Month: October 2016

Shalom.

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Numbers 21.1-9.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE BATTLE IS NOT YOURS, BUT GOD’S.

And with that said, let’s read Numbers 21.1-9.

NUMBERS 21.1  King Arad and his region called Arad is generally identified in Canaan as being between Beersheba and the Dead Sea in the south of present-day Israel.

So this king Arad the Canaanite, after hearing that Israel came by the way of the spies, came out with his armies and fought with Israel and took some of them prisoners.

NUMBERS 21.2-3  So after Israel vowed a vow to The LORD asking Him to deliver those Canaanites into their hand, GOD answered by delivering the Canaanites to Israel.  And Israel utterly destroyed them and their cities, and no doubt freed the Israeli prisoners.  And GOD called the name of that place Hormah, meaning utter destruction.

For some reason, the nations that seek to harm, destroy and slander Israel and the Jewish People do not realize that The GOD of Creation, The HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL is always with His people Israel.  And the enemies of the Jewish People and Israel will in time end up as those Canaanites, utterly destroyed because the battle belongs to GOD, THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL.  GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31-46

And when Israel entered Canaan, Joshua and the armies of Israel killed king Arad and thirty other Canaanite kings. And the Children of Israel possessed their land.  JOSHUA 12.1, 14

As a note of interest, the way of the spies from the wilderness of Zin in the present-day Sinai Peninsula led them up to the Euphrates River, the northern boundary of the Land of Israel that GOD gave to the Jewish People for an everlasting possession.

And the city of Aleppo, yes, that city in Syria that is being bombed daily is not very far from the Euphrates River.  And Aleppo is well known in Judaism for the Aleppo Codex.

The Aleppo Codex is the oldest existing manuscript of the TNAKH, The Hebrew Bible.

The Aleppo Codex, or The Aleppo Manuscript was NOT written in Allepo.  It was written in Tiberius, the Israeli city by the Sea of Galilee in 930 C.E./A.D. from the Biblical texts as handed down for centuries by the schools of the Masorites, a Jewish People.

The Codex, or the Manuscript was later taken to the city of Aleppo by a fifth generation descendant of Maimonides, the famous Jewish sage who immigrated to Aleppo.  And he took the Codex with him.  That is where the Aleppo Codex got its name.

In 1948 when the war for Israel’s independence broke out, anti-Jewish rioting began in Aleppo where there was a large Jewish community.  And the great Synagogue that was built in the fifth century that housed the Aleppo Codex was desecrated and looted and partially burned.  But eventually the Aleppo Codex found its way to Jerusalem where it remains today in the Israel Museum in the section called The Shrine of The Book.  NUMBERS 13.21-22, GENESIS 15.17-21, GENESIS 17.7-8

NUMBERS 21.4  So the People journeyed from Mount Hor which is in today’s Sinai Peninsula by the Gulf of Aqaba. The Gulf of Aqaba is a narrow strip of the Red Sea that flows to the southern tip of Israel.

And it was a long journey south for the Children of Israel because the Edomites, the descendants of Esau would not allow Israel to pass through their country.  So Israel had to journey down to the Gulf of Aqaba to go around Edom and up to Canaan, the Promised Land.  NUMBERS 20.14-21

And the Children of Israel were discouraged because their journey from Egyptian slavery to Canaan was hard and difficult.

And sometimes being GOD’S Chosen People as are the Jewish People, and as is the non-Jewish Person who serves The LORD, and is grafted in with the Jewish People, life can be difficult at times also.  And The Bible says, the soul of the People was much discouraged because of the way.  ISAIAH 56.6-7

NUMBERS 21.5-6  And again the People spoke against GOD, and against Moses, saying, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in this wilderness?  There is no bread or water here.  And we are disgusted with this light bread that apparently was manna.

And The LORD sent fiery serpents among the People, and they bit the People.  And many of the People of Israel died.

This was a journey of forty hard years from Egyptian slavery.  That slavery looked pretty good to some of the People compared to forty hard years of travel on foot through the wilderness where The LORD their GOD led them, some three million People.  And humbled them, and tested them, as we are sometimes tested by GOD.  To know what is in our heart.  Whether we will keep His Commandments, His Statutes and His Laws, or not. DEUTERONOMY 8.2

This journey to the Promised Land happened some 3,400 years ago.  Heaven can also be called the Promised Land.

But 3,400 years ago there were no airplanes, no El Al flights from Egypt to Israel in thirty minutes.  But rather from Egypt to the new Jewish Homeland for Israel in forty years by foot.  In wagons, on camels, on horseback, and mule. Living in tents and booths.  Eating manna and quail every day.  Fighting wars with nations that hated them, who wanted them killed.

This was a tough trip, and they became discouraged.  And life today can sometimes be tough and discouraging for us.

But I think of Paul’s words that read, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us.” ROMANS 8.18

But this forty year journey to the Promised Land proved that GOD keeps His Word.  Even in impossible situations, He brought His People to the Land He Promised them.  To give them their own Homeland, The Land of Israel.

GOD showed His People His greatness, His power, His wonderful and marvelous works.  His miracles, and His love and mercy.

GOD protected His People, and watched over them, He led them, and taught His people His Word and His Laws that man does not live by bread only, but by every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of The LORD does man live.

And GOD miraculously fed His people and their animals thousands upon thousands of meals daily where there were no stores or McDonalds.

He protected them in a harsh desert climate day and night.

And led them by a cloud in the day time, and a pillar of fire in night time.

And GOD defended His People in wars they never wanted, and never started.  Until they entered Canaan where the Jewish People with GOD’S great help destroyed the Canaanites and conquered their land for their own Homeland.

And GOD caused His People to be slaves in Egypt for 400 years to make of Israel a great nation.  From seventy People to some three million. To bring them into their own Homeland where Israel has been the Jewish Homeland for 3,400 years.  GENESIS 12.2

GOD showed His glory and His Being to His People daily.

He taught His People to be Holy, pleasing to The LORD,

To love our neighbor as we love ourselves. DEUTERONOMY 8.3, LEVITICUS 19. 2, 18

GOD TAUGHT HIS PEOPLE TO BE JEWISH BECAUSE THE GOD OF CREATION, THEIR FATHER IS JEWISH.  ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, MATTHEW 1.1-2, 16, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, LEVITICUS 19.2,18

GOD also showed His anger to His Jewish People because we provoked Him to anger.

And yet, GOD chose His Jewish People to be His Chosen People and His Witnesses to the world.  To be a Holy People to The LORD THEIR GOD, and a special People to Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

And the Jewish People are the People from whom The Messiah Yeshua as a human being was born.

And no people can replace the Jewish people as GOD’S Chosen People.  That is foolishness, and stupid.

But non-Jewish People can become fully part of of GOD’S Chosen People by loving Israel and His Jewish People, and serving The LORD by keeping His Commandments and Laws that are written in The Law of Moses.  DEUTERONOMY 7.7-8, ISAIAH 43.10, ROMANS 11.29, ISAIAH 56. 6-7, PSALM 105. 8-10, 1 CHRONICLES 16.15-17

And the Chosen of GOD, Jewish and non-Jewish People who serve GOD will face hardships in life.  That we know.  That we have experienced.  But GOD will never leave you nor forsake you.  For the battle is not yours, but GOD’S. DEUTERONOMY 31.6, 1 PETER 1.6-7

All GOD asked of His People in the wilderness was to love Him and obey Him.  The same that He asks of us today.  To love Him and obey Him.  To love Him with all our heart and obey His every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of GOD.

And when we do that, GOD assures us that we will spend eternity in Heaven with Him.  And GOD is The Messiah Yeshua from Whom you have your Atonement. MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4 DEUTERONOMY 8.3

But the People again spoke against GOD and against Moses. The trip was wearing them out, and they acted foolishly. They revolted against GOD and Moses because things weren’t going the way they wanted them to go.  And GOD sent fiery serpents among them, and they bit the people, and many died.

You know what GOD wants from us?  He wants us to be humble.  Humble is a word that means submissive. Submissive to GOD, not being proud or arrogant.  Obedient to GOD’S Word.  And The LORD will exalt you in due time.

Let’s read Peter’s words in 1 PETER 5.6-11

Jehoshophat, King of Judah was told that certain great armies were on their way to attack Judah and Jerusalem.

And Jehoshophat humbled himself before The LORD his GOD, THE MIGHTY GOD OF ISRAEL.

And GOD miraculously delivered him and his People because the battle was not theirs, but GOD’S

Let’s read  2 CHRONICLES 17.1-4 and 2 CHRONICLES 20.1-30

So yes, the battle is not yours, but GOD’S.  Go to The LORD in prayer, often with a humble and a submissive heart.

Perhaps repenting of a sin or sins you might have committed.  Having patience, maybe long patience, and GOD will deliver you, and give you the desires of your heart. PSALM 37.3-5, PROVERBS 16.3, MATTHEW 7.7-8, LUKE 18.1-8

Back to the wilderness where the People spoke against GOD and against Moses and got themselves into a whole lot of trouble.  NUMBERS 21.7-9

The serpent of brass on the pole possessed no magic.  It was just a serpent of brass on a pole.

But GOD said, when a person is bitten by a serpent, and looks at the serpent of brass on the pole, he will live.  Why? Because when that person believed GOD, and did what GOD said, and looked at the serpent of brass on the pole, that person lived.

It’s as simple as that.

The same formula applies today.  When you believe what GOD says in The Bible, and you do what He says, you too will live.  You will live with GOD forever.

On the other hand, the person, even the person who claims to believe in Messiah Yeshua, Jesus Christ, if that person refuses to believe GOD, and will not do what GOD says in The Bible, I quote Messiah’s Words, “Not everyone that says to Me Lord, Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that does the WILL of My Father which is in Heaven.”

ON THE OTHER HAND, MESSIAH SAID, “FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL DO THE WILL OF GOD, THE SAME IS MY BROTHER, AND MY SISTER, AND MOTHER.” MATTHEW 7.21, MARK 3.35

GOD’S will is His Decree and His Desire.  And GOD’S Decree is His Law.  The will of GOD for you is to do what GOD desires of you.  To obey Him by doing His Decree, His Laws that are written in The Law of Moses.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein, Congregational Leader

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom.

Our teaching will be from Numbers 20.22-29.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE FUNCTIONS OF THE JEWISH PRIESTS IN THE PAST, AND IN THE FUTURE 1,000 YEAR KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH IN ISRAEL WITH MESSIAH, AND MUCH MORE.

And with that said, let’s read Numbers 20.22-29.

NUMBERS 20.22  Kadesh is or was in the wilderness of Sinai, today part of Egypt.  And Mount Hor is obviously in Kadesh, or near Kadesh that is about 50 miles south of Beersheba in today’s Israel.

NUMBERS 20.23-24  I believe that GOD’S Words that Aaron will be gathered to his People mean that Aaron will be gathered to his People who are Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others who are in Heaven.  And GOD will bring Aaron to Heaven to be with his People.

On the other hand, if a person is headed to hell where family members are, that person is gathered to their people, in hell.

LUKE 8.21  The Family of GOD hear GOD’S Word, every Word GOD speaks in The Bible, and does them.  And they are gathered to their Family in Heaven.  DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

LUKE 16.22-23  The one sent to hell is gathered to his people in hell.  LUKE 16.24-31

(LUKE 16.29-31) And Abraham from afar off, answered the man in hell and said, Your brothers have Moses, that is the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, the Words of the Prophets. Let them Hear their Words, Pay Attention to Them, and Obey Them.  And they will not be where you are in torment.

Aaron and Moses did not enter the Promised Land, the land of Canaan that is Israel today because they rebelled against GOD at the waters of Meribah as explained in Numbers 20.7-12.

But Moses and Aaron are in Heaven because they both served The LORD. They repented of their sins.  They had atonement from the animal sacrifice, and lived by Torah, The Law of Moses.  1 JOHN 3.4

NUMBERS 20.25-29  So GOD told Moses to take Aaron and his son Eleazar up to Mount Hor and strip Aaron the High Priest of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar, where GOD said, “And Aaron shall be gathered to his People, and shall die there.”

And Moses did as The LORD commanded.  And they went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the Congregation.  And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on his son Eleazar.  And there Aaron died, on the top of the mountain.

And Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain, and the Congregation, the House of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.

Aaron and his sons are the first Priests of Israel.  So let’s look into the past and the future of the Kohanim, the Jewish Priests.

Jewish tradition says, and I agree, that before the institution of the Priesthood, the firstborn of each family was automatically designated as the Spiritual Leader or the Priest of their home.  That was part of their birthright.

And as we read last week, Esau despised his birthright. Genesis 25.34

The Priesthood is collectively all the Priests.

The first Priest mentioned in The Bible is Melchizedek meaning in Hebrew, King of Righteousness.

MELCHIZEDEK IS YESHUA THE MESSIAH, GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM, PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.  GENESIS 14.18, HEBREWS 7.1-3, PSALM 110.1-4

The Jewish Priesthood began when The LORD GOD anointed Aaron and his sons Priests of Israel.  EXODUS 28.1-3, 43, EXODUS 29.1-9, EXODUS 30.17-21, DEUTERONOMY 18.5

EXODUS 29.4  That was the beginning of baptism that Judaism calls miqveh immersion.

EXODUS 29.9  The Priesthood belongs to Aaron and his sons, and their descendants after them forever.  It is a Statute forever.  It cannot be transferred to another family other than the descendants of Aaron and his sons.

Nor can the Priesthood be taken away from the Jewish People by a non-Jewish People.  ROMANS 11.29

(Romans 11.29) The gifts and calling of GOD are irrevocable.

Not all Levites are Priests, but all Priests are Levites.

The Priests must be descendants of Aaron and his sons who are Levites.

The official functions of the Priests were and will be to minister to The LORD in the Tabernacle, and later the Temple.

They were the messengers of The LORD.

They offered the animal sacrifices to The LORD on the altar including the sacrifice for atonement.  And the shedding of its blood for the Jewish People and the non-Jewish People who were living among them.

The Priests were the only ones allowed by GOD to carry the Ark of the Covenant.  GOD’S Covenant is His Word and His Torah, The Law of Moses

They stood before the People to minister to them, and to bless the People in His Name.

And the Priests, as The LORD’S Messengers, were sought by the People for knowledge, and Torah, The Law of Moses. MALACHI 2.6-7, NUMBERS 16.9-10, DEUTERONOMY 10.8, NUMBERS 6.22-27

Much of the food that the Priests ate came from the animal sacrifices.  And the Priests received ten percent of the tithes from the Levites from the tithes the Levites received from the People.

The Priests were charged with the guard duty of the Tabernacle and later the Temple Sanctuary.

And only the High Priest and his sons the Priests were allowed to minister in the Tabernacle and the Temple.

The Levites who were not Priests were not allowed in the Tabernacle except to transport the Holy Things after they were covered by the priests.  LEVITICUS 6.24-26, NUMBERS 3.38, NUMBERS 18.1-3, 7

The Priests sounded the trumpets on certain occasions.

They instructed the people on Torah, The Law of Moses.

And it was the Priest who gave GOD’S answer from the Urim and Thummin for things too difficult to answer.

And the Jewish Priests are allowed to marry. NUMBERS 10.1-10, LEVITICUS 10.8-11, EXODUS 28.30, NUMBERS 27.21

Zadok became the High Priest in the days of Solomon.  1 KINGS 2.35, 1 CHRONICLES 6.49-53

In second Temple times, the Priesthood was organized into 24 divisions that served in rotation because there were many Priests.  1 CHRONICLES 24.1-5, 10, LUKE 1.5-6

LUKE 1.5  John the baptizer’s father Zechariah was a Priest in the division of Abijah.  Meaning John, his Hebrew name Yokhanan was a Priest.  1 CHRONICLES 24.10

The Word of The LORD came to the Prophet Zechariah concerning The Branch, another Name for The Messiah Yeshua, Who will sprout forth out of His place in Heaven, and build The Temple of The LORD in the 1,000 year Kingdom of GOD in Israel.  And He will rule on His Throne, and be a Priest on His Throne.  ZECHARIAH 6.9-13, PSALM 110.1-4, GENESIS 14.18, JEREMIAH 23.5-6

There has not been a Temple or Priesthood in Israel for close to 2,000 years.  But there is a great and wonderful future for the Jewish People and all the Family of GOD when The LORD returns from Heaven.

THE LORD IS THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, HA SHEM.  ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6

AND THE LORD WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH FOR 1,000 YEARS, AND BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. (READ THE KADDISH)  ZECHARIAH 14.1-9, DANIEL 12.1-2, EZEKIEL 37.11-14, 24-28, ISAIAH 11.16, ISAIAH 35.8-10, 1 THESSALONIANS 4.13-18

Let’s turn to EZEKIEL 40.1-4.  In the 25th year of the Jewish captivity in Babylon, in the 14th year AFTER Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed in 586 B.C.E. by the Babylonians, present day Iraq, The Hand of The LORD was upon Ezekiel the Priest.  And GOD brought Ezekiel into Israel in visions to show him, and give him prophesies of The Temple and The Kingdom period on earth in Israel for 1,000 years.

The prophesies cannot be about the second Temple because GOD prophesies that David is His Prince forever.  And David died some 500 years before this prophesy.

Nor can this prophesy be about what some people call the Tribulation Temple of Daniel 9.27 because that Temple will be flooded with idols by an anti-GOD person.  And GOD will destroy that Temple 3 1/2 years after it’s built.

THE TEMPLE EZEKIEL IS PROPHESYING OF IS THE TEMPLE IN GOD’S KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL FOR 1,000 YEARS WITH THE LORD GOD THE MESSIAH, YESHUA HA MASHIAKH.  EZEKIEL 1.3 

Ezekiel Chapters 40, 41 and 42 explain the architecture of the future Millennial Temple.

The sacrifice will be reinstated.

There will be rooms in The Temple for the singers.  And rooms in The Temple for the Priests.  And Holy Chambers for The Priests to eat the Most Holy Things of the sacrifices. EZEKIEL 40.38-39, 40, 44, 45, 46, EZEKIEL 42.13

And GOD’s Throne will be in The Temple where He will dwell in the midst of The Children of Israel forever, along with those non-Jewish People who served The LORD THEIR GOD, and kept His Sabbath on Saturday, and obeyed His Covenant, His Word and His Law of Moses.

THE LORD YOUR GOD IN THE MIDST OF YOU IS MIGHTY. HE WILL SAVE.  HE WILL REJOICE OVER YOU WITH JOY.  HE WILL REST IN HIS LOVE.  HE WILL JOY OVER YOU WITH SINGING.

THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, IF IT IS MARVELOUS IN THE EYES OF THE REMNANT OF THIS PEOPLE IN THESE DAYS, SHOULD IT ALSO BE MARVELOUS IN MY EYES? SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS.

AND I WILL POUR UPON THE HOUSE OF DAVID, AND UPON THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM, THE SPIRIT OF GRACE AND OF SUPPLICATIONS.  AND THEY SHALL LOOK UPON ME WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED, AND THEY SHALL MOURN FOR HIM AS ONE MOURNS FOR HIS ONLY SON AND SHALL BE IN BITTERNESS FOR HIS FIRSTBORN.

AND ONE SHALL SAY TO HIM, WHAT ARE THESE WOUNDS IN YOUR HANDS?  THEN HE SHALL ANSWER, THOSE WITH WHICH I WAS WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF MY LOVED ONES.

AND YOU ARE UNTO ME A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS, AND A HOLY NATION.

EZEKIEL 43.1-7, 12, ISAIAH 56. 6-7, ZEPHANIAH 3.14-20, ZECHARIAH 8.1-8, ZECHARIAH 12.10, ZECHARIAH 13.1-2, 6, EXODUS 19.5-6

The eastern gate to The Temple will be shut, and David the Prince will eat there before The LORD.

And The Torah, The Law of Moses continues forever in The Kingdom of GOD in Israel, and throughout eternity. EZEKIEL 44.1-5

When the Land is divided to the People in The Kingdom, there will be a Holy distribution of Land for The LORD of 8 miles by 3 miles.  The entire area will be Holy.

And the Temple will be inside that Land Area.

And the Land shall be divided by lot for an inheritance to the People and to the Strangers who sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you.  And they shall be unto you as born in the Country among the Children of Israel.

They shall have inheritance with you among the Tribes of Israel.  That in what Tribe the Stranger has settled, there shall you give him his inheritance, Saith The LORD GOD. EZEKIEL 45.1-9, EZEKIEL 47.21-23

Waters will issue forth from under the threshold of The Temple to water the Land of Israel.

And the borders of Israel will be from a river in Egypt to the Euphrates river.

And the name of the city will be called THE LORD IS THERE.

AND THE RANSOMED OF THE LORD SHALL RETURN AND COME TO ZION WITH SONGS AND EVERLASTING JOY UPON THEIR HEADS.  THEY SHALL OBTAIN JOY AND GLADNESS, AND SORROW AND SIGHING SHALL FLEE AWAY.  ISAIAH 35.10

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein, Congregational Leader

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom.

Our teaching this morning will be from Numbers 20.14-21.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, JACOB AND ESAU. ISRAEL AND EDOM.

And with that said, let’s read Numbers 20.14-21.

Edom is the brother of Israel.  The Edomites descend from Esau, Jacob’s older twin brother.  But when Israel asks permission from the King of Edom to pass through his Country to the Promised Land, the King refuses Israel’s request and confronts the Children of Israel with a large military force.  Thus Israel turned from Edom and traveled in another direction.  GENESIS 25.30

Isaac is the father of Jacob and Esau.  Abraham is their Grandfather.

And Esau hated his twin brother Jacob.  And the descendants of Esau, the Edomites hated Israel.

And the descendants of Jacob are Israel, the Jewish People.

Esau had so much hatred for Jacob that Esau’s hatred moved GOD to say, I love Jacob, and Esau have I hated.  MALACHI 1.1-3

However The LORD GOD in His graciousness gave Esau his own country called Edom.  GENESIS 14.6

Mount Seir and Edom are synonymous.  They are the same. And the Horites inhabited that land before The LORD gave it to Esau and his people.  GENESIS 36.8

I SEE ESAU AND THE EDOMITES AS THE WORLD.  AND JACOB IS ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

We are all brothers from Noah, but much of the world hates Israel.

And the United Nations proveS it almost every day.  GENESIS 10.1

The Jewish People descend from Shem along with some Arabs.  While all the Gentile nations descend from Ham and Japheth.

UNESCO that stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, an agency of the U.N. voted to deny Jewish ties to The Temple Mount and the Western Wall.  ISRAEL’S MOST HOLY SITES.

The Temple mount is where Solomon built the first Temple some 3,000 years ago.  And where the second Temple was rebuilt seventy years after the Babylonians destroyed it and Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E.

And they (the United Nations) deny that the Western Wall, the retaining Wall for the second Temple has any ties to the Jewish People.

The United Nations say that the Temple Mount and the Western Wall are exclusively Muslim.  How dumb is that?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded correctly, saying, The theater of the absurd continues at the U.N.

The U.S. and England voted in favor of Israel.  France abstained but earlier France had voted against Israel.  Most of the nations that voted, voted against Israel.

THE WORLD IS ESAU AND EDOM.  ISRAEL IS JACOB AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

ISRAEL REMAINS FOREVER. THE WORLD DOESN’T. ISAIAH 66.22, REVELATION 20.11

Let’s look at some history of Jacob and Esau.

When Esau and Jacob were born to Isaac and Rebekah, The Bible says that Esau was a cunning hunter, and Jacob was a plain man.  GENESIS 25.19-27

GENESIS 25.23  The LORD said to Rebekah, two nations are in your womb.  The two nations were Edom and Israel.

And two manner of people shall be separated from your womb.  The Jewish People and the Edomites.

And one People shall be stronger than the other people.  The Jewish People were stronger than the Edomite people.  The Edomites no longer exist.

And the elder shall serve the younger.  Esau will serve Jacob. After defeating the Edomites in the many wars with Edom, the Edomites served as slaves and servants to Israel.

Those are the prophetic words of GOD Almighty.  All came to pass.

So many Bible teachers choose to destroy Jacob because GOD chose Jacob and not Esau.  Because GOD chose Israel and the Jewish People and not the nations.

Let’s continue with GENESIS 25.24-27.

GENESIS 25.25-26  Jacob’s name in Hebrew is YAH’AH’QOV. His name derives from Jacob gripping Esau’s heel at birth which in Hebrew is EQEV, gripping the heel.  Thus the Name YAH’AH’QOV comes from the Hebrew EQEV meaning gripping the heel.

GENESIS 25.27  And the boys grew, and Esau was a cunning hunter.  Meaning, Esau was a knowledgeable and skillful hunter.

And Jacob was a plain man dwelling in tents.

Many of The Bibles write that Jacob was a PLAIN man, or a MILD man, or a WHOLESOME man, or a QUIET man, a COMPLETE man, A PLAIN AND QUIET man, a PEACEFUL man, or a SIMPLE man.

BUT GOD CALLS JACOB A PERFECT MAN.

WHEN GOD GAVE THESE WORDS TO MOSES TO RECORD IN THE TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, THE LORD CALLS JACOB BY THE HEBREW WORD TAHM, MEANING PERFECT, UPRIGHT, AND UNDEFILED.

IN HEBREW, GOD SAID TO MOSES, VEE  YAH’AH’QOV EESH  TAHM.  

AND JACOB IS A PERFECT MAN.

Perfect in GOD’s eyes is being obedient to Him.  1 KINGS 8.61, PSALM 37.37

Yet destructive lies follow Jacob from the doctrine of too many Bible teachers, calling him a trickster, or supplanter, or deceitful.

BUT GOD CALLS JACOB ISRAEL, AND PERFECT.

The birthright of the elder male in the days of Jacob and Esau was an honor to be the Priest of the family.

And because Jacob sold some soup or stew to Esau for his birthright, and GOD causing Jacob to receive his father Isaac’s blessing, whom Isaac thought was Esau, people call Jacob all sorts of terrible lies.

It was all the plan of GOD.  That the elder (Esau) would serve the younger (Jacob)  Genesis 25.23

Let’s continue with Genesis 25, and I’ll prove to you in a moment from Scripture that GOD ordained the steps of Jacob.  GENESIS 25.28-34

Esau was neither duped or defrauded by Jacob.  He sold his birthright because he despised it.

Isaac was nearly blind in his old age and he wanted to bless Esau before he died.  And he asked Esau to go into the field with his bow and arrow and make his father some savory meat that he loves, and I will bless you before I die, Isaac said.

But Rebekah heard the conversation, and said to Jacob her son, “Obey my voice.  Go to the flocks and get me two goats and I will make savory meat for your father that he loves. And you will bring it to your father and he will bless you”.

But Jacob said to his mother that it was wrong.  And his mother Rebekah said, “Upon me be the curse, my son.  Only obey my voice and do as I say”.  And Jacob put on some of Esau’s clothes; with the food, and Isaac blessed him. GENESIS 27.22-35

This was all ordained by GOD.

An example of THE LORD GOD moving people to fulfill His Word is found when Solomon died.

It was GOD’S judgment to divide Israel into two Kingdoms because of their sin.  The Jewish People had forsaken The LORD THEIR GOD by worshiping strange gods.  And the People did not walk with their GOD, The GOD OF Israel, nor do that which was right by keeping GOD’S Statutes and Commandments.

So Rehoboam, Solomon’s son who became King over Israel when his father died, gave foolish, I mean stupid counsel to the people that he would make their lives miserable.  Thus allowing GOD to perform His Word that He spoke to the prophet Ahijah that He would divide Israel into two Kingdoms because of their sin.  1 KINGS 11.33-36, 1 KINGS 12.11 CHRONICLES 10.15

GOD’S PLAN FOR JACOB IS BEING CARRIED OUT.

Because of all the grief with Esau and his hatred toward his brother Jacob, Isaac and Rebekah advised Jacob to spend some time away from home and visit Rebekah’s brother in Syria for a few days until Esau cools off.

This too was also GOD’S plan.  GENESIS 28.10-16

The few days in Syria turned into twenty years.

And the time came for Jacob to return to his home and his family in Canaan with Leah and Rachel, his two wives, and two concubines, and twelve sons that were to be called the twelve tribes of Israel.  And their daughter Dinah.  And their servants and their flocks.

And Esau his brother was on his way to meet Jacob.  And Jacob sent messengers to him.  GENESIS 32.1-15

GENESIS 32.3  Edom was in the area of today’s Jordan, south of the Dead Sea.

GENESIS 32.6  With 400 men.  No doubt to kill Jacob.

But GOD promised Jacob, “I am with you, and will keep you in all places where you go.  And will bring you again into this land.  For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken to you of.”  Genesis 28.15

GENESIS 32.7-12

AND JACOB WRESTLED WITH GOD, AND GOD CALLED HIS NAME ISRAEL.  GENESIS 32.22-30

And Jacob went to meet his brother Esau who wanted to kill him.  But instead they embraced, kissed, and wept.  GENESIS 33.1-20

But the hatred for Jacob and Israel, and the Jewish People spilled over to Esau’s Edomites.  The Edomites attacked and killed Israelis.  And Israel retaliated, and struck back at Edom taking the Edomites to be servants.

AND GOD JUDGED EDOM , AND EDOM IS NO MORE.

EDOM TODAY IS THE WORLD.  JACOB IS ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  OBADIAH 10-21, REVELATION 20.11

BUT THOSE WHO LOVE ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE, GOD WILL BLESS.  AND THOSE WHO CURSE ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE, GOD WILL CURSE.

THE SAME AT THE END AS IN THE BEGINNING. GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31.46

AM Y’ISRAEL KHY.  THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL LIVE. ISAIAH 66.22

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein, Congregational Leader

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom.

Our message this morning will be about Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement, which is today.  And our teaching is from Torah, The Law of Moses in Leviticus 23.26-32.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, YOM KIPPUR IS A DAY TO MAKE ATONEMENT, NOT FAST.

And with that said, let’s read Leviticus 23.26-32.

The Children of Israel sinned a great sin and made a molten calf, and said, This is your god, O Israel which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses returned to The LORD in Mt. Sinai after being with Him for 40 days and 40 nights while the People made the idol, and Moses said to The LORD, Oh, this People have sinned a great sin, and have made them a god of gold.  Yet now, if you will forgive their sin, and if not, blot me out, I pray from Your Book which You have written.

GOD’S Book that Moses was speaking of is The Book of Life in which all who are Holy by having Atonement, and lived their lives in obedience to The LORD THEIR GOD by obeying every Word GOD speaks in The Bible that includes His Torah, His Law of Moses, and the Prophets of GOD, they are written and remain in GOD’S Book of Life forever.

AND THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, WHOSOEVER HAS SINNED AGAINST ME, HIM WILL I BLOT OUT OF MY BOOK.  EXODUS 32.31-33, ISAIAH 4.3

ATONEMENT IS ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED BY GOD FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS, ALL OF THEM.  

AND SIN IS BREAKING ANY LAW IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY AND ONE WAY ONLY TO RECEIVE ATONEMENT FROM THE LORD YOUR GOD, HA SHEM, AND THAT IS BY THE SHED BLOOD OF A SACRIFICE, AN OFFERING TO THE LORD.  NUMBERS 5.6, LEVITICUS 17.11, 1 JOHN 3.4

BUT WITHOUT ATONEMENT, HA SHEM SAYS, YOU WILL BE BLOTTED OUT OF HIS BOOK OF LIFE, THE BOOK OF THE LIVING.

Those who sinned against GOD for making the golden calf required atonement by the daily animal sacrifice.  And that had to be followed by repentance.  Turning to The LORD THEIR GOD and ridding themselves of their sins and obeying all GOD’S Laws that are written in The Law of Moses.  Doing that which is Lawful and right.

AND GOD SAYS, THEY WILL LIVE AND NOT DIE.   EZEKIEL 18.21

Breaking Torah, The Law of Moses, or any Word that GOD speaks in The Bible is sin.

And sin will only be forgiven by The LORD YOUR GOD by a sacrifice, an offering to the LORD, and its shed blood.

That rule of GOD applies today.

But not by an animal sacrifice.

Let’s return to GOD’S Words pertaining to Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement.

LEVITICUS 23.26-27  And The LORD spoke to Moses saying, Also, that is, in addition to The Memorial of Blowing of Shofars that Judaism calls Rosh Ha Shanah, The New Year.  And the Saturday Sabbath, and The Passover, and Shavuot, Pentecost.

Thus, also on the tenth day of this seventh month, that is the tenth day of the Hebrew month Tishrei (today) there shall be a Day of Atonement.

It shall be a Holy Convocation.  A Holy Convocation is a Day set apart for The LORD for His People to hold a Special Service Dedicated to Him, The LORD YOUR GOD.

And, The LORD continued speaking, You shall afflict your souls.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR AFFLICT, AS IN ,”YOU SHALL AFFLICT YOUR SOULS” IS AH’NAH.  AH’NAH MEANS HUMBLE AND SUBMIT.  

YOU MUST HUMBLE YOURSELF, AND SUBMIT YOURSELF TO THE LORD YOUR GOD.  

AND YOU ACCOMPLISH THAT BY OBEYING HA SHEM, THE LORD YOUR GOD, EVERY WORD THAT HE SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  DEUTERONOMY 8.3

AFFLICT YOUR SOULS DOES NOT MEAN FAST.

AFFLICT YOUR SOULS MEANS TO BE HUMBLE AND SUBMISSIVE TO THE LORD YOUR GOD.

And GOD continued speaking, and this a very important Commandment.

AND YOU SHALL OFFER AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE UNTO THE LORD.

THAT OFFERING, THAT SACRIFICE IS OF HUGE IMPORTANCE FOR YOU ON YOM KIPPUR, FOR IT IS A DAY TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOU BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD.

BECAUSE IT IS THE SACRIFICE AND ITS SHED BLOOD THAT MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOUL. LEVITICUS 17.11

BUT OF COURSE THERE IS NO ANIMAL SACRIFICE WITHOUT THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.  IT IS LAW WRITTEN IN TORAH.  LEVITICUS 17.8-9

BUT GOD’S LAW FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT TO OFFER AN OFFERING MADE BY FIRE TO THE LORD DOES NOT DISAPPEAR, BECAUSE THE WORD OF OUR GOD STANDS FOREVER.  ISAIAH 40.8

ISAIAH 40.8  IN HEBREW, THE WORD OF OUR GOD SHALL STAND FOREVER IS, OOD’VAR  ELOHAYNU YAH’KOOM  L’OLAM.

THE WORD OF OUR GOD “STANDS” FOREVER, “ENDURES” FOREVER, IS A “DECREE” FOREVER, “ESTABLISHED” FOREVER, AND “SUCCEEDS” FOREVER. 

MEANING, THE SACRIFICE, THE OFFERING OFFERED TO THE LORD ON YOM KIPPUR, A TERM MEANING A SACRIFICE BROUGHT TO THE LORD, STANDS FOREVER.

IT CANNOT BE CHANGED OR DONE AWAY WITH.

So what to do?

There’s no Temple in Jerusalem.  Thus, there can not be an animal sacrifice.

BUT YET GOD, HA SHEM COMMANDS A SACRIFICE ON YOM KIPPUR FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  LEVITICUS 16.27-34

The LORD OUR GOD has chosen His Jewish People to be His Chosen People, to be a Holy People to The LORD, to be a Special People to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

And He has made His Jewish People His Witnesses to the world, to be His servant, to know and believe GOD.  And to understand that OUR GOD IS GOD, and there are no others.

And besides The LORD OUR GOD, there is no Deliverer, no Savior.

Yet GOD has shut the eyes of countless Jewish People to understanding His New Covenant spoken by Jeremiah the Prophet.

SO MANY JEWISH PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT GOD’S NEW COVENANT THAT HE GAVE TO HIS JEWISH PEOPLE IS FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL YOUR SINS.

AND GOD’S NEW COVENANT FOR YOUR ATONEMENT AND THE ATONEMENT FOR ALL PEOPLES IS YOUR JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA.

JEREMIAH 31.31-34, SOME JEWISH BIBLES JEREMIAH 31.30-33, ROMANS 11.11, DEUTERONOMY 7.6, ISAIAH 43.10-12, ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, MICAH 5.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE MICAH 5.2, PSALM 22.2, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 22.1, ZECHARIAH 12.10

ATONEMENT CAN ONLY BE MADE BY THE SHED BLOOD OF A SACRIFICE TO THE LORD.

AND GOD, HA SHEM  MADE HIMSELF A HUMAN BEING IN THE PERSON OF MESSIAH YESHUA, AND MADE HIS SOUL THE PERFECT OFFERING FOR YOUR SINS, SHEDDING HIS BLOOD TO BE YOUR ATONEMENT. ISAIAH 53.10, LEVITICUS 17.11

THE RABBIS CHANGED GOD’S LAW FOR ATONEMENT ON YOM KIPPUR.  

THEY INSIST THAT FASTING, REPENTANCE, PRAYER, CHARITY, AND OTHER THINGS ATONE FOR YOUR SINS.

THAT IS WRONG.

IT IS THE NEW COVENANT, YESHUA THE MESSIAH, WHO HIMSELF IS HA SHEM, GOD ALMIGHTY WHO GAVE HIS LIFE TO ATONE FOR YOUR SINS.

THEN YOU MUST REPENT AND TURN FROM YOUR SINS AND LIVE YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO TORAH WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF TNAKH, THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

Let’s return to LEVITICUS 23.28.  We are not to do any work during The Day of Atonement.

FOR IT IS A DAY OF ATONEMENT TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOU BEFORE THE LORD.

The Jewish People in Israel do not work on Yom Kippur.  The streets are empty of cars.  But families walking to their Synagogues.  Many men wearing their Tallisim, their Prayer Shawls and Kippahs.

All other countries disregard Yom Kippur, except the Jewish Communities who fill their Synagogues.

I think however, and this is my personal opinion, if your employer here in the United States and other Gentile nations requires you to work on Yom Kippur, I believe GOD understands.  For Messiah Yeshua Who is Ha Shem says, “It is Lawful to do good on The Sabbath Days.”  GOD does not want you to get fired.  MATTHEW 12.12

BUT YOU MUST HAVE ATONEMENT.

AND AGAIN, ATONEMENT IS MADE BY YOUR FAITH AND BELIEF IN YOUR JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA, HA SHEM, FOLLOWED BY BIBLICAL REPENTANCE.  TURNING TO HA SHEM BY OBEYING ALL HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  EZEKIEL 18.21

LEVITICUS 23.29  Again afflicting your soul is being humble before The LORD, and submitting yourself to Ha Shem in obedience to Him.

AFFLICTING YOUR SOUL IS NOT FASTING.  

As brilliant as some of the Rabbis were in the past, and some are today, they made a huge mistake when they took the Talmudic Hebrew word ta’anit to mean fast in preference to the Biblical word TSOM that in fact means fast.

And the Rabbis and many Jewish People continue to make a huge error by rejecting their Jewish Messiah Yeshua for their Atonement.

Messiah Yeshua is despised and rejected by many Jewish People as being their Jewish Messiah, and their GOD, Ha Shem for numerous reasons.  None are true.

I say those Jewish People should read The New Testament, because The New Testament is Torah, part of GOD’S Law.

MESSIAH YESHUA GAVE HIS LIFE FOR YOU TO BE YOUR ATONEMENT. THAT IS THE PRIMARY REASON HE CAME TO ISRAEL 2,000 YEARS AGO, TO GIVE HIS LIFE AS AN OFFERING OFFERED TO HA SHEM FOR YOUR SINS.

MESSIAH CANNOT BE BLAMED FOR THE MANY CRIMES DONE TO US, THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY OTHERS IN HIS NAME.  THAT IS AN ACT OF SATAN.  

Yes, Messiah Yeshua did contend at times with the Pharisees for their many errors that they taught for doctrine from the oral law, the Talmud.  Such as today’s Rabbinic teaching for Yom Kippur.

Messiah scolded the Pharisees, saying, “Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written.  The People honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.  In vain they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.  For laying aside The Commandment of GOD, you hold the tradition of men as washing of pots and cups, and many other such things as you do.  Full well you reject The Commandment of GOD that you may keep your own tradition.”  MARK 7.6-9, ISAIAH 29.13

But Ha Shem warns His people for not afflicting their souls. Not being humble before The LORD YOUR GOD, and submitting to Him by obeying every Word He speaks in The Bible.

Nowhere in The Bible does GOD ever warn us for not fasting.  Fasting is not a commandment of GOD.

LEVITICUS 23.30-31  Again GOD warns us about working on Yom Kippur, The Day of Atonement.

LEVITICUS 23.32  Yom Kippur is a Sabbath of rest.  You must be humble to The LORD your GOD, submitting yourself to The LORD by being obedient to His every Word.  In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your Sabbath.

Most Jewish Bibles do not use the word celebrate, as in, “You shall celebrate your Sabbath.”  They read mostly, “You shall keep your Sabbath.”  Both are right.  You shall celebrate your Sabbath, and you shall keep your Sabbath.

But when you have atonement according to the doctrine of GOD, Ha Shem in the Bible, having Atonement in your Jewish Messiah Yeshua, and repenting by turning away from your sins of breaking Torah, to obeying Torah in the first five Books of The Bible, you can celebrate because you are written in GOD’S Book of Life.

And your eternal home is Heaven.  Where as David writes, “When I see Your Face, I will be in Your Likeness.”

There is no sin in Heaven, no curse, no tears, no death, no sorrows, nor crying.

And you will reign as kings forever and ever in Heaven when you observe Yom Kippur as it should be observed. PSALM 17.15, REVELATION 21.3, REVELATION 22.5

Shalom

Ira Weinstein, Congregational Leader

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom.

Our teaching this morning from Torah, The Law of Moses will come from Numbers 20.1-13.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, WHAT IS THE MYSTERY OF MESSIAH THAT THE GENTILES SHOULD BE FELLOWHEIRS AND OF THE SAME BODY?

And with that said, let’s read Numbers 20.1-13.

And the whole Congregation of the Children of Israel, some three million Jewish People came into the desert of Zin in the first month of the year.  Possibly the first month of their fortieth year in the wilderness before entering The Promised Land.

And they came into the desert of Zin which is in the Sinai, today part of Egypt.  And they stayed at a place called Kadesh, meaning sanctuary.

And Miriam, the sister of Moses and Aaron died there, and she was buried there.

And there was no water for the People.  And they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.  And they quarreled and complained to Moses saying, If only we had died with our brothers when they died before The LORD.

Well, 14,950 of their brothers died before The LORD because they rebelled against Moses and Aaron.  Numbers 16.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3  There are times in life that The LORD puts us through afflictions and troubles to teach us that we must live by every Word of GOD.

The People were complaining to Moses and Aaron the High Priest for bringing them into this wilderness.  We and our animals will die here, they said.  And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place?  A place with no grain, or figs, or vines, or pomegranates.  And there’s not any water to drink.

And Moses and Aaron left the People and went to the entrance of the Tabernacle, and they fell on their faces.

And the Glory of The LORD appeared to them.

And The LORD said to Moses, Take the rod and gather the People together, you and Aaron your brother.  And before their very eyes, speak to the rock and it will bring forth water.  And you will bring water for them out of the rock. And you will give the Congregation and their animals water to drink.

And as The LORD commanded Moses, he took the rod that was before The LORD.  And Moses and Aaron gathered the Congregation together before the rock.

And Moses said to them, and these words got Moses into a whole lot of trouble with The LORD.  And Moses said to the People, showing some anger, “HEAR NOW YOU REBELS. SHALL WE BRING YOU WATER OUT OF THIS ROCK?”

And Moses raised his hand and smacked the rock twice with his rod.  And The Bible says, “Water came out abundantly.” And all the People of the Congregation, some three million drank, and their animals also.

And The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not Believe Me, to Sanctify Me in the eyes of the Children of Israel, therefore you will not bring this Congregation into the Land which I have given them.”

Moses did not do a thing that GOD commanded him to do. Moses disobeyed GOD.  He sinned against GOD, and that was unusual.  Very unusual for Moses.

GOD told Moses to speak to the rock, not hit it.

And Moses never gave credit to The LORD for the Mighty Miracle of producing water from a rock for three million People and their animals to drink.

He took the credit for himself and Aaron.

And GOD said to Moses, You did not Sanctify Me in the eyes of the Children of Israel.

Moses did not Honor The LORD GOD for His Great Miracle. Nor did he Praise The Mighty GOD Who Is Holy, Set On High, To Be Feared And Obeyed, And Held In Awe.  Moses and Aaron did none of those things.

And GOD said, Therefore you and Aaron will not bring this Congregation into the Land which I have given to the Children of Israel.

DISOBEYING GOD IS SIN.  DISOBEYING ANY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IS SIN.  DISOBEYING ANY LAW THAT IS WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IS SIN.  1 JOHN 3.4, NUMBERS 5.6

And the punishment for their sin?  GOD did not allow them to bring the Children of Israel into the Promised Land.

They died before the People entered Canaan. DEUTERONOMY 10.6, DEUTERONOMY 34.1-12

And Numbers 20.13 reads, “And this is the water of Meribah,” which means strife in Hebrew.  Because the Children of Israel strove with The LORD, and The LORD was Sanctified in them.

The People knew that The Mighty GOD Who Is Holy, Is To Be Praised, And Feared, And Obeyed, Honored, And Held In Awe.

We certainly will see Moses and Aaron in the Millennium, the 1,000 year Kingdom of GOD on earth in Israel with Messiah Yeshua.  And in Heaven.

Aaron was called of GOD.  Moses was the servant of GOD. HEBREWS 5.4, MATTHEW 17.1-3, REVELATION 15.1-5

The sin of Moses and Aaron did not disqualify them from eternity.  They obviously had atonement for their sins from the daily sacrifice for atonement.  And they repented and turned to God and followed His Torah, GOD’S Laws, Teachings and Instructions, and did that which is Lawful and Right.  EZEKIEL 18.21

But what disqualifies people from eternity is continuously sinning.  Having no change.  Never turning to GOD to repent.  Disobeying GOD.  Disobeying The Word of GOD. Disobeying GOD’s Laws, Teachings, and Instructions that are written in The Law of Moses.  And disobeying the Prophets of GOD.

By violating GOD’S Covenant daily, His Word, and His Laws that are written in the Law of Moses, they do not do the Will of The Father which is in Heaven.  MATTHEW 7.21-23, EZEKIEL 18.21,  ROMANS 6.4-6

HOWEVER, THOSE WHO LOVE ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE.  GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31-46

I began reading The Bible daily thirty-six years ago in 1980. And I have studied and taught The Bible for some thirty years.  And I realize with utmost belief and understanding that the most important teaching of GOD is to live by every Word GOD speaks in The Bible.  And that includes The Law of Moses and the Prophets of GOD.

And knowing and believing there is only ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.

That is central to your walk with The LORD YOUR GOD Who is The Jewish Messiah Yeshua.  And indispensable in your worship to The LORD YOUR GOD.  DEUTERONOMY 6.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, MARK 12.29, ISAIAH 43.10-12, ETC.

DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD IS SIN.  DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD AND HIS LAW OF MOSES IS SIN.

AND SIN, DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD IS THE REASON FOR EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD.  1 JOHN 3.4

On the sixth day of GOD’S Creation after He ended His work, GOD saw everything that He made and it was VERY GOOD.

There was no sin, no curse in the earth.  The entire earth was like the Garden of Eden.  Perfect, sinless, no curse, beautiful and magnificent.  And GOD created Adam and Eve, the beginning of humanity, perfect, and without sin to live forever on the earth that was like The Garden of Eden.

And GOD gave Adam, the first human being a commandment.  The first recorded Words that GOD spoke to a human.

GOD’S Commandment was easy to understand and do as all GOD’S Commandments are.  Don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, lest you die.

But for some reason, perhaps for GOD to show His love to mankind to give His Life as a human being in the Person of Messiah Yeshua to forgive us our sins, GOD put satan on earth as a snake in the same neighborhood with Adam and Eve.

And of course satan lied to Eve and told her it’s okay to disobey GOD.  You will not die, he said.  So Adam and Eve disobeyed GOD, and they did die.

That was the beginning of sin.

And we are continuously taught today that it’s okay to disobey GOD.  We are taught by countless teachers of The Bible that Jesus abolished The Law of Moses on the cross, they say.  And we are taught the trinity of three different gods by countless Bible teachers.

Lies of satan the snake that result in eternal death rather than eternal life.

The flood in Noah’s day was because of sin, disobedience to GOD.

How many millions or billions were on the earth in the days of the flood?  I don’t know, but GOD saved only eight people, Noah and his wife, and his three sons and their wives because Noah obeyed GOD

The Jewish People in Israel have suffered three exiles because of disobedience to GOD.

The first exile was in 722 B.C.E. from northern Israel.  The Lord had His People carried away to Assyria by the Assyrians because of their disobedience to THE LORD THEIR GOD..

The second exile in 586 B.C.E., the Babylonians destroyed The Temple and Jerusalem.  And the Jewish People of southern Israel were exiled to Babylon because of disobedience to GOD, THEIR GOD.

And in 70 C.E., the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the second Temple, and THE LORD THEIR GOD scattered the Jewish People to the four corners of the earth for rejecting their Messiah Yeshua.

Disobedience to THEIR GOD because they did not know the time of Messiah’s Coming from the hundreds of prophesies in The Law, the Prophets, and the Writings.

AND GOD WILL DESTROY THE WORLD IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE OF SIN, DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD.  IT IS WRITTEN.

BUT FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ATONEMENT IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA, AND TURN TO GOD AND LIVE BY EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING HIS LAW OF MOSES AND THE PROPHETS OF GOD, YOU ARE THE FAMILY OF GOD.  AND YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

HERE ARE SCRIPTURES OF FACT THAT DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD BRINGS GRIEF.  

WHILE OBEDIENCE TO GOD WITH MESSIAH YESHUA BRINGS ETERNAL LIFE.

Adam and Eve’s disobedience to GOD.  GENESIS 1.31, GENESIS 2.15-17, GENESIS 3.1-6, 22, GENESIS 5.5, JOHN 8.44

The flood during the days of Noah because of disobedience to GOD.  GENESIS 6.1-9, 1 KINGS 8.61

The first Jewish exile in 722 B.C.E. because of disobedience to GOD.  2 KINGS 17.6-23

The second Jewish exile from Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. because of disobedience to GOD  2 CHRONICLES 36.11-21

The third Jewish exile from Israel in 70 C.E. because of disobedience to GOD.  LUKE 19.41-44

The future destruction of the world because of disobedience to GOD.  ISAIAH 13.9-11, ISAIAH 24.4-6, ISAIAH 26.21, REVELATION 20.7-10

BUT ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN FOR OBEDIENCE TO GOD.  LUKE 8.21

NOW THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, WHAT IS THE MYSTERY OF MESSIAH THAT THE GENTILES SHOULD BE FELLOWHEIRS AND OF THE SAME BODY?  EPHESIANS 3.1-6

EPHESIANS 3.2  The dispensation to Paul was an assignment by The LORD GOD, THE MESSIAH YESHUA to be His witness to the Gentiles, the kings, and the Jewish People.  ACTS 9.15

GOD in a million years would never send anybody to the Jewish People or to any people to tell them that The Law of Moses is abolished.  Or to teach a trinity of three different gods.  That is satan’s teaching.

EPHESIANS 3.3-6  The mystery of Messiah that the Gentiles, the non-Jewish people should be fellowheirs with the Jewish People, GOD’S Chosen People, and of the same body of Messiah, and partakers with GOD’S Chosen People, receiving GOD’S promise of eternal life in Messiah by the Gospel is this:

THE NON-JEWISH PEOPLE COME IN WITH GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND BECOME FULLY PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, AND RECEIVE ETERNAL LIFE IN MESSIAH YESHUA BY LIVING YOUR LIVES ACCORDING TO THE TRUE GOSPEL OF GOD AS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE.  

THE TRUE GOSPEL OF GOD IS THIS.

HAVING FAITH IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL YOUR SINS.

AND TURNING TO GOD BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  THAT INCLUDES HIS LAW OF MOSES AND HIS PROPHETS.

THAT IS THE TRUE GOSPEL THAT IS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE.

AND THAT IS ETERNAL LIFE.

AS JAMES SAID IN ACTS 15.21, GO TO THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SATURDAY SABBATH.  HEAR THE TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES TAUGHT.  LEARN IT.  AND DO IT. DEUTERONOMY 7.6-11, ISAIAH 56.6-7, EZEKIEL 18.21, JOHN 4.22, EPHESIANS 5.1, 1 JOHN 9      

ANYTHING DIFFERENT FROM THE TRUE GOSPEL OF GOD IS SIN, DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein, Congregational Leader

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom and L’Shanah Tovah.  Peace and Health and to a Good Year.

Our message this morning from Torah, The Law of Moses will come from Leviticus 23.1-2 and 23-25.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR  MESSAGE IS, ROSH HA SHANAH, THE NEW YEAR, BUT CALLED A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF SHOFARS IN THE TORAH.

And with that said, let’s read Leviticus 23.1-2 and 23-25.

Please note in Leviticus 23.1 and 2 that today and all the Festivals written in Leviticus 23 are Festivals of the LORD.

Today is the first day of the seventh Hebrew month Tishrei. And as spoken by The LORD GOD today is a Sabbath, A Memorial Of Blowing Of Shofars, or A Memorial Of Blowing Of Trumpets.  But called in Judaism, Rosh Ha Shanah, The New Year.

And today is a Holy Convocation.  That is a day for The LORD’S People to gather together for a Service dedicated to The LORD THEIR GOD.

And The LORD commands His People not to work on this Day.  Not to do any work of any kind on this Holy Day of GOD.

And The LORD Commanded the Children of Israel to offer an offering made by fire to The LORD.

The Law of the sacrifice was in force during those days, the days of the Tabernacle and the First and Second Temples.

Today of course, without the Temple in Jerusalem, The LORD forbids animal sacrifice according to His Law.  LEVITICUS 17.8-9

The offering of the animal sacrifice made by fire to The LORD was for a sweet savor, or a pleasant aroma to The LORD.  In addition there were other animal sacrifices that included a sacrifice of a goat for a sin offering to make atonement for the Jewish People and the non-Jewish People who lived among them.  NUMBERS 29.1-6

However, in place of the animal sacrifice, The LORD GOD anointed Himself as a human being in the Person of The Jewish Messiah Yeshua to give His Life voluntarily 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem to be the Perfect Atonement for His Jewish People and all people.

The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HA SHEM MADE MESSIAH YESHUA’S SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN TO FORGIVE YOU ALL YOUR SINS .

TODAY, THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA IS YOUR ATONEMENT.  ISAIAH 53.10, ISAIAH 52.13-15, ISAIAH 53. 1-12, PSALM 22, ZECHARIAH 12.10, EXODUS 12.46, PSALM 16.10, HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 34.21, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 34.20, PSALM 110.1, DANIEL 9.24-26, LEVITICUS 17.11, MARK 10.4, ALL FULFILLED IN NEW TESTAMENT TIMES.

When the Temple is again rebuilt in Jerusalem, the animal sacrifice will again be established on the altar in the Temple courtyard.  ZECHARIAH 14.21, EZEKIEL CHAPTERS 40 THROUGH 48

The explanation for why the first day of the seventh Hebrew month Tishrei is the Jewish New Year is a long and complicated one.  You can read why the Rabbis made this day the Jewish New Year in the Talmud, or on line in the First Mishnah Tractate Rosh Ha Shanah.

But the emmis, the truth of this Festival according to The Word of The LORD, Ha Shem is written in LEVITICUS 23.23-25.

ATONEMENT IS STILL REQUIRED BY THE LORD ON THIS HOLY DAY.  IN FACT ATONEMENT IS REQUIRED FOR GOD’S PEOPLE EVERY DAY, ALL THE TIME, AND FOREVER.  FOR IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL. LEVITICUS 17.11

I was told recently by a very religious Jewish man that Leviticus 17.11 applies only to sacrificed animals.  And that is wrong.

Leviticus 17.11 applies forever.  It is The Word of GOD.  For it is the blood that makes an atonement for the soul.  And Yeshua The Messiah’s blood made Atonement for your soul.

There is no other way for Atonement.

ISAIAH 40.8 reads, The grass withers, the flower fades, But the Word of Our GOD shall stand forever.

As this Holy Day is called by The LORD, A Memorial, or A Remembrance Of Blowing Of Shofars, or Trumpets, let’s remember some of the countless and wonderful things GOD has done for us and continues to do for us.

The Rabbis see this Special Day for remembering The LORD GOD for the Creation of the world.  And the worship stresses Jewish yearning for the establishment of GOD’S sovereignty over the entire world.  Ushering in the millennium, one thousand years of the Kingdom of GOD on earth in Israel, bringing in eternal peace with The Messiah.

It is a Day to be remembered by shouting, the Rabbis say, a Day when the Shofar is blasted.  It is also a Day to remind GOD of His Jewish People.  And also the Rabbis say, the rainbow designated by GOD is a reminder to Himself of His promise that the waters will never again become a flood to destroy all humanity.  GENESIS 9.14-17

Also we are reminded of the blasts of the trumpets in Israel when the Jewish People were in danger and went to war against their enemy.

GOD Commanded the People to blow an alarm with the trumpets, and the People were remembered before The LORD THEIR GOD.  And GOD saved them.  And GOD still saves His People.

Or the Shofars that are sounded when celebrating The LORD’S Festivals that are written in LEVITICUS 23.

Today is a Day for Israel and the Jewish People to cry out to The LORD THEIR GOD to remind Him that we are His People, and He is our GOD.  And we need His help. DEUTERONOMY 7.6-8, GENESIS 17.7-8, NUMBERS 10.1-10

The Rabbis teach that Rosh Ha Shanah became a time in Judaism to begin a ten day period of penitence, that is repentance beginning on Rosh Ha Shanah and ending at Yom Kippur.

But according to Tnakh, the Holy Scriptures, and written in Torah, repentance requires atonement, forgiveness of our sins.  Sin is breaking The Law of Moses.  NUMBERS 5.6,             1 JOHN 3.4

Thus GOD established the animal sacrifice for atonement as written in Torah in the days of the Tabernacle and the First and Second Temples.

Today without the Temple and without the animal sacrifice, GOD established The New Covenant as Torah, Messiah Yeshua’s Soul an offering for sin for atonement.  ISAIAH 53.10,  JEREMIAH 31.31-34

After atonement, repentance is required by turning to GOD and ridding yourself of all sin, and living your life according to Torah that is written in the first five Books of The Bible. Doing that which is Lawful and Right.  EZEKIEL 18.21-24, 30-31, 2 KINGS 17.13-15, 2 KINGS 18.11-12, ACTS 2.37-8, MATTHEW 3.1-2, MATTHEW 4.17

That is GOD’S teaching for repentance.  Anything different is man’s repentance that is no repentance.

You must always remember that The LORD loves you with an everlasting love.  JEREMIAH 31.3

And you must always remember that GOD is with you in the good times and the tough times.  ISAIAH 57.15

And you must always remember that GOD’S kindness will never depart from you.

And in these days of danger, no weapon formed against you will prosper or succeed.  And your righteousness is of GOD. ISAIAH 54.10, 17

Know this.  When you have Messiah Yeshua as your Atonement, and have repented according to GOD’S written Word in the Scriptures, and live according to Torah in the first five Books of the Bible, your Atonement and Eternal Life are secure.  No one can pluck you out of GOD’S Hand.  JOHN 10.27-30, PSALM 103.12

We must always remember that GOD gave the Land of Israel to the Jewish People for an everlasting possession.  And that includes Jerusalem.  GENESIS 17.7-8

You must always remember and know and believe that there is only ONE GOD.  And that Yeshua The Messiah is that ONE GOD.  He is The Father, The Son, The Messiah, The Spirit, The Holy Spirit, and so much more.

MESSIAH YESHUA IS HA SHEM.

The trinity of three distinct and different gods is wrong. DEUTERONOMY 6.4, MARK 12.29, JOHN 12.45, 49, JOHN 14.9, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, ISAIAH 43.10-11, ISAIAH 44.6, ISAIAH 45.5-7, 14, 18, 21, ISAIAH 46.9-11

You must always remember that GOD delivers the Righteous from ALL their afflictions.  The Righteous person believes in Messiah Yeshua and lives by The Law of Moses.  HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 34.20, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 34.19

Remember and know that GOD gives The Holy Spirit to those who obey Him.  Those who have Messiah Yeshua and live by Torah, The Law of Moses.  ACTS 5.32,  JOHN 14.23

And remember that GOD blesses those who obey Him.  And those who disobey GOD, GOD will curse.  DEUTERONOMY 28.1-3, 15

And always remember that it is GOD we must fear, and not man. MATTHEW 10.28

And always remember that Messiah tells you not to worry about anything, but to Seek GOD and His Righteousness.

Meaning Seek GOD and DESIRE His Righteousness.

GOD Never sins because He lives His eternal Life according to His Laws that are written in His Law of Moses.  That is GOD’S Righteousness.  When you live your life according to GOD’S Righteousness, obeying GOD’S Law of Moses, you will not sin against GOD.  MATTHEW 6.25-34, 1 PETER 2.21-22, 1JOHN3.4

And remember that it is very possible The LORD will return on a future Rosh Ha Shanah Day, The Day of Blowing of Shofars when men in the Synagogues throughout the world are sounding the Shofars.  MATTHEW 24.29-31, ISAIAH 64.4, 1 CORINTHIANS 2.9

Shalom, and L’Shanah Tovah.  Peace and Health, and to a Good Year.

Ira Weinstein, Congregational Leader

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom.

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will come from Numbers 19.1-9.  And we will complete the entire Chapter to Verse 22 in our study.

THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE RED HEIFER, AND THE RETURN OF THE MESSIAH.

And with that said, let’s read NUMBERS 19.1-9.

There seems to be quite a bit of talk about the red heifer. Talk that when the red heifers appear in Israel, the return of Messiah is soon.

But unfortunately, I don’t read that in the Scriptures.  What I do read is that the red heifer, or the red cow will be sacrificed, and its ashes used for a water of impurity for purifying.

However there is a link to the red heifer and Messiah’s return.

As for the return of Messiah, The Bible gives us a number of prophesies.  And we will address that in our teaching.

But first, let’s read about GOD’S Law for the red heifer.

NUMBERS 19.1-2  The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, this is the ordinance of The Law (that is a Law within The Law of Moses) that The LORD has commanded concerning the red heifer.

As a point of information, this Law concerning the red heifer is only in effect when the Temple is standing in Jerusalem.

And that is the link between the red heifer and Messiah’s return.

And the Law of the red heifer will be reinstated when the next Temple is built in Jerusalem.

The Law of the red heifer is this.

The red heifer must be brought to the Priest.  It must be without spot, having no blemish.  It must be perfect and never harnessed for work in the field.

NUMBERS 19.3-8  The red heifer was given to Eleazar the Priest, or to a future Priest to bring the animal outside the camp.  And another man killed it in the presence of the Priest.

Outside the camp when the Tabernacle was standing was a distance from the tents of the twelve Tribes of Israel that surrounded the Tabernacle.

Outside the camp when the Temple was standing in Jerusalem, I believe, was a distance from the Temple, or perhaps outside of Jerusalem.

So Eleazar the Priest walked the red heifer outside the camp. And another man killed it in the presence of Eleazar.

And Eleazar the Priest took her blood with his finger and sprinkled it toward the front of the Tabernacle seven times.

And another person burned the heifer in the sight of Eleazar the Priest.  It’s skin, her flesh, and her blood with her dung as The LORD commanded.

And the Priest took cedar wood, and hyssop, a plant having an aroma of mint, and a scarlet dye, and tossed them in the fire that consumed the heifer.

And as commanded by The LORD, the Priest washed his clothes, and bathed in water.  And afterward, he came into the camp, and he was unclean until the evening.  And then he was clean and pure in the sight of GOD.

Being unclean is being impure and defiled before The LORD.

And the person who burned the red heifer was also required to wash his clothes in water, and bathe in water. And that person was also unclean until the evening.

NUMBERS 19.9-12  And a man that was clean gathered up the ashes of the red heifer, and stored them outside the camp in a clean place.

And the ashes with the mixture of cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet dye were kept for the Children of Israel for a water of impurity for purifying.

And the person who gathered the ashes of the red heifer washed his clothes and was unclean until the evening.

This is a permanent Law, a Statute forever concerning the red heifer for the Children of Israel and the stranger who lives among them when the Temple in Jerusalem is standing.

HERE IS THE PURPOSE OF THE RED HEIFER.

THE PERSON WHO TOUCHED THE DEAD BODY OF ANY HUMAN BEING WAS UNCLEAN IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD SEVEN DAYS.  

AND THE LORD GOD REQUIRED THAT PERSON TO BE CLEAN AND PURE IN HIS EYES.

THUS THE LORD USED THE SACRIFICED RED HEIFER’S ASHES TO PURIFY THAT PERSON. 

The unclean person was purified on the third day of their uncleanness by the water of impurity of the red heifer that purifies.  And on the seventh day, he or she was clean in the sight of GOD.

But if the person would not purify himself with the water of impurity that purifies on the third day of his uncleanness, then on the seventh day of his uncleanness, that person was not clean in the sight of GOD.

NUMBERS 19.13-18  And The LORD continues His Law of the red heifer.

Whoever touched the dead, the dead body of a human being that died naturally, and did not purify himself with the water of impurity that purifies from the red heifer, that person defiled the Tabernacle of The LORD.

And that person was cut off from Israel because the water of impurity that purifies was not sprinkled upon him.

He or she remained unclean.  Their uncleanness remained upon them.

Being cut off from Israel can mean being expelled from Israel, or punishment by death.

This is the Law when a person dies in a tent, or in a home.

All that came into the tent or home, and all that were in the tent or home are unclean for seven days.

And every open vessel in the tent or home with no fixed lid on it is unclean.

And whoever touched a dead body that was killed in the open field, or died naturally, or touched the bone of a dead person, or touched a grave was unclean for seven days.

For making the person clean who was unclean because of touching a dead body, this is what the LORD commanded.

Some of the ashes of the burned red heifer, and fresh water was added in a vessel with the ashes of the heifer.

And a person who was clean took hyssop, and dipped it in the water and sprinkled it on the tent or inside the home. And on all the vessels, and the people who were there, or on the person who touched the bone of the dead.  Or who touched the person that was dead, or who touched the person who was killed.  Or who touched the person who died naturally, or who touched a grave.

NUMBERS 19.19-22  A clean person sprinkled the water that purified on the unclean person on the third day, and the seventh day of their uncleanness.

Thus purifying the unclean person and making him clean on the seventh day.

The person who was cleansed washed his clothes, and bathed in water.  And in the evening, that person was clean in the eyes of GOD.

But if the person who was unclean would not purify himself, that person was cut off from among the Congregation of the Children of Israel.  Because he or she defiled the Sanctuary of The LORD.

That person remained unclean in the sight of GOD.

This is a Statute forever when the Temple is standing in Jerusalem.

He or she that sprinkled the water of impurity that purifies washed their clothes.  And the person who touched the water of impurity that purifies was unclean until the evening.

And whatever the unclean person touched was unclean.

And the person that touched the unclean person, or the unclean thing was unclean until the evening.

My conclusion is this.

WE SERVE A HOLY GOD WHOSE NAME IS HOLY.  ISAIAH 57.15

AND THE HOLY GOD REQUIRES HOLINESS FROM HIS PEOPLE.  LEVITICUS 19.2, 1 PETER 1.14-16

AND HOLINESS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY LIVING BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD.  DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

THE LORD KNOWS YOUR IMPURITIES AND SINS. THEY’RE NO SECRET TO HIM.  SO HE GAVE YOU A WAY TO CORRECT THEM AND LEAD A HOLY LIFE.

THE LORD YOUR GOD GAVE YOU THE NEW COVENANT, MESSIAH YESHUA, TO FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS AND YOUR IMPURITIES AND REMEMBER THEM NO MORE WHEN YOU HAVE FAITH IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA. JEREMIAH 31.31-34, HEBREWS 8.8-12, HEBREWS 10.16-17

BUT IT DOESN’T STOP THERE.

THE LORD YOUR GOD REQUIRES YOU TO TURN TO HIM AND TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SINS AND IMPURITIES OF BREAKING HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES TO LIVING YOUR LIFE IN HOLINESS IN OBEDIENCE TO HIM.  1 JOHN 3.4

AND THAT IS ACHIEVED BY LIVING YOUR LIFE OBEYING ALL GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.

AFTER ALL, THE MESSIAH YESHUA SAYS, IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. JOHN 14.15 

AND YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FATHER, THE MESSIAH, THE SON, THE SPIRIT, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SO MUCH MORE.  JOHN 12.45,49, JOHN 14.9, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6 

AND THEN YOU WILL BE CLEAN AND PURE IN THE EYES OF GOD.  

AND THAT TRANSLATES INTO A GOOD LIFE ON EARTH WITH PROSPERITY AND GOOD SUCCESS.  AND ETERNAL LIFE  IN HEAVEN REMAINING IN GOD’S BOOK OF LIFE. EZEKIEL 18.21, 2 PETER 2.21-22,  JOSHUA 1.7-8

Let’s talk about the return of The Messiah Yeshua, The GOD of all the earth, Ha Shem.

When will He return?  MATTHEW 24.36

The only One who knows the exact Day of His return is GOD Himself, The Father, Who is Messiah Yeshua, Ha Shem.

However The LORD gives us a window of knowledge of His return to Israel by certain events that will take place in the world.

One major event that will happen is this.

The Jewish People will return to The LORD THEIR GOD and obey His Voice by obeying His Torah, all His Laws, Teachings, and  Instructions that are written in The Law of Moses in the first five Books of The Bible.

And then The LORD THEIR GOD, The Jewish Messiah, Yeshua Ha Mashiakh will return and come to Israel. DEUTERONOMY 30.1-10

(Deuteronomy 30.3)  (And The LORD) will RETURN and gather you from all the peoples, in Hebrew is;

V’SHAV  V’KEE’BEHTSKHA  MEEKAL  HA’AH’MEEM

Why suddenly will the Jewish People return to The LORD THEIR GOD and obey Torah, His Law of Moses?

I believe that in time in the near future THE LORD THEIR GOD, Ha Shem will cause His Jewish People to listen to 144,000 Messianic Jews who will teach and preach the truth of GOD.

That their Jewish Messiah Yeshua is Ha Shem, The GOD of the whole earth.

He is your Messiah, and He is your Atonement.  REVELATION 7.4-8, ISAIAH 53.10

And GOD’S People will turn to The LORD THEIR GOD and turn their life to Torah, GOD’S Law of Moses in the first five Books of The Bible.

And they will remain in GOD’S Book of Life and live, and have eternal life in GOD’S Kingdom on earth in Israel, and Eternal life in Heaven.

That is the True Gospel, The Good News of Messiah.

And there are other events that will cause the Messiah to return.  All happening very close together.

The LORD tells us in The Bible that there will be a seven year peace treaty with Israel and perhaps the Palestinians.

Israel will build her Temple in Jerusalem.  But in the middle of that peace treaty, an anti-GOD person will enter the Temple and cause the sacrifice to end.  And he will fill the Temple with his idols.  And claim to be GOD.  DANIEL 9.24,   2 THESSALONIANS 2.4, MATTHEW 24.15-22

And GOD in His wrath will destroy the Temple and the anti-GOD person in a moment.

And that’s when great trouble and tribulation will fall upon the entire world because the people of the earth have transgressed GOD’S Laws that are written in the Law of Moses, changed and abolished His Ordinance, and broken His Everlasting Covenant, His Word and His Law.

And The LORD will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle.  ISAIAH 24. 4-6, ZECHARIAH 14. 2

And great tribulation will come upon the world such as never was since the beginning of the world.

And that is when The Messiah Yeshua, GOD ALMIGHTY will return and save His Jewish People in Israel and throughout the world.  By destroying all their enemies.

And that Day of Messiah’s Return may very possibly come during a future Rosh Ha Shanah that is called in Torah, A Memorial Of Blowing Of Shofars.

When men in the Synagogues throughout the world are blowing Shofars.  MATTHEW 24. 29-31, LEVITICUS 23. 23-25

And The LORD will gather His People from all the nations where He scattered us.

And the Jewish People and all the non-Jewish People who served The LORD THEIR GOD and kept His Sabbath, and had Atonement in The Jewish Messiah Yeshua, or the animal sacrifice in its day.

And obeyed GOD’S Covenant, His Word and His Law of Moses will The LORD bring into the Land of Israel, GOD’S Kingdom on earth from the Nile to the Euphrates River that will be like the Garden of Eden.  ISAIAH 56.6-7, PSALM 105. 8-10, ISAIAH 51.3

And The LORD GOD, Messiah Yeshua will Reign in Jerusalem over all the earth.  ZECHARIAH 14.9

And in Israel, like the Garden of Eden, we will live in peace, and joy, with no wars, no tears, no death, no sorrow, no crying, and no pain for one thousand years.

For all those troubles will be gone forever.

And after the one thousand years, The LORD OUR GOD will bring us into our new home in Heaven called The New Jerusalem, forever and ever.  ISAIAH 13, ISAIAH 24, ZECHARIAH 14, MATTHEW 24, EZEKIEL 37-39, REVELATION 21-22

So yes, there is a link between the sacrifice of the Red Heifer when the next Temple in Jerusalem is built, and Messiah’s Return.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein, Congregational Leader

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com