EXODUS 32.1-4
Shalom. Our teaching this morning will be from Exodus 32.1-4. and we have a title for our message; I want patience, and I want it now.
READ EXODUS 32.1-4
At the calling of GOD Almighty, GOD had said to Moses, come up to Me into the mountain and I will give you tables of stone, and a Law and Commandments which I have written that you may teach the people. Exodus 24.12.
And Moses went up into Mount Sinai to be with GOD 40 days, and 40 nights. And GOD said to Moses, let the people make Me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Exodus 25.8
And GOD told Moses how to make the Sanctuary and everything that pertained to it. The ark of the covenant, the holy of holies, the altar for burnt offerings and sacrifices, the menorah, the establishment and ordination of the priesthood, instructions for The LORD’s Sabbaths, and much more.
And the Tabernacle was a large portable tent of meeting that the children of Israel built in the wilderness and carried into Canaan. It served the Jewish people for 400 years until the first Temple that was built by King Solomon was completed. Forty years the Tabernacle served the Congregation in the wilderness, and 360 years the Tabernacle was settled in, and served The LORD and the Congregation in Shiloh. Joshua 18.1. Shiloh was in Ephraim some 19 miles north of Jerusalem.
However, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. While Moses was still in the mountain with GOD, and the 40 days, and 40 nights were drawing to a close, GOD’s instructions to Moses about the Tabernacle and all its furnishings coming to an end, the children of Israel lost patience waiting for Moses to come down from the mountain. Where is he? We don’t know what has become of him, they said. So they went to Aaron who was not the High Priest at the time, but simply the brother of Moses. And they said to him, make us a god that will go before us, for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him. And they made an idol, a molten calf.
Some Jewish commentators believe that the people thought that Moses was dead and they needed a tangible presence to take his place as an intermediary between themselves and GOD. Thus they made the idol, the golden calf. And the people said, this is your god, O Israel that brought you up out of the land of Egypt. EXODUS 32.1-4
Some Bibles read in Exodus 32.1, make us gods, and in verse 4, these are your gods O Israel.
As a point of information, the Hebrew word for gods, g-o-d-s is elohim. But when speaking or writing about The GOD of Israel, The One GOD of Creation, Elohim always means GOD, G-O-D.
The Hebrew word Elohim for The One GOD of Creation is written some 3,000 times in Tnakh, The Old Testament Scriptures. GOD refers to Himself as Elohim, G-O-D-s, because GOD reveals Himself to His Creation in various manifestations. As The Father, The Messiah Yeshua, The Son, The Spirit, The Holy Spirit, The Angel of GOD, The Angel of The LORD, as a cloud, and fire in the wilderness, The Glory of GOD, and any other manifestation GOD desires to reveal Himself. The GOD of Israel is Elohim, Genesis 1.1. Our Savior is Elohim, Isaiah 43.11. Yeshua The Messiah is Elohim, The One GOD of Creation, Isaiah 9.6(5), John 14.9, John 1.3. Thus GOD refers to Himself as Elohim, G-O-D-s though He is The One and Only GOD.
Back to Exodus 32 and some Jewish commentators thinking the children of Israel thought that Moses was dead. So they made an idol, a calf, saying, this is your god, O Israel.
It’s always easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, pointing out the mistakes on Monday that your football team made on Sunday. But I think the grave mistakes that the children of Israel made were their lack of patience, their disobedience to GOD, and their lack of faith, belief, and trust in GOD. And that got themselves into a whole lot of trouble with The LORD their GOD. Let’s look at EXODUS 32.7-15, 21-28.
There are some very important lessons for all of us to be learned here in the category of patience.
GOD had just delivered the children of Israel out of Egypt, after 400 years of hard slavery and affliction under the hands of the Egyptians. This was GOD’s way of making Israel a great nation in Egypt from one Jewish man Joseph, to some 3 million Jewish people. And because of the severe bondage, the children of Israel wanted out of Egypt, and GOD did just that.
Perhaps the people did not know that was the reason they were slaves in Egypt, to make them a great nation. However The Bible does say, before honor is humility. The children of Israel suffered great humility for 400 years as slaves before GOD honored them with their own nation, and their own country, the land of Israel. PROVERBS 18.12.
And perhaps the children of Israel didn’t have any Rabbis in Egypt to tell them what GOD had promised their father Abraham. GOD had said to Abraham, “And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing”. Genesis 12.2. Although back in those days, 4,000 years ago, there was no book of Genesis. There was no Bible. Just the spoken Word of GOD that might have been passed on down through the generations until GOD revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai all that information up to the Exodus out of Egypt. And the Words of GOD were written in The Torah, The Law of Moses.
And perhaps the children of Israel did not know of another promise GOD had made with Abraham. GOD said to Abraham, Know for certain that your descendants will be a stranger in a land that is not theirs. Today we know that land was Egypt. And GOD said, your descendants will serve them and they will afflict them 400 years. And the nation they shall serve, GOD said, I will judge. And afterward they will come out with great substance. But in the fourth generation they shall come here again, to Canaan (where Abraham and Sarah lived). And GOD said, for the iniquity of the Amorites, the Amorites were the Canaanites, is not yet complete. Perhaps the fourth generation means that after 400 years of slavery in Egypt, the children of Israel will take possession of Canaan which GOD gave to the Jewish people for an everlasting possession, and renamed it Eretz Y’Israel, The Land of Israel. Genesis 15.13-16.
And perhaps the children of Israel did not know of Joseph, the eleventh son of Jacob. And how he was carried into Egypt as a slave, and later became Governor of Egypt under Pharaoh. This was God’s will to start the process of Israel becoming a great nation. From Joseph, who later married and had two sons, and because of a great famine in Canaan, Jacob, Joseph’s father, and all his family of 66 people including himself, moved to Egypt. All the will of GOD. And over 430 years, the population of the Jewish people grew to some 3 million in Egypt. Israel had become a great nation as GOD promised.
But the children of Israel saw firsthand, with their own eyes the miracles GOD performed to deliver His people out of Egypt. The plagues that destroyed the Egyptians. They saw with their own eyes how GOD saved the children of Israel from death on the first Passover by the blood of the Passover Lamb. But killed the firstborn of the Egyptians. They saw GOD open the Red Sea, and they crossed o
n dry ground escaping the charging Egyptian armies. And they saw GOD bring the ocean down on the Egyptian armies killing them all. The children of Israel witnessed firsthand the might and power of GOD on their behalf, saving them. Exodus 12.12-13, Exodus 14.22-31.
And the children of Israel saw firsthand how GOD fed them in the wilderness supernaturally with manna and quails from Heaven. And brought water from a rock to satisfy the thirst of 3 million people and their flocks and animals every day.
And at Mt. Sinai, three months after the Exodus out of Egypt, GOD gave the Jewish people the Ten Commandments telling them how to live a Holy and GODly life in the Presence of GOD.
And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with GOD. And they stood at the lowest part of the mountain. And Mt. Sinai was altogether in smoke because The LORD descended on it in fire, and the smoke rose up as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
And when the sound of the shofar sounded long, and grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and GOD answered him by His Voice. And The LORD came down upon Mt. Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And GOD spoke, and the children of Israel heard Him clearly.
And GOD said, I AM The LORD thy GOD Who has brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods besides Me. You shall not make for yourself any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them. For I The LORD your GOD am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me. And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments. Exodus 20.1-6.
The people clearly heard God Speak to them, “You shall not make for yourself any graven image”.
There are times that GOD tests us with adversity and suffering so we ourselves will know the depth of our faith. Will we sin against GOD during the test? Or will we be patient, and put our faith and trust in GOD knowing that He will always deliver us? And not sin, violating His Laws? Perhaps GOD was testing the children of Israel. EXODUS 20.18-20, HEBREW BIBLE, EXODUS 20.15-18.
When we fear GOD, we do what He says. We obey Him, His Law of Moses, and every Word He speaks. Matthew 4.4. Today, most people don’t fear GOD. They continually sin against GOD, disobeying His Word. The children of Israel apparently did not fear GOD either. They had no patience and sinned. They made an idol and called it god, and they got themselves in a whole lot of trouble with the Lord their God.
Yeshua said, when we have patience, we take control of our life. On the contrary, when we have no patience, we do dumb things like make an idol and call it god. LUKE 21.19
With patience, we take control of our life, we take control of our spirit and mind. Anger doesn’t take over our decisions. We remain cool in the face of difficulty rather than doing something foolish we will regret.
Paul teaches us to be patient in tribulation. Why? So we won’t do anything out of control, and dumb. ROMANS 12.12
Instant in prayer is constantly being in prayer. Good counsel.
So, how can we be patient in tribulation and hardship when there is so much evil in this world? The answer. Have faith in The LORD, and trust Him knowing and believing He will always deliver you in His good timing no matter what the problem may be. PSALM 34.17-19
Remember, righteous means being right with GOD by obeying His Laws written in The Law of Moses.
The Bible is insistent. Wait on The LORD, and He will deliver you. Do not lose patience. PSALM 27.14
Wait in Hebrew is KAH’VAH meaning look patiently, and expect.
Being patient is resting in The LORD. Waiting patiently for Him to deliver you. PSALM 37.7
Rest in Hebrew is DAH’MAHM – meaning be at peace, and wait.
And cease from anger. PSALM 37.8-9, PSALM 40.1-5
Job is an excellent example of patience in the face of grief and adversity. AND PATIENCE ALWAYS REQUIRES OBEDIENCE TO GOD, TO EVERY WORD HE SPEAKS, AND TO HIS LAW OF MOSES. JOB 1.1
Perfect in Hebrew is TAHM – meaning perfect and complete.
I believe being perfect and complete can be explained in the words of Deuteronomy 6.4. Hear O Israel, The LORD our GOD, The LORD is One. Being perfect in the eyes of GOD is obeying GOD. That’s what Hear O Israel means. Obey GOD Israel. Obey His Word, and His Laws written in The Law of Moses. And know and believe there is Only One GOD. The LORD our GOD, The LORD is One. Job was perfect in the sight of GOD, and you too can be perfect in the eyes of GOD.
And Job was upright, he feared GOD, and avoided evil, even during the toughest time in his life. He was patient. Maybe not too happy, but he was patient. He did not sin. JOB 1.1-22
But after the hard test, GOD delivered Job, and blessed him. And GOD will bless you also. JOB 42.10-17
A very important part of patience is your Obedience to GOD, having Faith in Him, Believing Him, Trusting in Him, Knowing He will deliver you from the problem, no matter how serious it might be. And GOD, I believe, will give you the patience and comfort to endure. ROMANS 15.5
Here are some Scriptures that will help you develop your patience. PSALM 9.10, PSALM 18.2, PSALM 31.19, PSALM 32.10, PSALM 37.39-40, PSALM 125.1, PROVERBS 29.25, ISAIAH 26.3, JEREMIAH 17.7-8, NAHUM 1.7
So how do we increase our patience? Obey GOD, every Word GOD speaks. Believe GOD, have Faith in Him, and Trust Him that He will deliver you. Have Patience. Wait on The LORD, and Expect Him to deliver you, and Bless you. And He will.
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
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Month: February 2014
WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS WHEN MOSES WAS IN THE MOUNTAIN WITH GOD?
EXODUS 31.18
Shalom. Our teaching this morning will be from Exodus 31.18.
READ EXODUS 31.18
GOD had called Moses to come up to Him into Mt. Sinai, the Mountain of GOD. And Moses was with GOD in the mountain for 40 days, and 40 nights. And in Exodus 31.18 the 40 days, and 40 nights were coming to a close. And GOD gave Moses the two stone tablets with the 10 Commandments written on them by The Finger of GOD.
So what took place up there in the mountain with GOD and Moses during those 40 days, and 40 nights? EXODUS 24.12-18
GOD’s appearance might have looked like this.
REVELATION 1.12-16
During those 40 days and 40 nights that Moses was with GOD in the mountain, Moses was sitting Face to face with Yeshua The Messiah, The GOD of Creation. Only then Messiah was fully GOD.
ISAIAH 9.6(5), JOHN 1.3-4
And the following took place:
GOD said to Moses, take offerings from the people of gold, silver, and brass, blue and purple, and scarlet and fine linen, and goats hair, rams skins dyed red, and badgers skins, and shittim wood, oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense, onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate. And let them make Me and Sanctuary that I may dwell among the People. According to all that I show you after the pattern of the Tabernacle, and the likeness of all the instruments of it.
I believe that GOD supernaturally showed Moses a vision of His Tabernacle and everything that pertained to it as we would view a movie.
Then The LORD instructed Moses to make the ark of the covenant, 4 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet high. And overlay it with gold. And the mercy seat, that in Hebrew is HA’KAH’PO’RET meaning the cover, the cover for the ark. And make it of pure gold. And two cherubim of pure gold at each end of the mercy seat with their wings stretched forth covering the mercy seat. And their wings and their faces looking to one another. And put the two tables of stone with the ten commandments written with The Finger of GOD inside the ark. Later, toward the end of the forty year journey in the wilderness before entering the Promised Land, Moses put the Book of The Law, GOD’s Laws written in the Law of Moses, inside the ark of the covenant. EXODUS 25.21, DEUTERONOMY 31.26
And God said to Moses, there I will meet with you at the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies inside the Sanctuary. And their I will speak to you from above the mercy seat from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the covenant, of all the things which I give to you in commandment to the children of Israel. And that included the entire Law of Moses.
Also at that time, GOD may have given Moses His spoken Words from Genesis 1.1, “In the beginning GOD created the Heaven and the earth,” up to the time Moses was in the mountain with GOD.
And The LORD said to Moses, make the table for the showbread. And God gave Moses its dimensions. Overlay it with pure gold. And the menorah, the seven branch candlestick of pure gold. And GOD gave Moses all the dimensions of the tabernacle, and its design and arrangements.
And GOD said to Moses, you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work with cherubim. And you shall hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold. GOD was describing the Holy of Holies. And bring within the veil the ark of the covenant. And the veil shall divide unto you between the Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies. And you shall put the mercy seat upon the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies. And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the menorah opposite the table on the side of the Tabernacle toward the south. And you shall put the table on the north side. And you shall make a hanging for the door of the tent of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen made with needlework.
And the altar for sacrifices and burnt offerings shall be 7 1/2 feet long, 7 1/2 feet wide, and 4 1/2 feet high made of shittim wood, and horns at the four corners, overlaid with copper.
The courtyard of the tabernacle is to be 150 feet x 75 feet. And the pure olive oil for the menorah is to burn always.
And GOD explained to Moses how to make the holy garments for the High Priest and the Priests for glory and beauty. The breastplate, the apron-like ephod, and robe, a broidered coat, a mitre, and a belt for the High Priest Aaron, and his sons the Priests to minister to The LORD in the Priest’s Office.
And The LORD said to Moses, consecrate the Priests and make them holy to minister to Me. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish to sacrifice. And unleavened bread and challahs anointed with oil of wheaten flour, and put them in one basket, and bring them in the basket with the young bull and two rams. And Aaron and his sons shall be washed in water. This was the beginning of baptism. And put the priestly garments on the Priests, and take the anointing oil and pour it upon the head of Aaron the High Priest. And the Priest’s Office shall belong to Aaron and his sons, and their descendants after them for a perpetual statute.
And the young bull is to be brought before the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands on the head of the bull and kill it before The LORD by the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation. And Moses shall take the blood of the bull and put it upon the horns of the altar with his finger, and pour the blood beside the bottom of the altar. It is a sin offering.
And sacrifice one ram in similar fashion. It is a burnt offering to The LORD. It is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to The LORD.
And the other ram, sacrifice in like manner. Its blood shall be placed on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot. And sprinkle the blood upon the altar all around it. Perhaps this ceremony was atonement for the sins of the Priests. Sin is disobeying GOD. 1 John 3.4.
And The LORD said to Moses, take the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it upon Aaron and his sons, and on their clothing to consecrate them and make them holy. And the ram shall be a ram of ordination for ordaining the Priests. And take the unleavened bread and cakes in the basket, and put them in the hands of Aaron and his sons and wave them for a wave offering before The LORD. And the unleavened bread and cakes shall be burned upon the altar for a burnt offering, a sweet savor before The LORD, an offering made by fire unto The LORD.
And The LORD said, take the breast of the ram for ordination and wave it for a wave offering before The LORD. And the breast of the ram is for Aaron and his sons to eat. It is a statute forever from the Children of Israel.
And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him to be anointed and ordained in them. And the son that becomes Priest in Aaron’s place is to wear those garments for seven days when he comes into the Tabernacle of the Congregation to minister to The LORD in the Holy Place. That is the sanctuary.
And Aaron and his sons shall eat t
he flesh of the ram of ordination that is sacrificed, and the unleavened bread that is in the basket where the atonement was made. That is in the Tabernacle of the Congregation. A stranger shall not eat of it, The LORD said, because they are holy. And if any of the flesh of the ordination ram, or of the matzah remain to the morning, it shall be burned with fire because it is holy, The LORD said.
Every day you shall offer a young bull for a sin offering for atonement. And you shall cleanse the altar when you have made an atonement for it. And you shall anoint the altar, and sanctify it. Seven days an atonement shall be made for the altar and sanctify it. It shall be an altar most holy. Whosoever touches the altar shall be holy.
And GOD said to Moses, this is what you shall offer upon the altar. Two lambs of the first year day by day continually. One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer in the evening along with the prescribed amount of flour and oil, and wine for a drink offering. For a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to The LORD.
This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation before The LORD where I will meet you, to speak there to you, and there I will meet with the Children of Israel. And the Tabernacle shall be sanctified by My Glory.
And The LORD said to Moses, I will sanctify the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the altar. And I will sanctify both Aaron and his sons to minister to Me in the Priest’s Office. And I will dwell among the Children of Israel and be their GOD. And they shall know that I AM The LORD their GOD that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I will dwell among them. I AM The LORD their GOD.
And The LORD said to Moses, you shall make an altar of incense, 1 1/2 feet long, 1 1/2 feet wide, and 3 1/2 feet high. Make it of shittim wood, and overlay it with pure gold. And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant where I will meet with you. And Aaron shall burn sweet incense on it every morning. And when Aaron lights the menorah at evening, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before The LORD throughout your generations. You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering, neither shall you pour a drink offering on it. And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonement throughout your generations. It is most holy unto The LORD.
And The LORD said to Moses, the Children of Israel must offer a half a shekel of money for the maintenance of the tabernacle.
And The LORD said to Moses, make a basin for washing. And place it between the Tabernacle and the altar for Aaron and his sons to wash their hands and their feet. This is the origin of baptism for ceremonial cleansing, purifying them from sin. Sin is breaking The Law of Moses, 1 John 3.4. It is a statute forever.
And GOD gave Moses the formula to make the holy anointing oil that is to be made by an expert perfume maker to anoint the Tabernacle, the ark of the testimony, the table for the showbread, the menorah, the altar of incense, the altar of burnt offerings, the basin for washing, and everything that pertained to them. And you shall sanctify them that they may be most holy. Whoever touches them shall be holy.
And GOD said to Moses, anoint Aaron and his sons to consecrate them, and make them holy, that they may serve Me as Priests.
And GOD said to Moses, speak to the Children of Israel and say, this shall be a holy anointing oil to The LORD throughout your generations. This holy anointing oil shall NOT be poured on man’s flesh, nor shall you make any other oil like it after the composition of it. It is holy, and it shall be holy unto you. Whosoever compounds any oil like it, or whosoever puts any of it upon a stranger shall be cut off from his people.
And GOD said to Moses, make another holy oil, different from the previous holy oil. And put it before the testimony of the Sanctuary. That is the ark of the covenant where I will meet with you. It shall be unto you most holy. As for this perfumed holy oil that you shall make, you shall NOT make for yourselves the same formula of it. It shall be unto you holy for The LORD. Whosoever shall make the same perfumed holy oil, even to smell it, shall be cut off from his people.
And The LORD gave Moses Bezaleel from the tribe of Judah. And GOD said, I have filled him with the Spirit of GOD in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship to make designs of gold, silver, and brass. And cutting stones to set them in. And in carving wood to work in all manner of workmanship.
And GOD gave Moses Aholiab of the tribe of Dan to be Bezaleel’s assistant, and others from all the tribes in whose hearts GOD had put wisdom to make all that GOD commanded Moses. And The LORD said, according to all that I have commanded you, they shall do.
And The LORD spoke to Moses saying, speak to the children of Israel saying, Verily My Sabbaths you shall keep. The word Verily in Hebrew is AKH meaning surely and only. Surely and only My Sabbaths you shall keep. For it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations. That is forever.
Everyone that defiles it, those who treat My Sabbaths as unholy and common shall surely be put to death. For whosoever does any work in them shall be cut off from his people.
Six days may work be done, but in the seventh day Saturday, from Friday at sundown, to Saturday at sundown is a Sabbath of rest, holy to The LORD. Whosoever does any work on the Sabbath Day shall surely be put to death. It is a perpetual covenant forever.
The 40 days and 40 nights that Moses sat with GOD in the mountain, and the Words that GOD spoke to Moses are written in Exodus Chapters 25 through 31.
After 40 days, and 40 nights when GOD ended speaking with Moses in Mt. Sinai, GOD gave Moses the two tables of testimony, the two tables of stone with the ten commandments written on them by The Finger of GOD, which read;
I AM The LORD thy GOD which brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them. For I The LORD your GOD am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations of them that hate Me. And showing mercy to thousands of them that love Me, and keep My Commandments.
You shall not take The Name of The LORD thy GOD in vain, for The LORD will not hold him guiltless that takes His Name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor and do all your work. But the seventh day Saturday is the Sabbath of The LORD your GOD. In it you shall not do any work. You, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates. For in six days, The LORD made Heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Wherefore The LORD blessed the seventh day and made it holy.
Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which The LORD your GOD gives you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house.&n
bsp; You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his mule, not anything that is your neighbor’s.
So this is what took place in Mt. Sinai with The GOD of Creation and Moses. And Moses sat Face to face with GOD, Yeshua The Messiah, The Holy One of Israel Our Savior. Isaiah 43.11
And I think on what Messiah said in John 4.22. “For Salvation is from the Jews.” Salvation comes from doing every Word GOD commands the Jewish people to do. And His Words are written from Genesis through Revelation.
And it is written, the Words spoken by GOD; In you Abraham, and your descendants the Jewish People shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Genesis 12.3.
Unfortunately, so few people know that.
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
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IS SUNDAY THE WEEKLY SABBATH?
EXODUS 31.12-17
Shalom. Our teaching this morning will be from Exodus 31.12-17, and in these passages we have GOD’s teachings on His Sabbaths that are Holy unto us, and Holy to The LORD.
READ EXODUS 31.12-17
EXODUS 31.12 Again we are reading Words spoken from the lips of GOD, which read, “and The LORD Spoke unto Moses Saying”.
The word Spoke in Hebrew is AH’MAHR meaning TO SAY, or SPEAK, or COMMAND.
Thus GOD Commanded Moses saying. And the Hebrew word for Saying is also AH’MAHR. Every word that GOD speaks is a Command that we must follow. And every word GOD speaks about HIS Sabbaths must be Obeyed.
So what did GOD command Moses?
EXODUS 31.13 GOD commanded Moses that the children of Israel must keep HIS Sabbaths. GOD’s Sabbaths are not the Jewish Sabbaths. They are Sabbaths of The LORD, which means they are for everybody.
The Saturday Sabbath is not a Jewish Sabbath. The Saturday Sabbath is The Sabbath of The LORD. All Biblical Sabbaths are the Sabbaths of The LORD GOD Almighty Who is Yeshua The Messiah. And all GOD’s Sabbaths are plainly written in Leviticus Chapter 23 for everyone to follow. Here they are.
LEVITICUS 23.1-3 All The Festivals and Sabbaths described here in Leviticus Chapter 23 are Festivals and Sabbaths of The LORD. They are not Jewish holidays simply because Jewish people observe them. GOD’s Festivals and Sabbaths should be observed by everyone because everyone is created by GOD.
VERSE 3 Look at Verse 1. “And The LORD spoke to Moses saying.”
These words are GOD’s commands to every human being directly from GOD. And here is His Command. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day Saturday, that is from sundown Friday, to sundown on Saturday, is the Sabbath of rest, a Holy Convocation. You, as in everyone, all of us, shall do no work in it. It is THE SABBATH OF THE LORD in all your dwellings.
GENESIS 1.5 explains evening and morning.
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LEVITICUS 23.3 That is GOD’s commandment to you, me, and everyone that Saturday, the seventh day of the week is the weekly Sabbath of rest. You shall do no work in it, The LORD says. It is The Sabbath of The LORD in all your dwellings. That right there ends all arguments that Sunday or any other day beside Saturday is the weekly Sabbath. GOD’s Word Rules.
A Holy Convocation is a Sacred Occasion, a time set apart for The LORD for a gathering of the people. Better known as a Service that is dedicated to The LORD to observe The Sabbath, the Holy Day. Our Saturday Shabbat Services are Holy Convocations dedicated to The LORD GOD. And every Sabbath of The LORD is a day of rest, and work of any kind should NOT be done in that day.
The other Sabbaths of The LORD, and gathering for Sabbath Services are:
Passover, the first and seventh days. Passover is usually in March or April. LEVITICUS 23.5-8
The Festivals and Sabbaths of The LORD are forever.
LEVITICUS 23.14
Pentecost, or in Hebrew Shavuot meaning weeks is a Sabbath unto The LORD. LEVITICUS 23.15, 21
Pentecost usually comes around May.
A Memorial Of Blowing Of Trumpets, or as Judaism calls this Festival, Rosh Ha Shannah, the new year, is a Sabbath of rest. LEVITICUS 23.23-25
A Memorial Of Blowing Of Trumpets, or Rosh Ha Shannah usually comes around September.
The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur is a Sabbath of rest. LEVITICUS 23.26-32
The Day of Atonement is not only a Sabbath of rest but a reminder from The LORD that everyone needs atonement for their sins. Sin is breaking The Law of Moses, 1 John 3.4. The Atonement for the world today is the shed blood of The Jewish Messiah Yeshua.
Yom Kippur usually comes in September.
The Feast of Tabernacles, or in Hebrew Sukkot meaning booths, has two Sabbaths of rest. The first and eighth days. LEVITICUS 23.33-36, 39
And Tabernacles usually comes in September.
So beside the weekly Sabbath every Saturday, The LORD GOD has an additional seven annual Sabbaths that are Holy Days dedicated to The LORD our GOD.
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EXODUS 31.13 “Verily My Sabbaths you shall keep,” The LORD commands. The Hebrew word for keep is SHAH’MAHR meaning, Take heed, pay attention to observe GOD’s Sabbaths diligently and thoroughly. Do what He says. And GOD’s command is this. The Sabbath is a day of rest, a time set apart for The LORD for a gathering of the people for a Sabbath Service.
Verse 13 continues, “For it is a sign between you and Me throughout your generations”, The LORD says. And that is forever.
The Hebrew word for SIGN is OTE meaning evidence. Keeping GOD’s Sabbaths is evidence that the Children of Israel, the Jewish People may know that it is The LORD your GOD Who sanctifies you. That is, Who makes you Holy.
And I would have to say that GOD sanctifies ALL people who live their lives exactly as GOD says, everything He has commanded the Jewish people to do. For Yeshua The Messiah says, “Salvation is from the Jews”, John 4.22. Salvation comes by doing everything GOD has commanded the Jewish people to do. That is obeying GOD’s Torah, The Law of Moses. That includes believing in Messiah Yeshua. Knowing there is only One GOD. And keeping GOD’s Sabbaths. And GOD will sanctify you also. He will make you Holy.
EXODUS 31.14 The Sabbath is Holy to us. The Hebrew word for Holy is KODESH meaning The Sabbath is SACRED and DEDICATED, ENTIRELY COMMITTED to The LORD our GOD. The LORD our GOD is Elohim, Yeshua The Messiah.
Jewish people, along with a small number of non-Jewish people are the only people in the world who keep GOD’s Sabbaths. I understand that The Bible is the most popular Book in the world. The Bible is in more households than any other book. Yet most people who own a Bible do not keep GOD’s Sabbaths even with GOD’s written warning of dire consequences to follow for not keeping His Sabbaths.
Let’s read Exodus 31.14 again. “You shall keep the Sabbath therefore for it is Holy unto you.” Everyone that defiles it, that is treating The Sabbath as unholy and common shall surely be put to death. “For whosoever does any work on The Sabbath shall be cut off from among his people.”
Again Messiah’s words of John 4.22. “For Salvation is from the Jews.” Not keeping GOD’s Sabbaths, treating the Sabbath as unholy and common means being cut off from Salvation. And that is death. That should be a strong warning to keep the Sabbaths of GOD.
The fear of The LORD is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge, and understanding. The fear of The LORD is a fountain of life, and prolongs days. And the fear of The LORD is riches, honor, and life. And the fear of The LORD, results in obeying every Word GOD speaks, for our good. And the fear of The LORD is keeping His Sabbaths.
EXODUS 31.15 In case we missed it the first time, GOD repeats Himself. Six days may work be done, but in the seventh, Saturday, is The Sabbath of rest, Holy to The LORD. “Whosoever does any work in the Sabbath Day, he shall surely be put to death.”
GOD’s commandment is not only to Jewish people, but to all GOD’s Creation, every human being.
Okay. You might say that we live in a Christian country. Ch
urch doctrine does not follow GOD’s doctrine. Church doctrine has abolished GOD’s Laws written in The Law of Moses, abolishing all GOD’s Sabbaths, and replaced GOD’s Laws with doctrine that is not from GOD. So you ask, “What should I do?” I have to work on the Sabbaths. My answer, GOD knows your heart. If you sincerely want The Sabbath off, and ask your employer for the day off, and seek GOD’s help in prayer, I believe GOD will get you the Sabbath days off.
EXODUS 31.16 Now you might say, GOD’s Sabbaths are only for Jewish People, but they are not for me because I’m Christian, or Moslem or of another religion. Religions and their laws are made by man. People are created by GOD, for His pleasure, to do His will, to serve Him, and obey His Word, His Commandments and His Laws that are written in The Law of Moses.
REVELATION 4.11, PSALM 40.8
Let’s look at ISAIAH 43.10
The American Heritage College Dictionary explains a witness as one who can give a firsthand account of something.
GOD chose the Jewish people to be His witnesses to give a firsthand account of The GOD of Creation to all the world by writing GOD’s Word in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation for everyone in the world to Know GOD, to Believe GOD, and Understand that GOD is GOD.
Before GOD there was no god formed, neither will there be after Him.
GOD’s Word, His Commandments, His Laws written in The Law of Moses, and His Sabbaths are for every human being to do, to live a GODly life in the Presence of GOD. Unfortunately, there are scores of teachers teaching the doctrines of men and not the Commandments and Laws of GOD.
GOD is Messiah Yeshua and He chose His Jewish Disciples to be His witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth. ACTS 1.8
GOD’s Sabbaths are a perpetual Covenant that GOD has made with the Jewish people.
Yeshua the Messiah said, The Sabbath was made for man. The Sabbath was made for every human being, Jewish and non-Jewish people. MARK 2.27-28
Sunday weekly Sabbath cannot be found anywhere in The Bible. But GOD’s Sabbaths are written throughout The Scriptures, and in their entirety in Leviticus Chapter 23.
EXODUS 31.17 The Sabbath is a sign between GOD and the Jewish people forever. Why? Because Israel honors what GOD did. GOD worked six days and rested on the seventh. “For in six days The LORD made Heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.” Israel does the same. Israel works six days and rests on the seventh day, and is refreshed. And we should do the same.
So let’s close on these powerful Words of GOD Almighty in ISAIAH 56.6-7.
The sons of the stranger are Gentiles, non-Jewish people who join themselves to The LORD, to serve Him, and love The Name of The LORD, to be His servants. Everyone that keeps The Sabbath from polluting it. That is everyone who keeps The Sabbath and DOES NOT make it unholy or common. And takes hold of GOD’s Covenant. GOD’s Covenant is His Word and His Law of Moses. Psalm 105.8-10.
Even them will I bring to My Holy Mountain, GOD says. Millennium and eternal language. And make them joyful in My House of Prayer. Their burnt offering and their sacrifice shall be accepted upon My altar. Your Sacrifice is Yeshua The Messiah. And when you do all that GOD commands you, to love The LORD your GOD, to serve Him, and do His Sabbaths, and take hold of His Covenant, your Sacrifice of Yeshua The Messiah shall be accepted by GOD. For My House, The LORD says, shall be called a House of Prayer for all people.
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
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EVERYTHING IS THE WILL OF GOD.
EXODUS 31.1-11
Shalom. Our teaching this morning will be from Exodus 31.1-11. And we have a title for this morning’s message; Everything is the will of GOD.
READ EXODUS 31.1-11
The LORD has completed giving Moses all the instructions to build the Sanctuary and everything pertaining to it. And The LORD named two master builders to be in charge in carrying out His plans. Bezaleel from the tribe of Judah whom The LORD filled with the Spirit of GOD in wisdom and in understanding and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship to weave designs of gold, silver, and brass, and precious stone cutting for setting. And carving wood, and in all manner of workmanship.
And The LORD gave Moses Aholiab from the tribe of Dan to be Bezaleel’s assistant. And also The LORD GOD assigned others from all the tribes who were skillful and artful whom The LORD gave wisdom to make everything that GOD commanded Moses; the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and the ark of the covenant, and the mercy seat, and the two cherubim that were upon it, and all the furnishings of the Tabernacle. The table for the showbread and its furnishings. The menorah, the seven branch candlestick, with all its furnishings, and the altar of incense. And the altar of burnt offering with all its furnishings. And the laver for washing, and its base. And the clothes of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the High Priest, and his sons the Priests to minister to The LORD in the Priest’s Office. And the anointing oil, and the sweet perfumed incense for the Sanctuary. According to all that GOD commanded, they shall do.
So The LORD assigned skilled people to Moses from all the tribes of Israel to build the Sanctuary and everything belonging to it. People whom The LORD GOD filled with the Spirit of GOD in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge to make all that GOD commanded Moses.
Everything in life. Everything in history, past, present, and future is the will of GOD. It is the power of His choosing for His purpose.
The Bible teaches us that GOD has made all our works in us. ISAIAH 26.12
The Hebrew word for works is MAH’AH’SEEM meaning, everything we do, everything we make and accomplish, or fail at, all our actions, activities, business, labor, occupation, possessions, etc. That which anyone makes or does is the will of GOD for His purpose.
I know that other Bibles might have different translations of Isaiah 26.12, but the fact is that GOD makes all our works in us. Just as He assigned certain skilled workers whom He filled with The Spirit of GOD in wisdom, understanding, and knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship to build the Sanctuary and everything that pertained to, GOD fills every human being with The Spirit of GOD, and He makes all our works in us. I am not speaking of The Holy Spirit. The Spirit of GOD in us is our Life. And everything we do is the will of GOD. GENESIS 2.7
The Hebrew word for formed is YEE’TSAYR which means not only did GOD FORM us, He DETERMINED who we would be. He put all our works in us. Everything we do, make, accomplish, even fail. All is the will of GOD for His purpose.
Like a potter, GOD has formed the spirit of every person. ZECHARIAH 12.1
The Hebrew word here for formed is YO’TSAYR meaning GOD has Molded the spirit of man like a potter into the Shape He chooses. And GOD DETERMINES who we are by making all our works in us.
Spirit in Hebrew is RU’AKH meaning life, our mind, our brains, our abilities, intelligence, understanding, courage. GOD has determined everything about us.
Righteousness in Hebrew is TSAH’DEEK meaning to be right with GOD. Being right with GOD comes by obeying GOD. Being obedient to every Word He speaks, and obeying His Law of Moses.
And being Righteous also comes from GOD. GOD chooses and determines who will be righteous, obedient to GOD. And He chooses who will be unrighteous, disobedient to GOD by being disobedient to His Word, and disobedient to His Law of Moses. ISAIAH 54.17, 1 PETER 2.8
The elect are chosen by GOD. 1 PETER 1.2
Elect here means chosen by GOD.
To the foreknowledge of GOD. Foreknowledge in Greek is PROGNOSIS, meaning here, GOD’s knowledge of something or someone before it exists, even before that life came into being. Elect according to the foreknowledge of GOD is the will of GOD. He makes the choosing who His elect is. And the proof of being GOD’s elect is Obedience. Obedience to GOD’s every word, and Obedience to GOD’s Law of Moses. Deuteronomy 8.3, Matthew 4.4, Luke 4.4.
EPHESIANS 1.4, 5, 11 Predestinated in Greek is PRO’ORID’ZO meaning that predestination is an act of GOD. GOD predetermined, or determined beforehand, even before the Creation of the universe everything for GOD’s purpose. All things past, present, and future are the will of GOD, and predestinated.
GOD even tells us in advance that the way to eternal life is narrow, and few find it.
MATTHEW 7.13-14, MATTHEW 22.14
And The LORD tells us why the way to eternal life is narrow, and why few are chosen. Because the majority of humanity are lawless, without law. They reject and disobey GOD by turning their back on His Law of Moses. And that also is the will of GOD. The elect are chosen by GOD.
MATTHEW 7.21-23
The will of The Father in Heaven is to do His Law of Moses. PSALM 40.8
It is also the will of GOD that the boundaries of all the nations of the world have been determined by GOD according to the number of the Jewish people, the children of Israel. DEUTERONOMY 32.8
And it is also the will of GOD in the end days to gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, bringing an end of Gentile global rule. GOD will destroy all the enemies of Israel, and those who hate Jewish people, bringing the return of The LORD to establish His Messianic Kingdom in Israel where MESSIAH YESHUA will be King over all the earth. That is the will of GOD.
ZECHARIAH 14.1-5, 9, 12-13, LUKE 21.23-24
A close friend of mine recently told me, if it were not the Jewish people whom GOD appointed to give Messiah Yeshua to the Romans to be killed, GOD would have chosen another people. But GOD did choose the Jewish people to deliver The Messiah to the Romans for crucifixion for the benefit of all humanity. That is their atonement for their sins. And Messiah’s sacrificial death was also the will of GOD, predetermined before the foundation of the world, for His purpose, to them that love GOD.
ACTS 2.22-23
It was always the will of GOD, and the plan of GOD, predetermined by GOD before the Creation of the universe that Yeshua The Messiah, GOD Almighty in the flesh, a human being would give His Life to be our Atonement for Jewish people, and all people.
1 PETER 1.19-20
Foreordained means here that GOD knew and determined before the Creation that He, The LORD GOD would be The Jewish Messiah, a human being, to give His Life for the Atonement of those Whom He chooses. And that also is the will of GOD.
No one loved the Jewish People and Israel so intently, even unto death as Yeshua the Messiah.
Being made manifest these last times for you means that Messiah APPEARED these last times for you.
GOD also foreknew, a
nd chose The Jewish People before the Creation of the world. ROMANS 11.1-2
The Spirit of GOD and The Holy Spirit are The One GOD.
JOHN 4.24, GENESIS 1.1-2, JEREMIAH 23.24
And The Holy Spirit is explained by Yeshua in JOHN 14.15-17.
JOHN 14.15 Yeshua The Messiah is GOD The Father, The One GOD. See John 14.9 and Isaiah 9.6, Hebrew Scriptures Isaiah 9.5. And when we love Messiah Who is GOD, we prove it by obeying His commandments that collectively are The Law of Moses.
JOHN 14.16 And when we obey GOD’s commandments, His Law of Moses, Messiah prays to The Father to give us another Comforter, Who is The Holy Spirit Who consoles us, and comforts us and lives with us forever as long as we continue to have faith in Yeshua, and obey His Law of Moses.
HEBREWS 6.4-6, EZEKIEL 18.24, 1 SAMUEL 16.13-14, 1 SAMUEL 15.22-28, MATTHEW 10.22
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JOHN 14.17 The Holy Spirit is The Spirit of Truth Who teaches us The Truth. The Holy Spirit teaches us to obey GOD, every Word He speaks. He teaches us to be obedient to His Law of Moses. And The Holy Spirit teaches us that there is only One GOD, not three or four gods. Those without The Holy Spirit reject The Law of Moses and disregard it. And those without The Holy Spirit reject Yeshua The Messiah, and mock Him.
The Holy Spirit is given to those who obey GOD, and are obedient to His Law of Moses. That includes belief in Messiah Yeshua from the prophesies in The Old Testament, and fulfillment in The New Testament. And since Righteousness is of GOD, it is the will of GOD as to who receives The Holy Spirit, and who does not.
And it is The Spirit of GOD Who moves us to do His Service. All the will of GOD.
2 CHRONICLES 20.14-15, 2 CHRONICLES 36.22-23, EZRA 1.5
HAGGAI 1.14, 2 KINGS 19.4-7
In conclusion, let’s look at what John wrote in JOHN 21.25. Because the same can be said about The Spirit of GOD.
There are also many other things which The Spirit of GOD did which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written if all was told what The Spirit of GOD has done, and will do. And The Spirit of GOD is GOD, Yeshua The Messiah. Everything is the will of GOD. Amen
Shalom, Ira Weinstein
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