt 0in 5pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span>We uproot and destroy you Amalek in our
finances, our health, our children and our marriages! We execute YHVH’s Fierce
Wrath against you Amalek in every area of our lives and ministries! WE execute
YHVH’s Fierce Wrath and total annihilation on <b><i>ALL </i></b>Amalek induced diseases such as Lyme disease, fibromyalgia,
cancer, heart disease, blood pressure, diabetes, dementia and all their
derivatives that attack the weak places of the human<span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"> </span>being!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 7.45pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span>We execute the Fierce Wrath of YHVH against you
Amalek throughout the Land of Israel uprooting <b><i>ALL </i></b>terror, hidden
terror, terror cells in Gaza, Samaria, Judea and all Israeli territory from the
River Nile in Egypt to the Great Euphrates River in Iraq to the Mediterranean<span style="letter-spacing: 2.2pt;"> </span>Sea.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 15.8pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 15.8pt;"><o:p> </o:p>YHVH, You pursue Amalek and all his friends
with Your Storm and fill their faces with shame that everyone will know that
Your name YHVH Elohim is the Most High over all the earth! We execute YOUR Fierce
Wrath against Amalek in the government of the Church and of our<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>Nation Australia [your country], and every
nation and we take back our governments and nations to become Sheep Nations,
worshippers of Yeshua and lovers of<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>Israel!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 8.9pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span>We execute Your Fierce Wrath against Amalek in
the United Nations and we blot out the very name of Amalek and all his friends
within every council and every officer anti Israel or anti-Zionist in Yeshua’s
Mighty Name. YHVH, you execute Your Fierce Wrath against Amalek in Islam and
uproot and blot out the memory of Islam from under Heaven and we take back <b><i>ALL </i></b>the souls that have been
captives to Amalek-Islam in Yeshua’s Mighty<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>Name.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 19.8pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span>YHVH, you execute YOUR Fierce Wrath against
Amalek in <b><i>ALL </i></b>persecutors of
the Messianic Jews in Israel and especially the Yad L’achim organization that
seeks to destroy the Messianic Jews. WE execute YOUR Fierce Wrath YHVH against
Amalek and every spirit of Anti-Messiah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in
Yeshua’s Mighty<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>Name!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 7.8pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span>We break your power Amalek in the Negev, Beer
Sheva, Eilat, the Mountains of Edom and <b><i>ALL
</i></b>over Israel and we leave no remnant! In Yeshua’s Mighty Name we pray,
declare, execute, uproot and recover <b><i>ALL
</i></b>that has been stolen by you Amalek in our lives, our families,
ministries, relationships, affairs, congregations, nations and all of Israel
and we take MUCH plunder to advance the KINGDOM of YHVH with abundant vision,
provision, health, favor and success<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>in
Yeshua HaMashiach’s Mighty Powerful<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>Name!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.1pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h4 style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 6.9pt; margin-top: 2.85pt; margin: 2.85pt 6.9pt 0in 5pt;">Scriptural<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>foundation:<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.35pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.9pt;">[Genesis 36:12,16, Exodus 17:8-16, Numbers
13:29, 24:20, Deuteronomy 25:17-20, Joshua<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>1:4,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.9pt;">Judges 3:13; 5:14, 1 Samuel 15:2-20; 28:18, 1
Samuel 30, Psalms 83:7, Psalms 105<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>:8-11,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.9pt;">Psalms 149 : 5-9, Matthew 18 :18-20, Luke 10
:19, Ephesians 6<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>:10-18]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></p>
<h4 style="margin-right: 6.9pt;"><u>MORE
SCRIPTURE PRAYERS FOR<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>ISRAEL</u><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.35pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></b><b>Isaiah 41:12-16 </b>Israel,
hear the Word of your Elohim who says to you “Though you search for your
enemies, you will not find them. Those
who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. For I am YHVH, your Elohim,
who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, ‘Do not fear; I will help
you. Do not be afraid, O little Israel, for I Myself will help you,’ declares
YHVH, your Redeemer, the Holy One of<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> </span>Israel.”</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 12.15pt; margin-top: 3.45pt; margin: 3.45pt 12.15pt 0in 5pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Isaiah 49:1-3
</b>Listen to the Word of YHVH all you
nations: Even before Israel was born
YHVH called her, from her birth He has made mention of Israel’s name. He made
her mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of His hand He hid her; He made
Israel into a polished arrow and concealed her in His quiver. He said to
Israel, “You are My servant Israel, in whom I will display My splendour.”
Heavenly Father, we cry out to You right now, to display Your splendour on Your
servant Israel, that the whole world will see Your glory rest upon<span style="letter-spacing: -0.95pt;"> </span>her.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 12.15pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Jeremiah<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>12:14-17 </b>YHVH
Elohim, You say in Your Word that: “As
for <b><i>all </i></b>My<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>wicked neighbors who seize the
inheritance I gave My People Israel, I will uproot them from their lands and I
will uproot the house of Judah from among them. But after I uproot them, I will
again have compassion and will bring each of them back to his own inheritance
and his own country.” Now is the time YHVH for Your People to be brought back
to their own country, to the inheritance that You have for them. May they learn
well Your ways, Torah, so that they will be established in their own land, safe
and secure. “But if any nation does not listen, I will completely uproot and
destroy it,” declares YHVH<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>Elohim.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.3pt; tab-stops: 111.9pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Isaiah<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>54:14-17 </b>YHVH, we
cry out to You to establish Israel in righteousness so<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>that<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>tyranny will be
far from her; and the people will have nothing to fear. We declare that terror
will be far removed; it will not come near Israel, that if anyone does attack
you Israel, it will not be YHVH’s doing and that whoever attacks you will
surrender to you. Hear the Word of YHVH, O Israel: “See, it is I who created
the blacksmith who fires up his forge and makes a weapon designed to kill. And
it is I who have created the destroyer to work havoc; no weapon formed against
you will prevail Israel, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.
This is the heritage of the servants of Yeshua, and this is their vindication
from me,” declares YHVH Elohim.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 11.3pt; tab-stops: 95.35pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Psalm
121:1-4 </b>Heavenly Father, when Your People Israel, look
about wondering who will help them in their time of trouble may they look only
to You, the Maker of heaven and earth. You will not let their foot slip. You
never take Your eyes off them. You, the guardian of Israel, neither slumbers
nor<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>sleeps.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 11.75pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 11.75pt;"><o:p> </o:p><b>Isaiah
40:1-2;<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>Isaiah<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>49:13 </b>We cry
out to You to comfort Your People YHVH<span style="letter-spacing: -0.4pt;"> </span>Elohim.
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> </span>Bring
Your rich blessing and favor upon all of the Messianic groups as well as all of
the Godly organizations who bring comfort, help, and love to Your People.
Supply all that they need to bring Your loving kindness to the Jewish People.
Let those who have suffered loss of loved ones and friends, and all who grieve,
as well as those who have made aliyah and who have left behind their past
lives, receive great strength and comfort. Send the Ruach Ha Chodesh, the Great
Comforter to comfort all who mourn. YHVH
Elohim, Your Word tells us “Sing<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>heaven!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 6.85pt; margin-top: 2.6pt; margin: 2.6pt 6.85pt 0in 5pt; tab-stops: 152.6pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 9.55pt;">Rejoice, earth! Break out in song, you
mountains! For YHVH is comforting His People, having mercy on His own who have
suffered.” We give you thanks, O YHVH, for truly You care so very deeply for
Your People and are continually comforting those who still<span style="letter-spacing: -0.95pt;"> </span>suffer.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.05pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Psalm
33:20-22 </b>Heavenly Father, we pray that Israel will
desire to know Yeshua HaMashiach, and they will turn to You for help and find
that they can trust in Your Holy Name. YHVH, let them see Your mercy upon them,
Your deliverance, Your divine wisdom in the decisions made by their Government,
and Your protection against their enemies. As they see Your<span style="letter-spacing: -0.75pt;"> </span>unmistakable provision and protection may
this enable them to put <b><i>all </i></b>their hope in You. May they see
Your faithfulness to them and come to trust You with <b><i>all </i></b>their hearts, with <b><i>all </i></b>their
minds and with <b><i>all </i></b>their<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>understanding.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 10.7pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Psalm
20:7; Jeremiah 20:13 </b>Heavenly Father, let them know deep within
their spirits that You alone give Your anointed ones victory, that You answer
their cries from heaven and that Your right hand brings forth not just victory,
but <b><i>mighty
</i></b>victory. YHVH, deliver Your Jewish People from the hands of evil
doers. We now call on You to come
quickly and rescue those in need from the clutches of their enemy. Do not
delay, YHVH Elohim. Hear the cries of Your People and scatter their enemies.
Confuse the enemy camp. Cut off their finances. Let their computers crash.
Withhold from them the portions of the formula needed for them to detonate
nuclear devices. Let any weapons formed
against Israel malfunction, misfire, explode before take-off and miss their
targets. Keep Your People in this day of<span style="letter-spacing: -0.6pt;"> </span>trouble.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.9pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Heavenly Father, we call upon Your great mercy
to save those of Israel’s enemies who repent before You, and who cry out to You
for forgiveness in Yeshua HaMashiach’s<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Name.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.35pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></i></b><b>Psalm<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>102:13,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>16-17 </b>YHVH,
the time which You determined has come. <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">It </span>is time for You<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>to arise and take pity on Zion. <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">It </span>is time for You to have mercy on her. <span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">It </span>is time, YHVH Elohim, that the nations begin to fear Your
Name when they see that You have heeded the cries of the poor, that You have
heard the prayers of Your People ascending to heaven and that You are about to
establish Your Eternal Throne, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Show forth
Your glory<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> </span>YHVH.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 14.25pt; tab-stops: 119.35pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Isaiah<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>46:13 </b>O House
of Israel, we declare that your Elohim is saying to you: “I<span style="letter-spacing: -0.5pt;"> </span>am<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>bringing My justice nearer, it is not far
away; <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">My </span>Salvation will not be
delayed, I will place My<span style="letter-spacing: -1.3pt;"> </span>Salvation,
Yeshua HaMashiach, in Zion for Israel <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">My </span>glory”.
Israel, hear the Word of YHVH, your salvation is near at hand. Your Messiah Yeshua is soon to appear. Get ready for<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span>Him!</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.45pt; tab-stops: 79.4pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Isaiah<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>41:8-13 </b>The
Father of our fathers - Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - says to you:<span style="letter-spacing: 2.5pt;"> </span>“I<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>have
taken you from the ends of the earth, summonsed you from its most distant parts
and said to<span style="letter-spacing: -0.85pt;"> </span>you,</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 8.95pt; tab-stops: 89.35pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 8.95pt; tab-stops: 89.35pt;"><o:p> </o:p>‘You are My servant’ – I have chosen you, not
rejected you. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you; don’t be distressed, for I am
your Elohim. I give you strength, I give you help. I support you with My
victorious right hand. All those who are angry with you will be disgraced, put
to shame; those who fight against you will be destroyed, brought to nothing.
You will seek them but not find them, those who contended with you; yes, those
who make war with you will be brought to nothing, nothing at all. For I, YHVH,
your Elohim, says to you as I hold your right hand, ‘Have no fear; I <b><i>will </i></b>help you.’ Your Redeemer is the
Holy One of Israel.” O House of Israel, take hold of the Word of YHVH, He will
answer you speedily, so be strong and very courageous.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 12.15pt; margin-top: 2.6pt; margin: 2.6pt 12.15pt 0in 5pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span><b>Psalm 97:1-9 </b>Again, O Israel, hear the Word of YHVH: “YHVH
Elohim is King, let the earth rejoice, let the many coasts and islands be glad.
Clouds and thick darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are the
foundations of His Throne. Fire goes
before Him, setting ablaze His foes on every side. His flashes of lightning
light up the world; the earth sees it and trembles. The mountains melt like wax
at the presence of YHVH, at the presence of our Elohim of all the earth. The
heavens declare His righteousness, and <b><i>all
</i></b>the peoples see His glory. All who worship images will be put to shame,
those who make their boast in worthless idols. Bow down to Him, all you gods!
Zion hears and is glad YHVH; the daughters of Judah rejoice at Your rulings.
For You, YHVH Elohim, are most high over all the earth, You are exalted far
above all gods.”<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>Amen.</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 6.9pt;"><b>Ezekiel
36:24-28 </b>YHVH You will bring Your People back to the
Land of Israel, You will wash us with clean water. You will cleanse us from all
of our filthiness and all of our idols. You will take out our heart of stone
and give us a heart of flesh. You will fill us with the Ruach HaKodesh. You
will cause us to walk in Your statutes and in Your ordinances, then, and only
then will we be Your People and You will be our<span style="letter-spacing: -0.55pt;"> </span>YHVH.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 33.0pt; margin-top: 3.45pt; margin: 3.45pt 33pt 0in 5pt;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Birkat HaKohanim – <i>Priestly Blessing. </i>Release it over Israel and over your family and
ministry!</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.35pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 14.5pt; margin-top: 3.45pt; margin: 3.45pt 14.5pt 0in 5pt;">YHVH spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and
his sons, saying, ‘This is the way you<span style="letter-spacing: -0.8pt;"> </span>shall
bless the children of Israel…’ [Numbers<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>6:24-26]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 35.45pt; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 35.45pt 0in 5pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Yivarechcha
YHVH ve-yishmerecha, yaey YHVH panav aleicha ve-yichunecha, yisa YHVH panav
aleicha, ve-yasim lecha shalom b’Yeshua<span style="letter-spacing: -0.3pt;"> </span>HaMashiach.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></i>May Yahveh bless you and keep you. May Yahveh
make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you. May Yahveh lift up His
countenance upon you, and give you Shalom b’shem Yeshua HaMashiach.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>Amen.</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-right: 22.05pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-78371092485596884062023-10-03T10:22:00.001-07:002023-10-03T10:22:29.041-07:00Artificial Intelligence - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly<p style="text-align: center;"><b> <span style="font-family: times;">Artificial Intelligence - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">I am providing a few links at the end of this blog, regarding the New Expanded Era of Artificial Intelligence. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>We are definitely living in the days that Daniel wrote about</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:1 TLV) “At that time Michael, the great prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. <b>There will be a time of distress such as has never occurred since the beginning of the nation until then. But at that time your people—everyone who is found written in the book—will be delivered</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:2 TLV) <b>Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake—some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting contempt.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:3 TLV) <b>Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavenly expanse. And those who turn many to righteousness will be like the stars forever and ever.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:4 TLV) But you, Daniel, close up the words and seal the book until the time of the end. <b>Many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase.’</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:5 TLV) Then I, Daniel, looked and behold, two others stood there, one on this bank of the river and the one on the other bank of the river.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:6 TLV) One said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the end of the wondrous things?”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:7 TLV) Then I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised both his right and left hands toward heaven and swore an oath by Him who lives forever, saying, “It is for a time, times, and a half. Then when the breaking of the power of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be finished.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:8 TLV) Now I heard, but I did not understand. So I said, ‘My Lord, what will be the outcome of these things?’</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:9 TLV) Then he said: “Go your way, Daniel. For the words are closed up and <b>sealed until the time of the end.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:10 TLV) <b>Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:11 TLV) <b>“From the time that the daily burnt offering is taken away, and abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:12 TLV) Happy is the one who keeps waiting, and reaches the 1,335 days.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times;">(Dan 12:13 TLV) But you, go your way till the end. You will rest and then at the end of days you will arise to receive your portion.”</span></p><div>We have seen Biblical Prophecy of the End Times, coming to pass more quickly since 1948 when Israel became a Nation once again.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>We see the Birthpangs increasing</b>, prior to Messiah Yeshua's return, i.e., Natural Disasters Increasing, Terrorism, Pandemics, Digital Currency, Imorality increasing, Apostacy, Financial issues, and technology controlling what you can and can't say on the internet, especially targeting Bible Believers, etc., and The World getting more and more wicked, and more open to the anti-Messiah than ever before. We see the increased boldness of countries bent on destroying others, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Russia, China, and North Korea to name a few. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>However, we also see a Harvest of souls coming into the Kingdom of Messiah Yeshua, and many Jewish people coming to faith in Yeshua the Messiah, this is also a sign of Messiah Yeshua's return!</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Now we are seeing the rise of <b>Artificial Intelligence aka AI.</b> Knowledge and Technology have surely increased rapidly in the past 75 years since Israel returned to the land in 1948.</div><div><br /></div><div>With Biblical Prophecy, many times you do not quite understand the timing or when it will be fulfilled until you are in the middle of it unfolding, then things become clearer. </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Like everything technical, what can be used for good, can also be used for evil and that is where the danger lies</b>. I have provided some links to a few videos discussing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of this new technology. There are literally hundreds of AI videos out there, but I chose the most conservative Christian views and a Messianic Jewish viewpoint as well. </div><div><br /></div><div>Technology is a good thing if it is in the hands of those who fear God, but a horrible thing in the hands of evil and who think they are the gods of the earth! </div><div><br /></div><div>Have we become so used to technology that we no longer discern what is going on and where it is taking us? I have seen videos, where a Church used an AI to conduct a service! I have seen some AI videos, where gifts of the Ruach are blasphemed as well. Words are powerful, no matter if they are human words or words of AI, we need to guard our hearts and our minds regarding what we listen to. </div><div><br /></div><div>We are to speak and listen to His Word first and fill our heart and mind with His words, the Words of the Messiah. Be Careful what you see and listen to on the Internet, Guard your heart and your mind. </div><div> </div><div><div>(Pro 4:23 TLV) <b>Guard your heart diligently</b>, for from it flow the springs of life.</div><div>(Pro 4:24 TLV) <b>Put away </b>perversity from your mouth, and keep devious lips far from you.</div><div>(Pro 4:25 TLV) <b>Let your eyes</b> look directly ahead, and fix your gaze straight in front of you.</div><div>(Pro 4:26 TLV) <b> Clear a level path for your feet</b>, so all your ways will be firm.</div><div>(Pro 4:27 TLV) Do not turn to the right or to the left. <b>Divert your foot from evil.</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Warning from the Apostolic Scriptures:</b></div><div><div>(2Ti 3:1 TLV) But understand this, that in the last days hard times will come—</div><div>(2Ti 3:2 TLV) for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,</div><div>(2Ti 3:3 TLV) hardhearted, unforgiving, backbiting, without self-control, brutal, hating what is good,</div><div>(2Ti 3:4 TLV) treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,</div><div>(2Ti 3:5 TLV) holding to an outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>********************************************************************************** </div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Videos from Believers regarding the Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence. </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;">Very Interesting
( I am personally spiritually cautious about AI and see it eventually as a tool of the
Anti-Messiah in the End Times). However,
the videos are balanced and interesting, but we still need HIS Wisdom, Knowledge, and
Revelation in The Messiah regarding the times we are living in.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <b>AI Program by Erik Stackelback</b> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Rise
of Artificial Intelligence…Pros and Cons</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jYq-BoqyIA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jYq-BoqyIA</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Also
The Olive Tree Ministries – Jan Markel
Additional AI Teaching – The Other Side of the Coin </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;">Artificial
Intelligence Part 1 - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsiYAUPQU_s" style="font-family: times; font-size: 12pt;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsiYAUPQU_s</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Aritifucuak
Intelligence Part 2 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtT44LlsuKw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtT44LlsuKw</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 12pt; padding: 0in;"><b>AI - Revealing Torah or Unleashing the Beast</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSfV44S45X8&t=57s">Aaron Eby - First Fruits of Zion</a> - Aaron is a Messianic Jewish Believer in Messiah Yeshua. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Again, many opinions and things to keep in prayer! We need to walk in the Word and in His Wisdom, Knowledge, and Revelation in Messiah Yeshua!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Shalom B'Shem Yeshua</p><p class="MsoNormal">Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt</p><p class="MsoNormal">Visit our website for hundreds of free studies- <a href="http://www.dmmin.org" target="_blank">Deborah's Messianic Ministries </a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></span></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-29648799509983668632023-09-04T09:19:00.000-07:002023-09-04T09:19:38.352-07:00The Day of The Awakening Blast<p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnvDAnBDoGT7Sl_oTEuJXKJv7zx8NG19XNymOegvYnWFbiKZoZSVDF43N6H-b4q89ApZd0cUuWtZY4_1wAX1biKBe4rumEBOfDM0G3g37Ut5QiYVgwTMl7ev6uzVeGXrm1yTBtmOtGbpSoTOaXDaCx7zeukmB71hjHOPtc2JupZRFLfKOneni88ci0uk/s3400/DMMTEACHTRAIN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="3400" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnvDAnBDoGT7Sl_oTEuJXKJv7zx8NG19XNymOegvYnWFbiKZoZSVDF43N6H-b4q89ApZd0cUuWtZY4_1wAX1biKBe4rumEBOfDM0G3g37Ut5QiYVgwTMl7ev6uzVeGXrm1yTBtmOtGbpSoTOaXDaCx7zeukmB71hjHOPtc2JupZRFLfKOneni88ci0uk/s320/DMMTEACHTRAIN.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>The
Fall Feasts</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yom
Teruah-The Day of the Awakening Blast<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Come
Back Oh Israel to The Lord!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">PSALM 27 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:1 TLV) Of David. Adonai is my light and my salvation: whom should I
fear? Adonai is the stronghold of my life: whom should I dread?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:2 TLV) When evildoers approached me to devour my flesh</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">—my adversaries and my foes—they stumbled and fell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:3 TLV) Though an army camp besieges me, my heart will not fear. Though
war breaks out against me, even then will I be confident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:4 TLV) One thing have I asked of Adonai, that will I seek: to dwell in
the House of Adonai all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Adonai,
and to meditate in His Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:5 TLV) For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah,
conceal me in the shelter of His tent, and set me high upon a rock.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:6 TLV) Then will my head be high above my enemies around me. In His
Tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, sing
praises to Adonai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:7 TLV) Hear, Adonai, when I call with my voice, be gracious to me and
answer me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:8 TLV) To You my heart says: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">“Seek
My face.” Your face, Adonai, I seek.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:9 TLV) Do not hide Your face from me. Do not turn Your servant away in
anger. You have been my help. Do not abandon me or forsake me, O God my
salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:10 TLV) Though my father and my mother forsake me, Adonai will take me
in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:11 TLV) Teach me Your way, Adonai, and lead me on a level path</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">—because of my enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:12 TLV) Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes. For false
witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:13 TLV) Surely I trust that I will see the goodness of Adonai in the
land of the living.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:14 TLV) Wait for Adonai. Be strong, let Your heart take courage, and
wait for Adonai.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tekia Gedalah-The
prolonged unbroken tekia sound typifies a final appeal to sincere repentance
and atonement.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The last shofar blast
blown on Yom Teruah is very likely that which Paul refers to as the last
trumpet (shofar) in 1 Cor. 15:52<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co
15:51 TLV) Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we
shall all be changed</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co
15:52 TLV) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar.
For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we
will be changed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Shofar blast would
also correspond to the seventh and final trumpet of the 7 trumpets (Shofars) of
Revelation 8-11<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:1 TLV) Now when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in
heaven for about half an hour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:2 TLV) <b>Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven
trumpets were given to them.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:6 TLV) Then the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to
sound them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:7 TLV) <b>The first trumpeted</b>, and there was hail and fire mixed
with blood, and they were thrown upon the earth. A third of the earth burned
up, a third of the trees burned up, and all the green grass burned up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:8 TLV) <b>The second angel trumpeted</b>, and something like a huge
mountain ablaze with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned
into blood,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:9 TLV) a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of
the ships were destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:10 TLV) <b>The third angel trumpeted</b>, and a great star fell from
the heavens, burning like a torch. It fell on a third of the rivers and on the
springs of water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:11 TLV) Now the name of the star is Wormwood; and a third of the waters
became wormwood, and many people died from the waters that were made bitter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
8:12 TLV<b>) The fourth angel trumpeted</b>, and a third of the sun and a
third of the moon and a third of the stars were struck, so that a third of them
were darkened. A third of the day would not shine, as well as a third of the
night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
9:1 TLV) <b>Then the fifth angel trumpeted</b>, and I saw a star that had
fallen from heaven to earth. The key to the bottomless pit was given to him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
9:13 TLV) <b>The sixth angel trumpeted,</b> and I heard a single voice
from the four horns of the golden altar before God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The last which announces
the return of Yeshua and the resurrection of the righteous dead meet
Yeshua in the air. Revelation 11:15-18<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
11:15 TLV) <b>Then the seventh angel trumpeted</b>, and there were loud
voices in heaven saying, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">“The kingdom of this
world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Anointed One. And He shall
reign forever and ever!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
11:16 TLV) And the twenty-four elders seated on their thrones before God
fell on their faces and worshiped God,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
11:17 TLV) saying, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">“We thank you, Adonai
Elohei-Tzva’ot, who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and
begun to reign.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
11:18 TLV) The nations were enraged, but Your wrath has come and the time
for the dead to be judged</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">—to reward Your servants,
the prophets and kedoshim, and those who fear Your name, the small and the
great, and to destroy the destroyers of the earth.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Rev
11:19 TLV) Then the Temple of God in heaven was opened, and the Ark of
His Covenant appeared in His Temple. And there were flashes of lightning and
rumblings and clashes of thunder and an earthquake and heavy hail.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Book of Life<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Revelation 3:5, 13:8,
17:8, 20:12,15, 21:7, 22:19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 3:5 TLV) The one who overcomes thus will be dressed in white
clothes; I will never blot his name out of <b>the Book of Life</b>, and will
confess his name before My Father and His angels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 13:8 TLV) All who dwell on the earth shall worship him</span><span lang="X-NONE">—everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the
world in the <b>Book of Life of the Lamb</b> who was slain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 17:8 TLV) The beast that you saw was, and is not, and yet is
about to rise up from the abyss and head for destruction. Those who dwell on
the earth</span><span lang="X-NONE">—whose names have not been written in <b>the Book
of Life</b> from the foundation of the world—will be astonished when they see
the beast, because he was and is not and is to come.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 20:12 TLV) And I saw the dead</span><span lang="X-NONE">—the
great and the small—standing before the throne. The books were opened, and
another book was opened—<b>the Book of Life</b>. And the dead were judged
according to what was written in the books, according to their deeds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 20:15 TLV) And if anyone was not found <b>written in the
Book of Life</b>, he was thrown into the lake of fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 21:7 TLV) The one who overcomes shall inherit these things,
and I will be his God and he shall be My son.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 22:18 TLV) I testify to everyone who hears the words of the
prophecy of this book. If anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues
that are written in this book;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Rev 22:19 TLV) and if anyone takes away from the words of the
book of this prophecy, God shall take away his share in the Tree of Life and
the Holy City, which are written in this book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to the Talmud, Yom Teruah begins
the time of YHVH’s judgment of men.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 69:28 TLV) Add guilt to their guilt</span><span lang="X-NONE">—may
they not come into Your righteousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 69:29 TLV) May they be <b>wiped out of the book of life</b>
and not be recorded with the righteous.</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Dan 7:9 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“While I was watching, thrones
were set up, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His garment was as white as
snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with
flames, its wheels a burning fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Dan 7:10 TLV) A river of fire was flowing and coming out from
before Him. Thousands of thousands attended Him and ten thousand times ten
thousand stood before Him. <b>The court was seated, and the books were opened.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Dan 12:1 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“At that time Michael, the great
prince who stands guard over the sons of your people, will arise. There will be
a time of distress such as has never occurred since the beginning of the nation
until then. But at that time your people—everyone who is found written in the
book—will be delivered.</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Exo 32:32 TLV) Yet now, please forgive their sin. But if not,
please blot me out of Your book that You have written.</span><span lang="X-NONE">”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Psalm 56:8, 139:16,
Malachi 3:16, Luke 10:20<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 56:9 TLV) You have recorded my wanderings. You put my tears
in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 139:16 TLV) Your eyes saw me when I was unformed, and in
Your book were written the days that were formed</span><span lang="X-NONE">—when
not one of them had come to be.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mal 3:16 TLV) Then those who revere Adonai spoke with each
other, and Adonai took notice and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was
written before Him, for those who revere Adonai, even those who esteem His
Name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Luk 10:20 TLV) Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits
submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been written in the heavens.</span><span lang="X-NONE">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Day of The Awakening
Blast<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">According to rabbinic
teaching, on Yom Teruah, the Day of the Sounding of the Shofar, it is
imperative for every person to hear (shema) the shofar</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.
The mitzvah (or biblical commandment) regarding the shofar is to hear (shema)
the shofar being blown, not actually blow it yourself, hence the blessing as
taught by the rabbis, is “to hear the sound of the shofar” It is a blessing to
hear the shofar and to respond to it’s message- Psalm 89:15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 89:14 TLV) Your arm is mighty, Your hand is strong, exalted
is Your right hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Psa 89:15 TLV) Righteousness and justice are the foundation of
Your throne. Lovingkindness and truth go before You.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
89:16 TLV) <b>Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout</b>, They
walk in the light of Your presence, Adonai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9.8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Shout </span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">H8643<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin: 7.8pt 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #2e78c2; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HE;">תְּר</span><span dir="LTR" lang="X-NONE" style="color: #2e78c2; font-family: "Ezra SIL"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">וּ</span><span lang="AR-SA" style="color: #2e78c2; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HE;">עָה</span><span dir="LTR" lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #2e78c2; font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">t<span style="mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">e</span>r</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #2e78c2; font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">û‛āh</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">: A
feminine noun indicating a shout of joy; a shout of alarm, a battle cry. It
refers to a loud, sharp shout or cry in general, but it often indicates a shout
of joy or victory (</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1Sa_4:5-6</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">); a great shout
anticipating a coming event (</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Jos_6:5</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">, </span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Jos_6:20</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">). <b>It
can refer to the noise or signal put out by an instrument</b> (</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Lev_23:24</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">; </span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Lev_25:9</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">). Amos
used the word to refer to war cries (</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Amo_1:14</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">; </span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Amo_2:2</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">; cf. </span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Job_39:25</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">; </span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Zep_1:16</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">). The Lord
puts shouts of joy into His people (</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Job_8:21</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">; </span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Job_33:26</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #292f33; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Teruah means “an
awakening blast</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">”. <b>A theme associated with Rosh Hashanah
is the theme “to awake’.</b> When the rabbis saw the phrase, “Awake, O Israel”
they would identify those verses with something concerning Rosh Hashanah. Teruah is also translated as “shout”
Therefore, those scriptures that speak of the Hebrew word “Teruah” or “shout”
is linked to Rosh Hashanah.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The purpose of the
“awakening blast’ of the shofar is to awaken us out of spiritual slumber.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Teshuvah – To Return<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Look at the Hebrew:
Teshuvah-The root word is the Hebrew “shoov” which means to return</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.
It combines both aspects of forgiveness; turning from evil and turning toward
good. The Jews make restitution during this period with those they have
offended. Ridding oneself of guilt is a goal of Teshuvah. Repentance, however, only applies to
transgressions committed against God. To
receive forgiveness from offences committed against fellow man, compensation
must be made and a plea for forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Psalm 27 is recited daily
throughout the month of Elul, along with other prayers called Selichot the week
before Yom Teruah. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Psalm 27:1-5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:1 TLV) Of David. <b>Adonai is my light and my salvation</b>: whom
should I fear? Adonai is the stronghold of my life: whom should I dread?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:2 TLV) When evildoers approached me to devour my flesh</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">—my adversaries and my foes—they stumbled and fell.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:3 TLV) Though an army camp besieges me, my heart will not fear. Though
war breaks out against me, even then will I be confident.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:4 TLV) One thing have I asked of Adonai, that will I seek: to dwell in
the House of Adonai all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Adonai,
and to meditate in His Temple.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa
27:5 TLV) For in the day of trouble <b>He will hide me in His sukkah</b>,
conceal me in the shelter of His tent, and set me high upon a rock.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> According to the Midrashim (oral Torah),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Psalm 27:1 “The Lord is my Light” refers to
the festival of <b>Yom Teruah</b>.
“And my salvation” <b>refers to Yom Kippur. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Verse 5, “For He will
hide me in His tent” <b>refers to Sukkot<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Exodus 34:5-7-Gods
Attributes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Exo 34:4 TLV) So he carved two tablets of stone like the first.
Then Moses rose up early in the morning, went up onto Mount Sinai as Adonai had
commanded him, and took in his hand the two tablets of stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Exo 34:5 TLV) Then Adonai descended in the cloud, stood with him
there, as he called on the Name of Adonai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Exo 34:6 TLV) Then Adonai passed before him, and proclaimed, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Adonai, Adonai, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, and
abundant in lovingkindness and truth,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Exo 34:7 TLV) showing mercy to a thousand generations, forgiving
iniquity and transgression and sin, yet by no means leaving the guilty
unpunished, but bringing the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and
upon the children</span><span lang="X-NONE">’s children, to the third and fourth generation.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.4pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Exodus 34:5<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">a</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> <b>[the
LORD descended]</b> Moses ascended and the Lord descended to meet him (<u>Exo_34:2</u>,
<u>Exo_34:4</u>, <u>Exo_34:5</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">b</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> <b>[stood
with him there]</b> God stood by Moses again, the two being face to face as
before (<u>Exo_33:11</u>, <u>Exo_33:21-23</u>). If it had been an invisible
presence Moses would not have written such simple facts indicating he saw the
Lord standing there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">c</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> <b>[proclaimed]</b>
Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">qara</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">’</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H7121), "to call
out to, address by name, introduce or announce oneself; publish, pronounce,
make a proclamation" (<u>Exo_32:5</u>; <u>Exo_33:19</u>; <u>Exo_34:4-6</u>;
<u>Lev_23:2-4</u>, <u>Lev_23:21</u>, <u>Lev_23:37</u>; <u>Lev_25:10</u>; <u>Deu_20:10</u>;
<u>Jdg_7:3</u>; <u>1Ki_21:9-12</u>; <u>Pro_20:6</u>; <u>Isa_61:1-2</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Ten Names and Attributes
of God<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1. The
Lord (Hebrew: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Yahweh</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">YHVH</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H3068)), <u>Exo_34:6</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">2. The
Lord God (Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">’El</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H410) Jehovah (</span><span style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">YHVH</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H3068), Strong </span><span style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">YHVH</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">3. Merciful
(Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">rachuwm</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H7349), merciful, full
of tenderness and compassion)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">4. Gracious
(Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">channuwn</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H2587), translated
"gracious" 13 times; from </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">chanan</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">
(H2603), to be gracious, show favor, pity)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">5. Longsuffering
(Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">’erek</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H750) </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">’apayim</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H639), slow to anger)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">6. Abundant
in goodness (Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">rab</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H7227) </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">checed</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H2617), great lovingkindness, a multitude
of mercies)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">7. Truth
(Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">’emeth</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">
(H571), truth, trustworthiness, and faithfulness)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">8. Keeping
mercy (Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">natsar</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H5341) </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">checed</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H2617), guarding or protecting kindness
and mercy, <u>Exo_34:7</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">9. Forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin
(Hebrew: </span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">nasa</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">’</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H5375) </span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">‛avon</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H5771) </span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">pesha</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">‛</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H6588) </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">chata</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">’ah</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H2401), lifting up and
carrying away moral evil and perversity, moral and religious revolt, and all
offenses)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">10. Visiting
iniquity (Hebrew: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">paqad</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H6485) </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">‛avon</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H5771), overseeing
punishment for moral evil)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 9.8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.8pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span><b>Biblical
Forgiveness <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 11.05pt; margin-right: 38.45pt; margin-top: .05pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-font-width: 105%;">The Four Steps of Repentance<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.85pt; margin-right: 38.45pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-indent: -.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-font-width: 105%;">Teshuvah<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>(Return<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;">
</span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>Repentance)<span style="letter-spacing: -.35pt;"> </span>is<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>generous<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;">
</span>gift<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>from<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>G-d,<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>which<span style="letter-spacing: .1pt;"> </span>allows<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>us<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>erase<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>our<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>improper<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>actions through<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>a<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>four-step<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>process<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;">
</span>(see<span style="letter-spacing: -1.1pt;"> </span>below).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: .15pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.35pt; margin-right: 20.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-indent: .2pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;">The Torah tells us that no matter how
far we stray or how many times we sin, G-d will wait for us to return to him
through Teshuvah.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.35pt; margin-right: 20.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-indent: .2pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.35pt; margin-right: 38.45pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">There are four basic parts to Teshuvah:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.8pt; margin-right: 38.45pt; margin-top: .05pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 44.25pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-width: 105%;">1. Leaving<span style="letter-spacing: -1.35pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>Sin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 44.05pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .45pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 44.1pt; text-indent: -16.75pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->2.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Regret<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 43.8pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .9pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 43.85pt; text-indent: -16.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->3.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Confession Before<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>God<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 43.3pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.35pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 43.35pt; text-indent: -16.2pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]-->4.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span><!--[endif]-->Acceptance<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.2pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>Future<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: .4pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 28.05pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 28.1pt; text-indent: -16.5pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -3.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 131%;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Leaving the<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>Sin<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 106%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 10.1pt; margin-right: 20.5pt; margin-top: 1.0pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-indent: .2pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; mso-font-width: 105%;">Leaving<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>sin<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>consists<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;">
</span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>stopping<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>commission<span style="letter-spacing: .15pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>sinful<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;">
</span>act.<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>One<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>cannot<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;">
</span>do<span style="letter-spacing: -1.05pt;"> </span>Teshuvah<span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;"> </span>if<span style="letter-spacing: -1.6pt;"> </span>one<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>continues<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>to do<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>sin,<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>even<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>if<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>he<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>she<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>were<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>perform<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>next<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>three<span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;"> </span>steps<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: .3pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.8pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 27.85pt; text-indent: -16.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -3.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 131%;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Regret<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 9.9pt; margin-right: 20.35pt; margin-top: 1.3pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-indent: .2pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-font-width: 105%;">Regret<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>consists<span style="letter-spacing: -.8pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;"> </span>sincerely<span style="letter-spacing: -1.0pt;"> </span>regretting<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>one's<span style="letter-spacing: -1.15pt;"> </span>wrong<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>action.<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;">
</span>One<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>must<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;"> </span>be<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>genuinely<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>ashamed<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>embarrassed<span style="letter-spacing: -.3pt;"> </span>over one's<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>sins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: .55pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.3pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 27.35pt; text-indent: -16.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -3.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 131%;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Confession Before<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>God<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 9.15pt; margin-right: 38.45pt; margin-top: 1.3pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Acceptance
for the future consists of resolving in one's heart never to commit the sin
ever again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: .3pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.35pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.4pt; text-indent: -16.7pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><b><span style="color: #282828; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; letter-spacing: -3.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-font-width: 131%;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></b><!--[endif]--><b>Acceptance of the<span style="letter-spacing: .7pt;">
</span>Future<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 105%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 9.15pt; margin-right: 20.5pt; margin-top: 1.05pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-indent: .45pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 105%; mso-font-width: 105%;">Confession before
God consists of an oral confession spoken out loud, in which one formulates in
words the commitments<span style="letter-spacing: .3pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;"> </span>attitudes<span style="letter-spacing: .05pt;"> </span>one<span style="letter-spacing: -.85pt;"> </span>has<span style="letter-spacing: -.4pt;"> </span>reached<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;">
</span>in<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;"> </span>his<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>or<span style="letter-spacing: -.65pt;"> </span>her<span style="letter-spacing: -.5pt;"> </span>heart.<span style="letter-spacing: -.2pt;"> </span>One<span style="letter-spacing: -.6pt;"> </span>should<span style="letter-spacing: -.55pt;">
</span>say,<span style="letter-spacing: -.45pt;"> </span>"I<span style="letter-spacing: -.75pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>sinned,<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>I<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>have<span style="letter-spacing: -.15pt;"> </span>done<span style="letter-spacing: -.25pt;"> </span>such
and such; I deeply regret my actions, and I declare before God, Who knows my
innermost thoughts, that I will never<span style="letter-spacing: -.1pt;"> </span>do<span style="letter-spacing: -.95pt;"> </span>this<span style="letter-spacing: -.7pt;"> </span>sin<span style="letter-spacing: -.9pt;"> </span>again."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="margin-top: .55pt; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 12.7pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 8.9pt; margin-right: 38.45pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; punctuation-wrap: simple;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">What YHVH is really looking for is the sincerity of
the effort that a person puts into their Teshuvah!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rosh
Hashanah</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">
n<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Fall%20Feasts%20Teaching/The%20Awakening%20Blast.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">.
Hebrew (ROESH hah-SHAH-nah) Literally, “head of the year.” The Jewish New Year,
which falls on the first of </a><b>Tishrei</b>,
the beginning of the year on the <b>Jewish
calendar</b> (usually during the month of September). Rosh Hashanah begins the
10-day period of self-examination, repentance, and prayer known as the <b>Days of Awe</b> (<b>Yamim Noraim</b>) that concludes with <b>Yom Kippur</b>, the Day of Atonement. together, these two holidays are
called the High Holy Days, or High Holidays. They provide an opportunity for
renewal and a chance to make personal changes for the coming year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Traditionally, it is believed that all
people are judged on Rosh Hashanah. The <b>Talmud</b>
explains that the <b>Book of Life</b> (<b><i>Sefer
Chayim</i></b>) is opened for the righteous on Rosh Hashanah so that God can
inscribe their names. The fate of all others is on hold until Yom Kippur.
During this period, Jews have the opportunity to see where they “missed the
mark,” falling short of their ideals, so that they can make amends and get back
on target. This return to righteousness and repentance is called <b><i>teshuvah</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jews spend much of Yom Teruah in the <b>synagogue</b>. The specific prayers and
songs for the holiday are contained in a special prayer book called a <b><i>machzor</i></b>.
Services include the blowing of the <b>shofar</b>
and the recitation of <b><i>Selichot</i></b>, or the penitential
prayers. Even those Jews who don’t attend synagogue year-round often come on
Rosh Hashanah, and most synagogues offer tickets for seating because there are
so many worshipers. Traditional Jews generally attend services for two days, liberal
Jews for one. On the afternoon of the first day, <b><i>tashlikh</i></b> is performed.
Congregants walk to a local stream and symbolically “cast away their sins” by
throwing bread crumbs into the water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Family and friends customarily gather on
Rosh Hashanah eve for a festive meal that includes a special <b><i>Kiddush</i></b>
and a round loaf of <b>challah</b>,
symbolic of the cyclical nature of the years. Perhaps the most beloved
tradition is that of eating apples dipped in honey to signify wishes for a
sweet new year. Jews send New Year’s cards to friends and family imprinted with
the traditional holiday greeting: <b><i>le-shanah tovah tikatevu</i></b> (may you be
inscribed [in the Book of Life] for a good year).<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Fall%20Feasts%20Teaching/The%20Awakening%20Blast.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 9.8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 9.8pt; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><b>Forgive</b> <b><span lang="X-NONE">H5375<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; line-height: normal; margin: 7.8pt 0in; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span lang="HE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: HE; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HE;">נָשָׂא</span></b><b><span dir="LTR" lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">na</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">̄śā’</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">: A verb meaning to lift, to carry, to take
away</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">. <b>This verb is used
almost six hundred times in the Hebrew Bible and covers three distinct semantic
ranges</b>. <b>The first range is to lift</b>, which occurs in both literal (<u>Gen_7:17</u>;
<u>Gen_29:1</u>; <u>Eze_10:16</u>) and figurative statements: to lift the hand
in taking an oath (<u>Deu_32:40</u>); in combat (<u>2Sa_18:28</u>); as a sign (<u>Isa_49:22</u>);
in retribution (<u>Psa_10:12</u>). Other figurative statements include the
lifting of: the head (<u>Gen_40:13</u>); the face (<u>2Sa_2:22</u>); the eyes (<u>Gen_13:10</u>);
the voice (<u>1Sa_30:4</u>). It is also important to note that a person can
take up or induce iniquity by a number of actions (<u>Exo_28:43</u>; <u>Lev_19:17</u>;
<u>Lev_22:9</u>; <u>Num_18:32</u>). <b>The second semantic category is to bear
or to carry and is used especially in reference to the bearing of guilt or
punishment of sin</b> (<u>Gen_4:13</u>; <u>Lev_5:1</u>). <b>This flows easily
than into the concept of the representative or substitutionary bearing of one
person's guilt by another</b> (<u>Lev_10:17</u>; <u>Lev_16:22</u>). <b>The
final category is to take away</b>. It can be used in the simple sense of
taking something (<u>Gen_27:3</u>); to take a wife or to get married (<u>Rth_1:4</u>);
<b>to take away guilt or to forgive</b> (<u>Gen_50:17</u>); to take away or to
destroy (<u>Job_32:22</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Duty of
Forgiveness</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">God’s
nature is to have mercy and to forgive. Therefore, we, too, must practice
forgiveness. <i>Torah</i> instructs us
clearly, “Don’t take vengeance on or bear a grudge against any of your people”
(Lev. 19:18). Rabbinic teaching is also unequivocal. “Your forgiveness must be
real and complete, so that no trace of rancour remains in you” (Hirsch 56).
Forgetting must accompany forgiving. “Your God requires you to forget,
therefore forget” (Hirsch 56). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sometimes it is hard to forgive. In such
cases, we need to go to the offending person and discuss the matter face to
face in a reasonable way (Hirsch 439). It takes two sides to restore a
relationship. The offending party must be ready to admit the wrong and to ask
for forgiveness. The offended party must be ready to accept the apology and not
nurse a grievance (Cohen 243). In the matter of forgiveness, said the sages, “a
man should always be soft as a reed and not hard like a cedar” (<i>Taan</i>. 20b). Our prayer is “Teach us … to
be generous both to forgive and to accept forgiveness” (<i>Siddur Lev Chadash</i> 202). Similarly, Colossians 3:13 states, “Bear
with one another; if anyone has a complaint against someone else, forgive him.
Indeed, just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you must forgive.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">One problem is particularly relevant to
the Jewish people. Telushkin faces it by stating that no one can forgive crimes
committed against someone else (351–52). Recalling Leviticus 6, he says that
even God will not forgive sins committed against another person unless the
guilty one has made restitution. This is the standard answer given to those who
say, “Isn’t time that the Jewish people forgave for the Holocaust?” Jonathan
Sacks countered this thinking during a televised Rosh HaShanah message: “Only if
we have the courage to forgive will we have the strength to break free of the
prison of the past.” My not forgiving you ultimately hurts me more than it
hurts you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yeshua spoke much of forgiveness. “Forgive
your brother from your [heart],” he said (Matt. 18:35). Forgiveness is no
shallow, easy exercise. I must practice it repeatedly and wholeheartedly. I
must forgive not only my brother but my enemy too. Our example is Yeshua, who
cried, “Father, forgive them; they don’t understand what they are doing” (Luke
23:34). <a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Fall%20Feasts%20Teaching/The%20Awakening%20Blast.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><sup><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></sup><!--[endif]--></sup></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.8pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 7.8pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Forgive and Be
Forgiven</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
rabbis teach us that there is a link between forgiveness given and forgiveness
received. “He who foregoes retaliation, his sins are remitted; when his pardon
is asked, he grants it” (<i>Yoma</i> 23a).
“Whose sin does God forgive? He who forgives sins” (<i>Rosh HaShanah</i> 17a). Yeshua showed that he was clearly within this
tradition when he said, “Forgive, and you will be forgiven” (Luke 6:37). The
reverse is also true. “The man who declines to forgive preserves the enmity
and is glad when misfortune befalls the other person, becomes thereby the
guilty party and God’s anger is turned away from the other and directed towards
himself” (Cohen 244). Likewise, says Yeshua, “If you do not forgive others
their offenses, your heavenly Father will not forgive yours” (Matt. 6:15).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Hirsch goes even further, stating that we
should not wait for the apology! “Be easily appeased as soon as your brother
asks for forgiveness … he who soon forgives is soon forgiven. If you are really
good … you will forget hurts and insults without pardon being asked of you”
(56).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 9.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yeshua and
Forgiveness</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yeshua’s
teaching about giving and receiving forgiveness was not new. Where he broke
fresh ground was in claiming the authority to forgive sins. Wasn’t this God’s
prerogative alone? That was what upset people. Who was this man who presumed to
forgive sins (Luke 7:49)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yeshua linked forgiveness with love. “The
woman loves me much because she has been forgiven much,” he said to <i>Shim’on</i> (Simon) the Pharisee. “I tell
you that her sins—which are many!—have been forgiven because she loved much”
(see Luke 7:39–47). When we love, we will forgive. When we have received
forgiveness, we will love. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: .25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">That is why we love our Messiah Yeshua. He
has procured our forgiveness. He has fulfilled the meaning of the Levitical
blood sacrifices. Hence, “in union with him, through the shedding of his blood,
we are set free—our sins are forgiven” (Eph. 1:7). God has forgiven because of
what Messiah did. Therefore, we must forgive one another. We have no right to
withhold forgiveness (4:32).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Beginning on the first day of Elul until
the Day of Yom Kippur, Tishri 10, the shofar blows every day as a warning to
“return to God in repentance”.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> With warning comes
impending judgment. <b>The 10 days between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur
represent the Tribulation on the Earth that will purge the Earth of evil</b>. If you count only the days from the close of
Yom Teruah (a two-day feast) until the beginning of Yom Kippur, they total
seven-the number of years in the Tribulation itself. <b>This is called the “Time of Jacob’s
Trouble’ and the “Days of Awe”,</b> and will be a time such has never been seen
on the earth. <b>It is imperative that man repent and return to the Lord before
the time of Jacob’s trouble, so that he might be “hidden” in the day. Psalm 27:5<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Prophet Isaiah also
referred to this “Hiding away” in Isaiah 26: 20-21<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Isa 26:19 TLV) Yet it will be: </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Your
dead will live! My corpses will rise! Awake and shout for joy, you who dwell in
the dust! Your dew is like the dew of the dawn. The land of dead souls will
come to life!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Isa 26:20 TLV) Go, my people, enter your rooms, and shut your
doors behind you. Hide for a little while, until the wrath is past.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Isa 26:21 TLV) For behold, Adonai is coming out from His place
to punish inhabitants of the earth for iniquity. The earth will disclose her
bloodshed, no longer covering up her slain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NOTE: The Hebrew word for
“indignation” in this verse is “zah-ham”.
Its literal translation means “God will froth at the mouth at his
displeasure with sin”. The great tribulation at the end of the age will indeed
be a time such has never been seen on the earth before….the wrath of God poured
out in fury.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Luk 21:26 TLV) People will lose heart from fear and anticipation
of what is overtaking the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is in this frame of
mind that Jews begin to turn from their sin and toward Adonai that they, too,
might be found worthy to have their names written on the Book of Life on the
Day of Yom Kippur<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Other warnings of judgment call for
“Teshuvah” come from the mouths of the prophets<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Jer 3:12 TLV) Go! Proclaim these words toward the north, saying:
</span><span lang="X-NONE">“Return backsliding Israel,” says Adonai. “I will
no longer frown on you, for I am merciful,” says Adonai. “I will not keep a
grudge forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Jer 3:13 TLV) Only acknowledge your iniquity. For you sinned
against Adonai your God and scattered your favors to foreign gods under every
green tree. You have not obeyed My voice.</span><span lang="X-NONE">”
It is a declaration of Adonai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Jer 3:14 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Return, O backsliding
children,” declares Adonai. “For I am your Husband. I will choose you—one from
a city and two from a clan—and will bring you to Zion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Jer 3:15 TLV) I will give you shepherds after My own heart who
will feed you knowledge and understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joe 2:1 TLV) Blow the shofar in Zion! Sound an alarm on My holy
mountain! Let all living in the land tremble</span><span lang="X-NONE">—for
the day of Adonai is coming—surely it is near!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joe 2:12 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Yet even now”—it is a
declaration of Adonai—“turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping
and lamenting.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joe 2:13 TLV) Rend your heart, not your garments, and turn to
Adonai, your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abundant
in mercy, and relenting about the calamity due.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Hos 6:1 TLV) Come, let us return to Adonai. For He has torn, but
He will heal us. He has smitten, but He will bind us up.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Hos 6:2 TLV) After two days He will revive us. On the third day
He will raise us up, and we will live in His presence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .75in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:1 TLV) The hand of Adonai was upon me. The Ruach Adonai
carried me out and set me down in the middle of the valley. It was full of
bones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:2 TLV) He led me all around them. Behold, there were very
many on the floor of the valley. Behold, they were very dry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:3 TLV) Then He said to me, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Son
of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Adonai Elohim, You know.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:4 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Prophesy over these bones,” He
said to me. “Say to them: ‘Dry bones, hear the word of Adonai!’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:5 TLV) Thus says Adonai Elohim to these bones: </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Behold, I will cause Ruach to enter you, so you will live.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:6 TLV) I will attach tendons to you, bring flesh on you
and cover you with skin. Then I will put breath in you. You will live. You will
know that I am Adonai.</span><span lang="X-NONE">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:7 TLV) So I prophesied just as I was commanded. As I
prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, an earthquake. Then the bones came
together, bone to its bone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:8 TLV) I saw, and behold, there were tendons on them,
flesh came up and skin covered them above, but there was no breath in them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:9 TLV) Then He said to me, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Prophesy
to the Ruach. Prophesy, son of man, and say to the Ruach, thus says Adonai
Elohim: ‘Come from the four winds, Ruach! Breathe upon these slain, that they
may live.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 37:10 TLV) So I prophesied just as He commanded me. The
Ruach came into them and they lived. They stood up on their feet, a vast army.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 14:5 TLV) so I may take hold of the house of Israel in their
hearts. For they have all become estranged from Me through their idols.</span><span lang="X-NONE">’”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Eze 14:6 TLV) Therefore say to the house of Israel, thus says
Adonai Elohim: </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Return, turn away from your idols; turn your
faces from all your abominations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Zec 1:3 TLV) Therefore tell them, thus says Adonai-Tzva</span><span lang="X-NONE">’ot, ‘Return to Me’—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—‘and I will
return to you,’ says Adonai-Tzva’ot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Zec 1:4 TLV) Do not be like your fathers to whom the former
prophets cried out saying, thus says Adonai-Tzva</span><span lang="X-NONE">’ot,
‘Turn back now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But they did not
listen or pay attention to Me.’ It is a declaration of Adonai.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-19828270132653503042023-08-21T09:44:00.000-07:002023-08-21T09:44:00.198-07:00Elul - The King is in The Field<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82VRp7oySK0tamlOEe3wmd9uER-xZK96z8COGoPew01F8iuXdiJQLhOxCd7tnDp3JcxpQJin5nj0TZO_juG9neRfbq34QCvEF4qjnGZ7lbInys3tLVdCSJcNbHFRPwtNELjdqBBd31OOd_qI-ZX8FcIjAxStLIWDtl7u0LA0CX6UtJUR_c30J4gEn6xk/s330/Dmmnew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="330" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg82VRp7oySK0tamlOEe3wmd9uER-xZK96z8COGoPew01F8iuXdiJQLhOxCd7tnDp3JcxpQJin5nj0TZO_juG9neRfbq34QCvEF4qjnGZ7lbInys3tLVdCSJcNbHFRPwtNELjdqBBd31OOd_qI-ZX8FcIjAxStLIWDtl7u0LA0CX6UtJUR_c30J4gEn6xk/s320/Dmmnew.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
King is in the Field<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Are
You Prepared to Meet King Yeshua?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Preparing for His Return – Yeshua, King of
Kings and Lord of Lords!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Why the King Goes into the Field <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A Jewish Parable<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> During Elul, The King is in the
field; YHVH ELOHIM reveals Himself at a level that can be apprehended by man
within the framework of his mundane reality.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Days-Teshuvah-Yom-Kippur-Devotional/dp/1541076729/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NR6KD7JQYXFN&keywords=rabbin+deborah+brandt&qid=1692636165&sprefix=rabbin+d%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Elul to Yom Kippur - 40 Days of Teshuva Devotional. </a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>However, YHVH ELOHIM descends to this level not only to make Himself
accessible to man. Rather, to borrow the terms of the analogy, the king meets
his people in the field because a field has intrinsic value. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>The Field is the World- The KING Yeshua came as a man to redeem
man. His is the King who is in the
field. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 1:1 TLV) In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with
God, and the Word was God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 1:2 TLV) He was with God in the beginning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 1:3 TLV) All things were made through Him, and apart from
Him nothing was made that has come into being.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 1:4 TLV) In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 1:5 TLV) The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness
has not overpowered it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 1:14 TLV) </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us</span></b><span lang="X-NONE">. We looked upon His glory, the
glory of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 22.95pt; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>A field is a place where grain grows. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 9:35 TLV) Now Yeshua was going around all the towns and
villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the Good News of the
kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and sickness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 9:36 TLV) When He saw the crowds, He felt compassion for
them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 9:37 TLV) Then He said to His disciples<b>, </b></span><b><span lang="X-NONE">“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 9:38 TLV) <b>Therefore pray to the Lord of the harvest that
He may send out workers into His harvest field.</b></span><b><span lang="X-NONE">”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>We can appreciate the significance of our parable to the month of Elul.
The king’s presence in the field represents the ultimate purpose of creation</b>.
Our efforts must be directed towards bringing YHVH ELOHIM into our material
world. YHVH ELOHIM’s presence must be found not only in the royal palace, i.e.,
where spirituality is manifest; rather, even the lowest realms of existence
must be transformed into a dwelling place for Him.<a name="footnoteRef12a155856"></a><a></a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(2Co 6:14 TLV) Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For
what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what
fellowship does light have with darkness?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(2Co 6:15 TLV) What harmony does Messiah have with Belial? Or
what part does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(2Co 6:16 TLV) What agreement does God</span><span lang="X-NONE">’s
Temple have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God—just as God
said, “I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and
they shall be My people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(2Co 6:17 TLV) Therefore, come out from among them, and be
separate, says Adonai. Touch no unclean thing. Then I will take you in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(2Co 6:18 TLV) I will be a father to you, and you shall be My
sons and daughters, says Adonai-Tzva</span><span lang="X-NONE">’ot.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>His presence is not just with us on Elul, but every day, however during
this season of Teshuvah we are made more aware of the Holiness of YHWH ELOHIM,
our ABBA, and our Messiah Yeshua and His presence within us. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>YHVH ELOHIM’s Smiling Countenance</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>The parable of the king in the field</b> expresses the importance of
our divine service within the framework of the ordinary, but it also
underscores the unique relationship between the king and His subjects. In the
field, “he receives them all pleasantly and shows a smiling countenance to
all.” In the “field,” YHVH ELOHIM allows His subjects to relate to Him as His
presence is manifest. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Throughout the year, we emphasize the importance of carrying out our
service of YHVH ELOHIM in the field with the intent that this should lead to
the revelation of the King’s presence. In Elul, which marks the culmination of
this service—and the preparation for the coming year—our efforts are rewarded by
the perceptible revelation of the King’s presence.<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2 style="margin-top: 26.25pt;"><b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Expressing Our Love
Relationship with YHVH ELOHIM Through <span class="glossaryitem">Torah</span> Study</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 5:17 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Do not think that I came to
abolish the Torah or the Prophets! I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 5:18 TLV) Amen, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass
away, not the smallest letter or serif shall ever pass away from the Torah
until all things come to pass.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 5:19 TLV) Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of
these commandments, and teaches others the same, shall be called least in the
kingdom of heaven. But whoever keeps and teaches them, this one shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 22:36 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Teacher, which is the greatest
commandment in the Torah?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 22:37 TLV) And He said to him, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“‘You
shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your mind.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 22:38 TLV) This is the first and greatest commandment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 22:39 TLV) And the second is like it, </span><span lang="X-NONE">‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mat 22:40 TLV) The entire Torah and the Prophets hang on these
two commandments.</span><span lang="X-NONE">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mar 7:5 TLV) The Pharisees and Torah scholars questioned Yeshua,
</span><span lang="X-NONE">“Why don’t Your disciples walk according to the
tradition of the elders? Why do they eat bread with unwashed hands?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mar 7:6 TLV) And He said to them, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Rightly
did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors
Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mar 7:7 TLV) And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines
the commandments of men.</span><span lang="X-NONE">’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mar 7:8 TLV) Having left behind the commandment of God, you hold
on to the tradition of men.</span><span lang="X-NONE">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Mar 7:9 TLV) He was also telling them, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“You
set aside the commands of God, in order that you may validate your own
tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:15 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“If you love Me, you will keep
My <b>commandments.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Galatia SIL"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Galatia SIL"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">ε</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Galatia SIL"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-bidi-font-family: "Galatia SIL"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">̓́ντολή</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">entole</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">̄́</span><span lang="X-NONE">; gen. </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">entole</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">̄́s</span><span lang="X-NONE">, fem. noun from </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">ent</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">éllomai</span><span lang="X-NONE"> (G1781), to charge, command. Commandment,</span><span lang="X-NONE"> </span><span lang="X-NONE"> God </span><span lang="X-NONE"> </span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="X-NONE">The precepts and teachings of </span>Yeshua<span lang="X-NONE"> (<u>Joh_13:34</u>;
<u>Joh_15:12</u>; <u>1Co_14:37</u>; <u>1Jn_2:8</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="X-NONE">The precepts and commandments of God in general (<u>1Co_7:19</u>;
<u>1Jn_3:22-23</u>; Sept.: <u>Deu_4:2</u>, <u>Deu_4:40</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo5; mso-pagination: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="X-NONE">The precepts of the Mosaic Law, in whole or in part (<u>Mat_5:19</u>; <u>Mat_19:17</u>;
<u>Mat_22:36</u>, <u>Mat_22:38</u>, <u>Mat_22:40</u>; <u>Mar_10:5</u>, <u>Mar_10:19</u>;
<u>Rom_7:8-13</u>).</span><span lang="X-NONE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:15 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“<b>If you love Me, you will
keep My commandments</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:16 TLV) I will ask the Father, and He will give you another
Helper so He may be with you forever</span><span lang="X-NONE">—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:17 TLV) <b>the Spirit of truth</b>, whom the world cannot
receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him. <b>You know Him, because
He abides with you and will be in you.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:18 TLV) I will not abandon you as orphans; I will come to
you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:19 TLV) <b>In a little while, the world will no longer
behold Me, but you will behold Me. Because I live, you also will live!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:20 TLV) </span><b><span lang="X-NONE">“In that day, you will know that
I am in My Father, you are in Me, and I am in you.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:21 TLV) <b>He who has My commandments and keeps them is
the one who loves Me</b>. He who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and <b>I
will love him and reveal Myself to him.</b></span><b><span lang="X-NONE">”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:22 TLV) Judah (not the one from Kriot) said to Him, </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Master, what has happened, that You are about to reveal Yourself to us
and not the world?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:23 TLV) Yeshua answered and said to him, </span><b><span lang="X-NONE">“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and
We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:24 TLV) He who does not love Me does not keep My words.
And the word you hear is not Mine, but the Father</span><span lang="X-NONE">’s
who sent Me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:25 TLV) These things I have spoken to you while dwelling
with you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:26 TLV<b>) But the Helper, the Ruach ha-Kodesh whom the
Father will send in My name, will teach you everything and remind you of
everything that I said to you.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:27 TLV) </span><b><span lang="X-NONE">“Shalom I leave you, My shalom I
give to you; but not as the world gives! Do not let your heart be troubled or
afraid.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:28 TLV) You</span><span lang="X-NONE">’ve heard Me say, ‘<b>I am going
away and I am coming back to you.</b>’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice that
I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:29 TLV) I have told you now before it happens, so that when
it happens you may believe!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:30 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“I will not talk with you much
longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. <b>He has nothing on Me.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Joh 14:31 TLV) But in order that the world may know that I love
the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Get
up, let’s go from here!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: .25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>YHVH ELOHIM’s will is that His presence be revealed “in the field”;
i.e., that we recognize our world as His dwelling place.</b> This revelation
depends upon the study of His Word the Tanack and the Brit Hadasha/New Testament
as the people of the field. Although we may be engaged in mundane activities
for most of the day, the fixed times that they set aside for Torah/Bible study and prayer brings us into His presence.
In this manner, knowledge of YHVH ELOHIM
is drawn down into every aspect of their lives, even into the day-to-day
activities of “the field.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b>In the parable, when the king passes through the field, the people
pause from their work and approach him.</b> Similarly, during Elul,
although the “men of the field” continue their daily activities, because they
are aware of the King’s presence, they should also increase their study in His Word
The Tanack (Torah, Writings, and The Prophets), and the Brit Hadasha/New
Testament. Therefore, the emphasis
during Elul on time in the Word as well as prayer, for they are both associated
with the verse<b>, “I am my Beloved’s.”</b> (Yeshua) in fact, our love
relationship with YHVH ELOHIM is most completely expressed through the study of
His Holy Word. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.7pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 147.8pt; margin-right: 147.8pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-outline-level: 1; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Nine Commands in Deuteronomy Chapter 4 —Obedience To The King<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Hearken (Hebrew: shama‛ (H8085),
to hear intelligently; be obedient to; regard; publish and show forth; pay
attention) to the statutes and judgments </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">(<u>Deu_4:1</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:1 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Now, O Israel, listen to the
statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and
go in and possess the land that Adonai the God of your fathers is giving you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Do not add to the word which I
command you, neither take anything from it, that you may keep the commandments
of the Lord (<u>Deu_4:2</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:2 TLV) You must not add to the word that I am commanding
you or take away from it</span><span lang="X-NONE">—in order to keep the mitzvot of
Adonai your God that I am commanding you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Keep and do the statutes and
judgments of the Lord, for this is your wisdom and understanding in the sight
of all nations (<u>Deu_4:5-6</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:5 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“See, just as Adonai my God
commanded me, I have taught you statutes and ordinances to do in the land that
you are about to enter to possess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:6 TLV) You must keep and do them, for it is your wisdom
and understanding in the eyes of the peoples, who will hear all these statutes
and say, </span><span lang="X-NONE">‘Surely this great nation is a wise and
understanding people.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 8.6pt; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Take heed to yourself, and keep
your soul diligently, lest you forget what you have seen and your heart depart
from them (<u>Deu_4:9</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:9 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Only be watchful and watch over
your soul closely, so you do not forget the things your eyes have seen and they
slip from your heart all the days of your life. You are to make them known to
your children and your children’s children.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 17.15pt; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Teach these things to your sons
and coming generations, that they may learn to fear Me all their days (<u>Deu_4:9-10</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:10 TLV) The day that you stood before Adonai your God in
Horeb, Adonai said to me, </span><span lang="X-NONE">‘Gather the people to Me and I
will make them hear My words so that they learn to fear Me all the days that
they live on the earth, and so that they teach their children.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 23.0pt; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Take good heed to yourselves,
lest you corrupt yourselves by making graven images, and lest you worship the
heavenly bodies like the heathen (<u>Deu_4:15-20</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:15 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“So be very watchful over your
souls since you saw no form on the day that Adonai spoke to you in Horeb out of
the midst of the fire,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:16 TLV) so that you do not act corruptly and make for
yourselves a graven image in the likeness of any figure</span><span lang="X-NONE">—the form of a male or female,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:17 TLV) the form of any animal that is on the earth, the
form of any winged bird that flies in the sky,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:18 TLV) the form of anything that creeps on the ground,
the form of any fish that is in the water under the earth</span><span lang="X-NONE">—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:19 TLV) and so that you do not lift up your eyes toward
the heavens and see the sun and the moon and the stars</span><span lang="X-NONE">—all
the heavenly host—and are drawn away and bow down and worship them. Adonai your
God has allotted them to all the peoples under all the heavens.</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:20 TLV) But you, Adonai has taken, and He brought you out
of the iron furnace, out of Egypt to be a people for His own inheritance, as
you are this day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 7.05pt; margin-top: 6.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Take heed to yourselves lest you
forget the covenant of the Lord and make false gods and be consumed by the
jealousy of God (<u>Deu_4:23-24</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:23 TLV) Watch yourselves, so that you do not forget the
covenant of Adonai your God, which He cut with you, and make for yourselves a
graven image in the form of anything that Adonai your God has forbidden you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:24 TLV) For Adonai your God is a consuming fire</span><span lang="X-NONE">—a jealous God.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Know this day and consider in
your heart that YHVH is God (<u>Deu_4:39</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: -16.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:39 TLV) </span><span lang="X-NONE">“So you will know today and take
to heart that Adonai, He is God, in the heavens above and on the earth
below—there is no other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 21.0pt; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Keep His statutes and
commandments, that it may be well with you and that you may live long lives (<u>Deu_4:40</u>).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE">(Deu 4:40 TLV) You must keep His statutes and His mitzvot, which
I am commanding you today, so that it may go well with you and with your
children after you, and so that you may prolong your days in the land that
Adonai your God is giving you for all time.</span><span lang="X-NONE">”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-outline-level: 1; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-autospace: none;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Twenty-one Blessings
of Obedience From Deuteronomy Chapter 4<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 2.1pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Long life (<u>Deu_4:1</u>, <u>Deu_4:4</u>, <u>Deu_4:10</u>,
<u>Deu_4:40</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Success (<u>Deu_4:1</u>, <u>Deu_4:5</u>, <u>Deu_4:40</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Mercy and justice (<u>Deu_4:3</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Wisdom and understanding (<u>Deu_4:6</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 11.25pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 7.7pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: right; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 13.3pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Worldwide reputation for wisdom, knowledge, and greatness
(<u>Deu_4:6</u>, <u>Deu_4:7</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Nearness to God (<u>Deu_4:7</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Answers to prayer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Perfect code of laws (<u>Deu_4:8</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 26.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 26.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Good and lasting memory (<u>Deu_4:9</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The only true religion to teach to children (<u>Deu_4:9-10</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Learning the fear of God, which is the beginning of
wisdom (<u>Deu_4:10</u>; <u>Pro_1:7</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">12.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Preservation from corruption through idolatry (<u>Deu_4:16-19</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">13.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Being a special people of God (<u>Deu_4:20</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">14.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">An inheritance (<u>Deu_4:20</u>, <u>Deu_4:38</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">15.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">A covenant with God (<u>Deu_4:23</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">16.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Faithfulness of God (<u>Deu_4:31</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">17.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Manifestations of God (<u>Deu_4:32-34</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">18.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Proof that YHVH is God (<u>Deu_4:35</u>, <u>Deu_4:39</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">19.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Victory over enemies (<u>Deu_4:38</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.6pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">20.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Prosperity (<u>Deu_4:40</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 32.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.75pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 32.0pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -27.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">21.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Blessings on offspring (<u>Deu_4:40</u>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 5.0pt; margin-right: 4.45pt; margin-top: 1.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.9pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.95pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yeshua’s
Teachings <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 30.95pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 27.9pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -21.0pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">On staying faithful to Yeshua’s commands: Matthew 28:20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 27.9pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 1.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-line-break-override: restrictions; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; punctuation-wrap: simple; tab-stops: 27.9pt; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -17.95pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">On adding to the Word of Elohim: Revelation 22:18–19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></b></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-71745753260825556242023-08-10T08:10:00.002-07:002023-08-10T08:10:46.254-07:00A Sanctified Life in Messiah Yeshua<p><b>A Sanctified Life in Messiah Yeshua</b></p><p>This Rosh Chodesh August 17th 2023 at sunset begins the month of Elul. Traditionally called the month of 30 days of repentance, we prepare for the 10 days of awe (total of 40 days of Sanctification and Repentance) to Yom Kippur.</p><p>For those of us who have made Yeshua our Master and Redeemer and are His Talmidim, this is a month of retrospective to examine our hearts and<b> recommit to a sanctified life </b>in Messiah Yeshua. </p><p>The Fall Feasts are a time to remember that Yeshua will return, just as He promised in His Word, and we are to be prepared for His return, by living a sanctified, set-apart life and that we will be held accountable when we stand before Yeshua of how we lived our lives in service to Him. </p><p>(1Co 3:11 TLV) For no one can lay any other foundation than what is already laid—which is Yeshua the Messiah.</p><p>(1Co 3:12 TLV) Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,</p><p>(1Co 3:13 TLV) each one’s work will become clear. For the Day will show it, because it is to be revealed by fire; and the fire itself will test each one’s work—what sort it is.</p><p>(1Co 3:14 TLV) <b>If anyone’s work built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.</b></p><p>(1Co 3:15 TLV) <b>If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss—he himself will be saved, but as through fire.</b></p><p>(1Co 3:16 TLV) Don’t you know<b> that you are God’s temple and that the Ruach Elohim dwells among you?</b></p><p>(1Co 3:17 TLV) If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.</p><p>It is easy to become distracted with daily living and the things of this world, where we let our guard down and allow the flesh to dominate us instead of the Ruach HaKodesh. This season of Teshuva is a time to reflect and repent and commit to living a life of sanctification in Messiah Yeshua as His Talmidim/Disciples. </p><p>See our <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Days-Teshuvah-Yom-Kippur-Devotional/dp/1541076729/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NR6KD7JQYXFN&keywords=rabbin+deborah+brandt&qid=1691678405&sprefix=rabbin+d%2Caps%2C198&sr=8-1" target="_blank">40 Days of Teshuva Devotional,</a> which addresses these issues. </p><p><b>(Exo 19:10 TLV) Adonai said to Moses, “Go to the people and <span style="color: red;">sanctify</span> them today and tomorrow. Let them wash their clothing.</b></p><p><b>Hebrew Meaning of Sanctify, Consecrate H6942</b></p><p>קָדַשׁ</p><p>qāḏaš:<b> A verb meaning to be set apart, to be holy, to show oneself holy, to be treated as holy, to consecrate, to treat as holy, to dedicate, to be made holy, to declare holy or consecrated, to behave, to act holy, to dedicate oneself.</b> <b>The verb, in the simple stem, declares the act of setting apart, or being holy (i.e., withdrawing someone or something from profane or ordinary use).</b> The Lord set aside Aaron and his sons, consecrated them, and made them holy for the priesthood (Exo_29:21). The altar was made holy, and anything coming into contact with it became holy (Exo_29:37). The Tabernacle, the ark, the table of showbread, the altar of burnt offering, and all the smaller accessories and utensils used in the cult of Israel were anointed with a special anointing oil so they became holy. Whatever came in contact with them became holy (Exo_30:26-29). The men accompanying David as his military were declared holy (1Sa_21:5 [6]).</p><p>The word is used most often in the intensive stem, meaning <b>to pronounce or to make holy, to consecrate. </b>The Lord pronounced the Sabbath day holy (Gen_2:3; Exo_20:8). Places could be dedicated as holy, such as a part of the courtyard of the Temple (1Ki_8:64); or Mount Sinai itself (Exo_19:23). The Year of Jubilee, the fiftieth year, was declared holy (Lev_25:10). Persons could be consecrated to holy duties: Aaron and his sons were consecrated to serve as priests of the Lord (Exo_28:3, Exo_28:41; 1Sa_7:1); the firstborn males of people or animals were consecrated to the Lord (Exo_13:2). Holy times were designated using this word in the factitive stem: Jehu deceitfully proclaimed a holy assembly to Baal (2Ki_10:20); a holy fast could be consecrated as Joel did (Joe_1:14). With the Lord as the subject, the word describes establishing something as holy. The Lord Himself consecrated or made holy His people (Exo_31:13; Lev_20:8; Lev_21:8); through His judgments on Israel and the nations, God proved the holiness of His name (Eze_36:23). The priests' holy garments serving in Ezekiel's restored Temple will make those who touch them holy (Eze_44:19; Eze_46:20).</p><p>In the causative stem, the meanings overlap with the meanings in the intensive stem. It indicates designating something as consecrated or holy; Jeremiah was declared holy (Jer_1:5); as was the Temple (1Ki_9:3). The word means to treat as holy or dedicated. Gifts, fields, or money could be treated as holy (Lev_27:16; 2Sa_8:11; 2Ki_12:18 [19]). God declared things holy to Himself (1Ki_9:7); God Himself is to be treated as holy (Num_20:12; Num_27:14; Isa_29:23).</p><p>In the passive stems, the word means to be consecrated, to be treated as holy, or to show oneself as holy. Ezekiel described the Zadokite priests as consecrated for service at a future Temple (Eze_48:11); Ezr_3:5 described the established holy feasts of the Lord in the return from exile. The entrance at the Tabernacle was to be treated as consecrated and holy through the Lord's glory (Exo_29:43). The Lord showed Himself as holy (Lev_10:3; Lev_22:32; Eze_20:41).</p><p>In the reflexive stem, the verb means to show oneself holy or consecrated: the priests had to properly consecrate themselves before coming before the Lord (Exo_19:22; Lev_11:44); the Lord would prove Himself holy before the nations and Israel (Eze_38:23). The word indicates putting oneself or another into a state of holiness to the Lord (Num_11:18; Jos_3:5; 1Sa_16:5; 2Ch_31:18).</p><p><b>(1Pe 3:15 TLV) Instead, <span style="color: red;">sanctify</span> Messiah as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you,</b></p><div><b>Greek Meaning of Sanctify G37</b></div><div>ἁγιάζω</div><div>hagiázō; fut. hagiásō, from hágios (G40), holy. To make holy, sanctify.</div><div>(I) To make clean, render pure.</div><div>(A) Particularly in Heb_9:13.</div><div>(B) Metaphorically, <b>to render clean in a moral sense, to purify, sanctify (</b>Rom_15:16, "being sanctified by the Holy Spirit," <b>meaning by the sanctifying influences of the Holy Spirit on the heart</b>. See <b>1Co_6:11; Eph_5:26; 1Th_5:23; 1Ti_4:5; Heb_2:11; Heb_10:10, Heb_10:14, Heb_10:29; Heb_13:12; Rev_22:11)</b>. Hoi hēgiasménoi, those who are sanctified, is a reference to Christians in general (Act_20:32; Act_26:18; 1Co_1:2; Jud_1:1). In 1Co_7:14, the perf. tense hēgíastai, has been sanctified, refers to an unbelieving husband or wife who is sanctified by a believing spouse. The word "sanctification" here should not be construed to mean salvation. The unbelieving partner is set apart on account of the believing partner. The unbeliever comes under a special and direct spiritual influence and benefits from divine favor in the life of the believer. As long as there is contact, there is hope that the unbeliever will turn to faith in Jesus Christ. The point of the passage is that in such a marriage the believer is not defiled by the unbeliever, rather the unbeliever is sanctified by the believer.</div><div>(II) To consecrate, devote, set apart from a common to a sacred use since in the Jewish ritual, this was one great object of the purifications.</div><div>(A) Spoken of things (Mat_23:17; Mat_23:19; 2Ti_2:21; Sept.: Lev_8:10 f., Lev_8:30).</div><div>(B) <b>Spoken of persons, to consecrate as being set apart of God and sent by Him for the performance of His will</b> (Joh_10:36, "whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world"; Joh_17:17, "Sanctify them through [or in the promulgation of] thy truth" [cf. Joh_17:18-19]).</div><div>(III) To regard and venerate as holy, to hallow (Mat_6:9; Luk_11:2; 1Pe_3:15; Sept.: Isa_8:13; Isa_10:17; Isa_29:23). Thus the verb hagiázō, to sanctify, when its object is something that is filthy or common, can only be accomplished by separation (aphorízō [G873]) or withdrawal. It also refers to the withdrawal from fellowship with the world and selfishness by gaining fellowship with God.</div><div>Deriv.: hagiasmós (G38), sanctification.</div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>What it Means to Be Sancfied</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Reminders:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(1Co 6:11 TLV) That is what some of you were—but you were washed, <b>you were made holy</b>, you were set right in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the Ruach of our God.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(Eph 5:25 TLV) Husbands, love your wives just as Messiah also loved His community and gave Himself up for her</div><div>(Eph 5:26 TLV) <b>to make her holy</b>, having cleansed her by immersion in the word.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(1Th 5:23 AMP+) Now may the God of peace Himself <b>sanctify you through and through</b> [that is, separate you from profane and vulgar things, make you pure and whole and undamaged--consecrated to Him--set apart for His purpose]; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete and [be found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach.</div></div><div><br /></div><p>(Heb 2:11 AMP+) Both Jesus/<b>Yeshua who sanctifies</b> and those who are sanctified [that is, spiritually transformed, made holy, and set apart for God's purpose] are all from one Father; for this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,</p><p>(Heb 10:10 AMP+) And in accordance with this will [of God] we [who believe in the message of salvation] <b>have been sanctified</b> [that is, set apart as holy for God and His purposes] through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) once for all.\</p><p>(Heb 10:14 AMP+) For by the one offering He has perfected forever and completely cleansed those <b>who are being sanctified </b>[bringing each believer to spiritual completion and maturity].</p><div><div>(Heb 10:29 AMP+) How much greater punishment do you think he will deserve who has rejected and trampled under foot the Son of God, and has considered unclean and common the blood of the covenant that <b>sanctified him</b>, and has insulted the Spirit of grace [who imparts the unmerited favor and blessing of God]? [Exo_24:8]</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(Heb 13:12 AMP+) Therefore Jesus/Yeshua also suffered and died outside the [city] gate so that He might <b>sanctify and set apart for God as holy the people</b> [who believe] through [the shedding of] His own blood.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b> Sanctification produces the Fruit of the Ruach HaKodesh in our lives. A sanctified life has nothing to do with the deeds/works of the flesh!</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(Gal 5:16 TLV) But I say, <b>walk by the Ruach</b>, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.</div><div>(Gal 5:17 TLV) For the flesh sets its desire against the Ruach, but the Ruach sets its desire against the flesh—for these are in opposition to one another, so that you cannot do what you want.</div><div>(Gal 5:18 TLV) But if you are led by the Ruach, you are not under law.</div><div>(Gal 5:19 TLV) <b>Now the deeds of the flesh are clear:</b> sexual immorality, impurity, indecency,</div><div>(Gal 5:20 TLV) idolatry, witchcraft, hostility, strife, jealousy, rage, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,</div><div>(Gal 5:21 TLV) envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, just as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.</div><div>(Gal 5:22 TLV) <b>But the fruit of the Ruach</b> is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,</div><div>(Gal 5:23 TLV) gentleness, and self-control—against such things there is no law.</div><div>(Gal 5:24 TLV) Now those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.</div><div>(Gal 5:25 TLV) If we live by the Ruach, let us also walk by the Ruach.</div><div>(Gal 5:26 TLV) Let us not become conceited—provoking one another, envying one another.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>We need to allow the Ruach HaKodesh to shine His light upon our hearts so He can create a clean heart within us. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>(Psa 51:1 TLV) For the music director: a psalm of David,</div><div>(Psa 51:2 TLV) when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.</div><div>(Psa 51:3 TLV) Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your mercy. According to Your great compassion blot out my transgressions.</div><div>(Psa 51:4 TLV) <b>Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.</b></div><div>(Psa 51:5 TLV) For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.</div><div>(Psa 51:6 TLV) Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are just when You speak, and blameless when You judge.</div><div>(Psa 51:7 TLV) Behold, I was born in iniquity and in sin when my mother conceived me.</div><div>(Psa 51:8 TLV) Surely You desire truth in the inner being. Make me know wisdom inwardly.</div><div>(Psa 51:9 TLV) <b>Cleanse me with hyssop and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.</b></div><div>(Psa 51:10 TLV) Let me hear joy and gladness, so the bones You crushed may rejoice.</div><div>(Psa 51:11 TLV) Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.</div><div>(Psa 51:12 TLV) <b>Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.</b></div><div>(Psa 51:13 TLV) Do not cast me from Your presence—take not Your Ruach ha-Kodesh from me.</div><div>(Psa 51:14 TLV) <b>Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit.</b></div><div>(Psa 51:15 TLV) Then will I teach transgressors Your ways and sinners will return to You.</div><div>(Psa 51:16 TLV) Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God—God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness.</div><div>(Psa 51:17 TLV) O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.</div><div>(Psa 51:18 TLV) For You would not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it, nor be pleased by burnt offerings.</div><div>(Psa 51:19 TLV) <b> The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.</b></div><div>(Psa 51:20 TLV) In Your favor do good to Zion. Build up the walls of Jerusalem.</div><div>(Psa 51:21 TLV) Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices and whole burnt offerings. Then bulls will be offered on Your altar.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><div><br /></div>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-86584053105070663072023-08-01T17:21:00.002-07:002023-08-01T17:21:28.883-07:00Walking in Discernment in A World Full of Deception <p style="text-align: center;"><b> Walking in Discernment in a World Full of Deception</b></p><div><div>(2Ti 3:1 TLV) But understand this, that in the last days hard times will come—</div><div>(2Ti 3:2 TLV) for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,</div><div>(2Ti 3:3 TLV) hardhearted, unforgiving, backbiting, without self-control, brutal, hating what is good,</div><div>(2Ti 3:4 TLV) treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,</div><div>(2Ti 3:5 TLV) holding to an outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!</div><div>(2Ti 3:6 TLV) For among these are those who slip into households and deceive weak women weighed down with sins, led away by various desires,</div><div>(2Ti 3:7 TLV) always learning yet never able to come to the knowledge of truth.</div><div>(2Ti 3:8 TLV) Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these people oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and worthless concerning the faith.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px; letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.0666667px;"><b>Warning regarding the condition of society in the Last Days </b></span></span></div><div class="WordSection1">
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of their<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>own selves</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Covetous</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Boasters</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Proud</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Blasphemers</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Disobedient<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>parents</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Unthankful</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Unholy</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Without<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>natural
affection</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Trucebreakers</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">False<span style="letter-spacing: -0.45pt;"> </span>accusers</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Incontinent</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Fierce</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Despisers<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>those<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">
</span>that<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>are good</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Traitors</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Heady</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">High-minded</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lovers<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>of pleasures<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>more than lovers<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>of God</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Having a<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>form<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>godliness</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">But<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>denying<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>power<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>thereof</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Creep<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>into<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>houses</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20; line-height: 72%;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 72%;">Lead captive “silly women laden with sins and led away with
divers<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">lusts — ever learning, yet never </span>able to come to the knowledge
of the<span style="letter-spacing: -2.55pt;"> </span>truth”</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20; line-height: 72%;"><span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 72%;">Are<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>like<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>Jannes<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>Jambres<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">
</span>who<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>withstood<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>Moses<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"> </span>resisted<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">
</span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -2.5pt;"> </span>truth</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20;">.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Of<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>corrupt<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">
</span>minds and<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>reprobate
concerning<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>the<span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;"> </span>faith</span></li><li><span style="color: #231f20; line-height: 72%;">.<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 72%;">Evil,</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; letter-spacing: -0.75pt; line-height: 72%;"> </span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; letter-spacing: -0.05pt; line-height: 72%;">seducers</span><span style="color: #231f20; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 72%;"> <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">that</span> <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">shall</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> </span>wax worse and worse,<span style="letter-spacing: -0.7pt;"> </span><b>deceiving and being<span style="letter-spacing: -2.5pt;"> </span>deceived</b></span><b> </b></li></ol><div><b>In the days we are living, many people are falling prey to deceptive teaching, false prophets, and spirits of deception. </b></div><div><br /></div><div>(1Ti 4:1 TLV) Now the Ruach clearly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, following <b>deceitful spirits</b> and teachings of demons</div><p>(1Ti 4:2 TLV) through the hypocrisy of false speakers—whose own conscience has been seared.</p><div><b>However, as Born-Again, Redeemed people of The Almighty, YHWH ELOHIM, has not left us defenseless in this spiritual battle that is waging war to deceive the world in preparation for the Anti-Messiah/Anti-Christ to be revealed in the last days. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The word has a lot to say about discernment. The following verses are from the Tree of Life Version</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>Psa_119:104 From Your precepts <b>I get discernment</b>, therefore I hate every false way.</div><div><br /></div><div>Psa_119:125 I am Your servant, <b>give me discernmen</b>t, so I may understand Your testimonies.</div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_1:4 <b>to give discernmen</b>t to the naïve, knowledge and discretion to the youth</div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_2:2 making your ear attentive to wisdom, <b>inclining your heart to discernment,</b></div><div>Pro_2:3 yes, if you call out for insight, <b>lifting up your voice for discernment,</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_2:11 Discretion will watch over you—<b>discernment will guard you—</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_3:21 My son, hold on to sound <b>wisdom and discernment</b>, do not let them out of your sight.</div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_10:23 As doing wickedness is a delight to a fool, <b>so is wisdom to a man of discernment.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_11:12 One who despises his neighbor lacks sense, <b>but one with discernment remains silent.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_15:21 Folly is joy to one who lacks sense, <b>but one with discernment walks straight.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Pro_28:2 When a country is in rebellion, it has many rulers, <b>but a man of discernment and knowledge maintains order.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Isa_29:14 Therefore, behold, once more I will do a marvelous work among this people—a marvel and a wonder—so the wisdom of their wise will perish, <b>and the discernment of their discerning will be concealed.”</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Isa_44:19 No one reflects in his heart, <b>with no knowledge or discernment </b>to say, “I burned half of it in the fire and I also baked bread on its coals. I roasted meat and ate—and then I make the rest of it an abomination? Should I bow before a block of wood?”</div><div><br /></div><div>Isa_56:11 and the dogs are greedy—they never have enough. <b>They are shepherds with no discernment.</b> They have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Dan_5:14 I have heard about you, how a spirit of the gods is in you and how there has been found in you insight,<b> discernment and extraordinary wisdom.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Oba_1:7 All your allies will force you to the border. The men that are at peace with you will deceive you and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap under you. <b>(He has no discernment.)</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Php_1:9 Now this I pray, that your love might overflow still more and <b>more in knowledge and depth of discernment,</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Hebrew Word for Discernment is BEYN - H995</b></div><div><div>בִּין</div><div>biyn: <b>A verb meaning to discern, to perceive, to observe, to pay attention to, to be intelligent, to be discreet, to understand; in the causative sense, to give understanding, to teach; in the reflexive sense, to consider diligently.</b> People can perceive by means of their senses: eyes (Pro_7:7); ears (Pro_29:19); touch (Psa_58:9 [10]); taste (Job_6:30). But actual discerning is not assured. Those who hear do not always understand (Dan_12:8). In the final analysis, only God gives and conceals understanding (Isa_29:14).</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Greek Word for Discernment - Asisthesis - G144</b></div><div>αἴσθησις</div><div>aísthēsis; gen. aisthḗseōs, fem. noun from aisthánomai (G143),<b> to perceive with the external senses. Perception, with the senses as well as the mind. Pass., to become cognizant of, to make oneself observed by someone. Involves knowledge based upon experience.</b> In Php_1:9 contrast epígnōsis (G1922), the insight obtained by penetrating knowledge, going down to the foundation. Aísthēsis, however, is experiential knowledge which is or becomes naturally manifold, and therefore has the addition of pása, the fem. of pás (G3956), all (Php_1:9).</div><div>Syn.: krísis (G2920), decision, judgment, evaluation; gnṓmē (G1106), opinion, purpose.</div><div><br /></div><div>In short, it is the ability to sense when something is not true, but deceptive. This is a work of the Ruach HaKodesh within us, that warns us when something is not quite right, or "Kosher" according to the Word. It is knowing, that something is not right, what some would call a "check" in your spirit, or a warning signal within. </div><div><br /></div><div>There are many deceptions happening in the times we are living in. <b>Here is a link, regarding the deception of UFOs in the days we are living in. </b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7rGa8DQtbM&list=PLBmnkgYHFy8F2sQHhOLUlkg3PRRt5Qer-&index=13">(10) 👽 SHOCKING UFO Congressional Hearings and Footage of an Alien Interrogation? - with Todd Coconato - YouTube</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Demonic deception is increasing, and the only way to fight it is to be strong in the WORD and in your FAITH in MESSIAH YESHUA! </div><div><br /></div><div><b>The newest deceptive tactic is AI, which I believe will be used by HaSatan in the end times to deceive people. </b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND58VseGbYQ&list=PLBmnkgYHFy8F2sQHhOLUlkg3PRRt5Qer-&index=8">(11) 'Raise the Alarm': How Artificial Intelligence Could Harm Persecuted Christians - YouTube</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The scriptures above clearly show 2 things...</b></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Discernment Comes From The Word of YHWH ELOHIM's Ruach.</li><li>Those who do not know The Word or YHWH ELOHIM, have NO discernment and therefore are easily deceived by demonic deception.</li></ol><div><br /></div></div><div><b>The Torah warns us about FALSE PROPHETS as well...</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(Deu 13:2 TLV) “Suppose a prophet or a dreamer of dreams rises up among you and gives you a sign or wonder,</div><div>(Deu 13:3 TLV) and the sign or wonder he spoke to you comes true, while saying, ‘Let’s follow other gods’—that you have not known, and—‘Let’s serve them!’</div><div>(Deu 13:4 TLV) <b>You must not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams</b>—for Adonai your God is testing you, to find out whether you love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Rom_16:18 For such people do not serve our Lord the Messiah, but only their own belly. By their smooth talk and <b>flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>1Co_3:18 <b>Let no one deceive himself.</b> If anyone thinks he is wise in this age, let him become a fool so he may become wise.</div><div><br /></div><div>Eph_5:6 <b>Let no one deceive you with empty words,</b> for because of such things God’s judgment comes on the children of disobedience.</div><div><br /></div><div>Col_2:4 I am telling you this <b>so that no one will deceive you </b>with persuasive-sounding arguments.</div><div><br /></div><div>2Th_2:3 <b>Let no one deceive you in any way,</b> for the Day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the one destined to be destroyed.</div><div><br /></div><div></div></div><div>There will be things happening that will shake your faith, if it is NOT GROUNDED in the WORD OF THE ALMIGHTY YHWH ELOHIM and our MESSIAH YESHUA!.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(Mat 24:4 TLV) Yeshua answered them, <b>“Be careful that no one leads you astray!</b></div><div>(Mat 24:5 TLV) For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’<b> and will lead many astray.</b></div><div>(Mat 24:6 TLV) You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must happen but it is not yet the end.</div><div>(Mat 24:7 TLV) For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.</div><div>(Mat 24:8 TLV) But all these things are only the beginning of birth pains.</div><div>(Mat 24:9 TLV) Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of My name.</div><div>(Mat 24:10 TLV) <b> And then many will fall away</b> and will betray one another and hate one other.</div><div>(Mat 24:11 TLV) <b>Many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.</b></div><div>(Mat 24:12 TLV) Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold.</div><div>(Mat 24:13 TLV) But the one who endures to the end will be saved.</div><div>(Mat 24:14 TLV) This Good News of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Word ASTRAY - PLANAO G4105</b></div><div>πλανάω</div><div>planáō; contracted planṓ, fut. planḗsō, from plánē (G4106), a wandering. <b>To cause to wander, lead astray, with the acc. In the pass.: to wander, go astray.</b></div><div>(I) Particularly of persons (Heb_11:38); of flocks (Mat_18:12-13; 1Pe_2:25; Sept.: Gen_37:14; Exo_23:4).</div><div>(II) <b>Figuratively, to mislead, cause to err.</b></div><div>(A) <b>To deceive, cause to err. Act.: to err, mistake, form a wrong judgment</b> (Mat_24:4-5, Mat_24:11, Mat_24:24; Mar_13:5-6; 1Jn_1:8; 1Jn_3:7; Rev_13:14; Sept.: Pro_12:27). Pass.: <b>to be deceived, misled</b> (Mat_22:29; Mar_12:24, Mar_12:27; Luk_21:8; Joh_7:47; 1Co_6:9; 1Co_15:33; Gal_6:7; Heb_3:10; Jas_1:16).</div><div>(B) <b>Act., to seduce a people into rebellion</b> (Joh_7:12; Rev_20:8, Rev_20:10); <b>from the truth</b> (2Ti_3:13; 1Jn_2:26 [cf. 1Jn_2:21-22]). Pass., <b>to be seduced, go astray</b> (Jas_5:19; 2Pe_2:15). Part., hoi planṓmenoi, those seduced, gone astray (Tit_3:3; Heb_5:2). <b>Specifically, to seduce to idolatry</b> (Rev_2:20; Rev_12:9; Rev_18:23; Rev_19:20; Rev_20:3; Sept.: 2Ki_21:9; Eze_44:10, Eze_44:15).</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>The Weapons of Our Warfare...</b></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(Eph 6:10 TLV) Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.</div><div>(Eph 6:11 TLV) <b>Put on the full armor of God, so that you are able to stand against the schemes of the devil.</b></div><div>(Eph 6:12 TLV) <b>For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the worldly forces of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.</b></div><div>(Eph 6:13 TLV) Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist when the times are evil, and after you have done everything, to stand firm.</div><div>(Eph 6:14 TLV) Stand firm then! Buckle the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness.</div><div>(Eph 6:15 TLV) Strap up your feet in readiness with the Good News of shalom.</div><div>(Eph 6:16 TLV) Above all, take up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.</div><div>(Eph 6:17 TLV) And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.</div><div>(Eph 6:18 TLV) <b> Pray in the Ruach on every occasion, with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, keep alert with perseverance and supplication for all the kedoshim.</b></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>(2Co 10:3 TLV) For though we walk in the flesh, <b>we do not wage war according to the flesh.</b></div><div>(2Co 10:4 TLV) <b>For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful through God for the tearing down of strongholds. We are tearing down false arguments</b></div><div>(2Co 10:5 TLV) and every high-minded thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. <b>We are taking every thought captive</b> to the obedience of Messiah—</div><div>(2Co 10:6 TLV) ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><b>First of all,</b> the object of our warfare is different; as Eph_6:12-13 puts it, "We are not struggling against human beings, but against the rulers, authorities and cosmic powers governing this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm," what Sha'ul here calls strongholds and every arrogance.</div><div><br /></div><div>And <b>Secondly</b>, the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly, they are not the weapons of aggressive hot-temperedness Sha'ul's old nature would be tempted to use; rather, they are the "war equipment God provides" (Eph_6:13)-truth, righteousness, the Good News, trust, salvation, the Spirit and the Word of God (Eph_6:14-17). <b>These have God's power for demolishing demonic forces and the schemes which unredeemed human nature dreams up to prevent people from coming to a genuine knowledge of God; with these spiritual weapons we take every thought captive, even the most antagonistic and worldly, and make it obey the Messiah, forcing even anti-God ideas to "work for good" (Rom_8:28). </b><i>Jewish New Testament Commentary David Stearn</i></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><!--[if !supportLists]--><p></p>
</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-15961204277601761322023-07-24T08:58:00.001-07:002023-07-24T08:58:45.651-07:00Elijah The Prophet<p> <b style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Blue Ridge Heavy SF",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb. 11
Heroes of Faith Study</span></b></p><div class="WordSection1">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Blue Ridge Heavy SF",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Deborah's Messianic Ministries</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Blue Ridge Heavy SF",sans-serif" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;">
Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: center;"><span face=""Blue Ridge Heavy SF",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b>Elijah The Prophet of YHWH ELOHIM<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;">These are the Days of Elijah, but who was Elijah and what can we learn from His Life, especially with regard to the time prior to Yeshua's return?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;"><b>Studying the Heros of Faith is an important character study of what makes a Man or Woman of God great.</b> Is it how well they can speak? How good do they look? How many people they can draw to their meetings? Or is it the life they led, that brought glory to YHWH ELOHIM and not to themselves? </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;">The names mentioned in Hebrews 11 and others whose names were not mentioned, but their actions were, because of their faithfulness and obedience to YHWH ELOHIM and their commitment to not seeing their own life as important, but proclaiming YHWH ELOHIM's kingdom, even if it meant giving up their own lives. Note, they did have flaws and weaknesses, don't we all? However, they were quick to repent and finish the race that was set before them. Their lives were not necessarily easy, but they had one thing in common, <b>THEIR FAITHFULNESS to YHWH ELOHIM, and their FAITH in YHWH ELOHIM. </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;">They were mentioned as an example of what it means to be great in the eyes of The Almighty, YHWH ELOHIM. All looking forward to the coming of Messiah, the REDEEMER, the greatest man who ever lived, YESHUA HA MASHIACH, <b><u>Yahweh Elohim in the flesh</u></b>. King of Kings and Lord of Lords. <b>The NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES. </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;"><b>The Heroes of Faith.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Hebrews 11:1-3,
6, 32-38 All Scriptures from <b>Tree of Life Version </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:1</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> <b>Now faith is the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of realities not seen</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:2 For by it the elders received commendation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was
created by the word of God, so that what is seen did not come from anything
visible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:6 <b>Now without faith it is impossible to please
God.</b> For the one who comes to God must believe that He exists and that He is a
rewarder of those who seek Him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Hebrews 11:1-3,
6, 32-38<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:32 And what more shall I say? For time would
fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, also of David and Samuel
and the prophets. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:33 By faith they conquered kingdoms,
administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge
of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, and made
foreign armies flee. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:35 Women received their dead raised back to
life; and others were tortured, after not accepting release, so they might
obtain a better resurrection. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:36 Others experienced the trial of mocking and
scourging—yes, and even chains and prison. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they
were murdered with the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins;
they were destitute, afflicted, mistreated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:38 The world was not worthy of them! They
wandered around in deserts and mountains, caves and holes in the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Biography of Elijah/Eliyahu</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">1. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Elijah’s name (Heb. <i>ʾēliyyāhû [less often ʾēliyyâ] = “my God is
Yahweh”) intimates his program, and the story of his ministry goes hand in hand
with his historical figure. He was a champion of exclusive Yahweh worship in
the time of Ahab (871–852 b.c.) and Ahaziah (852–851) of Israel. According to 1
Kgs. 17:1 he was from Tishbe in Gilead (site uncertain). The secret of his
person and the very threatening nature of his appearance made him the
crystallization point for an increasingly legendary literary and theological
tradition, whose development has not been fully explained. It probably arose
out of the trial by sacrifice in 1 Kgs. 18:21–39 and the story of the death of
Ahaziah in 2 Kgs. 1:2–17.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Elijah was an
uncompromising worshiper of Yahweh. He opposed the religious policy of the
house of Omri both in foreign affairs (the marriage with the Phoenician
Jezebel) and in domestic affairs (in relation to Canaanite sections of the
population). He posed the sharp alternative of → Yahweh or Baal. Over against
the functional → polytheism of Ahaziah, he set the claim of Yahweh to every
sphere of life in → Israel (§1).<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The Cup of
Elijah</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">An important
thing on the Passover table is a cup reserved for a very special guest. This
cup is called the Cup of Elijah because it is reserved for Elijah. This
practice actually started with a debate among the rabbis whether one should
drink four or five cups of wine. Finally, they reached a compromise. Only four
cups would actually be drunk, but there would be a fifth cup on the table that
was not drunk “until Elijah comes” to settle the dispute among the rabbis. In
the course of time, the fifth cup was named for Elijah and occupies a place of
honor on the table. The cup is set by an empty chair which is also reserved for
the Prophet Elijah. The Cup of Elijah is filled with wine between the third and
fourth cups. It has become customary that, at the end of the seder service, the
youngest son goes outside to see if Elijah is coming. After he comes back and
states that Elijah is not coming, it is just about time to draw the seder to a
close.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Based upon
Malachi 4:5, Judaism teaches that before the Messiah can come, Elijah the
Prophet must come first. They also believe that when Elijah does come, it will
be on the first night of Passover. So, just in case this might be the Passover
when Elijah comes, the chair and the cup are reserved for him. Every year, of
course, he has failed to come, and that is why they conclude the service with
the words: “Next year in Jerusalem.” Elijah the Prophet has not come this year;
and if he has not come this year, it means that the Messiah will not come this
year either. And if the Messiah will not come this year, that means the Jews do
not get to go back to Jerusalem this year. They will have to wait one more
year, and so it is, “Next year in Jerusalem.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">W<b>hat did Yeshua say about Elijah and John/Yochanan the Immerser?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Mat_11:14 And if you are willing to accept it,<b> he is Elijah </b>who is to come.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b>Elijah's appearance with Moses</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Mat_17:3 And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Yeshua.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Mat_17:4 Peter responded to Yeshua, “Master, it’s good for us to be here! If You wish, I will make three sukkot here—one for You, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Mat_17:10 The disciples questioned Him, saying, “Why then do the Torah scholars say that Elijah must come first?”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Mat_17:11 Yeshua replied, “Indeed, Elijah is coming and will restore all things.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;">Mat_17:12 I tell you that Elijah already came; and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted. In the same way, the Son of Man is about to suffer at their hands.”</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Elijah as the
Prophet with Fire<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Although Moses
and Samuel were true prophets of God, a new era of biblical prophecy began with
the fiery Elijah. He called ancient Israel to task for its abominable worship
of the Baals. No more exciting narrative is found in all the Tanack/Old Testament than
the encounter between Elijah and the Baal priests (1 Kgs. 18). Elijah
demonstrated that the Lord is the God who answers with fire. A less-well-known
account from 2 Kings 1 further cements Elijah’s reputation as the prophet with
fire—both literally and symbolically:<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> The king asked them [messengers sent by
Israelite king Ahaziah], “What kind of man was it who came to meet you and told
you this?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">They replied,
“He was a man with a garment of hair and with a leather belt around his waist.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The king said,
“That was Elijah the Tishbite.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Then he sent to
Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. The captain went up to Elijah,
who was sitting on the top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God the king
says, ‘Come down!’ ”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Elijah answered the captain, “If I am a man of
God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then
fire fell from heaven and Consumed the captain and his men.—<i>2 Kings 1:7–10</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">We today are
living through an era like the days just before Elijah burst on the
scene—business as usual, little sense in society that the God of heaven is
anything more than one possible religious option. <i>Worship the God of the
Bible if it suits you, but don’t act as if he has any exclusive claim on truth
or power, people seem to think. In Revelation 11, we meet powerful end-time
prophets that recall the days of Elijah.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The Return of Elijah/Eliyahu<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Another event
clearly predicted to occur before the Tribulation is the return of Elijah, in
Malachi 4:5–6:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Behold, I will send
you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come. And
he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the
children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[5]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Verse five pinpoints the return of Elijah as
coming before <i>the Day of Jehovah, namely before the Tribulation. Verse six
goes on to describe the nature of Elijah’s ministry when he returns, that of a
Jewish family reunion program. The Jewish family unit, strong for so many centuries,
has in these last days begun to break down and, according to the prophetic
word, will continue to break down. The ministry of Elijah is to restore this
unity in preparation for the Second Coming of the Messiah.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">There is a
great deal of confusion concerning the relationship of Elijah to John the
Baptist. It should be kept in mind that the return of Elijah was never promised
before the First Coming of Messiah. Elijah was only promised to come before the
Second Coming of Messiah and before the Tribulation itself. However, a
forerunner was predicted before the First Coming of Messiah in Malachi 3:1:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Behold, I send
my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye
seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom
ye desire, behold, he comes, says Jehovah of hosts.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[6]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The coming of a
forerunner before the First Coming of Messiah was also predicted in Isaiah
40:3–5:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The voice of
one that cries, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in
the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every
mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and
the rough places a plain: and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all
flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken it.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[7]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">John the
Baptist was clearly the fulfillment of these passages, as stated in Matthew
3:1–6:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">And in those
days comes John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, saying,
Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken
of through Isaiah the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the
wilderness. Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight. Now
John himself had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his
loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Then went out unto him
Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region around about the Jordan; and they
were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Matthew 11:7–10
makes the same point:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">And as these
went their way, Yeshua began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What
went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind? But
what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that wear
soft raiment are in king’s houses. But wherefore went ye out? to see a prophet?
Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet. This is he, of whom it is
written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, Who shall prepare your
way before you.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The same is
true in John 1:23:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">He said, I am
the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Make straight the way of the Lord,
as said Isaiah the prophet.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> But while John the Baptist fulfilled those
prophecies concerning the forerunner before the First Coming of Messiah, he was
not Elijah who was promised before the Second Coming. This becomes clear when
all the relevant passages are taken into account.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">One important
passage bearing on this question is found in John 1:19–23:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">And this is the
witness of John, when the Jews sent unto him from Jerusalem priests and Levites
to ask him, Who are you? And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, I
am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said,
I am not. Are you the prophet? And he answered, No. They said therefore unto
him, Who are you? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What say you
of yourself? He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make
straight the way of the Lord, as said Isaiah the prophet.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[8]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> In this passage, John the Baptist makes it
clear that he is not Elijah. He never claimed to be Elijah, and when asked, he
denied it. He only claimed to be the fulfillment of the Isaiah prophecy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The next
passage is found in Matthew 17:9–13:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">And as they
were coming down from the mountain, Yeshua commanded them, saying, Tell the
vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen from the dead. And his
disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first
come? And he answered and said, Elijah indeed comes, and shall restore all
things: but I say unto you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not,
but did unto him whatsoever they would. Even so shall the Son of man also
suffer of them. Then understood the disciples that he spoke unto them of John
the Baptist.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[9]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> In answer to the disciples’ question regarding
the coming of Elijah, the Messiah first of all states, in the future tense,
that Elijah will indeed come to restore all things, which is a strong allusion
to his ministry mentioned in Malachi 4:6. But this was a promise in relation to
the Second Coming and not the First Coming. Hence, Elijah is yet to come to do
the ministry of restoration. The disciples’ confusion at this stage was due to
the fact that they did not yet understand the twofold coming of the Messiah and
were still expecting Messiah to set up the Kingdom at that time. The parallel
passage in Mark 9:9–13 adds the point that if Elijah had come before the First
Coming and restored all things, then all the prophecies of the sufferings of
the First Coming would remain unfulfilled. Elijah will indeed come <i>first,
but first before the Second Coming, not before the First Coming. John the
Baptist did not accomplish the ministry of restoration Elijah was to
accomplish.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> But then Messiah adds that in one sense John
the Baptist was Elijah. In what sense? Two other passages answer that. The
first is in Matthew 11:11–14:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Verily I say
unto you, Among them that are born of women there has not arisen a greater than
John the Baptist: yea he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater
than he. And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven
suffers violence, and men of violence take it by force. For all the prophets
and the law prophesied until John. And if ye are willing to receive it, this is
Elijah, that is to come.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> To understand what is being said, it should
be noted that Messiah is preaching the good news of the Kingdom (vv. 11–12). If
Israel would receive <i>it, that is, the Kingdom, then John the Baptist would
have fulfilled the function of Elijah and would have accomplished the ministry
of restoration. But the Kingdom was rejected, and hence, John the Baptist did
not fulfill the function of Elijah; thus, Elijah is yet to come to accomplish
the work of restoration.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[10]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b>Called “the
prophet”<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b>Elijah is
considered one of the greatest of the prophets. He is not called a writing
prophet because of not leaving any book like the ones from Isaiah to Malachi,
but he did write 4 verses (2 ch. 21:12-15)</b></span></p></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">He is mentioned
in the tenach 69 times (17:1-19:21; 21:17-28; 2 ki
1:1-17;2:1-15;3:11;9:36;10:10;17; 2 chr 21:12; mal 4:5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">He is called
Elias (Grk form of the name) 30 times in the apostolic scriptures/nt (mt.
11:14;16:14; 17:3-12;27:47-49; mk 6:15; 8:28;9:4-13;15:35-36; lk 1:17;4:25-26;
9:8,19,30,33,54; jn 1:21-25; rom 11:2; James 5:17)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Eliyahu – God
is YHWH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Elijah’s
origins- 3 different theories are presented in the Aggadah literature. #1. He
belonged to the Tribe of Gad. #2. He was a Benjamite from Jerusalem, identical
to the Elijah mentioned in 1 chron. 8:27 and #3. he was a priest. He also led a school of the prophets, known
as “the Sons of the Prophets”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b>Elijah's Miracles and His Prophecies</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-align: left;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Calling of
fire from heaven on the altar (1Ki 18:38)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Causing it
to rain (1Ki 18:45)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The prophecy that Ahab's sons would all be destroyed (1Ki 21:22)</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The prophecy that Jezebel would be eaten by dogs (1Ki 21:23)</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The prophecy that Ahaziah would die of his illness (2Ki 1:4)</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></li><li><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Calling fire from heaven upon the first 50 soldiers (2Ki 1:10)</b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></li><li><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Calling
fire from heaven upon the second 50 soldiers (2Ki 1:12)</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> Parting of the Jordan (2Ki 2:8)</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> </b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;">The prophecy that Elisha should have a double portion of his spirit (2Ki
2:10)</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Being caught up to heaven in a whirlwind (2Ki 2:11)</b></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> Parting of the Jordan (2Ki 2:8)</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> The prophecy that Elisha should have a double portion of his spirit (2Ki
2:10)</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> Being caught up to heaven in a whirlwind (2Ki 2:11) God’s intervention</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b> Parting of the Jordan (2Ki 2:8)</b> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b> The prophecy that Elisha should have a double portion of his spirit (2Ki
2:10)</b> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b> Being caught up to heaven in a whirlwind (2Ki 2:11) God’s intervention</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> Parting of the Jordan (2Ki 2:8)</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> The prophecy that Elisha should have a double portion of his spirit (2Ki
2:10)</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> Being caught up to heaven in a whirlwind (2Ki 2:11) God’s intervention</b></span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">The character
of Elijah<a href="file:///C:/Users/DMMTWOM/Dropbox/Articles%20for%20JSI/Faith%20Series/Elijah%20The%20Prophet.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[11]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Weaknesses: </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Fear</span></u></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> (1 Kings 19)- Right after God brought about a great miracle and
answered Elijah’s prayer on Mt. Carmel, Elijah grew afraid of Jezebel and ran
away. This demonstrated a lack of faith in God and His protection. (There are over 300 vs that tell us not to fear).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">It usually is
after our greatest victory the enemy comes in to steal our joy and faith. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Inconsistent/prone
to ups and downs- Elijah was a human. He experienced highs and lows in his
Sometimes he had an emotional high and then depression would follow. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jas 5:17 <b>Elijah
was a man with a nature like ours</b>, and he prayed earnestly that it might
not rain. And it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">In our weakness
God shows himself strong on our behalf<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Ps. 28:7-8, Ps.
37:39-40, Ps. 46:2-4, Isa. 40:29-31<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Psa 28:7</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Adonai is my strength and my
shield. My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped. Therefore my heart leaps for
joy, and I will praise Him with my song. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Psa 28:8
Adonai is their strength</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">—a stronghold of salvation for His anointed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Yet the salvation of the righteous is from Adonai. He is their
stronghold in time of trouble. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Adonai helps them and delivers them. He rescues them from the wicked and
saves them</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">—because they take refuge in Him.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Psa 46:2</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Therefore we will not fear, though the earth change, though the
mountains topple into the heart of the seas, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at their
swelling. Selah <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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He gives strength to the weary, and to one without vigor He adds might. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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but they who wait for Adonai will renew their strength. They will soar
up with wings as eagles. They will run, and not grow weary. They will walk, and
not be faint.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Strengths:</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> </span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Elijah was a dedicated servant of
the Lord in a time when it was very dangerous to even believe in or worship the
true God. There are many strengths in his life that we can learn from.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Faith</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> (1 Kings 17:1, 21;18)- There were several times in his life when
Elijah demonstrated great faith in God. He confronted Ahab at the very
beginning of the account, and God used him to bring a drought onto the land.
Soon after that he pleaded with God to raise up the dead boy and God listened
to him. The New Testament says that if we have faith we can move mountains and
Elijah is an example of someone who demonstrated this kind of faith. Another
example is his challenge to the prophets of Baal. He put his life on the line,
having faith that God would answer his prayer and show Himself to His people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">God expects His Children to Walk by
Faith/Trust In Him. Faith is not an option!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:1,6;
James 2:17-20 Romans 10:17, 2 Chron 20:20<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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11:1 Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of realities not seen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Heb 11:6</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Now without faith it is
impossible to please God. For the one who comes to God must believe that He
exists and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jas 2:17 So
also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jas 2:18
But someone will say, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">“You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith without works and
I will show you faith by my works. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jas 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">—and shudder! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jas 2:20
But do you want to know, you empty person, that faith without works is
dead?</span></p>
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So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Messiah.</span></p>
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Early in the morning they arose and went out into the wilderness of
Tekoa. As they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">“Listen to me, O
Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Adonai your God and you will be
confirmed. Trust in His prophets and you will succeed.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Obedience</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> (1 Kings 17:3,5; 17:9-10, 18:1-2)- On several occasions God gave
Elijah very difficult commands. He told him to go to a river and wait there and
the ravens would provide for him. Elijah did it. God told him to go and let a
poor widow provide for him. Elijah did it. God told him to go confront Ahab,
the king who hated him and wanted to kill him. Elijah did it. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">God expects His children to be
obedient to His Torah/Teachings and Instructions and to our Messiah Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Deut. 26:16, Josh 1:8, 1 Sam. 15:22. Matt
7:21, Acts 5:29<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Deu 26:16
This day Adonai your God is commanding you to do these statutes and
ordinances</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">—so you are to take care and do them with all your heart and with all
your soul.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jos 1:8
This book of the Torah should not depart from your mouth</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">—you are to
meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything
written in it. For then you will make your ways prosperous and then you will be
successful. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jos 1:9</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Have I not commanded you?
Chazak! Be strong! Do not be terrified or dismayed, for Adonai your God is with
you wherever you go.</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">”</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">1Sa 15:22
Samuel said: </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">“Does Adonai delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying
the voice of Adonai? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay heed than
the fat of rams.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Mat 7:21 </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">“Not everyone who
says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
will of My Father in heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Mat 7:22
Many will say to Me on that day, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">‘Lord, Lord, didn’t
we prophesy in Your name, and drive out demons in Your name, and perform many
miracles in Your name?’ <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Mat 7:23
Then I will declare to them, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">‘I never knew you. Get away from Me, you workers
of lawlessness!’”</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Act 5:29
Peter and the emissaries replied, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">“We must obey God
rather than men.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Courage-</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> On numerous occasions Elijah showed great courage by risking his
life in order to make a stand for God in front of the people or in front of
Ahab, hoping to encourage them to choose to serve God rather than Baal.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">God commands us NOT to fear man and
to be courageous in serving Him</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Joshua 1:6-7,
Deut. 31:6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Chazak! Be strong! For you will lead these people to inherit the land I
swore to their fathers to give them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Jos 1:7
Only be very strong, and resolute to observe diligently the Torah which
Moses, My servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the
left, so you may be successful wherever you go.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Deu 31:6
Chazak! Be courageous! Do not be afraid or tremble before them. For
Adonai your God</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">—He is the One who goes with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Selfless</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">- What was Elijah’s motivation for the major events in his life
(see 1 Kings 18:37)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">We are to Put God First and others
before ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Math 16:24,
Luke 14:26-27, Romans 8:13, Romans 15:1; Gal. 5:24<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Mat 16:24
Then Yeshua said to His disciples, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">“If anyone wants to
follow after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Mat 16:25</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> For whoever wants to save his
life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Luk 14:26 </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">“If anyone comes to
Me and does not hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and
sisters—and yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Luk 14:27</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Whoever does not carry his own
cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Rom 8:13
For if you live according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the
Ruach you put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Rom 8:14
For all who are led by the Ruach Elohim, these are sons of God.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Rom 15:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;"> Now we who are strong ought to
bear the weaknesses of the powerless and not just please ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Rom 15:2
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, for building him up.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Gal 5:24
Now those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its
passions and desires. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Gal 5:25 If
we live by the Ruach, let us also walk by the Ruach. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">Gal 5:26
Let us not become conceited</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;">—provoking one another, envying one another. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-37215047944882901052023-07-16T08:49:00.002-07:002023-07-16T08:49:54.079-07:00Areas of Spiritual Attack and the Weapon of Faith<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKETolFG8twLNQ6e-6XXlDL0voILRzj4OsKEVvzGgRUQroroG4HQtTXMX9BSmwlLl5pHcOFjpIApmOQo3St9qJnSOZVxKXN9K6nQm5IhJ4fpqh-J8AdjTIJpLcgbV-5PYFx4_aMRywu0zAG9ZXKl0wZGibs49UxzcPnx5FW--swNLaLvlLUPjOrmaXes/s3400/DMMTEACHTRAIN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="3400" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKETolFG8twLNQ6e-6XXlDL0voILRzj4OsKEVvzGgRUQroroG4HQtTXMX9BSmwlLl5pHcOFjpIApmOQo3St9qJnSOZVxKXN9K6nQm5IhJ4fpqh-J8AdjTIJpLcgbV-5PYFx4_aMRywu0zAG9ZXKl0wZGibs49UxzcPnx5FW--swNLaLvlLUPjOrmaXes/s320/DMMTEACHTRAIN.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Areas of Spiritual Attack and the Weapons of Our Warfare</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>According to our Messiah Yeshua, there are 3 areas of attack the enemy uses...</b></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">(Joh 10:10 TLV) T<b>he thief comes only to <u>steal, slaughter, and destroy</u></b>. I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly!</div><div><br /></div><div><div>(Joh 10:10 AMPC+) The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it N1 overflows).</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Three areas of attack:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Steal G2813</b></div><div>κλέπτω</div><div>kléptō; fut. klépsō. To steal. Used in an absolute sense (Mat_6:19-20; Mar_10:19; Luk_18:20; Joh_10:10; Rom_2:21; Eph_4:28). </div><div><br /></div><div><b>1. He wants to steal our finances that can be used for the Kingdom and the Gospel. He wants to steal our joy, our trust in God and His Word. The same thing he did with Adam and Chavah, he caused them to doubt the love and kindness of God and accused The Almighty of holding something good from them. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div>(Gen 3:1 TLV) But the serpent was shrewder than any animal of the field that Adonai Elohim made. So it said to the woman, <b>“Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from all the trees of the garden’?”</b></div><div>(Gen 3:2 TLV) The woman said to the serpent, “Of the fruit of the trees, we may eat.</div><div>(Gen 3:3 TLV) But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat of it and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”</div><div>(Gen 3:4 TLV) The serpent said to the woman, “You most assuredly won’t die!</div><div>(Gen 3:5 TLV) For God knows that when you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”</div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Kill G2380</b></div><div>θύω</div><div>thúō; fut. thúsō, aor. pass. etúthēn, perf. pass. téthumai. To sacrifice, to kill and offer in sacrifice (Act_14:13, Act_14:18; 1Co_10:20; Sept.: Gen_46:1; Exo_3:18; Exo_8:26). Generally (Joh_10:10; Sept.: Deu_12:15; 1Sa_28:24; 1Ki_19:21). </div><div><br /></div><div><b>2. He wants to kill us via sickness, disease, or accidents. He wants to kill our God-given Vision and calling with discouragement and the temptation to give up when the battle gets heated up. He wants to kill our trust and faithfulness via his lies. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Destroy G622</b></div><div>ἀπόλλυμι</div><div>apóllumi or apolúō; fut. apolésō, 2d aor. apōlómēn, perf. apolṓleka, 2d perf. apólōla, mid. fut. apoloúmai, from apó (G575) an intens., the mid. óllumi (n.f.), to destroy. The force of apó here is away or wholly; therefore, the verb is stronger than the simple óllumi. To destroy, mid. be destroyed, perish. Also from óllumi (n.f.): ólethros (G3639), rain, destruction.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>3. He wants to Destroy our Ministries, Marriages, and Relationships via a spirit of strife, gossip, anger, and the flesh. </b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>(Gal 5:16 TLV) But I say, walk by the Ruach, and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.</div><div>(Gal 5:17 TLV) For the flesh sets its desire against the Ruach, but the Ruach sets its desire against the flesh—for these are in opposition to one another, so that you cannot do what you want.</div><div>(Gal 5:18 TLV) But if you are led by the Ruach, you are not under law.</div><div>(Gal 5:19 TLV) Now the deeds of the flesh are clear: sexual immorality, impurity, indecency,</div><div>(Gal 5:20 TLV) idolatry, witchcraft, hostility, strife, jealousy, rage, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,</div><div>(Gal 5:21 TLV) envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, just as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.</div><div><div>(Gal 5:22 TLV) But the fruit of the Ruach is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,</div><div>(Gal 5:23 TLV) gentleness, and self-control—against such things there is no law.</div><div>(Gal 5:24 TLV) Now those who belong to Messiah have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.</div><div>(Gal 5:25 TLV) If we live by the Ruach, let us also walk by the Ruach.</div><div>(Gal 5:26 TLV) Let us not become conceited—provoking one another, envying one another.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>We counteract his methods with the Word of YHVH ELOHIM and with our Faith.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Yeshua said</div><div><br /></div><div>(Joh 10:10 TLV) The thief comes only to steal, slaughter, and destroy. <b><span style="color: red;">I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly!</span></b></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">(2Co 10:4 TLV) For the <b>weapons of our warfare</b> are not fleshly but powerful through God for the tearing down of strongholds. We are tearing down false arguments</p><p class="MsoNormal">(2Co 10:5 TLV) and every high-minded thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Messiah—</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A Study in Hebrews 11- Overview of
Faith <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Jewish Concepts of Faith. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The proper counterpart for the
general English term "faith" -as occurring in the expression
"principles of faith"- would be the concept of <i>Emunah</i></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_principles_of_faith#cite_note-chabad-1"><sup><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">[1]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> in Judaism. While it is generally translated
as <i>faith</i> or <i>trust</i> in God, the concept of
Emunah can more accurately be described as "an innate conviction, a
perception of truth that transcends (..) reason."</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_principles_of_faith#cite_note-chabad-1"><sup><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">[1]</span></sup></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> Emunah can be enhanced through wisdom, knowledge, understanding. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">18 Definitions of Faith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#1. Substance of things hoped for<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Biblical Faith gives us hope for our
future even when our circumstances are telling us just the opposite. Our faith can only be based upon the
faithfulness of God, past, present and future</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#2. Evidence of things not seen<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Word of God is our evidence that
what we are hoping for will manifest in His timing as long as our faith is
based upon His Word and His promises. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:1</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Now faith is the substance
of things hoped for, the evidence of realities not seen. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:1</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Trusting is being confident
of what we hope for, convinced about things we do not see. CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:1</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Now faith is the assurance
(title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the
evidence of things not seen [<i>the conviction of their reality--faith
comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses</i>]. Amp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Webster’s 1825 Dictionary</span></b></p>
<p class="Normal"><b><span lang="X-NONE">SUB'STANCE</span></b><span lang="X-NONE">, n. [L.
substantia, substo; sub and sto, to stand.]</span> </p>
<p class="Normal"><span lang="X-NONE">1. In a
general sense, being; something existing by itself; that which really is or
exists; equally applicable to matter or spirit. Thus the soul of man is called
an immaterial substance, a cogitative substance, a substance endued with
thought. We say, a stone is a hard substance, tallow is a soft substance.</span> </p>
<p class="Normal">2<span lang="X-NONE">. The
essential part; the main or material part. In this epitome, we have the
substance of the whole book.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span>3<span lang="X-NONE">. Something
real, not imaginary; something solid, not empty.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#3. Receive approval by God<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The great men and woman of The Bible
were great, not because of their intelligence, not because of wealth or power,
but because they believed what God said and acted upon it. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:2
For by this [<i>kind of</i>] faith the <sup>N1</sup>men of old gained [<i>divine</i>]
approval. Amp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:2</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> It was for this that
Scripture attested the merit of the people of old. CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:2</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> For by it the elders
received commendation. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#4 Creative Power of Divine Works<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">God spoke and it came into being. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span class="B"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">God said</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">(Genesis 1-2)</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">— This phrase,
which occurs so repeatedly in the account means: willed, decreed, appointed;
and the determining will of God was followed in every instance by an immediate
result. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Jamieson-Fauset-Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:3
By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God,
so that what is seen did not come from anything visible. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:3</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> By faith [<i>that is, with
an inherent trust and enduring confidence in the power, wisdom and goodness of
God</i>] we understand that the worlds (universe, ages) were framed <i>and</i>
created [<i>formed, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose</i>]
by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are
visible. AMP <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#5 Faith Produces Righteous Actions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In Jewish terms, Faith is an action.
If you believe, you act on what you believe. Faith is an action Word. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:4</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> By faith Abel offered to
God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which it was testified of
him that he was righteous (upright, in right standing with God), and God
testified by accepting his gifts. And though he died, yet through [<i>this act
of</i>] faith he still speaks. [Gen. 4:3-10] AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:4</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> By faith Abel offered God a
better sacrifice than Cain. Through faith he was commended as righteous when
God approved of his gifts. And through faith he still speaks, although he is
dead. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#6 Faith Can Cancel Natural Laws<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We see that even natural laws had to
obey when confronted with mighty power of God in the lives of great men of old.
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:5 By faith Enoch was taken so as not to see
death, and he was not found because God took him. For before he was taken, he
was commended as pleasing to God. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:5</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> By faith [<i>that pleased
God</i>] Enoch was caught up <i>and</i> taken to heaven so that he would not
have a glimpse of death; AND HE WAS NOT FOUND BECAUSE GOD HAD TAKEN HIM; for
even before he was taken [<i>to heaven</i>], he received the testimony [<i>still
on record</i>] that he had walked with God <i>and</i> pleased Him. [Gen.
5:21-24] AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#7 Faith Basis For Pleasing God<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Faith is not a suggestion, but a spiritual law that is to
be obeyed</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b>Heb 11:6</b> But without faith it is impossible to [<i>walk
with God and</i>] please Him, for whoever comes [<i>near</i>] to God must [<i>necessarily</i>]
believe that God exists and that He rewards those who [<i>earnestly and
diligently</i>] seek Him. AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:6</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Now without faith it is
impossible to please God. For the one who comes to God must believe that He
exists and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:6</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> And without trusting, it is
impossible to be well pleasing to God, because whoever approaches him must
trust that he does exist and that he becomes a Rewarder to those who seek him
out. CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#8 Faith Is Dependent On Gods Word</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b> Heb
11:7</b> By trusting, Noach, after
receiving divine warning about things as yet unseen, was filled with holy fear
and built an ark to save his household. Through this trusting, he put the world
under condemnation and received the righteousness that comes from
trusting. CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:7</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> By faith Noah, when warned
about events not yet seen, in holy fear prepared an ark for the safety of his
household. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the
righteousness that comes by faith. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:7</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> By faith [<i>with
confidence in God and His word</i>] Noah, being warned <i>by God</i> about
events not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his
family. By this [<i>act of obedience</i>] he condemned the world and became an
heir of the righteousness which comes by faith. [Gen. 6:13-22] AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#9 Faith Is Trust In God In An
Unknown Future</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:8
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he was
to receive as an inheritance. He went out, not knowing where he was going. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:9</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> By faith he migrated to the
land of promise as if it were foreign, dwelling in tents with Isaac and
Jacob—fellow heirs of the same promise. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:10
For he was waiting for the city that has foundations, whose architect and
builder is God. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#10
Faith Believes What It Can Not See<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is key, because faith goes
beyond sight to the very throne of God and His ability and might to bring about
supernatural provision and answers to prayer</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Heb
11:11 By faith even Sarah herself
received ability to conceive when she was barren and past the age, since she
considered the One who had made the promise to be faithful. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:12
So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous
as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rom 4:17
(as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations”). He is
our father in the sight of God in whom he trusted, who gives life to the dead
and calls into existence that which does not exist. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Rom 4:17</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b>(</b>as it is written [<i>in
Scripture</i>], "I HAVE MADE YOU A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS"<b>)</b> in
the sight of Him in whom he believed, that is, God <sup>N1</sup>who gives life
to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. [Gen. 17:5] <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#11
Faith Sees The Invisible <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Faith is bases upon God’s vision and
that we see through the eyes of God via His Word. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Heb
11:13 These all died in faith without
receiving the things promised—<b>but they saw them and welcomed them from afar</b>,
and they confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:14
For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a
homeland. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:15
If indeed they had been thinking about where they had come from, they
would have had opportunity to return. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:16</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> But as it is, they yearn
for a better land—that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be
called their God, for He has prepared a city for them. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#12
Faith Believes In God’s Faithfulness and Promises</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Heb
11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was
tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had received the promises was offering up
his one and only son— <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:18
the one about whom it was said, “Through Isaac offspring shall be named
for you.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:19
He reasoned that God was able to raise him up even from the dead—and in
a sense, he did receive him back from there. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#13
Faith Is Confident In Things To Come</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:20
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:21
By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and
he bowed in worship while leaning on the top of his staff. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:22
By faith Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the exodus of Bnei-Yisrael
and gave instructions about his bones. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:23
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his
parents, because they saw he was an extraordinary child and they were not
afraid of the king’s decree. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:24
By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh’s daughter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:25</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Instead he chose to suffer
mistreatment along with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the passing
pleasures of sin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:26
He considered the disgrace of Messiah as greater riches than the
treasures of Egypt—because he was looking ahead to the reward. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:27
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger—for he persevered
as if seeing the One who is invisible. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover and the smearing of the blood, so that the
destroyer of the firstborn would not touch them. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:29
By faith they passed through the Red Sea as if on dry ground. When the
Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were circled for
seven days. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:31
By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were
disobedient, because she welcomed the spies with shalom. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 3:6
But Messiah, as Son, is over God’s house—and we are His house, if we
hold firm to our boldness and what we are proud to hope. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 3:14
For we have become partners of Messiah, if we hold our original
conviction firm until the end. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:35
Do not, therefore, fling away your [<i>fearless</i>] confidence, for it
has a glorious <i>and</i> great reward. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:36
For you have need of patient endurance [<i>to bear up under difficult
circumstances without compromising</i>], so that when you have carried out the
will of God, you may receive <i>and</i> enjoy to the full what is promised. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:37
FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT
DELAY. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:38
BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE [<i>the one justified by faith</i>] SHALL LIVE BY
FAITH [<i>respecting man's relationship to God and trusting Him</i>]; AND IF HE
DRAWS BACK [<i>shrinking in fear</i>], MY SOUL HAS NO DELIGHT IN HIM. [Hab.
2:3-4] AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Eph 3:12</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> In Him we have boldness and
access with confidence through trusting in Him.
TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> 1Jn
3:21 Beloved, if our heart does not
convict us [<i>of guilt</i>], we have confidence [<i>complete assurance and
boldness</i>] before God; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1Jn 3:22</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> and we receive from Him
whatever we ask because we [<i>carefully and consistently</i>] keep His
commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight [<i>habitually
seeking to follow His plan for us</i>]. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1Jn 3:23
This is His commandment, that we believe [<i>with personal faith and
confident trust</i>] in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and [<i>that we
unselfishly</i>] love <i>and</i> seek the best for one another, just as He
commanded us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1Jn 3:24
The one who <i>habitually</i> keeps His commandments [<i>obeying His
word and following His precepts, abides and</i>] remains in Him, and He in him.
By this we know <i>and</i> have the proof that He [<i>really</i>] abides in us,
by the Spirit whom He has given us [<i>as a gift</i>]. AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#14
Faith That Obeys</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b> Heb 11:32</b>
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me if I tell of Gideon,
Barak, Samson, Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:33
By faith they conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained
promises, shut the mouths of lions, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:34
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made
strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, and made foreign armies flee. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:35
Women received their dead raised back to life; and others were tortured,
after not accepting release, so they might obtain a better resurrection. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> <b> </b>Heb 11:36
Others experienced the trial of mocking and scourging—yes, and even
chains and prison. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:37
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were murdered with the
sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins; they were destitute,
afflicted, mistreated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:38
The world was not worthy of them! They wandered around in deserts and
mountains, caves and holes in the ground. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:39
And all these, though commended for their faith, did not receive what
was promised— <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 11:40
because God had provided something better for us, so that only with us
would they reach perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 12:1</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Therefore, since we have
such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also get rid of every
weight and entangling sin. Let us run with endurance the race set before us, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 12:2
focusing on Yeshua, the initiator and perfecter of faith. For the joy
set before Him, He endured the cross, disregarding its shame; and He has taken
His seat at the right hand of the throne of God. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#15
Faith Is a Lifestyle of Trust In God</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Heb
10:38 But My righteous one shall live by
emunah; and if he shrinks back, My soul takes no pleasure in him.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:39
But we are not among the timid ones on the path to destruction, but
among the faithful ones on the path to the preservation of the soul. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:38
BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE [<i>the one justified by faith</i>] SHALL LIVE BY
FAITH [<i>respecting man's relationship to God and trusting Him</i>]; AND IF HE
DRAWS BACK [<i>shrinking in fear</i>], MY SOUL HAS NO DELIGHT IN HIM. [Hab.
2:3-4] <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:39</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> But <sup>N1</sup>our way is
not that of those who shrink back to destruction, but [<i>we are</i>] of those
who believe [<i>relying on God through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah</i>] <i>and</i>
by this confident faith preserve the soul.
AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#16
Faith Is a Shield</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Eph
6:16 Above all, lift up the [<i>protective</i>]
<sup>N1</sup>shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming
arrows of the evil <i>one</i>. AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Eph 6:16</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Always carry the shield of
trust, with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the
Evil One. CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Eph 6:16</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Above all, take up the
shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming
arrows of the evil one. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#17
Faith Has Hope In the Future</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Heb
3:6 But Messiah, as Son, is over God’s
house—and we are His house, if we hold firm to our boldness and what we are
proud to hope. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 3:12
Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil heart of
unbelief that falls away from the living God. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 3:13
But encourage one another day by day—as long as it is called “Today”—so
that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 3:14
For we have become partners of Messiah, if we hold our original
conviction firm until the end. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Heb
6:11 But we long for each of you to show
the same eagerness for the certainty of hope to the very end— <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 6:12
so you will not be sluggish, but imitators of those inheriting the
promises through trust and perseverance. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 6:11
And we desire for each one of you to show the same diligence [<i>all the
way through</i>] so as to realize <i>and</i> enjoy the full assurance of hope
until the end, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 6:12</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> so that you will not be [<i>spiritually</i>]
sluggish, but [<i>will instead be</i>] imitators of those who through faith [<i>lean
on God with absolute trust and confidence in Him and in His power</i>] and by
patient endurance [<i>even when suffering</i>] are [<i>now</i>] inheriting the
promises. AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Heb
10:22 let us approach [<i>God</i>] with
a true <i>and</i> sincere heart in unqualified assurance of faith, having had
our hearts sprinkled <i>clean</i> from an evil conscience and our bodies washed
with pure water. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:23
Let us seize <i>and</i> hold tightly the confession of our hope without
wavering, for He who promised is reliable <i>and</i> trustworthy <i>and</i>
faithful [<i>to His word</i>]; AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:35
Do not, therefore, fling away your [<i>fearless</i>] confidence, for it
has a glorious <i>and</i> great reward. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:36
For you have need of patient endurance [<i>to bear up under difficult
circumstances without compromising</i>], so that when you have carried out the
will of God, you may receive <i>and</i> enjoy to the full what is promised. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:37
FOR YET IN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, HE WHO IS COMING WILL COME, AND WILL NOT
DELAY. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:38
BUT MY RIGHTEOUS ONE [<i>the one justified by faith</i>] SHALL LIVE BY
FAITH [<i>respecting man's relationship to God and trusting Him</i>]; AND IF HE
DRAWS BACK [<i>shrinking in fear</i>], MY SOUL HAS NO DELIGHT IN HIM. [Hab.
2:3-4] <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heb 10:39
But <sup>N1</sup>our way is not that of those who shrink back to
destruction, but [<i>we are</i>] of those who believe [<i>relying on God
through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah</i>] <i>and</i> by this confident
faith preserve the soul. AMP</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">#18
Faith Guarantees Answered Prayer</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Mat
21:21 Jesus replied to them, "I
assure you <i>and</i> most solemnly say to you, if you have faith [<i>personal
trust and confidence in Me</i>] and do not doubt <i>or</i> allow yourself to be
drawn in two directions, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree,
but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and thrown into the sea,' it
will happen [<i>if God wills it</i>]. [1Jn. 5:14] <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mat 21:22
And whatever you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive."</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">AMP</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mat 21:21</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"> Yeshua answered them,
“Amen, I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do
what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken
up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mat 21:22
And whatever you ask in prayer, trusting, you shall receive.” TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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11:22 And Yeshua answered, saying to them,
“<b>Have faith in God</b>! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mar 11:23
Amen, I tell you, if someone says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and
thrown into the sea,’ and <b>does not doubt in his heart but trusts that what
he says is happening, so shall it be for him. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mar 11:24
For this reason I say to you, whatever you pray and ask, believe that
you have received it, and it will be yours. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mar 11:25
Whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive
him, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your transgressions.”
TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mar 11:22
Jesus replied, "Have faith in God [<i>constantly</i>]. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mar 11:23
I assure you <i>and</i> most solemnly say to you, whoever says to this
mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!' and <sup>N1</sup>does not
doubt in his heart [<i>in God's unlimited power</i>], but believes that what he
says is going to take place, it will be done for him [<i>in accordance with
God's will</i>]. [Mat. 17:20; Luke 17:6; 1Jn. 5:14] <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Mar 11:24
For this reason I am telling you, whatever things you ask for in prayer
[<i>in accordance with God's will</i>], believe [<i>with confident trust</i>]
that you have received them, and they will be <i>given</i> to you. AMP<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:2
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:4
And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and
complete, lacking in nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:5
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all
without hesitation and without reproach; and it will be given to him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting—for the one who doubts is
like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. TLV<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:2
Consider it nothing but joy, my <sup>N1</sup>brothers and sisters,
whenever you fall into various trials. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:3
Be assured that the testing of your faith [<i>through experience</i>]
produces endurance [<i>leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace</i>]. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:4
And let endurance have its perfect result <i>and</i> do a thorough work,
so that you may be perfect and completely developed [<i>in your faith</i>],
lacking in nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom [<i>to guide him through a decision or
circumstance</i>], he is to ask of [<i>our benevolent</i>] God, who gives to
everyone generously and without rebuke <i>or</i> blame, and it will be given to
him. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Jas 1:6
But he must ask [<i>for wisdom</i>] in faith, without doubting [<i>God's
willingness to help</i>], for the one who doubts is like a billowing surge of
the sea that is blown about and tossed by the wind.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">AMP</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"With faith, there are no
questions; without faith there are no answers. " ~~ The Chofetz Chaim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Faith is not a series of
theorems but a way of life." ~~ Shmuel Hugo Bergman</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Man can never be happy if he
does not nourish his soul as he does his body." ~~ Rebbe Manachen
Schneerson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Faith is the root and
foundation of all holiness." ~~ Nachman of Bratslav<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">6.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Faith is the essence of
Torah." ~~ Mivchar Hapeninim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"There is no love without total
faith." ~~ No’am Hamiddot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"The righteous man shall live
by his faith. " ~~ Habakkuk (Chabakuk) 2:4<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Faith is beyond intelligence and perception." ~~ Shneur
Zalman, Tanya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">10.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"There is nothing greater than faith." ~~ Mivchar
Hapeninim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 40.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">11.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"No man is rewarded because God owes it to him, but God grants
reward out of His grace." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></div><div><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>( </div>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-14221324814471593062023-07-10T11:18:00.002-07:002023-07-10T11:19:11.845-07:00Is There Something in Your Eye?<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> <b style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">How
To Get The Beam Out of Your Eye and Stop Looking for The Specks In Others</span></b></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;">Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Mat 7:2 For the way you judge others is how you will
be judged</span><span lang="X-NONE">—the measure
with which you measure out will be used to measure to you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat 7:3 Why do you see the splinter in your brother's
eye but not notice the log in your own eye? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat 7:4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take
the splinter out of your eye,' when you have the log in your own eye? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat 7:5 You hypocrite! First, take the log out of
your own eye; then you will see clearly, so that you can remove the splinter
from your brother's eye! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Speck </span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE">G2595<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">κα</span><span lang="X-NONE">́ρφος</span><span lang="X-NONE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">karphos<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="I"><span lang="X-NONE">kar'-fos</span></span><span lang="X-NONE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">From κα</span><span lang="X-NONE">́ρφω</span><span lang="X-NONE"> karpho (to <span class="I">wither</span>); a dry <span class="I">twig</span>
or <span class="I">straw:</span> - mote.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p align="center" class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 8.4pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.4pt; margin: 8.4pt 0in; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Stick of Timber
</span></b><b><span lang="X-NONE">G1385<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">δοκο</span><span lang="X-NONE">́ς</span><span lang="X-NONE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">dokos<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="I"><span lang="X-NONE">dok-os'</span></span><span lang="X-NONE"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">From G1209 (through the idea of <span class="I">holding</span> up); a <span class="I">stick</span> of timber: - beam.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">In The Body of Messiah, we have all
been guilty of this, especially with leadership. </span> Leaders are expected to
overlook every flaw in the people they lead, however, they are not allowed to
have any human frailty or weakness. Our
lives are put under the microscope and heaven forbid if a blemish pops up and
we are found not to be perfect but flawed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">I am not
speaking about overlooking sins like adultery or sins that have no place in any
believer’s life. I am talking about
shortcomings, that we all have and have 20/20 vision when it comes to someone
else’s flaws, but our totally blind to our own.</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">However, the
fact is if we were truthful with ourselves we all are a work in progress and we
are imperfect people, living in an imperfect sinful world, trying our best to
be perfect in other’s eyes. Trying to
gain the approval of men instead of God.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">We are all
experts on other people’s faults, in fact, we are Ph.D.s in the school of
criticism of others. Yes, I am just as
guilty as anyone. When someone points
out my faults, I am crushed, because I feel like I have failed in being the
perfect leader that God has called me to be. And yes, I have to fight pride and
anger and allow the Ruach HaKodesh to do the repair work and restoration work
He needs to do within me so I can help others be restored. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">The only
perfect leader and person who ever walked upon this Earth was and is Yeshua.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">We expect our
leaders to show us, Grace, in our frailties, however, do we do the same thing in
return to those who lead? Do we allow
them occasionally to be human, not perfect?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">Yes, we are to
correct in a spirit of love, lest we find ourselves in the same situation as
the one who is being corrected.
However, some believers feel that God has called them to be the national
fruit inspectors of others' spiritual fruit, but not their own.</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">As we look at
the great men and women of God in the Bible, most of them were not perfect,
they had flaws, yet God still used them and even put them in His Book so we
could learn from both their failures and their successes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">When we are
criticized or corrected by others, what is our reaction? Are we angry or thankful? Do we take a good
hard look at ourselves and ask God to help us overcome the faults in our lives?
Are we crushed and bruised and run to
the Father for healing and forgiveness?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">I tend to be a
perfectionist, a flaw I have been working on my whole life. This was due to childhood experiences and
trauma that did not go away the minute I was Born Again, no I am a work in
progress, but every day I am victorious.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">So, when I am
corrected, especially by others who are flawed as well, I feel like I have
failed God and others. No one is more
grieved then myself when I feel that I have been a disappointment to others. However, I am so thankful that the God we
serve, Baruch HaShem, is bigger than our flaws.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Here is a list
of some great people of faith in the Bible that probably would be the least
likely to be used by God in man's opinion, but God saw the heart and willingness to repent and serve Him. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Abraham – Lied
about Sarah being his wife because of fear<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Gen_20:2</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> And Abraham said of <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">Sarah</span>
his wife, She <i><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">is</span></i> <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">my</span> <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">sister</span>: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">Sarah</span>.</span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Moses -
disobeyed God’s instruction to speak to the Rock<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Num_20:10</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> And <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">Moses</span> and Aaron gathered
the congregation together before the <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">rock</span>, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye
rebels; must we fetch you water out of this <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">rock</span>?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Num_20:11</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> And <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">Moses</span> lifted up his hand,
and with his rod he smote the <span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 64);">rock</span> twice: and the water came out abundantly, and
the congregation drank, and their beasts <i>also.</i></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Miriam- spoke against Moses committing Lashon Hara<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Num 12:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> Miryam and Aharon began criticizing Moshe on
account of the Ethiopian woman he had married, for he had in fact married an
Ethiopian woman. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Num 12:2 They said, "Is it true that Adonai has
spoken only with Moshe? Hasn't he spoken with us too?" Adonai heard them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Num 12:8 With him I speak face to face and clearly,
not in riddles; he sees the image of Adonai. So why weren't you afraid to
criticize my servant Moshe?" <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Num 12:9 The anger of Adonai flared up against them,
and he left. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Num 12:10</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> But when the cloud was removed from above the
tent, Miryam had tzara`at, as white as snow. Aharon looked at Miryam, and she
was as white as snow.</span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Aaron- allowed the people to build a Golden Calf <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Exo 32:2 Aharon said to them, "Have your wives,
sons and daughters strip off their gold earrings; and bring them to me." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Exo 32:3 The people stripped off their gold earrings
and brought them to Aharon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Exo 32:4</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> He received what they gave him, melted it
down, and made it into the shape of a calf. They said, "Isra'el! Here is
your god, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!" <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Exo 32:5 On seeing this, Aharon built an altar in
front of it and proclaimed, "Tomorrow is to be a feast for Adonai." </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Samson- Chased
the wrong kind of woman<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">dg_16:9</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner
chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, <span style="background: yellow;">Samson</span>!"
But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the
fire. So the secret of his strength was not known. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Jdg_16:10</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> Then Delilah said to <span style="background: yellow;">Samson</span>, "Behold, you
have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Jdg_16:12</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with
them and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, <span style="background: yellow;">Samson</span>!"
And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes
off his arms like a thread. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Jdg_16:13</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> Then Delilah said to <span style="background: yellow;">Samson</span>, "Until now you
have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound." And he
said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and
fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other
man." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Jdg_16:14</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> So while he slept, Delilah took the seven
locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the
pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, <span style="background: yellow;">Samson</span>!"
But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.</span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">David - had an
affair with a married woman and had her husband killed<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">2Sa 11:1 In the spring, at the time when kings go out
to war, David sent out Yo'av, his servants who were with him and all Isra'el.
They ravaged the people of `Amon and laid siege to Rabbah. But David stayed in
Yerushalayim. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">2Sa 11:2 Once, after his afternoon nap, David got up
from his bed and went strolling on the roof of the king's palace. From the roof
he saw a woman bathing, who was very beautiful. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">2Sa 11:3</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> David made inquiries about the woman and was
told that she was Bat-Sheva the daughter of Eli`am, the wife of Uriyah the
Hitti. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">2Sa 11:4 David sent messengers to get her, and she
came to him, and he went to bed with her (for she had been purified from her
uncleanness). Then she returned to her house. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">2Sa 11:5 The woman conceived; and she sent a message
to David, "I am pregnant." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">2Sa
11:14 In the morning David wrote a
letter to Yo'av and sent it with Uriyah. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">2Sa
11:15 In the letter he wrote, "Put
Uriyah on the front lines of the fiercest fighting; then pull back from him, so
that he will be wounded and killed."</span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Jonah - ran
from God’s calling<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Jon 1:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> The word of Adonai came to Yonah the son of
Amitai: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Jon 1:2 "Set out for the great city of Ninveh,
and proclaim to it that their wickedness has come to my attention." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Jon 1:3 But Yonah, in order to get away from Adonai,
prepared to escape to Tarshish. He went down to Yafo, found a ship headed for
Tarshish, paid the fare and went aboard, intending to travel with them to
Tarshish and get away from Adonai.</span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Peter - denied
he was a follower of Yeshua prior to the resurrection<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:30 After singing the Hallel, they
went out to the Mount of Olives. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:31 Yeshua then said to them,
"Tonight you will all lose faith in me, as the Tanakh says, 'I will strike
the shepherd dead, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.' <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:32 But after I have been raised, I
will go ahead of you into the Galil." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:33 "I will never lose faith in
you," Kefa answered, "even if everyone else does." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:34 Yeshua said to him, "Yes! I
tell you that tonight before the rooster crows, you will disown me three
times!" <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:35 "Even if I must die with
you," Kefa replied, "I will never disown you!" And all the
talmidim said the same thing<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:69 Kefa was sitting outside in the
courtyard when a servant girl came up to him. "You too were with Yeshua
from the Galil," she said. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Mat
26:70 But he denied it in front of
everyone</span><span lang="X-NONE">—"I don't know what you're talking
about!" <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:71 He went out onto the porch, and
another girl saw him and said to the people there, "This man was with Yeshua
of Natzeret." <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
26:72 Again he denied it, swearing,
"I don't know the man!"</span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Paul – killed
followers of Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Act 8:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> and Sha'ul gave his approval to his murder.
Starting with that day, there arose intense persecution against the Messianic
Community in Yerushalayim; all but the emissaries were scattered throughout the
regions of Y'hudah and Shomron. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Act 8:2 Some godly men buried Stephen and mourned him
deeply. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Act 8:3 But Sha'ul set out to destroy the Messianic
Community</span><span lang="X-NONE">—entering
house after house, he dragged off both men and women and handed them over to be
put in prison. </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">John called Mark – was
considered useless by Paul<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Act 15:36 TLV) After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return and visit the brothers and sisters in every city where we have proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are.”</span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Act 15:37 TLV) Barnabas was planning to take along John, called Mark.</span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Act 15:38 TLV) But Paul was insisting that they shouldn’t take him along—the one who had deserted them in Pamphylia, not accompanying them in the work.</span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Act 15:39 TLV) A sharp disagreement took place, so that they split off from one another. Barnabas took Mark with him and sailed away to Cyprus.</span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Act 15:40 TLV) But Paul selected Silas and went out, being entrusted by the brothers and sisters to the gracious care of the Lord.</span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Act 15:41 TLV) He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the communities.</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Did God
overlook their sin? No, but it did not
stop Him from restoring them and using them because He saw something in them
that no one could see – FAITH and a BROKEN SPIRIT of REPENTANCE.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Forgiveness and
Restoration<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>We should
always pray that if a brother has fallen, or minister that they be
restored. I am shocked by how people have
websites and blogs dedicated to destroying people’s lives and ministries
because they don’t agree with them. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>The Bible does
speak about a procedure when sin is found in the Body of Messiah, but it also
speaks of restoration as well. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>We need to
guard against the sin of a haughty self-righteous spirit, where we are quick to
criticize others but not look into our own failings and faults. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Jas 4:11</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> Brothers, stop speaking against each other!
Whoever speaks against a brother or judges a brother is speaking against Torah
and judging Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of what Torah
says, but a judge. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Jas 4:12 There is but one Giver of Torah; he is also
the Judge, with the power to deliver and to destroy. Who do you think you are,
judging your fellow human being?</span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">1Jn 5:16</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> If anyone sees his brother committing a sin
that does not lead to death, he will ask; and God will give him life for those
whose sinning does not lead to death. There is sin that does lead to death; I
am not saying he should pray about that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Jn 5:17 All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that
does not lead to death. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Jn 5:18 We know that everyone who has God as his
Father does not go on sinning; on the contrary, the Son born of God protects
him, and the Evil One does not touch him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Jn 5:19 We know that we are from God, and that the
whole world lies in the power of the Evil One. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and
has given us discernment, so that we may know who is genuine; moreover, we are
united with the One who is genuine, united with his Son Yeshua the Messiah. He
is the genuine God and eternal life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">1Jn 5:21 Children, guard yourselves against false
gods! </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Mat 18:15</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> "Moreover, if your brother commits a sin
against you, go and show him his fault</span><span lang="X-NONE">—but privately, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you
have won back your brother. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Mat
18:16 If he doesn't listen, take one or
two others with you so that every accusation can be supported by the testimony
of two or three witnesses. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Mat
18:17 If he refuses to hear them, tell
the congregation; and if he refuses to listen even to the congregation, treat
him as you would a pagan or a tax-collector. </span> CJB</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Yeshua the
restorer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk
22:31 "Shim`on, Shim`on, listen!
The Adversary demanded to have you people for himself, to sift you like wheat! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Luk 22:32</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> But I prayed for you, Shim`on, that your
trust might not fail. And you, once you have turned back in repentance,
strengthen your brothers!"</span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Repentance is a
gift from the Father to bring Restoration to His people. In turn, when a brother truly repents, we are
to receive them back and also not keep a record and remind them what they did
wrong. </b></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Mat 6:12</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> Forgive us what we have done wrong, as we too
have forgiven those who have wronged us. </span>CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Eph_4:32</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> Instead, be kind to each other,
tenderhearted; and <span style="background: yellow;">forgive</span> each other, just as in the Messiah God has
also forgiven you. </span>CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">Col_3:13</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> Bear with one another; if anyone has a
complaint against someone else, <span style="background: yellow;">forgive</span> him. Indeed, just as the Lord has forgiven
you, so you must <span style="background: yellow;">forgive</span>. </span>CJB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt; margin: 3pt 0in; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><u><span lang="X-NONE">1Jn_1:9</span></u><span lang="X-NONE"> If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is
trustworthy and just, he will <span style="background: yellow;">forgive</span> them and purify us from all wrongdoing. </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;">Nobody is above
being corrected scripturally, however if you are one who corrects people, then
you need to be willing to be corrected as well.
However Words can Heal and Words can Kill, so use them wisely and bring
healing and restoration.</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Compassion and
Mercy<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Jas 3:18</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> And peacemakers who sow seed in peace raise a
harvest of righteousness.</span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa
19:12 Who can discern inintentional
sins? Cleanse me from hidden faults. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>How come we can
so easily discern the faults of others, yet we do not deal with our own hidden
faults? We need to ask the Ruach
HaKodesh to search our hearts and to help us with our own faults.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know
my thoughts: <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 4pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 139:24 And see if <i>there be any</i> wicked way in me, and
lead me in the way everlasting. </span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Mat 23:23</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> "Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers
and P'rushim! You pay your tithes of mint, dill and cumin; but you have
neglected the weightier matters of the Torah</span><span lang="X-NONE">—justice, mercy, trust. These are the things you should have attended
to—without neglecting the others! </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Mat 9:13</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> As for you, go and learn what this means: 'I
want compassion rather than animal-sacrifices.' For I didn't come to call the
'righteous,' but sinners!" </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Treat </b>people the way you want to be treated.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Forgive</b> people the way you want to be forgiven.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Restore</b> the broken, just like you would want to be
restored.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Speak</b> about people the way you want to be spoken
about.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Love </b>people the way you want to be loved and the
way Yeshua loves you. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;"><b>See yourself</b> the way the Father sees you, Holy,
blameless and righteous In Messiah.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Respect</b> others the way you want to be respected.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;">Instead of
looking at a person’s faults, find something about them that is good.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: times;">Pray for those
who are struggling and hurting and need deliverance, the same way you would
want someone to pray for you when you are struggling. </span></li></ul><p></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Gal 6:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> Brothers, suppose someone is caught doing
something wrong. You who have the Spirit should set him right, but in a spirit
of humility, keeping an eye on yourselves so that you won't be tempted too. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Gal 6:2 Bear one another's burdens</span><span lang="X-NONE">—in this way you will be fulfilling the
Torah's true meaning, which the Messiah upholds. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Gal 6:3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he
is really nothing, he is fooling himself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Gal 6:4 So let each of you scrutinize his own
actions. Then if you do find something to boast about, at least the boasting
will be based on what you have actually done and not merely on a judgment that
you are better than someone else; <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Gal 6:5 for each person will carry his own load. </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">We need to make
Love a way of Life. Not only with those who love us, but also with those who do
not love us. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:27 Nevertheless, to you who are listening, what
I say is this: "Love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who
mistreat you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:29 "If someone hits you on one cheek, offer
the other too; if someone takes your coat, let him have your shirt as well. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:30 "If someone asks you for something, give
it to him; if someone takes what belongs to you, don't demand it back. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:31 "Treat other people as you would like
them to treat you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Luk 6:32</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> What credit is it to you if you love only
those who love you? Why, even sinners love those who love them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:33 What credit is it to you if you do good only
to those who do good to you? Even sinners do that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:34 What credit is it to you if you lend only to
those who you expect will pay you back? Even sinners lend to each other,
expecting to be repaid in full. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Luk 6:35 But love your enemies, do good, and lend
expecting nothing back! Your reward will be great, and you will be children of
Ha`Elyon; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">Luk 6:36 Show compassion, just as your Father shows
compassion. </span>CJB</span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">1Co 13:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> I may speak in the tongues of men, even
angels; but if I lack love, I have become merely blaring brass or a cymbal
clanging. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span lang="X-NONE">1Co 13:2 I may have the gift of prophecy, I may fathom
all mysteries, know all things, have all faith</span><span lang="X-NONE">—enough to move mountains; but if I lack love, I am nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Co 13:3 I may give away everything that I own, I may
even hand over my body to be burned; but if I lack love, I gain nothing. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Co 13:4 Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not
boastful, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Co 13:5 not proud, rude or selfish, not easily
angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Co 13:6 Love does not gloat over other people's sins
but takes its delight in the truth. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">1Co 13:7 Love always bears up, always trusts, always
hopes, always endures. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>I am so
grateful, that God looked past my faults and loved me anyway, and forgave me
anyway and made me His child, as imperfect as I am. Praise The Almighty for His gift of repentance and forgiveness so we can continue to be perfected in Messiah Yeshua, for His Kingdom and His Glory. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 6.7pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.7pt; margin: 6.7pt 0in; mso-pagination: none;"><b><span style="font-family: times;">Lets us pray as
David prayed, in true humility<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Psa 51:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"> [<i>For the leader. A psalm of David,</i> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:2 <i>when Natan the prophet came to him after
his affair with Bat-Sheva:</i>] <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:3 God, in your grace, have mercy on me; in your
great compassion, blot out my crimes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:4 Wash me completely from my guilt, and cleanse
me from my sin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:5 For I know my crimes, my sin confronts me all
the time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:6 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done
what is evil from your perspective; so that you are right in accusing me and
justified in passing sentence. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:7 True, I was born guilty, was a sinner from
the moment my mother conceived me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:8 Still, you want truth in the inner person; so
make me know wisdom in my inmost heart. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:9 Sprinkle me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa
51:10 Let me hear the sound of joy and
gladness so that the bones you crushed can rejoice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa
51:11 Turn away your face from my sins and blot out all my crimes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa
51:12 Create in me a clean heart, God;
renew in me a resolute spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa 51:13 Don't thrust me away from your presence,
don't take your Ruach Kodesh away from me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa
51:14 Restore my joy in your salvation and let a willing spirit uphold me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: times;">Psa
51:15 Then I will teach the wicked your
ways, and sinners will return to you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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51:16 Rescue me from the guilt of
shedding blood, God, God of my salvation! Then my tongue will sing about your
righteousness</span><span lang="X-NONE">—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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51:17 Adonai, open my lips; then my
mouth will praise you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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51:18 For you don't want sacrifices, or
I would give them; you don't take pleasure in burnt offerings. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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51:19 My sacrifice to God is a broken
spirit; God, you won't spurn a broken, chastened heart. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-61737839329643862632022-12-29T06:28:00.004-08:002022-12-29T06:28:55.731-08:00<p> <span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">Shalom
Mishpocha,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">First,
we want to thank you for your support, not just financially, but your love and
prayers as well. We know that this has been a rough year for all of us,
yet we are more than conquerors through Messiah Yeshua. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:50 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Now I say
this, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God, and what decays cannot inherit what does not decay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:51 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Behold, I
tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:52 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar. For the shofar will
sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:53 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> For this
corruptible must put on incorruptibility , and this mortal must put on
immortality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:54 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> But when
this corruptible will have put on incorruptibility and this mortal will have
put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death
is swallowed up in victory.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:55 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> “Where, O
Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:56 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Now the
sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the Torah.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:57 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <b>But
thanks be to God, who keeps giving us the victory through our Lord Yeshua the
Messiah!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(1Co 15:58 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Therefore,
my dearly loved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work
of the Lord—because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
all have had our battles, there is no believer who is exempt from spiritual
warfare, but He has told us to be strong in Him and the power of His MIGHT, not
our might, but His Might. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Eph 6:10 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> In conclusion,
<b>be strong in the Lord</b> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">draw your strength
from Him and be empowered through your union with Him</span></i>] <b>and in the
power of His</b> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">boundless</span></i>] might.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
may not have everything we want, but He will provide all our NEEDS, in our
ministry, our families and in what He has called us to do for His
Kingdom. We must keep our minds on Him and what He has called us each to
do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Php 4:19 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> My God will
fulfill every need of yours according to the riches of His glory in Messiah
Yeshua.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Isa 26:3 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> You keep in
<b>perfect peace</b></span><b>/shalom</b><span lang="X-NONE"> one
whose mind is stayed on You, because <b>he trusts in You.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Isa 26:4 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Trust in
Adonai forever, for the LORD Adonai is a Rock of ages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Php 4:8 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Finally, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #79791c; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">N1</span><span lang="X-NONE">believers,
whatever is true, whatever is honorable <span class="EM">and</span> worthy of
respect, whatever is right <span class="EM">and</span> confirmed by God's word,
whatever is pure <span class="EM">and</span> wholesome, whatever is lovely <span class="EM">and</span> brings peace, whatever is admirable <span class="EM">and</span>
of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of
praise, think <span class="EM">continually</span> on these things [<i><span style="color: #757575;">center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart</span></i>].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
a privilege it is to serve Him, to be loved by Him in Messiah Yeshua. At
times, the enemy would have us think that we are losing the battle, but he is a
liar, everyday that we walk with Abba and Messiah Yeshua we are defeating the
Kingdom of hasatan. We need to continually thank Him daily, for everyday
that we can serve His Kingdom. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Isa 40:31 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> But those
who wait for the LORD [<i><span style="color: #757575;">who expect, look for, and
hope in Him</span></i>] Will gain new strength <span class="EM">and</span> renew
their power; They will lift up their wings [<i><span style="color: #757575;">and
rise up close to God</span></i>] like eagles [<i><span style="color: #757575;">rising
toward the sun</span></i>]; They will run and not become weary, They will walk
and not grow tired. [</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Heb_12:1-3</span></u><span lang="X-NONE">]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 12:1 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Therefore,
since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #79791c; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">N1</span><span lang="X-NONE">witnesses
[<i><span style="color: #757575;">who by faith have testified to the truth of
God's absolute faithfulness</span></i>], stripping off every unnecessary weight
and the sin which so easily <span class="EM">and</span> cleverly entangles us,
let us run with endurance <span class="EM">and</span> active persistence the race
that is set before us,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 12:2 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">looking away from all that will distract us and</span></i>]
focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith [<i><span style="color: #757575;">the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings
our faith to maturity</span></i>], who for the joy [<i><span style="color: #757575;">of
accomplishing the goal</span></i>] set before Him endured the cross, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #79791c; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">N1</span><span lang="X-NONE">disregarding
the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God [<i><span style="color: #757575;">revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of
His work</span></i>]. [</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Psa_110:1</span></u><span lang="X-NONE">]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 12:3 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Just
consider <span class="EM">and</span> meditate on Him who endured from sinners
such bitter hostility against Himself [<i><span style="color: #757575;">consider
it all in comparison with your trials</span></i>], so that you will not grow
weary and lose heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">The Father knows all the tests and trials you have endured, and He has
not forgotten your labor of love for His Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 6:10 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> For God is
not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown for His
name in ministering to [<i><span style="color: #757575;">the needs of</span></i>]
the saints (God's people), as you do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 6:11 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> And we
desire for each one of you to show the same diligence [<i><span style="color: #757575;">all the way through</span></i>] so as to realize <span class="EM">and</span> enjoy the full assurance of hope until the end,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 6:12 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> so that you
will not be [<i><span style="color: #757575;">spiritually</span></i>] sluggish,
but [<i><span style="color: #757575;">will instead be</span></i>] imitators of
those who through faith [<i><span style="color: #757575;">lean on God with
absolute trust and confidence in Him and in His power</span></i>] and by
patient endurance [<i><span style="color: #757575;">even when suffering</span></i>]
are [<i><span style="color: #757575;">now</span></i>] inheriting the promises.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">He sees every tear you have shed for your family, for the lost and the
test and trials you have endured for the sake of the Gospel/Besorah of Messiah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa 126:5 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Those who
sow in tears will reap with a song of joy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Psa 126:6 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Whoever
keeps going out weeping, carrying his bag of seed, will surely come back with a
song of joy, carrying his sheaves.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">What a privileged it is to be His Servant and that He has called us for
such a time as this! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Est 4:13 CJB)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> asked them
to give Ester this answer: "Don't suppose that merely because you happen
to be in the royal palace you will escape any more than the other Jews.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Est 4:14 CJB)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> For if you
fail to speak up now, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from a
different direction; but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows
whether you didn't come into your royal position precisely <b>for such a time
as this</b>."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
all have a calling and purpose, and as a Community we are stronger when we
unite in His plans and purposes vs individually. That is the purpose of
Community…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Ecc 4:9 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <b>Two are
better than one</b>, because they get a good return for their effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Ecc 4:10 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> For if they
fall, the one will lift up his companion. But oy to the one who falls and has
no one to lift him up!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Ecc 4:11 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE">
Furthermore, if two lie together, then they will be warm. But how can one keep
warm alone?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">We
need to fight the distractions that take us away from His plan for our lives in
the coming year 2023/5783 and be committed to walking in obedience to His
calling and His purpose for our lives. We need to prepare ourselves for
the Wedding Feast of Messiah Yeshua. Things may be getting darker, but we
are walking in the light and have a great eternal future to look forward to as
we serve Him faithfully in the years, He has allotted us in this life.
Everyday is a new beginning in Him and we need to draw even closer to Him
and one another in the days to come and seek first His kingdom, then all things
will be added unto us that we need to fulfill what He has called us to do, for
HIS IS FAITHFUL.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:25 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">"Therefore I tell you, stop being worried <span class="EM">or</span> anxious (perpetually uneasy, distracted) about your life, as
to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, as to what
you will wear. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?</span>
[</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Luk_12:22-31</span></u><span lang="X-NONE">]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:26 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow</span> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">seed</span></i>]<span style="color: #da3737;"> nor reap</span>
[<i><span style="color: #757575;">the harvest</span></i>] <span style="color: #da3737;">nor gather</span> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">the crops</span></i>]<span style="color: #da3737;"> into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding
them. Are you not worth much more than they?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:27 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">And who of you by worrying can add one </span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #79791c; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE; mso-text-raise: 3.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">N1</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #da3737; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">hour to</span><span lang="X-NONE"> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">the length of</span></i>]<span style="color: #da3737;"> his life?</span> [</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Psa_39:5-7</span></u><span lang="X-NONE">]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:28 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">And why are you worried about clothes? See how the lilies
<span class="EM">and</span> wildflowers of the field grow; they do not labor nor
do they spin</span> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">wool to make clothing</span></i>],<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:29 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory <span class="EM">and</span> splendor dressed himself like one of these.</span> [</span><u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #238554; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1Ki_10:4-7</span></u><span lang="X-NONE">]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:30 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is
alive <span class="EM">and</span> green today and tomorrow is</span> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">cut and</span></i>] <span style="color: #da3737;">thrown</span>
[<i><span style="color: #757575;">as fuel</span></i>] <span style="color: #da3737;">into
the furnace, <span class="EM">will He</span> not much more <span class="EM">clothe</span>
you? You of little faith!</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:31 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">Therefore do not worry <span class="EM">or</span> be
anxious (perpetually uneasy, distracted), saying, 'What are we going to eat?'
or 'What are we going to drink?' or 'What are we going to wear?'</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:32 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">For the</span> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">pagan</span></i>]
<span style="color: #da3737;">Gentiles eagerly seek all these things;</span> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">but do not worry,</span></i>] <span style="color: #da3737;">for
your heavenly Father knows that you need them.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:33 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <b><span style="color: #da3737;">But first <span class="EM">and</span> most importantly seek
(aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness</span> [<i><span style="color: #757575;">His way of doing and being right--the attitude and
character of God</span></i>], <span style="color: #da3737;">and all these things
will be given to you also.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mat 6:34 AMP+)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> <span style="color: #da3737;">"So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will
worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Guard
your hearts and your minds, sift everything you hear through His Word as the
final authority because there is a lot of deception and the enemy wants to
plant seeds of doubt in our minds, but when we make His Word the final
authority we will not be led astray by false teachings. We need to draw
close to Him and keep Him first place in our hearts and minds and be His
faithful followers. We are never alone because He has promised never to
leave us nor forsake us, our family and friends might forsake us because of the
stand we take for His truth, but He has promised to give us a spiritual family
in Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 13:5 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> Keep your
lifestyle free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. For
God Himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Heb 13:6 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> so that
with confidence we say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What will man
do to me?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE"> </span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mar 10:29 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> “Amen, I
tell you,” Yeshua replied, “there is no one who has left house or brothers or
sisters or mother or father or children or property, for My sake and for the
sake of the Good News,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mar 10:30 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> who will
not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and
sisters and mothers and children and property, along with persecutions; and in
the olam ha-ba, eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BODY" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.0pt;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #218282; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">(Mar 10:31 TLV)</span><span lang="X-NONE"> But many
who are first will be last, and the last first.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">From
the Heart of The Father<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shalom
in Yeshua our Messiah, Our King, Our Lord</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">His
Servants<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rabbin Deborah and M'shareth Scott Brandt</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rabbin
Deborah and M’shareth/Minister Scott <o:p></o:p></span></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-44565716026119818312020-09-23T09:21:00.001-07:002020-09-23T09:23:41.526-07:0040 Days of Teshuva and other new books<p> Shalom In Yeshua;</p><p>We are in the process of updating our book "40 Days of Teshuva to Yom Kippur" (expanded Edition) for next year's Fall Feasts. We have added audio to our website to go with the book and prayers to go with the daily readings and will be making some minor edits to the book as well. </p><p>Also be watching for our new series "Sitting At The Feet of Yeshua". It is a 12 volume Daily Bible Reading and Bible Study for every day of the year. </p><p>To Him be All the Glory and Praise and Honor!</p><p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt</p><p>http://www.deborahsmessianicministries.com</p><p><br /></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-32883934383469986802020-08-27T15:22:00.001-07:002020-08-27T15:22:46.721-07:00If My People Who Are Called By My Name<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Prayer
of Repentance for The Body of Messiah<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd86T1txauf94pOspgnFkREzOjdwPAJ8i54cftoG6sdGk9wR_pCBpaoTpi5iaU5G0kzzokNKqry46vLGQ6GsC29QXcn6xplgcSMiD3jdG-EWL_0lVySJpaMz1Ul6LI-AQ2hca_hd2TjEk/s1600/DMMPubBanner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd86T1txauf94pOspgnFkREzOjdwPAJ8i54cftoG6sdGk9wR_pCBpaoTpi5iaU5G0kzzokNKqry46vLGQ6GsC29QXcn6xplgcSMiD3jdG-EWL_0lVySJpaMz1Ul6LI-AQ2hca_hd2TjEk/s640/DMMPubBanner.jpg" width="640" /></a></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Judgement starts in The House of God. </b>As servants of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Yaacov and Talmidim of Yeshua The Messiah, during this month of Ellul we need to repent of our complacency and apathy with regards to straying from His command to preach the Gospel and make Talmidim/Disciples for the Kingdom. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We have become a Church of entertainment and ear tickling instead of people who preach the truth whether people like it or not. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We need to repent of the "evil eye" of greed and not supporting the true work of God with our tithes and offerings, so that ministries who are teaching and preaching the truth can fulfill what God has called them to do. There is a remnant that has not compromised and has sacrificed much to train people and reach the lost. However, their hands are tied, because the God's people refuse to trust God for their needs, and refuse to build the Spiritual House of YHVH. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">God warned Israel many times of the cost of compromise and idolatry, now we as His people are living in a country, here in America where socialism and the loss of our freedom is knocking at our door. The blood that so many young men have shed from the Revolutionary War until present for our freedom, is minutes from being taken away from us if we do not sincerely repent and return to His Ways, His rules, His Laws/Teaching and Instructions. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Prophets of old warned Israel that if they did not repent judgement would come and they would be driven from the land and the blessings. However, if they repented and returned to the Covenant of Adonai, He would bless them. Do we take God seriously? Do we think we can sin and walk in disobedience and get away with it? Have we mocked and trampled the blood of Yeshua under our feet by turning from His Truth and allowing the enemy to take over? </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now is the time TO RETURN and perhaps, He will give us more time to finish the work He has called us to do, to prepare the way for Messiah Yeshua's return.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">P</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">rayer of Solomon</span></b></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">1Ki 8:30<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE">“So listen to the supplication
of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place.
Hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and when You hear, forgive! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1Ki 8:31<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a man sins against
his neighbor and is made to take an oath, then comes and swears before Your
altar in this House, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1Ki 8:32<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then hear from heaven
and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked, bringing his way on his
own head, and justifying the righteous, giving him according to his
righteousness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">1Ki 8:33<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE">“When Your people Israel are
defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn
back to You and confess Your Name and pray and make supplication to You in this
House, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1Ki 8:34<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then hear from heaven,
and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land
which You gave to their fathers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">1Ki 8:35<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE">“When the skies are shut up and
there is no rain because they have sinned against You, yet if they pray toward
this place and confess Your Name and turn from their sin because You have
afflicted them, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1Ki 8:36<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then hear from heaven
and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel. Teach them the
good way in which they should walk, and send rain on Your land which You gave
to Your people as an inheritance. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">1Ki 8:37<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE">“If there is famine in the land,
if there is pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar, if
their enemy should besiege them in the land of their cities, whatever plague or
sickness, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">1Ki 8:38<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when prayer or
supplication is made by anyone or by all Your people Israel</span><span lang="X-NONE">—each knowing the plague of his
own heart—when one spreads his hands toward this House, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1Ki 8:39<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then may you hear from
heaven, Your dwelling place, forgive and act, and give to each man according to
all his ways, as You know his heart to be. For You alone know the hearts of all
the children of men. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1Ki 8:40<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then they will fear You
all the days that they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Prayer of Daniel<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">Dan 9:4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE">“I prayed to Adonai my God and
confessed, saying: ‘O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and
mercy with those who love Him and keep His mitzvot, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dan 9:5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we have sinned; we have
committed iniquity; we have acted wickedly; we have rebelled; we have turned
away from Your mitzvot and from Your rulings. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dan 9:6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have not listened to
Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our leaders
and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">Dan 9:7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE">“‘You Lord are righteousness,
but shame covers our face to this day—the people of Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and all Israel, near and far, in all the countries where you have
banished them—because they behaved unfaithfully toward you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">Dan 9:8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adonai, shame covers our
face</span><span lang="X-NONE">—our
kings, our leaders, our fathers—because we have sinned against you. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against Him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dan 9:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have not obeyed the
voice of Adonai Eloheinu by walking in His Torah that He set before us through
His servants the prophets. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">Dan 9:11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, all Israel has
transgressed Your Torah and has turned away</span><span lang="X-NONE">—not obeying Your voice. “‘Therefore the curse and
sworn judgment written in the Torah of Moses the servant of God has been poured
out upon us, for we have sinned against Him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dan 9:12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So He has confirmed His
words that he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled over us by
bringing on us a great calamity. Under the whole heaven nothing like this has
ever been done to Jerusalem! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Torah of Moses, all this calamity came on us, yet we have not sought the favor
of Adonai Eloheinu by turning away from our iniquities and paying attention to
Your truth. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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bringing the calamity upon us, for Adonai Eloheinu is righteous in all His
deeds that He has done</span><span lang="X-NONE">—while
we have not paid attention to His voice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and made for
Yourself a Name to this day—we have sinned, we have acted wickedly. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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all Your righteous acts, let Your anger and Your fury turn away, please, from
Jerusalem, Your city, Your holy mountain. Because of our sins and the
iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of
scorn to all those around us. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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prayers and petitions of Your servant, and cause Your face to shine upon Your
devastated Sanctuary, for the sake of my Lord. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dan 9:18<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give ear, my God, and
hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolation and the city called by Your name.
We do not present our supplications before You because of our own
righteousness, but because of Your great compassions. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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forgive! Lord, listen and act! For Your own sake, O my God, do not delay! For
Your city and Your people are called by Your name.</span><span lang="X-NONE">’</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Prayer of Nehemiah<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Neh 1:4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon hearing these words
I sat down and wept and mourned for days. I prayed and fasted before the God of
heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">Neh 1:5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I said: </span><span lang="X-NONE">“Adonai, God of heaven, the
great and awesome God who keeps the covenant and lovingkindness with those who
love Him and keep His mitzvot, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant that I am
praying before You today both day and night on behalf of Your servants, the
Bnei-Yisrael. I am confessing the sins of Bnei-Yisrael that we have sinned
against You</span><span lang="X-NONE">—yes, I
and my ancestral house have sinned. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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corruptly against You. We have not kept the mitzvot, the statutes, nor the
rulings that You commanded Your servant Moses. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">Neh 1:8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="X-NONE">“Please recall the word that You
commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you act unfaithfully, I will scatter
you among the peoples, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE">Neh 1:9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but if you return to Me
and obey My mitzvot, and do them, then even if your dispersed people are at the
ends of the heavens, I will gather them from there, and bring them back to the
place where I have chosen for My Name to dwell.</span><span lang="X-NONE">’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Neh 1:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are Your servants
and Your people whom You redeemed by Your great strength and by Your mighty
hand. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Normal" style="margin-bottom: 3.0pt; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span lang="X-NONE">Neh 1:11</span></b><span lang="X-NONE"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please, my
Lord, let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and to the prayer
of Your servants who delight in revering Your Name. Give Your servant success
today and grant compassion in the presence of this man.</span><span lang="X-NONE">” Now I was cupbearer to the
king.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezr 9:5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At the time of the evening offering, I rose up from my self-abasement
with my garment and robe torn, then I bowed down on my knees and spread out my
hands to Adonai my God. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ezr 9:6<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I prayed, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">“O my God, I am ashamed and humiliated to
lift up my face to You, my God! For our iniquities are higher than our heads
and our guilt has reached to the heavens. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezr 9:7<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From the days of our fathers to this day our guilt has been great.
Because of our iniquities we, our kings and our kohanim have been subjected to
the sword, to captivity, to plunder and to humiliation at the hand of the kings
of the lands, as it is today. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezr 9:8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But now for a brief moment Adonai our God has shown us favor in leaving
us a remnant and giving us as a peg in His holy place. Thus our God has
enlightened our eyes and has given us a little relief in our bondage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezr 9:9<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage. He has
extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, reviving us
in order to restore the House of our God, to raise up its ruins, and to give us
a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ezr 9:10<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">“So now, our God, what should we say after this? For we have forsaken
Your mitzvot <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ezr 9:11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>that You commanded through Your servants the prophets saying, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the
impurities of the peoples of the lands. Through their abominations, they have
filled it from one end to the other with their uncleanness. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ezr 9:12<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons nor take their
daughters for your sons. Do not seek their shalom or their welfare, so that you
may be strong, eat the good things of the land and leave it as an inheritance
for your children forever.</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">’ <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">“After everything that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and
our great guilt—for You, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities
deserve, and given us a remnant such as this— <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ezr 9:14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>shall we once again break Your mitzvot and intermarry with the peoples
who commit such detestable actions as these? Would You not be angry enough with
us to destroy us, leaving us no remnant or survivor? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in 6.5in 7.0in; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ezr 9:15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Adonai, God of Israel, You are righteous, for we are left this day as a
remnant. Behold, here we are before You in our guilt; because of it no one can
stand before You.</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size: 12pt;">” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-4141830721410946302020-06-18T06:30:00.001-07:002020-06-18T06:30:07.062-07:00God's Word Matters - Repentance to God FirstIn the society we are living in today there is a lot of talk about repenting to people for past abuses and offences towards others. Yes this is a Biblical principal....<div>
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Mat 5:21 “You have heard it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever commits murder shall be subject to judgment.’ </div>
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Mat 5:22 <b>But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother </b>shall be subject to judgment. And whoever <b>says to his brother</b>, ‘Raca’ shall be subject to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be subject to fiery Gehenna. </div>
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Mat 5:23 “Therefore if you are presenting your offering upon the altar, and<b> there remember that your brother has something against you, </b></div>
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Mat 5:24 leave your offering there before the altar and go.<b> First be reconciled to your brother</b>, and then come and present your offering. </div>
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Mat 5:25 “<b>Make friends quickly with your opponen</b>t while you are with him on the way. Otherwise, your opponent may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the assistant, and you will be thrown into prison. </div>
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Mat 5:26 Amen, I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid back the last penny! </div>
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<b>However, what about Repenting and apologizing to God for turning our backs on Him?</b></div>
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We wouldn't be in the mess we are today, if God's people in this Country had held fast to Torah Truth and the Words our Messiah Yeshua preached, instead of wanting to win a popularity contest. </div>
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Many feel, well if I am not well known or millions of people are not following my ministry or thousands liking me and following me on Facebook then I must be doing something wrong. Popularity is not a measurement for success in God's Kingdom, in fact if you are truly teaching His Word and His principles, you probably will not be popular. Serving God is not a popularity contest! In fact if you are truly serving Him, you will not be very popular in the worlds eyes. </div>
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We are currently doing a Study in "The Scroll of the Prophets" (so called Minor Prophets, but there is nothing minor about them). People think that being called a "Prophet" is such a glamorous title, when in fact the true prophets in the Bible were not popular and there was nothing glamorous about their job, in fact their message of repentance was not a popular message, even though it was a message that was meant to bless them, not hurt them. They were charged with the duty to speak exactly what The Almighty YHVH told them to speak, nothing more and nothing less. In fact if you are speaking the Truth, you probably will not have a 'Mega" Church because people are easily offended by truth. We are afraid that if we bring correction, people will get offended so we rather tickle ears then tell them what they want to hear, instead of what they need to hear. That was not the message of the Prophets that God told them to speak. It was a message of repentance for turning away from His truth and mixing idolatry with worship of Him. </div>
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Personally I am thankful for people who brought correction into my life. At first it hurt, however I knew they were speaking the truth and that because they loved me they were not afraid of the speaking correction to me. </div>
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<b>We see a pattern in the Prophets...</b></div>
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God said obey Me and you will be blessed, disobey me and this is what will happen, the curse will come. Read Deuteronomy 28. He already warned His people Israel what will happen if they turn away from obedience to His Torah (Torah means in Hebrew, Teachings and Instructions) and choose idolatry instead. This message of obedience applies to all, both Jew and Christian regarding how His people are to live. </div>
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His people sin and God waits patiently for repentance. When His people do not repent, he sends a Prophet to speak about judgement to come if they do not turn from their wicked ways. </div>
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The message is simple, repent (T'shuvah - Turn back to God) and I with not bring about the judgment, however if you do not repent, here is what is going to happen. </div>
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Here we see God's true mercy, He gives us all a "window of repentance" because He loves us. However, if the message of repentance fails to bring about change, then the judgement He has promised comes. We are seeing this in America today. His "Church" is more concerned about things then people. We have become more concerned about how popular we want to be vs being willing to suffer for the sake of the Gospel/Besorah of Yeshua. This is why we are seeing what is happening in America today! When we refuse to walk in God's order and refuse to live a life that is pleasing to Him, we have mayhem and confusion. </div>
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Since this pandemic has started a small group of us from our Congregation have been meeting daily when possible to pray and intercede for repentance in our Homes, Congregations and America for offending God. </div>
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If we are truthful with ourselves, we ALL need to repent, including spiritual leadership. Why should God bless us when we continually spit in His face and refuse to obey His Word? Are we truly Disciples of Yeshua as the first Century Assembly of Messiah was? Are we willing to suffer for speaking His Truth? Read "Foxes Book of Martyrs" before you answer that question. </div>
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Hear the Words of Joshua, they ring true today as well!</div>
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Jos 24:14 “Now therefore, <b>fear Adonai and worship Him in sincerity and in truth</b>. <b>Get rid of the gods that your fathers </b>had worshiped beyond the River and in Egypt, and worship Adonai. </div>
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Jos 24:15 If it seems bad to you to worship Adonai, then<b> choose for yourselves today whom you will serve—whether the gods that your fathers worshiped that were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will worship Adonai!” </b></div>
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Are we hearing by what we are seeing today happening in America, or have our hearts been hardened and become arrogant thinking, we are America, we will not be judged? Really? Our forefathers in Ancient Israel thought the same thing. They thought because of their Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob meant that it didn't matter what they did. However, they forgot the "If" clauses. </div>
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Have we become so arrogant that just because our Nation's motto is "In God We Trust" that this protects us from God's righteous justice to be withheld when we have literally taken His Word out of our Government and Homes? </div>
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Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-41951975219573939922019-10-20T23:11:00.003-07:002019-10-20T23:11:34.005-07:00Healing Our Covenant of Blessing Part 1<div align="center" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; tab-stops: .5in; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a Congregation leader our heart is to see God’s people
walk in the fullness of His blessings.
One of those blessings is that of health and healing. It is a promise to Israel in both the Tenach
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One of the prayers we pray in the Shemon Esrie Amidah is for Healing.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Heal us, O L-rd, and we shall be healed, save us and we
shall be saved, for Thou art our glory.
Send complete healing for our every illness, for Thou, Divine King, art
the faithful, merciful Physician.
Blessed art Thou, L-rd, who heals the sick of His people Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The promises of healing is found in the Tenach and in
the Brit HaDasha Yeshua confirms that it was Gods will that His people be made
whole and He healed them! God is the same, yesterday, today and
forever, He never changes and His will never changes because His will is His
Word from B’resheet to Revelation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is important that you study these verses in context, but
you will see as we study what the Word says about healing and that Yahweh is
our healer. Health and restoration are always associated with God’s blessings.
Sickness and disease is not Yahweh’s will for us health and restoration brings
glory to God. Yeshua said that ha Satan
comes to steal, kill and destroy but He came that we may have life more
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it TAKE HIS WORD!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As we see what the Word says, let emunah/trust arise in your
heart for healing, because you have been redeemed by the blood of Yeshua and
healing belongs to the redeemed of Adonai, His people Israel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whenever God’s people repented and walked in obedience to
His Word healing came in every area of Israel’s life. Sin, rebellion and disobedience opened the
door for judgment and sickness to come in, but when Israel repented, healing
and restoration returned. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are In Messiah then you have been grafted into the Covenants
of Israel along with the blessings. Healing has always been a provision for His
people Israel when they were obedient to walk in His ways and looked to Him for
their healing and deliverance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gods word is true and this issue of healing must be
settled in each persons heart individually.
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.
Healing is in the Torah and is for His people Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There are 4 areas
of healing that can apply to our lives</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Relational </b>which starts first with your
relationship with God if it has been broken because of sin and rebellion, repentance must come first, then when your
relationship is right with God the healing process begins. If our relationship with God isn’t right then
our relationships with our brothers and sister in Messiah will not be right and
will need healing as well. Also, when
there is national repentance, then <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">healing
comes to a nation</b>. When our
relationships are in divine order then comes <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">physical healing and emotional healing</b> come as a result of repentance/Teshuvah
and returning to His ways and His truth which is found in Messiah Yeshua follow
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God's word is true and if we do not immediately see results for healing, we need to trust God and realize that healing is a process. We also need to search our own hearts to see if there are any hindrances in our life that are blocking the healing process such as unforgiveness and bitter root judgments, evil speaking aka: Lashon Hara. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">People love to use Job as an example of not receiving healing, but it is plain from the text that God allowed the enemy to afflict him, however in the end Job received restoration in all areas of his life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Also people try to give examples in the Bible where people were not healed, such as Timothy who Paul advised to take a little wine for his stomach. However just because it was not recorded he was healed, doesn't mean he wasn't. God's Word tells us what we need to know, He does not always give us all the details!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do not allow anyone to rob you of your faith and trust in God for healing by there words of doubt and unbelief. I know it is a battle, because the enemy is always whispering in your ear that you are not going to be healed, and he is a liar. Your healing is between you and God and just because someone was not healed does not mean it wasn't His will to heal them, again that is between that person and God. If they are a believer and do go to be with The Father, then that is the ultimate healing and victory. What means God uses to heal you, whether it be via a Doctor or medicine or miraculously, ultimately He brought the healing in your life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God's Word is true whether healing manifests in our lives or not. We need to exam our own heart and go to God in prayer and ask Him to reveal what the hindrance's are and He will show you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>See my blogs "When Cancer comes knocking at your Door"</b> regarding my husbands diagnosis and how we are standing on the Word. We already have received a good report that he is doing better and that the treatments are working, however we know ultimately that it is God who is bringing healing to his body. </span></div>
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wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that
which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep
all his statutes, <b>I will put none of these diseases upon thee</b>, which I
have brought upon the Egyptians: <b>for I <i>am</i> the LORD that healeth thee.</b></span><b></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; position: relative; top: -3.0pt;">24</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Thou shalt not bow
down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt
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the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I <b>will
take sickness away from the midst of thee.</b></span><b></b></span></div>
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healing was also made a part of the Brit HaDasha/New Covenant, for Messiah
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our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
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wounded for our transgressions, <i>he was</i> bruised for our iniquities: the
chastisement of our peace <i>was</i> upon him; and <b>with his stripes we are
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come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast
out the spirits with <i>his</i> word, and healed all that were sick:</span></span></div>
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fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, <b>Himself took our
infirmities, and bare <i>our</i> sicknesses.</b></span><b></b></span></div>
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bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should
live unto righteousness: by <b>whose stripes ye were healed.</b></span><b></b></span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-15241319731666776882019-05-21T07:50:00.003-07:002019-05-21T08:02:35.156-07:00When Cancer Comes Knocking on your door - Our Faith<b><span style="font-size: large;">When Cancer Comes Knocking on your door - Our Faith</span></b><br />
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<b>Psa 23:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, to guide and to shield me], [Eze. 34:11-31] I shall not want. </b><br />
<b>Psa 23:2 He lets me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still and quiet waters. [Rev. 7:17] </b><br />
<b>Psa 23:3 He refreshes and restores my soul (life); He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: yellow;">Psa 23:4 Even though I walk through the [sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me. </b><br />
<b>Psa 23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You have anointed and refreshed my head with oil; My cup overflows. </b><br />
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<b>Psa 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy and unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell forever [throughout all my days] in the house and in the presence of the LORD. Amplified Bible</b><br />
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This isn't the first time my husband has looked death in the face. When he was in his 20's (before we met) he had a motorcycle accident via a hit and run driver and had severe brain trauma and was in a Coma for over 3 weeks but by God's grace (he was not serving God at that time) he lived but because of head injury has a seizure disorder which prevents him from driving a car for the safety of others and himself. There are many other side effects to brain trauma, but through prayer many things have been overcome.<br />
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While he was in collage he suffered a ruptured appendix and lost 1/3 of his small intestines due to infection, but again lived through the experience. <br />
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So we know God had a plan and purpose for his life even before he came to know Yeshua/Jesus as His Redeemer and this is another opportunity to use this to bring glory to Him. Sickness does not glorify God, He did not put cancer in Scott, but He is the one who bring healing to his body.<br />
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In time of crisis the first one we need to look to is Our Heavenly Father and His Word. We do not fear death because death is just a continuation of life when you know Yeshua/Jesus as your Redeemer and Savior. However we stand on Psalm 91 and that we will finish the race He has set out for us to run for His Kingdom and His Glory.<br />
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We are not ready to give up the fight because we know we still have a job to finish with our time allotted here on earth and the enemy, death is not going to take us before our time.<br />
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<b>Our hope is in His Word and His faithfulness. </b><br />
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When we keep our eyes on the Word we are filled with His peace when we get our eyes off the Word that is when we will become weak.<br />
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We are grateful for family and friends and for the prayers that we feel daily. The hardest thing for me to do was to ask for help, I am use to giving the help not asking for it. It is a very humbling experience. <br />
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We have several friends, one a Rabbi friend of ours whose wife is a breast cancer survivor and a friend from our Congregation who also has experienced a battle with cancer and who has been a great support and encouragement to Scott and myself.<br />
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The reason for the bladder cancer was because my husband was a smoker for many years and even when he became a believer it was still hard for him to kick the habit but eventually he did. However, we were surprised to hear from the doctor that the main cause of bladder cancer was smoking! We knew smoking caused lung cancer, heart disease, breathing issues but never knew it affected the bladder as well.<br />
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As other cancer survivors have shared with us, it is just as hard on the spouse and family when a loved one is going through the pain and suffering.<br />
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If only our doctors were trained to combine faith with their medical treatment instead of looking at us like we are from Mars when we state we are looking to God for healing. We know God uses doctors and medicine but they do not have the last say so - God does!!<br />
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When we start feeling overwhelmed we feel His peace/Shalom within us and we know we have people holding us up in prayer and the Father lovingly watching over us.<br />
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Just the other day Scott had to go through another surgery and Chemo. I was in the room with him as he was waiting to be prepared for surgery, and we were laughing and joking with each other when the doctor who was doing the surgery walked in. He started laughing as well, we told him laughter is good medicine, he just smiled! We can laugh because we know that God's Word is true and if He brought us to this crisis He will bring us through it so we can encourage others as well and give glory to God.<br />
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<b>The battle was won 2 thousand years ago when Yeshua paid the price for our sins. Read Isaiah 53 and Psalm 103 these words are fulfilled in Him. </b><br />
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Here is one of my favorite songs and if you are going through a test or trial read Psalm 34 and listen to this song. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfW2mkkMTAg&list=RDGMEMMib4QpREwENw3_jAc0YgNwVMDfW2mkkMTAg&start_radio=1">Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - Psalm 34</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.deborahsmessianicministries.com/">http://www.deborahsmessianicministries.com</a><br />
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<br />Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-73598624996244777512019-05-16T14:01:00.003-07:002019-05-16T14:01:53.480-07:00When Cancer Comes Knocking On Your Door<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Cancer Comes Knocking on Your Door!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">None of us expects to hear the "C" word from our doctor, however a few months ago my husband experienced a UT Infection that would not go away or respond to antibiotics of any kind. His doctor ordered a C/T Scan and found a Tumor in his Bladder, other tests revealed it to be a Cancerous A Type Tumor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He had surgery to remove the Tumor, however he has to have another surgery because they need to get muscle tissue samples to make sure it is confined to the bladder and has not spread outside to other parts of his body. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a Messianic/Christian believer who teaches and believes in Divine healing, this became a test of whether we would stand on the Word or cave into doom and gloom. Needless to say it was a No Brainer, the Word is true and we are standing on His Word , no matter what the diagnosis is for total healing in Yeshua's Name. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We went through the emotional cycle of fear, tears, worry and the what "If's". Also the thoughts of the enormous financial cost of treatment! But mainly the realization of loosing someone you love and the awful possibility of them no longer being by your side. All these thoughts came flooding through our minds and even out of our mouths, however we always ended it with, <b>God is our Healer, Provider and Deliverer. we will trust Him no matter what. Let God be true and the circumstances a lie. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an Ordained Rabbi and my husband who is an Ordained Minister we are practicing what we Teach and Preach. <b>God is our Healer!</b> The only way to victory is via prayer and The Word. We even told the doctor that we are trusting God and that we will do what needs to be done, but ultimately the victory is our trust in His Word. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be blogging about our journey in the hopes of encouraging others who are facing life threatening illness, along with encouragement in the Word to bring us through this test.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to recommend some books that have been a help to us:</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/None-These-Diseases-Secrets-Century/dp/080075719X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1MJJGIXXSMK6B&keywords=none+of+these+diseases+by+mcmillen&qid=1558039881&s=gateway&sprefix=none+of+these+%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">None of These Diseases - McMillen</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/More-Excellent-Way-Health-Spiritual/dp/1603741011/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3HCB3L5JUM06U&keywords=a+more+excellent+way+to+be+in+health+by+henry+w.+wright&qid=1558039816&s=gateway&sprefix=a+more+ex%2Caps%2C153&sr=8-1-spell"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A More Excellent Way - Henry W. Wright</span></a><br />
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Our-Covenant-Blessing-Messiah/dp/1974338754/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2LT6XIRT7O9DF&keywords=rabbin+deborah+brandt&qid=1558039939&s=gateway&sprefix=rabbin+%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-4"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Healing Our Covenant of Blessing - Rabbin Deborah Brandt</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shalom In Yeshua</span><br />
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<br />Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-46782970089274925342017-12-25T20:21:00.003-08:002017-12-25T20:21:47.852-08:00Is There a Pre Tribulation Rapture?<div class="MsoNormal">
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Everyone;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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am starting a new Question & Answers from our new weekly Shabbat
Midrash. Many times I wrestle with scriptures, not because I doubt
the Word at all, but I want to make sure I am understanding the correct
interpretation of a verse or passage. Again, last Shabbat we
touched a little on the theory of the “Rapture”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are certain topics that we wrestle with and how they are interpreted, such as
the “Catching Away” at the end of days:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Catching Away of the Saints, i.e. the Rapture and interpretation of 1
Thessalonians 4:16-18, i.e. the great Tribulation escape clause. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will get different arguments pro and con from both Messianic Believers and
Christians (non Torah observant believers). When I was in the traditional
Christian Church, I believed in the Rapture teaching, but when I started
studying scripture over 20 years ago from a Jewish, Hebraic mindset I
questioned the interpretation of this verse, not the verse itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">To
rightly divide the Word of God is a skill we must all learn in the study of
Scripture. Of course the Rapture is not a salvation issue, but it
is important that we have the correct biblical understanding. Some
use examples of Enoch and Elijah as examples of people who were “caught up” to
heaven without seeing death, and yes this is absolutely true, but does there
experience apply to 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18? There are many excellent
teachers of the Word who do not agree on the “catching away” theory. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One
of the arguments is that God has not appointed us to wrath. When I was
thinking upon that word wrath and looking it up on both Hebrew and Greek it
means the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There
are 2 Hebrew words for wrath<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">H639</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Ezra SIL"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">אף</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">'aph</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">BDB Definition:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1)
nostril, nose, face<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">2) anger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Part of Speech:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> noun masculine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">A Related Word by
BDB/Strong’s Number:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> from <u><span style="color: green;">H599</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Same Word by TWOT Number:
</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">133a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">H2740</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Ezra SIL"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">חרן</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> / </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Ezra SIL"; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">חרון</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">chârôn</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">BDB Definition:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1) anger,
heat, burning (of anger)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1a) always used of God’s
anger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Part of Speech:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> noun masculine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">A Related Word by
BDB/Strong’s Number:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> from <u><span style="color: green;">H2734</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Same Word by TWOT Number:
</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">736a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">G3709</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Galatia SIL"; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">ὀργή</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Doulos SIL"; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">orgē</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Thayer Definition:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1) anger,
the natural disposition, temper, character<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">2)
movement or agitation of the soul, impulse, desire, any violent emotion, but
especially anger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">3) anger,
wrath, indignation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">4) anger
exhibited in punishment, hence used for punishment itself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">4a) of punishments
inflicted by magistrates<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Part of Speech:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> noun feminine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">A Related Word by
Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: </span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">from <u><span style="color: green;">G3713</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Citing in TDNT:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> 5:382, 716<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is true, we have been forgiven and are saved from God’s wrath. So what is
the ultimate “wrath” that the lost will suffer and that we will not
experience? I believe that wrath refers to the punishment of “hell”
for those who have rejected God and His Truth and Salvation Yeshua.
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was looking up several Scripture translations and the Ruach Hakodesh led me to
look up the Scripture in the AENT (Aramaic English New Testament) translation
and also the commentary. Andrew Roth referred the reader to an article on
this topic, which I have attached. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The AENT Translations reads like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this we say to you by the Word of our Master (Y’shua), that we who may survive
and be alive at the coming of our Master (Y’shua) will not proceed them who
have slept. Because our Master (Y’shua) will himself descend from heaven with
the mandate and with the voice of the chief Messenger and with the Qarna
(Shofar) of Elohim; and the dead who are in the Mashiach will first
arise; and then we who survive and are alive will be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet our Master (Y’shua) in the air; and so we will
ever be with our Master. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">John McKee is a Messianic Apologists
& Scholar who also does not agree with the PreTrib Rapture Theory, here is
a link to his teaching on the Pre Trip Rapture which is very good. </span></div>
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<a href="http://messianicapologetics.net/archives/category/the-dangers-of-pre-tribulationism-study"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://messianicapologetics.net/archives/category/the-dangers-of-pre-tribulationism-study</span></a><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So
the bottom line is this; that 1 Thessalonians is absolutely true, however the
time of Pre, Mid or Post catching away is a matter of interpretation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes
there will be a “Catching Away” of the saints, but most believe it will be at
Yeshua’s return, after the Tribulation. In the meantime our focus
should not be that of fear or a looking to escape the Tribulation, but to be
faithful now and to the end doing what He has called us to do. As
one person said, “I would rather be surprised by the Rapture and prepared for
the Tribulation, then prepared for the Rapture and surprised by the Tribulation</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji";">😐</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Shalom
In Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rabbin
Deborah <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-59556683715896724662017-12-25T20:19:00.003-08:002017-12-25T20:19:15.932-08:00Mathew 27:51 The Resurrected Saints at the Time of Yeshua's Resurrection Question & Answer<div class="MsoNormal">
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Mishpocha’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had a good discussion during our time of Nosh after service. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sherri
had a question from a friend regarding the people resurrected with Yeshua at
His first coming, whether they received new bodies at that resurrection and
where did the go?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: teal; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Mat 27:51</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> And behold, the
veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth shook and
the rocks were split. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: teal; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Mat 27:52</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> The tombs were
opened, and <b>many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised</b>;
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: teal; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Mat 27:53</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> and <b>coming out
of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to
many. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
our discussion, I felt that they received their resurrected Bodies and went to
the Heavenly Jerusalem (or Heaven being the typical term used) with Yeshua, or
the place where those who have gone before us await the New Millennium and rule
and reign of Messiah Yeshua, but I wanted to do some more research anyway. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Here
are 2 scholarly opinions, and they both have their good points. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Opinion
#1 – Arnold Fruchtenbaum – Messianic Bible Study Collection<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">b.
The Resurrection of Many Saints</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A
second thing that occurred on this occasion was the resurrection of many of the
saints who had recently died. While they did not come out of the tombs until
after the Messiah’s own Resurrection, they were resurrected at the time of His
death. This clear wording is sometimes missed and it is often taught that the
resurrection of these saints occurred after Messiah’s Resurrection. But that is
not the way the passage reads.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In
verse 52, when Jesus died two things happened. First, <i>the tombs were opened.</i>
Many of the tombs opened up as a result of the earthquake. Secondly, <i>many
bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised.</i> At that point,
many were resurrected from the dead. Verse 53 states that they did not come out
of the opened tombs until <i>after his resurrection</i> and then went into
Jerusalem and were seen by many.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some
have interpreted this verse as recording the resurrection of the Old Testament
saints, but that cannot be. There cannot be a resurrection to eternity before
the Messiah’s own Resurrection. According to 1 Corinthians 15:20–24, Jesus is
the first-fruits of the eternal resurrection. But these saints were resurrected
at the point of Messiah’s death. This is not a resurrection of Old Testament
saints into eternal life and existence, but, as with all previous
resurrections, this was only a restoration back to natural life. These are just
some of the saints who had recently died and then were resurrected by a
restoration back to natural life, not a resurrection to eternal life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
difference is that if one is raised from the dead into resurrection life, he
will live from then on physically forever. So far, only Jesus has received this
type of resurrection. The kind of resurrection being spoken of in this passage
is a resurrection back to natural life, which means that these people would die
again later.<a href="file:///C:/Users/DebsD/Dropbox/Shabbat%20Questions%20and%20Answers/Shabbat%20Q%20&amp;%20A.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><sup>[1]</sup></a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Opinion
#3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Matthew
27:52<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span class="B"><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">And the graves were
opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose</span></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> — These sleeping saints (see on <u><span style="color: #208020;">1Th_4:14</span></u>) were Old Testament believers, who -
according to the usual punctuation in our version - were quickened into
resurrection life at the moment of their Lord’s death, but lay in their graves
till His resurrection, when they came forth. But it is far more natural, as we
think, and consonant with other Scriptures, to understand that only the graves
were opened, probably by the earthquake, at our Lord’s death, and this only in
preparation for the subsequent exit of those who slept in them, when the Spirit
of life should enter into them from their risen Lord, and along with Him they
should come forth, trophies of His victory over the grave. Thus, in the opening
of the graves at the moment of the Redeemer’s expiring, there was a glorious
symbolical proclamation that the death which had just taken place had
“swallowed up death in victory”; and whereas the saints that slept in them were
awakened only by their risen Lord, to accompany Him out of the tomb, it was
fitting that “the Prince of Life ... should be <span class="I">the First</span>
that should rise from the dead” (<u><span style="color: #208020;">Act_26:23</span></u>;
<u><span style="color: #208020;">1Co_15:20</span></u>, <u><span style="color: #208020;">1Co_15:23</span></u>; <u><span style="color: #208020;">Col_1:18</span></u>;
<u><span style="color: #208020;">Rev_1:5</span></u>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Matthew 27:52</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Some of the tombs were
shattered and laid open by the earthquake, and while they continued unclosed
(and they must have stood open all the Sabbath, seeing the law would not allow
any attempt to close them) many bodies of holy men were raised, (perhaps
Simeon, Zacharias, John the Baptist, and others who had believed in Christ, and
were known to many in Jerusalem,) And coming out of the tombs after his
resurrection, went into the holy city (Jerusalem) and appeared to many - Who
had probably known them before: God hereby signifying, that Christ had
conquered death, and would raise all his saints in due season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">graves</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">That these bodies
returned to their graves is not said and may not be inferred. The wave-sheaf (<u><span style="color: green;">Lev_23:10-12</span></u>) typifies the resurrection of
Christ, but a sheaf implies plurality. It was a single "corn of
wheat" that fell into the ground in the crucifixion and entombment of
Christ (<u><span style="color: green;">Joh_12:24</span></u>); it was a sheaf
which came forth in resurrection. The inference is that these saints, with the spirits
of "just men made perfect" (<u><span style="color: green;">Heb_12:23</span></u>)
from Paradise, went with Jesus (<u><span style="color: green;">Eph_4:8-10</span></u>)
into heaven. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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#6 - Bible Archeology Website <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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is a Christian perspective)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">What
Happened to these Resurrected Saints?</span></strong><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are three possibilities as to what happened to these
resurrected saints. First, they are still alive today. I have lived
in Jerusalem, on and off, for more than thirty years. I’ve met a lot of
people in that city. I even met some people who thought they were Jesus,
or Elijah, or John the Baptist, but I have never met anybody that was 2,000
years old. So I think we can safely assume that they are not alive today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The second possibility is that they died again. We have no
Scriptural warrant for this claim, nor are there any Jewish or Church
traditions that states they died again. So I think we can dismiss this
idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The third possibility, and the one I believe is correct, is that
they ascended into Heaven with the Lord Jesus forty days after His, and their,
resurrection (Cambron 1973:57, 146-147, 334). Let’s examine the account
of the ascension of the Lord Jesus to Heaven. After the Lord Jesus gives
another commission to His disciples for world evangelism (Acts 1:8), Luke records:
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<span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was
taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they
looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them
in white apparel, who also said, ‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up
into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will
so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven’ (Acts 1:9-11).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are several things to notice in this passage. First,
“a cloud” received Him out of their sight. Most commentators would state
that when Jesus ascended, He disappeared into a cloud, a vaporous mass.
But Dr. Luke may be using this word in another way. When the Apostle Paul
describes the return of the Lord Jesus in the air for His saints, what has been
called the Rapture of the Church, he states: “<em>Then we who are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in
the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord</em>” (1 Thess.
4:17). It is important to note that in the Greek text, there is no
definite article before “clouds.” So the text should state that the
living saints shall be caught up “in clouds” to meet the Lord Jesus in the
air. At the Rapture there would be a cloud of saints over North America,
a cloud over Europe, a cloud over South America, Asia and Africa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">I believe that Dr. Luke is using the words “cloud” in this
manner, as a collection of saints</span></b><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">. Thus, the cloud that
received the Lord Jesus above the Mount of Olives was a cloud of the saints
that were resurrected in Jerusalem when the Lord Jesus was resurrected.
This was the first fruits of a greater harvest to come and the prophetic point
of the Feast of the LORD. The Israelites were to bring the first fruits
of the barley harvest to the Temple and the priest would wave the <em>omer</em>
(sheaf) before the LORD and acknowledge His provision for the harvest and trust
Him for the full harvest in the months to come. In the prophetic analogy,
the priest would not wave one stalk [Jesus] before the LORD, but rather, a
sheaf [Jesus and the Jerusalem saints that were resurrected at the same time
that He was]. <b>Thus, this fulfilled the prophetic aspect of the Feast
of Firstfruits and what Paul wrote, “Christ, risen from the dead, has become
the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Notice also the words of the two men in white apparel, most
likely angelic beings. They said: “<em>This same Jesus, who was taken up
from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into Heaven</em>.”
When the Lord Jesus returns to earth with His saints at His revelation as the
King of kings, and Lord of lords, the Apostle John states that “<em>He is
coming with clouds [of saints], and every eye shall see Him, even they who
pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of
Him. Even so, Amen</em>” (Rev. 1:9; cf. Rev. 19:11-16).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The prophet Zechariah predicted that the Messiah would return to
the Mount of Olives with all His saints (Zech. 14:4-5)</span></b><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.
The words of the two angels were that the Lord Jesus would return the same way
He left. He will one day visibly return to the Mount of Olive with His
saints. If he returns with saints, then He must have left with saints as
well! The saints that He left with were those resurrected from the graves
around Jerusalem at His resurrection, but one day He will return to earth with
more than just these resurrected Jerusalem saints. He will have all His
Church saints, those who have trusted Him as their Savior, from Pentecost to
the Rapture, with Him as well (cf. John 5:25-29).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #301b11; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">(We do not necessarily agree with their view of the Rapture, we
do know that we will be caught up as told in 1 Thess. 4:17, but only God knows
when)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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thought it was interesting regarding their interpretation of “Cloud” when
Yeshua ascended into heaven refers to all of those who were resurrected with
him at that time, which were the Tenach saints/Believers who were waiting in
Sheol until the Resurrection and had looked forward to Messiah.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Mat_24:30</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> <span style="color: #bf3030;">And then shall appear the sign of the
Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and
they shall see the Son of man coming in the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">clouds</span>
of heaven with power and great glory.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Mat_26:64</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> Jesus saith unto him, <span style="color: #bf3030;">Thou hast
said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man
sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">clouds</span> of heaven.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Mar_13:26</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> <span style="color: #bf3030;">And then shall they see the Son of
man coming in the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">clouds</span> with great
power and glory.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Mar_14:62</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> And Jesus said, <span style="color: #bf3030;">I am: and ye shall
see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">clouds</span> of heaven.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1Th_4:17</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> Then we which are alive <i><span style="color: #545454;">and</span></i>
remain shall be caught up together with them in the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">clouds</span>, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the “Clouds” refer to all the saints that went before us and us when we are
caught up to meet Him at His return? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Also
Paul uses the term “A great cloud of witnesses”, so this interpretation makes
sense because upon His return, He will be returning with those who have gone
before us! So in this case cloud could be a idiom for people, just like
trees and sea represent people at times in scripture as well?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #802020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Heb 12:1</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> Therefore, since we have <b>so great a cloud of witnesses</b>
surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so
easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before
us, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: teal; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Heb 12:2</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> fixing our eyes on
Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him
endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #802020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Isa 60:8</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> "Who are these who <b>fly like a cloud</b> And like the
doves to their lattices? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #802020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Eze 38:9</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> "You will go up, you will come like a storm; <b>you will be
like a cloud</b> covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples
with you." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #802020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Eze 38:16</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> and you will come up against My people Israel <b>like a cloud to
cover the land</b>. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you
against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I am sanctified through
you before their eyes, O Gog." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can also represent the Presence of God, His Glory! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Exo_24:18</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> And Moses went into the midst of the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">cloud</span>, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the
mount forty days and forty nights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Exo_34:5</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> And the LORD descended in the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">cloud</span>,
and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Exo_40:34</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> Then a <span style="background: #FFFF40;">cloud</span> covered the
tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #208020; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Exo_40:35</span></u><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the
congregation, because the <span style="background: #FFFF40;">cloud</span> abode
thereon, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE;">Glory
</span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">H3519</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">כּבד</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span> / </span><span dir="RTL" lang="HE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">כּבוד</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">BDB Definition:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1)
glory, honour, glorious, abundance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1a) abundance, riches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1b) honour, splendour,
glory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1c) honour, dignity<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1d) honour, reputation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1e) honour, reverence,
glory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1f) glory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Part of Speech:</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> noun masculine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE;">Cloud </span><b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">H6051<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="HE" style="color: #3054bf; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-bidi-language: HE; mso-fareast-language: HE;">ענן</span><span dir="LTR" lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: #3054bf; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">‛ânân</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1) cloud, cloudy,
cloud-mass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1a) cloud-mass (of
theophanic cloud)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">1b) cloud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Cloud</span></b><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">`anan</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> (H6051), "cloud; fog; storm cloud; smoke." Cognates of this
word appear in Aramaic and Arabic. Its 87 appearances are scattered throughout
the biblical material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">The word commonly means "cloud mass." <span style="color: blue;">`Anan</span> is used especially of the "cloud
mass" that evidenced the special presence of God: "And the Lord went
before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way..."(<u><span style="color: green;">Exo_13:21</span></u>). In <u><span style="color: green;">Exo_34:5</span></u>,
this presence is represented by <span style="color: blue;">`anan</span> only:
"And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him [Moses] there,
and proclaimed the name of the Lord."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">When the ark of the covenant was brought into the
holy place, "The cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests
could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had
filled the house of the Lord" (<u><span style="color: green;">1Ki_8:10-11</span></u>).
Thus the "cloud" evidenced the presence of God's glory. So the
psalmist wrote that God was surrounded by "clouds and darkness" (<u><span style="color: green;">Psa_97:2</span></u>); God appears as the controller and
sovereign of nature. This description is somewhat parallel to the descriptions
of Baal, the lord of the storm and god of nature set forth in Ugaritic
mythology. The "cloud" is a sign and figure of "divine protection"
(<u><span style="color: green;">Isa_4:5</span></u>) and serves as a barrier
hiding the fullness of divine holiness and glory, as well as barring sinful
man's approach to God (<u><span style="color: green;">Lam_3:44</span></u>). Man's
relationship to God, therefore, is God-initiated and God-sustained, not humanly
initiated or humanly sustained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">In its first biblical occurrence, <span style="color: blue;">`anan</span> is used in conjunction with God's sign that He
would never again destroy the earth by a flood: "I do set my bow in the
cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth"
(<u><span style="color: green;">Gen_9:13</span></u>). Elsewhere, the transitory
quality of a cloud is used to symbolize the loyalty (<u><span style="color: green;">Hos_6:4</span></u>) and existence of Israel (<u><span style="color: green;">Hos_13:3</span></u>).
In <u><span style="color: green;">Isa_44:22</span></u>, God says that after
proper punishment He will wipe out, "as a thick cloud, thy transgressions,
and, as a cloud, thy sins...."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">`Anan</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> can mean "storm cloud" and is used to symbolize "an
invading force": "Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt
be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people
with thee" (<u><span style="color: green;">Eze_38:9</span></u>; cf. <u><span style="color: green;">Jer_4:13</span></u>). In <u><span style="color: green;">Job_26:8</span></u>,
the storm cloud is said to be God's: "He bindeth up the waters in his
thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them." In several passages,
the thick storm cloud and the darkness accompanying it are symbols of
"gloom" (<u><span style="color: green;">Eze_30:18</span></u>) and/or
"divine judgment" (<u><span style="color: green;">Eze_30:3</span></u>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">`Anan</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;"> can represent the "smoke" arising from burning incense:
"And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the
cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that
he die not..." (<u><span style="color: green;">Lev_16:13</span></u>). This
"cloud of smoke" may represent the covering between God's presence
(above the mercy seat) and sinful man. If so, it probably also symbolizes the
"divine glory." On the other hand, many scholars feel it represents
the human prayers offered up to God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-25267862138465965062017-06-09T12:03:00.001-07:002017-06-09T12:03:42.305-07:00<b>The Body of Messiah Includes Christians, Messianic Jews & Hebraic Roots Etc.</b><br />
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Something has been grieving my spirit for quite awhile, and I had to repent of my wrong attitude towards those who are in the Body of Messiah and truly love God but are not Torah observant the way we think they should be!<br />
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<b>First of all what is the greatest commandment in Torah according to Yeshua?</b><br />
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Mat 22:34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that Yeshua had silenced the Sadducees, gathered together in one place.<br />
Mat 22:35 And testing Him, one of them, a lawyer, asked,<br />
Mat 22:36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Torah?”<br />
Mat 22:37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’<br />
Mat 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.<br />
Mat 22:39 And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’<br />
Mat 22:40 The entire Torah and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” TLV<br />
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So according to Yeshua, who are the real Torah observant believers? The ones who are arrogant and prideful and spew hatred and ugly mems at their brothers and sisters in The Body of Messiah (I prefer to use Body of Messiah vs. Church) or those in the Body of Messiah who do not have the revelation yet of the Blessings of Torah, yet are walking in Torah Principles?<br />
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Recently we were led by the Ruach to go to a Word church midweek service, the worship was beautiful and teaching was scriptural! We also are Rabbis who have our own Congregation and have gone through many ups and downs because people who are coming into the Messianic walk come in with bitterness, pride and have thrown out the baby with the bath water! We also were guilty of this, but have come into a Spiritual Balance in the Word.<br />
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First, I was not brought up in a Jewish home or a Christian home, but I did have a Bible believing grandmother, who kept Shabbat and taught me the Word whenever we visited her. Yes I am a Messianic Jewish Believer, but did not discover my heritage until much latter. It is Yeshua who brought me back to my Heritage and His Torah.<br />
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All I hear from people coming into this movement is "I was deceived", 'They lied to me"! Blaming others because they never cracked open their Bible to find out the truth themselves. I do not believe that most Pastors are intentionally lying to their people about "The Law", they truly believe that what they were taught was correct, however many are coming out of this misconception and teaching the truth. Sometimes it takes time to turn a huge ship around when it is off course.<br />
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<b>What did I learn from the Church?</b><br />
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<li>From the <b>Baptists</b> I learned that preaching salvation and reaching the Lost was important.</li>
<li>From the <b>Pentecostal</b>, I learned the importance of Holiness, Sanctification, Obedience and the Power of the Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit and Gifts, along with Healing.</li>
<li>From the "<b>Word of Faith" </b>Church, I learned about walking in Faith so I can do what God called has called me to do, who I am in Messiah, and yes Prosperity because guess what, it takes money to help people and to the work of ministry etc. </li>
<li>From the <b>Messianic Walk</b> I have learned that Torah is important, it is in my heart and that His Feasts are about Yeshua.</li>
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And yes, everything we learned prepared us for ministry. <br />
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Now when I refer to The Body of Messiah, I am talking about those who truly love God, Yeshua and His Word and are trying to walk in obedience.<br />
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Yes there are a lot of bad "Christian" teachers who have compromised the Word, but there are also bad' "Messianic" teachers as well who are perverting the truth as well. So do we lump everyone into one judgmental category because of a few sour lemons??? NO! <br />
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This Church I went to have many programs to help people because their people tithe and give offerings and support the vision of the leadership. This Church has a Business School, Youth Group, Job placement service, Ministry School, Continuing Education so people can learn MS skills, Prison Ministry, Inner city Ministry, Mentoring Program, Conferences, Missions etc. <br />
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So those of us "Messianic s" who think we are better than our brothers and sisters In the Body of Messiah, who happen to not have the understanding of Torah yet, are doing more works of the Torah then those I see in the Messianic Movement. Again, I am not lumping everyone together because there are some Messianic Congregations that are able to do these things as well because people tithe.<br />
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So before we start getting all prideful and patting ourselves on the back because we feel like we have arrived, WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD?<br />
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Yes there are "Kooky Christians" and "Messy Messianic s" but there are also Believers both Christian and Messianic who are doing what the Bible says to do, and they are the ones who are making a difference in this world.<br />
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Why would they want to listen to what we have to say, if we are being ugly, portraying them as deceived and demon possessed and stupid!! Before you start criticizing someone for what they teach, maybe you should find out what they teach first, you might be 100% wrong in what you thought they were about! Most of the time you are just parroting what someone said about them and passed judgement without finding out the facts first! Many wonderful peoples reputations have been destroyed because of Lashon Hara/Evil Speaking and spreading Gossip and lies!<br />
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Don't be spouting off Torah principles if you can not live THE Torah principle that Yeshua upheld and that is LOVE. <br />
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Mat 22:37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love Adonai your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’<br />
Mat 22:38 This is the first and greatest commandment.<br />
Mat 22:39 And the second is like it, ‘<b>You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ </b><br />
Mat 22:40 The entire Torah and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” TLV<br />
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And yes I had to repent of my attitude as well because it was not helping me to walk in His blessings but dragging me down. There is just as much good Christian teaching that is solid in the WORD as there is Messianic teaching and also Jewish Teaching. My plumb line for TRUTH is the WORD and the commandment that we all need to perfect is LOVING GOD WITH ALL OUR HEART, SOUL AND MIND AND LOVING OUR NEIGHBOR AS OURSELVES AND TO WALK HUMBLY BEFORE OUR GOD.<br />
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Rabbin Deborah Brandt M.Div Judaic Studies<br />
Deborah's Messianic Ministries Training and Messianic Worship Center Beit Midrash Tefillah Hallel<br />
Judaic Studies Institute, Vice President and Student Advisor<br />
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<b>Keeping Things in Perspective:</b></div>
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<br />Passover reminds us that we are in a constant journey to reach the Promised Land. As we study the Torah we see that Israel was miraculously delivered so they could serve and worship God in freedom! However the journey would not be an easy one. The journey of faith is never easy but it is required for all those who serve God. </div>
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<br />We need to keep our trials in perspective, especially here in America. Right now our ministry and congregation is going through a test of having to move out of our building because of lack of finances. And yes like our ancestors we are now moving on in faith, knowing He has another place for us and He will provide, because He didn't call us to be Shepherds without a pasture to feed the sheep. </div>
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<br /> Yes it hurts when people leave you to go somewhere else, especially those you have invested yourself, your life and your love into. Every leader and disciple will be tested and tried, and before promotion, the we must endure the purging of His purification fires. </div>
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<br />When we see what believers suffer all over the world, especially under the hands of ISIS, who are dying for their faith, who are we to kavech/complain about a little inconvenience.</div>
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<br />God is saying in your trials, do you trust me? Or are we believing the lies of the enemy as he whispers in our ears to give up! Or as he whispers in our ears that your leaders are not good enough, that you can do a better job, as Korach thought.</div>
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<br />God has called us to be faithful to the call no matter what things may look like. In my 40 + years of serving Him, my Father has always been faithful in the storm. I refuse to listen to the lies of the enemy. I choose to believe God no matter what it looks like. </div>
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<br /> As a leader you need to hold on to the vision God has given you, no matter what it looks like. No matter if everyone deserts you, no matter if you feel His presence or hear His voice, or do not. HE IS FAITHFUL.<br />As leaders we are going to be tried in the fire so that after all the dross has been burned off, the only thing left is a heart to serve Him. </div>
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<br />I am encouraging other leaders out there, especially Pastors and Rabbis who faithfully serve their people and nobody knows who you are. You are not the "Well known Name' on the Internet, you are the faithful servant who only wants to obey God and serve. You are the ones who sacrifice financially so people have a place to worship, who give and give and many times get no thanks in return. You are the ones that have been tested through the fires, who know what it is like to be rejected and misunderstood, yet you continue to be faithful to the call even though, no one knows your name. You are the ones who's hearts break for your Congregation, but no one knows what you have gone through. </div>
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<br />The applause and praises of men are fleeting and many times fickle because the ones who are praising you one moment, the next day will turn and walk away. Our Messiah Yeshua knew this well, even in His darkest hour only a few stood with Him. But Yeshua forgave them because He knew they would return to fulfill what He had called them to do.</div>
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<br />Yes as Pastors/Shepherds/Leaders/Rabbis, we are called to serve and not be served. We are called to be faithful to the vision God has given us, no matter what! In good times and in bad. It is when things are bad that we find out how committed we are to what He has called us to do.<br />Yes every believer will be tested in their walk so that what is hidden in their hearts will be revealed. Will we persevere with the vision and the call when everything looks like it is falling apart, or will we see through the eyes of faith/trust, that God is in control and He will make sure that what He has called us to do, He will provide a way, if we do not give up. </div>
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<br />To those of you who are a part of a Community. If God has called you to serve, then serve and be faithful. A plant can not grow if it is constantly being uprooted. Yes you will be tested in your faithfulness to serve and God knows how to promote you, but He promotes faithfulness not fickleness. You will be tested when the enemy whispers in your ears telling you that you are misunderstood, nobody here cares about you, nobody here cares about what you are called to do, nobody cares. Or are you going to be one who instead of doing your own thing and taking away form the local community, give your gifts that God has placed within you for the best of the Community? God knows how to promote you, but He is going to test your faithfulness to serve others first.</div>
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Jas 1:2 Regard it all as joy, my brothers, when you face various kinds of temptations;<br />Jas 1:3 for you know that the testing of your trust produces perseverance.<br />Jas 1:4 But let perseverance do its complete work; so that you may be complete and whole, lacking in nothing.<br />Jas 1:5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach; and it will be given to him.<br />Jas 1:6 But let him ask in trust, doubting nothing; for the doubter is like a wave in the sea being tossed and driven by the wind.<br />Jas 1:7 Indeed that person should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord,<br />Jas 1:8 because he is double-minded, unstable in all his ways CJB</div>
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Every person who has come across our path has helped us to grow along the way and I hope that in some small way, we have helped those who came across our path as well. We will continue to be faithful with the assignment He has given us and continue to be thankful for those who have stuck with us through thick and thin, good times and bad. That is called Covenant Faithfulness. </div>
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<br />As Talmidim/Disciples of Yeshua, we constantly fight the battle of rejection, the battle to forgive, the battle to continue on even when we are still healing from the wounds. </div>
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<br />The question is, are we going to be faithful to where He has planted us? It is easy to walk away, anybody can do that. We see that example in marriage, it is easier to walk away then to make it work out. But the ones who refuse to give up, will be the ones who will see the fruit of faithfulness in this life and the world to come. God is calling us to faithfulness in all areas of our lives, whether the sun is shining, or we are <b>walking in the midst of a storm.<br />[From The Heart]</b></div>
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Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-36786906148048502202017-04-05T10:18:00.001-07:002017-04-05T10:18:10.891-07:00Yet Will I Praise Him Even In The Midst Of The Storm <div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is easy to be happy and joyful when everything is going well. The test of our faith and trust in God is, can we be joyful when it looks like everything is falling apart? When we know we have been faithful to walk in obedience to God, yet those we trusted and served desert us? When we have been faithful to the vision and still await its fulfillment? Spiritual joy is not dependent on circumstances, or if people love you and speak well of you, or if your popular or not pop<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ular. Our joy comes from our relationship with our Heavenly Father and our Messiah Yeshua. Our joy comes from knowing that his promises are true no matter what the circumstances look like. Our joy comes from His word that He said He will never leave us nor forsake us. Do we trust Him in the midst of the storm? He is always faithful to His Word. Can we rejoice when our children no longer have time for us? Can we rejoice when our family and friends forsake us?</span></span></div>
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Today: The Ibn Ezra to Tehilim 32:4 states "The righteous will always feel joy and never feel sad about what the Almighty has decreed upon them because they realize He whatever He does is for their ultimate best."</div>
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Hab 3:17 Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, Though the olive crop fail, and the fields produce no food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no cattle in the stalls.<br />Hab 3:18 Yet will I triumph in Adonai, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!<br />Hab 3:19 Adonai my Lord, is my strength. He has made my feet like a deer’s, and will make me walk on my high places. For the choir director: On my stringed instruments.</div>
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Our Messiah Yeshua says:<br />Mat 5:2 And He opened His mouth and began to teach them, saying,<br />Mat 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<br />Mat 5:4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.<br />Mat 5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.<br />Mat 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.<br />Mat 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.<br />Mat 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.<br />Mat 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.<br />Mat 5:10 “Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<br />Mat 5:11 “Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, on account of Me.<br />Mat 5:12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great! For in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”</div>
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This is our challenge and as I look back these 40 years of serving Him, He has always showed Himself to be faithful, especially in the midst of the storms because after the storm comes the Rainbow and the sunshine. For His Glory and His Kingdom!</div>
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Not our will, but your will be done Father.</div>
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Rabbin/Dr. Deborah Brandt Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/12086761254012396015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1859376167405191872.post-58328290315083897152016-09-04T17:12:00.001-07:002016-09-04T17:12:38.280-07:00The Living Torah- By Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan<br />
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Just received my copy of The Living Torah by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. A very easy to read translation and faithful to Torah principles and interpretation, with illustrations and maps. <br />
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I recommend for anyone who wants an easy to read translation for personal Torah Studies. It is available in Hebrew/English or just English translation. I would definitely recommend adding to your study library.<br />
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Available on Amazon.com<br />
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