Month: February 2018

YOU SHALL NOT BE FRIGHTENED OF THEM, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS AMONG YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND AWESOME.

Shalom.

Our teaching in Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from the words of Deuteronomy 7.16-26.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, YOU SHALL NOT BE FRIGHTENED OF THEM, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS AMONG YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND AWESOME.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 7.16-26.

DEUTERONOMY 7.16-18  When I read these Passages of THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY promising The Children of Israel that they would consume and destroy the Canaanites whom The LORD will deliver to them, and that Israel should not pity them, nor serve their gods because the Canaanite gods would be a trap that would lead The Jewish People astray to serve Canaanite gods.  Thus removing GOD’S People from THE LORD THEIR GOD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, and bringing GOD’S Judgment upon them.

And The LORD GOD saying to The Children of Israel, If you shall say in your heart, these nations are more than I.  How can I drive them out and possess their land?

God said, You shall not be afraid of them, but remember what THE LORD YOUR GOD did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt.

GOD destroyed Egypt and killed huge numbers of Egyptians because of their evil treatment of His Chosen People.

Therefore GOD gave The Jewish People confidence.  He guaranteed victory for His People.

And I was thinking as I read these Scriptures, Were The Children of Israel aware of The Great Promise and Prophesy that GOD made with Abraham some eight hundred years earlier?  That He, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY would give The Children of Israel the Land of Canaan from a river in Egypt to the Euphrates River for their own Land that would be called The Land of Israel?

And, yes, The Children of Israel were well aware of GOD’S promise to bring them again to the land of Canaan.  But this time to drive the Canaanites out to possess their land.

GOD’S decision to give The Jewish People the land of Canaan  from The River of Egypt to The Euphrates River was made before the Creation.

GOD’S Plan first became known by Prophesy to Abram some eight hundred years before The Children of Israel conquered and possessed the land of Canaan.  HEBREWS 4.3, GENESIS 15.13-21

GENESIS 15.13  GOD said to Abram some eight hundred years before He led the Children of Israel from Egypt to the land of Canaan to conquer and possess it, Know this for certain that your descendants, (The Children of Israel) will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, (Egypt) and shall serve them, and they shall afflict your people for four hundred years.

GENESIS 15.14  And after four hundred years of slavery, GOD said, He will Execute Judgment upon the Egyptians (According to Torah, GOD’S Law of Moses).  And after the four hundred years of slavery, The Children of Israel will come out with great wealth.

GENESIS 15.15  And GOD told Abram in His Prophesy that he would die, and go to his fathers in peace, and be buried at a good old age.  Abraham was one hundred and seventy five years old when he died.  And Abraham is in Heaven.

GENESIS 15.16  But in the fourth generation, that is after your people have suffered four hundred years of slavery at the hands of the Egyptians, They will come here again to Canaan because the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.

Abram and his wife Sarai were living in Canaan at the time GOD spoke this Prophesy to him.

Amorites are used as a general term for the Canaanite nations.

INIQUITY in Hebrew, as in the INIQUITY of the Amorites, is AH’VONE meaning, Perversity, Evil, Sin, and Punishment.  That is the reason GOD led The Children of Israel to Canaan to drive the Canaanites from their land, and possess it, that GOD says is the glory of all lands.

GENESIS 15.17  And when the sun went down, and it was dark, GOD caused a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp, perhaps a burning torch to pass between the divided pieces of the animals that were sacrificed to establish this Covenant of GOD with Abram and The Jewish People.

GENESIS 15.18-21  In the same day, GOD made a Covenant with Abram, saying, Unto your Descendants, I have given this land from The River of Egypt to The Euphrates River.

GENESIS 25.7, LUKE 16.19-31, EZEKIEL 20.5-6, GENESIS 15.9-12

When GOD delivered The Children of Israel to freedom, and after crossing the Red Sea on dry land, Moses and some three million Jewish People and a mixed multitude sang to The LORD;

Who is like unto You, O LORD among the gods?  Who is like You, Glorious in Holiness, Fearful in Praises doing Wonders?  You stretch out your right hand.  The earth swallows them.  You in mercy have led forth The People whom You have redeemed.  You have guided them in your strength to Your Holy Home (Israel).  The people shall hear and be afraid.  Sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia, and the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.  EXODUS 15.11-18

And GOD warned The Jewish People before they entered Canaan, Do not defile yourselves as those nations are defiled whom I cast out before you.  But you shall keep and obey My Statutes and My Judgments, and you shall not commit any of their abominations, you nor any stranger who lives among you.  LEVITICUS 18.24-30

FOR GOD’S PEOPLE, WHETHER YOU ARE JEWISH OR NOT, THOSE WORDS OF GOD ARE TRUE TODAY, THEY HAVE NOT CHANGED, NOR WILL THEY EVER END.  ISAIAH 40.8, LEVITICUS 26.1-6, 14-46

IF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND ALL NATIONS WOULD FOLLOW THE GOD OF CREATION, LIVING BY EVERY WORD HE SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING HIS SPOKEN WORD OF THE LAW OF MOSES, THERE WOULD BE NO SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, AND EVIL WOULD DISAPPEAR.

BUT SO MANY BIBLE TEACHERS OPPOSE TORAH, GOD’S LAW OF MOSES.  DISRESPECTING GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  TEACHING THAT GOD’S LAW IS ABOLISHED.  KNOWING FROM THE BIBLE THAT THEY TEACH FROM THAT THE WORD OF GOD NEVER CHANGES OR ENDS.

THEREFORE THOSE BIBLE TEACHERS AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW THEM DIS GOD.  THEY DISRESPECT GOD, AND DISOBEY THE GOD OF CREATION.  AND THEY IGNORE GOD.  BRINGING JUDGMENT UPON THE PEOPLE SUCH AS SCHOOL SHOOTINGS AND THE OTHER EVILS.

ISAIAH 40.8, MALACHI 3.6, 1 JOHN 3.4, ISAIAH 13.9, ISAIAH 24.4-6, ISAIAH 26.21, MATHEW 7.21-23, HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 40.9, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 40.8, ROMANS 2.13, ROMANS 3.31, ROMANS 8.4, ROMANS 10.5, JAMES 2. 21,22,25, 1 PETER 1.23-25, GENESIS 2.15-17, GENESIS 3.1-6, DEUTERONOMY 28.1-68, ETC., ETC., ETC. 

DEUTERONOMY 7.18  You shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember what THE LORD YOUR GOD did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.

WHEN YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE BY THE WORD OF GOD AND OBEY HIS LAW OF MOSES THAT IS ALSO THE WORD OF GOD, GOD SAYS TO YOU, YOU SHALL NOT BE AFRAID, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL ALWAYS PROTECT YOU.

THAT IS GOD’S PROMISE TO YOU.  BECAUSE YOU LIVE BY THE WORD OF GOD.  YOU LIVE BY HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND YOU HAVE FAITH AND ATONEMENT IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA.

REMEMBER WHAT THE LORD YOUR GOD DID TO PHARAOH AND ALL EGYPT, GOD SAID.  GOD DESTROYED EGYPT FOR ISRAEL’S RANSOM.  EGYPT AND PHARAOH PAID THE RANSOM PRICE FOR ISRAEL’S FREEDOM.  ISAIAH 43.1-7

ISAIAH 43.7  EVERYONE WHO IS CALLED BY MY NAME, EVERYONE WHO IS CALLED BY THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY,  EVERYONE WHO IS OBEDIENT TO GOD, OBEYING HIS WORD AND HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND HAS ATONEMENT IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD HAS CREATED YOU FOR HIS GLORY, AND HAS FORMED YOU, AND MADE YOU HIS OWN.

DEUTERONOMY 7.19  THESE ARE COMFORTING WORDS, NOT ONLY FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BUT FOR ALL GOD’S PEOPLE WHO READ WHAT GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE, AND OBEY HIS EVERY WORD.  AND BELIEVE IN ONE GOD WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM, ELOHIM, YESHUA THE MESSIAH.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JOHN 8.58, JOHN 14.9, ETC.

GOD SAID TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THROUGH HIS SERVANT MOSES, YOU SAW THE CALAMITIES WITH YOUR OWN EYES, AND THE SIGNS AND WONDERS, AND THE MIGHTY HAND AND THE STRETCHED OUT ARM BY WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD BROUGHT YOU OUT.  SO SHALL THE LORD YOUR GOD DO TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF WHOM YOU ARE AFRAID.

DEUTERONOMY 7.20-21  WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE FREED FROM THE GERMAN DEATH CAMPS AFTER WORD WAR 2 WHERE SIX MILLION JEWS WERE KILLED BY THE NAZIS, AND WHEN MANY JEWISH PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED CAME TO ISRAEL TO MAKE THEIR HOME, THEY WERE NOT THE MIGHTIEST ARMY IN THE WORLD.  BUT RATHER THEY WERE LIKE THE JEWISH SLAVES WHO CAME OUT OF FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF EGYPTIAN SLAVERY.

AND WHEN THE ARAB ARMIES ATTACKED ISRAEL IN 1948 WHEN ISRAEL DECLARED ITS INDEPENDENCE, GOD STOOD WITH HIS JEWISH PEOPLE AS HE ALWAYS DOES.  AND THE VALIANT JEWISH FIGHTERS ALONG WITH THE LORD THEIR GOD DEFEATED THOSE ARAB ARMIES.  BECAUSE GOD STANDS WITH HIS PEOPLE AND PROTECTS THEM.

AND GOD WILL ALWAYS STAND WITH YOU AND PROTECT YOU WHEN YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD, DOING WHAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND OBEYING ALL HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

KNOW THAT EVERYTHING YOU ARE TAUGHT BY MAN MUST AGREE WITH TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND WHEN YOU FOLLOW THE LAW OF MOSES AND HAVE FAITH IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, GOD SAYS, YOU SHALL NOT BE FRIGHTENED OF THEM, WHOEVER THEY MAY BE WHO THINK OF CAUSING YOU TROUBLE.  FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU, A MIGHTY GOD AND AWESOME.  AND TERRIBLE TO HIS ENEMIES.

DEUTERONOMY 7.22-23  EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IS LAW, AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IS HIS PROMISE THAT HE ALWAYS KEEPS.

THE GREAT JEWISH FIGHTERS, WITH THE LORD THEIR GOD, FOUGHT COURAGEOUSLY, AND DROVE THE CANAANITES OUT OF THEIR LAND LITTLE BY LITTLE AS GOD PROMISED ABRAM EIGHT HUNDRED YEARS EARLIER.  AND GOD DELIVERED THE CANAANITE NATIONS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND DESTROYED THE CANAANITES WITH A MIGHTY DESTRUCTION BECAUSE OF THEIR EVIL, PERVERSITY, AND SIN.  AND THEY WERE DESTROYED.  DEUTERONOMY 20.1-4

ISRAEL TODAY IS A SMALL BUT MIGHTY NATION.  HAVING ONE OF THE GREATEST ARMIES AND AIR FORCES IN THE WORLD.

AND ISRAEL HAS GOD.  THE MIGHTY AND AWESOME GOD.

BUT IN THE HEART OF THE JEWISH PERSON IS PEACE AND NOT WAR.  BUT MANY OF THE NATIONS, BECAUSE OF A DEMONIC SPIRIT SEEK TO DESTROY AND ELIMINATE ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH.  BUT THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.  RATHER THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL WILL BE DESTROYED, AND IN TIME DESTROYED FOREVER. 

JEREMIAH 31.35-37, ISAIAH 66.22, HEBREW BIBLE  JOEL 4.11-21, CHRISTIAN BIBLE JOEL 3.11-21

DEUTERONOMY 7.25  EVERY IDOL AND EVERY GRAVEN IMAGE IS AN ABOMINATION TO GOD.  FOR GOD TOLD THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHEN THEY POSSESSED THE LAND OF CANAAN, THE GRAVEN IMAGES OF THEIR gods YOU SHALL BURN WITH FIRE.  YOU SHALL NOT DESIRE THE SILVER OR GOLD THAT IS ON THEM, NOR TAKE IT, LEST YOU ARE TRAPPED BY IT, FOR IT IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD.

THINK ON THOSE WORDS FOR A MOMENT THAT GOD SPOKE TO HIS PEOPLE.  BECAUSE OCCASIONALLY WE SEE IMAGES OF gods IN THIS COUNTRY.

DEUTERONOMY 7.26  NEITHER SHALL YOU BRING AN IDOL THAT GOD CALLS AN ABOMINATION, OR ANYTHING ON IT INTO YOUR HOUSE LEST YOU WILL BE A CURSED THING LIKE IT.  BUT YOU SHALL UTTERLY DETEST IT, FOR IT IS A CURSED THING, THE LORD YOUR GOD SAYS.

GOD IS A JEALOUS GOD.  AND WE KNOW WHAT JEALOUS MEANS.  FOR GOD SAYS, YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER gods BEFORE ME.  FOR I THE LORD YOUR GOD AM A JEALOUS GOD VISITING THE INIQUITY OF THE FATHERS UPON THE CHILDREN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION OF THEM THAT HATE ME.

ADD TO THAT, GOD SAYS, FALSE gods AND IDOLS CAUSE PEOPLE TO STRAY FROM HIM. 

AS A RESULT THEY REJECT GOD, BY REJECTING HIS WORD.  EXODUS 20.1-6, JEREMIAH 23.13,32

THEREFORE CHOOSE LIFE.  BE A FOLLOWER OF GOD.  THE MIGHTY GOD, AND AWESOME. 

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohen.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

THE OPEN SECRET TO BE LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD

Shalom.

Our teaching from Torah The Law of Moses will continue from Deuteronomy 7.11-15.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE OPEN SECRET TO BE LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 7.11-15.

DEUTERONOMY 7.11  These are Words that GOD Commanded Moses to speak to The Children of Israel.

And Moses recorded GOD’S Words in The Law that is called The Law of Moses that today is Written in The first Five Books of The Bible for all mankind to live by.  DEUTERONOMY 31.9

GOD COMMANDS HIS PEOPLE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS, AND THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS WHICH GOD COMMANDS YOU THIS DAY TO DO THEM.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR KEEP, AS IN, YOU SHALL THEREFORE KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS, AND THE STATUTES, AND THE JUDGMENTS WHICH GOD COMMANDS YOU THIS DAY TO DO THEM IS, SHAH’MAR.  SHAH’MAR MEANS TO HEDGE ABOUT AS WITH THORNS, GUARD AND PROTECT, AND ATTEND TO.

THEREFORE GOD SAYS TO HIS PEOPLE, GUARD HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS STATUTES, AND HIS JUDGMENTS WITH EVERY OUNCE OF STRENGTH YOU HAVE.  AND ATTEND TO THEM.  APPLY YOURSELF, AND PAY ATTENTION TO THAT WHICH GOD COMMANDS YOU.  AND DO THEM.

DO NOT LET ANYONE RIP THEM AWAY FROM YOU WITH THEIR FALSE TEACHING THAT GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES ARE NO LONGER IN EFFECT.

GOD’S Commandments and His Statutes are His Laws Written in The Law of Moses.  And GOD’S Judgments are His Decisions, Verdicts, Penalties, and Justice according to His Law of Moses.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT GOD’S COMMANDMENTS, STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS ARE NOT ONLY FOR JEWISH PEOPLE.  THEY ARE FOR EVERYBODY. 

ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO DESIRE TO BE LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD.

THAT IS THE OPEN SECRET ON HOW TO BE LOVED BY GOD, AND BLESSED BY GOD. 

AND THE ONLY WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THAT IS BY KEEPING GOD’S COMMANDMENTS, HIS STATUTES AND HIS JUDGMENTS ALONG WITH YOUR FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOREVER.

DEUTERONOMY 7.12  THE OLD TESTAMENT WHICH JUDAISM CALLS THE TANACH IS WRITTEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD FOR EVERYBODY TO KNOW GOD AND BELIEVE HIM AND UNDERSTAND THAT HE IS GOD, THE ONLY GOD.  THAT HE IS THE LORD AND BESIDE HIM THERE IS NO SAVIOR.  ISAIAH 43.10-11

THE HEBREW WORD TANACH IS FOR TORAH, NEVIIM, AND KETUVIM.  FOR THE LAW, PROPHETS, AND WRITINGS.

AND YOU MUST ALSO KNOW THAT THIS TANACH, THE OLD TESTAMENT IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

AND THOSE WHO TEACH THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT HAS REPLACED THE OLD TESTAMENT TEACH FOOLISHNESS.

THOSE WHO REJECT THE LAW, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS OF GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ARE LIKE THE FOOLISH MAN WHO BUILT HIS HOUSE ON SAND.  THE PROBLEMS OF LIFE CAME LIKE THE WINDS THAT BLEW AND BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE, AND IT FELL.  AND GREAT WAS THE FALL OF THAT HOUSE.  MATTHEW 7.24-27

IN DEUTERONOMY 28, MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY TEACHES THE BLESSINGS FOR OBEYING HIS COMMANDMENTS WHICH ARE COLLECTIVELY HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND THE CURSES FOR DISOBEYING HIS COMMANDMENTS.

DEUTERONOMY 28 IS CRITICAL TO READ AND FEAR.

THE WORDS OF DEUTERONOMY 7.12, LIKE ALL THE WORDS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT APPLY TO GENTILES AS WELL AS TO JEWISH PEOPLE.

GOD SAYS IN THIS VERSE, WHEREFORE, IT SHALL COME TO PASS IF YOU OBEY THESE JUDGMENTS, AND KEEP AND DO THEM, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD SHALL KEEP UNTO YOU THE COVENANT AND THE MERCY WHICH HE SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS.

GOD’S COVENANT IS HIS WORD THAT IS LAW FOREVER.  1 CHRONICLES 16.15-17

AND GOD’S COVENANT BRINGS GREAT MERCY, BLESSINGS AND LOVE UPON THOSE WHO OBEY HIM. OBEYING HIS EVERY WORD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

THAT IS THE OPEN SECRET TO BE LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD.

 

THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE ADOPTED BY GOD.  ROMANS 9.4

Adoption, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is a word that means, To take and raise the child of others as one’s own child, specifically by a formal legal act.

WHEN GOD TOOK ABRAHAM OUT FROM THE GENTILES TO BE THE FATHER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, THE LORD BROUGHT UP ABRAHAM AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE WORD OF GOD.

AND GOD MADE THE JEWISH PEOPLE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE, HOLY TO THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND SPECIAL TO GOD.  AND THE PEOPLE WHOM GOD SET HIS LOVE UPON.

AND THAT ALSO IS THE FORMAL AND LEGAL ACT OF GOD’S ADOPTION OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  GENESIS 12.1-4, DEUTERONOMY 7.6-8

ON THE OTHER HAND, NOT BEING ADOPTED BY GOD IS HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD.

BEING ADOPTED BY GOD IS BEING BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF GOD, AND ETERNAL LIFE.

THE FOUNDATION OF GOD IS THE WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES, THE PROPHETS AND THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.

KNOWING AND BELIEVING THAT THE WORD OF GOD THAT INCLUDES GOD’S LAW OF MOSES NEVER CHANGES OR ENDS.

AND KNOWING AND BELIEVING THAT MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM ELOHIM, THE FATHER.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, ISAIAH 40.8, MALACHI 3.6, JOHN 8.58, JOHN 12.45, 49, JOHN 14.9, 1 PETER 1.23, 1 JOHN 3,4,

THEREFORE GENTILES CERTAINLY CAN BE ADOPTED BY GOD, BECOMING PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, BEING LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD, IF YOU OBEY GOD.

BEING LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD DOES NOT HAPPEN BY REJECTING THE LAW OF MOSES.  NOR BY REJECTING GOD’S SABBATH ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK SATURDAY.  NOR BY REJECTING GOD’S FESTIVALS.  NOR BY REJECTING GOD’S FOOD LAWS.  NOR BY BELIEVING THAT GOD IS A TRINITY OF THREE DIFFERENT GODS.  NOR BY BELIEVING THAT JESUS ENDED THE LAW OF MOSES.  NOR BY BELIEVING THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT REPLACED THE OLD TESTAMENT.  NOR BY BELIEVING THAT CHRISTIANITY HAS REPLACED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE.

BEING LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD HAPPENS WHEN YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE AS THE SHEMA READS IN DEUTERONOMY 6.4 AND MARK 12.29.  HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.   

MEANING, HEAR WHAT GOD SAYS, AND DO IT.  AND THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

ISAIAH 40.8, EXODUS 20.9-11, LEVITICUS 23, DEUTERONOMY 14, DEUTERONOMY 6.4, MARK 12.29, ROMANS 11.29

BEING LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD COMES BY OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT IS LAW FOREVER.  IT IS WRITTEN FOR EVERYONE TO SEE, BUT IT IS AND OPEN SECRET. 

WHEN GOD SPEAKS, EVERY WORD HE SAYS IN THE BIBLE IS LAW.  AND THE LAW MUST BE OBEYED.

 

LET’S LOOK AT PAUL’S TEACHING ABOUT GENTILES WHO HAVE TURNED TO GOD.  EPHESIANS 2.11-22

EPHESIANS 2.11-12  YOU GENTILES IN THE PAST, PAUL WRITES, WERE WITHOUT MESSIAH.  YOU WERE ALIENATED, THAT IS, YOU TURNED AWAY FROM THE JEWISH CITIZENSHIP OF ISRAEL.  AND YOU WERE STRANGERS FROM GOD’S COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE, AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD.

 EPHESIANS 2.13  BUT NOW IN MESSIAH YESHUA, YOU WHO IN TIME PAST WERE FAR FROM GOD BUT ARE NOW MADE NEAR BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA.

EPHESIANS 2.14  NOW, MESSIAH IS YOUR PEACE WHO HAS MADE BOTH BIBLE BELIEVING GENTILES IN MESSIAH AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE ONE.  BECAUSE MESSIAH HAS BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION.

THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION IS THE WORD OF GOD THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES THAT GENTILES REJECT.  AND BY REJECTING GOD’S WORD AND HIS LAW OF MOSES, GENTILES SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM GOD.  CAUSING GENTILES TO BE WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD, AND STRANGERS FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE. ISAIAH 59.2, 1 JOHN 3.4

BUT NOW, PAUL WRITES, YOU GENTILES LIVE BY THE WORD OF GOD, AND TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND YOU HAVE FAITH IN THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA FOR ATONEMENT.  AND YOU BELIEVE THAT MESSIAH YESHUA IS THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH.  THEREFORE MESSIAH YESHUA IS NOW YOUR PEACE.

EPHESIANS 2.15  NOW THAT YOU LIVE BY THE WORD OF GOD THAT INCLUDES GOD’S TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND KNOWING THAT MESSIAH IS GOD ALMIGHTY, MESSIAH HAS BROKEN DOWN THE MIDDLE WALL OF PARTITION, THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS THAT WERE AGAINST YOU.  BECAUSE IN THE PAST YOU REJECTED GOD, HIS WORD AND HIS LAW, THEREFORE LIVING A GODLESS LIFE.  BUT NOW YOU ARE ONE WITH GOD.

AND NOW THAT YOU LIVE BY TORAH AND HAVE MESSIAH AS YOUR ATONEMENT, MESSIAH YESHUA HAS MADE IN HIMSELF ONE NEW MAN.  AND YOU HAVE MADE PEACE WITH GOD.

ONE NEW MAN IS JEW AND GENTILE LOVING GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL.  FEARING THE LORD YOUR GOD, WALKING IN ALL HIS WAYS.  AND KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD AND HIS STATUTES WHICH GOD COMMANDS YOU TO DO.  AND HAVING ATONEMENT IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA.

EPHESIANS 2.16  THEREFORE MESSIAH HAS RECONCILED BOTH JEW AND BIBLICAL BELIEVING GENTILES TO GOD BY HIS ATONING DEATH ON THE STAKE.  HAVING KILLED THE ENMITY, THAT IS THE OPPOSITION THAT GENTILES AND EVEN CERTAIN JEWISH PEOPLE HAD TOWARD THE WORD OF GOD AND THE LAW OF MOSES.

EPHESIANS 2.17  THE HEBREW WORD FOR PEACE IS SHALOM.  AND SHALOM MEANS PEACE, SAFETY, HAPPINESS, FRIENDLINESS, HEALTH, AND PROSPERITY, GOOD HEALTH AND PERFECT PEACE, AND REST, AND BEING WHOLLY WELL.

AND MESSIAH YESHUA PREACHED PEACE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE FAR OFF, AND TO THEM THAT WERE NEAR.

EPHESIANS 2.18  NOW YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE FATHER BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WHOM GOD HAS GIVEN TO THOSE WHO OBEY GOD.  ACTS 5.32 

NOW YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.

EPHESIANS 2.19  NOW THAT YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES, AND BELIEVE THAT YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE ONE GOD, YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS BUT FELLOWCITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS, THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD

EPHESIANS 2.20  NOW YOU ARE BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES, AND THE PROPHETS, AND THE MESSIAH YESHUA HIMSELF THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.

THE APOSTLES, THE PROPHETS, AND THE MESSIAH YESHUA HIMSELF THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE ALL LIVED BY EVERY WORD OF GOD THAT INCLUDES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND THEY ALL TAUGHT ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD AND TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

EPHESIANS 2.21  AS A BODY OF TRUE BIBLICAL BELIEVERS IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA, WE ARE A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD.

BUT WE ARE NOT THE THIRD TEMPLE OR THE MILLENNIAL TEMPLE.

EPHESIANS 2.22  IN MESSIAH YESHUA, WE ARE TOGETHER A DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT.

AND AGAIN, NO ONE RECEIVES THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM GOD UNLESS HE OR SHE OBEYS GOD, HIS EVERY WORD THAT INCLUDES HIS TORAH, GOD’S LAW OF MOSES.  ACTS 5.32

THEREFORE OBEDIENCE TO THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD IS HOW TO BE LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD.

IT’S THAT SIMPLE.

DEUTERONOMY 7.13  WHEN YOU OBEY GOD’S WORD, INCLUDING HIS LAW FOREVER, GOD WILL LOVE YOU AND BLESS YOU, AND MULTIPLY YOU.  AND HE WILL BLESS YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR WORK.  2 CORINTHIANS 2.9, 17, EPHESIANS 4.22-24, EPHESIANS 5.1, 14, 17

EPHESIANS 4.24 AND EPHESIANS 5.17  RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE WILL OF GOD ARE OBEDIENCE TO GOD.  OBEDIENCE TO HIS WORD.  AND OBEDIENCE TO TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES.

EPHESIANS 5.1  GOD NEVER ABOLISHED HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  NOR DID HE EVER TEACH A TRINITY OF THREE DIFFERENT GODS.

AND BY LIVING FOR GOD, DOING THAT WHICH IS RIGHT ACCORDING TO HIS TEACHINGS, YOU WILL BE LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD.

DEUTERONOMY 7.14  IN FACT, WHEN YOU LIVE FOR GOD, DOING THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD ACCORDING TO ALL HIS TEACHINGS IN THE BIBLE, AND NOT THE FALSE TEACHINGS OF SO MANY BIBLE TEACHERS, GOD WILL BLESS YOU ABOVE ALL PEOPLE.  AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE MARRIED AND WANT CHILDREN, GOD WILL BLESS YOUR CHILDREN.

AND GOD WILL BLESS EVERYTHING YOU DO WHEN YOU OBEY GOD’S COMMANDMENTS, HIS STATUTES AND HIS JUDGMENTS, AND HAVE ATONEMENT IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA.

DEUTERONOMY 7.15  FOR THOSE WHO ARE SICK WITH DEADLY DISEASES, GOD HAS A PRESCRIPTION FOR YOU THAT DOES NOT COST MONEY, AND DOES NOT INVOLVE DRUGS.

THE PRESCRIPTION FOR THE LORD TAKING AWAY YOUR SICKNESS, AND NOT PUTTING ANY OF THE EVIL DISEASES OF EGYPT ON YOU, IS TO DO AS MESSIAH YESHUA TEACHES YOU IN MATTHEW 4.4

MESSIAH SAID, IT IS WRITTEN (IN DEUTERONOMY 8.3)  MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD/FOOD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.

DO THAT AND YOU WILL BE LOVED AND BLESSED BY GOD.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

DO YOU SINCERELY WANT TO BE A PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE? HOLY, SPECIAL AND LOVED BY GOD?

Shalom.

Our Teaching will continue from Torah, The Law of Moses from Deuteronomy 7.6-10.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, DO YOU SINCERELY WANT TO BE PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE?  HOLY, SPECIAL AND LOVED BY GOD?

So with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 7.6-10.

As you know, The LORD GOD is speaking to The Children of Israel in these verses who today are The Jewish People.

So how did The Jewish People come to be named Jewish People or Jews?

4,000 years ago The Jewish People were called Hebrews.

When The LORD GOD spoke to Moses Face to face and had Moses record the history of the world that GOD explained to him starting with “In the beginning GOD Created The Heavens and the Earth,” GOD called Abram a Hebrew.

As you well know, GOD changed Abram’s name to Abraham.

And GOD referred to Himself as THE LORD GOD OF THE HEBREWS.

GENESIS 1.1, GENESIS 14.13, GENESIS 17.5, EXODUS 9.1, DEUTERONOMY 34.10

Hebrew in Hebrew is EEV’REE that comes from The Hebrew Word AY’VEHR meaning THE OTHER SIDE.

Later on, The Hebrews became The Children of Israel after GOD wrestled with Jacob and changed Jacob’s name to Israel.  GENESIS 32.2-28, EXODUS 1.1

After King Solomon died, Israel was divided into two Kingdoms during the reign of Solomon’s son Rehoboam.  The Kingdom of Israel to the north, and The Kingdom of Judah to the south.  The Kingdom of Judah consisted of two Tribes, The Tribe of Judah and The Tribe of Benjamin.  The Kingdom of Israel to the north consisted of the other ten tribes.

The Hebrew Word YEH’HUDI meaning Jew was originally a tribal definition for a member of The Tribe of Judah.

In 722 B.C.E./B.C., some 209 years after Solomon’s death, The LORD GOD OF ISRAEL sent the northern Kingdom of Israel into exile into Assyria because of Israel’s sins against GOD.  The People worshiped other gods, disobeying the statutes of GOD and walked in the statutes of the heathen.  2 KINGS 17.6-23

The Kingdom of Assyria stretched from Egypt to the border of today’s Iran.

In 586 B.C.E/B.C. THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL exiled The People of The southern Kingdom of Judah to Babylon because they also sinned against THE LORD THEIR GOD by walking after the abominations of the heathen.

Babylon is today’s Iraq and Syria.  2 CHRONICLES 36.11-21

After The Children of Israel returned to Jerusalem from the exiles in 516 B.C.E/B.C., they came to be called by The Hebrew Name Yeh’hudi meaning Jewish or Jew, or Yeh’hu’deem meaning Jews.

The word Jewish or Jew became synonymous with the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, from which the word Judaism was derived to designate the faith of The Jewish People.

And the word Jew is first found in The Bible in The Book of Esther that was written after the return of the exiles around 465 B.C.E./B.C. in ESTHER 2.5

YEH’HUDI MEANING JEW OR JEWISH MEANS PRAISER OF THE LORD GOD.

Yeh’hudi, The Hebrew for Jew or Jewish comes from Yeh’hudah, The Hebrew for Judah meaning Praise The LORD.  Yeh’hudah, The Hebrew for Judah also comes from the Hebrew word Yahdah meaning to Hold Out The Open Hand, obviously to GOD.  GENESIS 29.35

THEREFORE JEW MEANS PRAISER OF THE LORD GOD.

Now, some 2,000 years after the creation, and not long after the flood, GOD took Abraham out of the Gentiles and created a People for Himself.  The Jewish People.  GENESIS 12.1-9

And The Bible spends extensive time describing the history of the Jewish People because GOD Created and Chose the Jewish People for an extraordinary purpose.

GOD SAID, FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD.  THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.  DEUTERONOMY 7.6

The Jewish People have their beginnings in Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Jacob’s twelve sons, the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel.

And through Prophesies and Miracles of GOD, The LORD brought the family of Jacob, GOD’S chosen People from Canaan down to Egypt to make them a great nation.

Sixty-nine Jewish People went down to Egypt with Jacob, for Joseph was in Egypt already.  And Israel grew to some three million people while they were in Egypt for 430 years. GENESIS 12.2

After 400 years of slavery under the hands of the Egyptians, GOD brought His People out of Egypt to their own land which is today called The Land of Israel.  Today’s Israel is but a small portion of GOD’S Israel that stretches from a River in Egypt to the Euphrates River that flows through Syria and Iraq.

And on the way to The Promised Land after GOD redeemed His People out of Egypt, and even before they entered Canaan, GOD gave Israel His Laws, Teachings and Instructions for His Chosen People to live by, called The Law of Moses, or in Judaism, The Torah.

GOD ALSO CHOSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE HIS SERVANT AND HIS WITNESSES TO THE WORLD TO TELL ALL HUMANITY HOW GOD REQUIRES THEM TO LIVE THEIR LIVES.  AND THAT IS ACCOMPLISHED BY OBEYING EVERY WORD SPOKEN BY GOD AND WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT JEWISH PEOPLE WROTE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  ISAIAH 43.10

GOD requires all mankind to live their lives according to the very same Laws, Teachings and Instructions that GOD gave to Israel and taught them on the road from Egypt to Canaan.

It’s an open secret that GOD requires all mankind, Jewish and Gentile to live by every Word that Proceeds out of The Mouth of GOD that is Written in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation. 

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, ISAIAH 40.8, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, 1 PETER 1.23

Some 1400 years after the exodus from Egypt to the Promised Land, THE GOD OF CREATION MADE HIMSELF A JEWISH MAN IN ISRAEL IN THE PERSON OF MESSIAH YESHUA WHOM THE WORLD KNOWS AS JESUS CHRIST, WHO WAS BORN FROM A JEWISH VIRGIN MIRIAM THAT THE WORLD CALLS MARY.

 

 

BUT JUST ABOUT EVERY GENTILE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD REJECTS GOD’S  LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS CALLED THE LAW OF MOSES THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE IN GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY.  AND THEY HAVE REPLACED GOD’S WORD WITH THEIR OWN MAN MADE LAWS, TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS.

WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE REJECT ATONEMENT IN THEIR JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM ELOHIM, AND REPLACED GOD’S ATONEMENT WITH THEIR OWN MAN MADE LAWS FOR ATONEMENT.

And that’s where we are today and most likely will remain that way until THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD ALMIGHTY Returns to set up His Messianic Kingdom in Israel from a river in Egypt to the Euphrates.

And GOD’S Chosen People will inherit GOD’S Messianic Kingdom in Israel that will be like The Garden of Eden for 1,000 years.

And after the 1,000 years, GOD will bring His Chosen People into Heaven for Eternity where our Home will be forever and ever.

And at the end of the 1,000 year Messianic Kingdom in Israel, GOD will cause the earth to flee away and vanish forever.

GENESIS 15.18-21, ISAIAH 51.1-3, REVELATION 20.7-15

THEREFORE THE TITLE OF THIS STUDY IS, DO YOU SINCERELY WANT TO BE PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE?  HOLY, SPECIAL AND LOVED BY GOD?

I SHOULD ADD TO THAT, WOULD YOU SINCERELY LIKE TO INHERIT ETERNITY IN HEAVEN FOR YOUR ETERNAL HOME WHERE GOD’S HOME WILL BE WITH US, AND GOD WILL DWELL WITH US.  AND WE WILL BE HIS PEOPLE, AND GOD WILL BE WITH US, AND BE OUR GOD.

AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM OUR EYES, AND THERE WILL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN, FOR THE FORMER THINGS WILL HAVE PASSED AWAY.  REVELATION 21.1-4

THEREFORE GOD TELLS US IN THESE FEW VERSES IN DEUTERONOMY 7.6-10 WHAT HE REQUIRES FROM ALL PEOPLES TO BE PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT JEWISH, AND ALSO IF YOU ARE JEWISH.

DEUTERONOMY 7.6  GOD is speaking through His Prophet and Servant Moses saying to The Children of Israel, FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD.  THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF ABOVE ALL PEOPLE THAT ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

DEUTERONOMY 7.7  And The LORD tells The Jewish People that He did not set His Love upon us, nor choose us because we were more in number than any people.  For we were the fewest of all people.

Maybe there were three million Jewish People when GOD spoke these words to The Children of Israel in the wilderness before they entered the land of Canaan to possess it.

Today, there are slightly over 14 million Jewish People in a world of seven billion people.

DEUTERONOMY 7.8  GOD tells the world the reason He Chose The Jewish People.

Because The LORD loves The Jewish People.  And because He would keep the Oath that He had sworn to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that The LORD brought The Jewish People out of Egypt with a Mighty Hand and Redeemed His People out of the house of slavery.

THIS WAS GOD’S ACT OF GRACE, GOD’S KINDNESS TO CHOOSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE FOREVER.  AND BECAUSE GOD LOVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  AND BECAUSE ABRAHAM OBEYED GOD’S VOICE, AND KEPT HIS CHARGE.  THAT IS ABRAHAM OBEYED GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS, HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS STATUTES, AND HIS LAWS.  GENESIS 26.1-5

NOTE VERY CAREFULLY THAT GOD DID NOT CHOOSE A MAN TO BE THE FATHER OF HIS JEWISH PEOPLE WHO REJECTED GOD’S LAWS AND INSTRUCTIONS.

BUT GOD CHOSE ABRAHAM, A MAN WHO OBEYED GOD’S VOICE, AND KEPT HIS CHARGE, HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS STATUTES AND HIS LAWS.

AND BECAUSE GOD WOULD KEEP THE OATH THAT HE MADE WITH THE JEWISH FATHERS, ABRAHAM, EVEN WHEN ABRAHAM WAS CHILDLESS, AND ISAAC AND JACOB THAT THE LORD TOOK HIS PEOPLE OUT OF 400 YEARS OF EGYPTIAN SLAVERY AND REDEEMED THEM.

GENESIS 15.13-21, GENESIS 26.1-5, GENESIS 28.10-15

REDEEMED comes from the Hebrew Word PAHDAH meaning, that GOD PRESERVED HIS JEWISH PEOPLE, DELIVERED HIS JEWISH PEOPLE, AND RESCUED HIS JEWISH PEOPLE FROM 400 YEARS OF EGYPTIAN SLAVERY.

DEUTERONOMY 7.9  HERE IS THE SIMPLE REQUIREMENT TO EVERYONE WHO SINCERELY WANTS TO BE PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE, RECEIVING ALL GOD’S BLESSINGS AND PROMISES, AND THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

1/  RECOGNIZE THAT GOD IS GOD. 

KNOW THEREFORE THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD HE IS GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY GOD. 

AND RECOGNIZE THAT THE TRINITY IS FICTION.  THAT THE TRINITY IS THE BELIEF IN MORE THAN ONE GOD OR MANY gods.

2/  THAT GOD KEEPS COVENANT AND MERCY WITH THEM WHO LOVE HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS.  THAT IS FOREVER.

GOD KEEPS HIS COVENANT OF PROMISES AND BLESSINGS AND MERCY, AND ETERNAL LIFE WITH THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND PROVE IT BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING HIS LAW OF MOSES.  AND HAVING ATONEMENT IN HIM, THE MESSIAH YESHUA.  JOHN 14.15

THESE ARE GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE WHO KNOW THAT GOD IS GOD, THE ONE AND ONLY GOD. 

THESE ARE GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE WHO LOVE HIM AND OBEY HIM, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, HIS LAWS, HIS TEACHINGS AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND HAVE FAITH IN THE JEWISH MESSIAH FOR ATONEMENT.

DEUTERONOMY 7.10  BUT GOD REPAYS THEM THAT HATE HIM TO THEIR FACE TO DESTROY THEM. 

HATING GOD IS REJECTING HIS WORD THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.  NOT OBEYING HIS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

HOWEVER, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL BLESSES THOSE GENTILES WHO BLESS HIS JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL.  THEY TOO WILL BECOME PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE. 

GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31-46

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD.

Shalom.

Our Study will continue from Torah, The Law of Moses from Deuteronomy 7.1-6.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD.

And with that said, Let’s read Deuteronomy 7.1-6.

DEUTERONOMY 7.1  This historic event of The LORD GOD bringing The Children of Israel into the land of Canaan 3,400 years ago to possess it and drive out seven nations greater and mightier than them, was to become a battle of different faiths.

The faith of The Children of Israel is in The GOD of Creation.  While the Canaanites put their faith in false gods.

The Children of Israel, today known as The Jewish People were and always will be under GOD’S Laws that are Written in Torah, The Law of Moses.

The Canaanite nations were under none of GOD’S Laws.  They were under their own man made laws.  Two different faiths.

Therefore GOD brought The Children of Israel in to possess their land because, GOD said, For the Wickedness of the Canaanite nations did The LORD drive them out from before you.  DEUTERONOMY 9.4-5, DEUTERONOMY 12.29-32

DEUTERONOMY 9.4-5  WICKEDNESS in Hebrew is RE’SHAH meaning, WRONG, because the Canaanite nations did everything Wrong by not living according to GOD’S Laws.  Rather they served their Canaanite gods.  WICKEDNESS also means INIQUITY, SIN, and FAULT.

DEUTERONOMY 12.31  Because The Canaanite nations did not follow The Laws and Teachings of GOD, they did every abomination to The LORD that GOD hates.  Even burning their sons and their daughters in fire to their gods.

WHEN PEOPLE DO NOT WALK WITH GOD ALMIGHTY, NOT LIVING BY HIS LAWS AND TEACHINGS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE, THEY DISOBEY GOD AND OFTEN DO THE THINGS THAT GOD HATES.

MUCH OF THE WORLD TODAY HAS THAT PROBLEM.  THEY DON’T WALK WITH GOD NOR DO THEY LIVE BY HIS LAWS AND TEACHINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.

Paul writes, and we discussed this earlier, that all people know The Truth of GOD.  That is, they know right from wrong because GOD has shown to them what is right and what is wrong.  ROMANS 1.18-19

THE CANAANITE PEOPLES KNEW RIGHT FROM WRONG EVEN IF THEY NEVER HEARD OF GOD’S LAWS BECAUSE THE LIGHT OF GOD WHO IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVES IN EVERY HUMAN BEING.  AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD, GOD ALMIGHTY REVEALED THE TRUTH TO THEM.  JOHN 1.9, GENESIS 2.7, JOB 32.8

JOHN 1.9  THE TRUE LIGHT IS GOD ALMIGHTY.

GENESIS 2.7  THE BREATH OF LIFE IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD WHO LIVES IN EVERY HUMAN BEING.

JOB 32.8  THE INSPIRATION OF THE ALMIGHTY IS THAT GOD INFLUENCES UNDERSTANDING IN ALL HUMAN BEINGS.

AND FROM THAT BIBLICAL TEACHING THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN MAN GIVES THEM UNDERSTANDING, ALL PEOPLE KNOW OF GOD.

THE INSPIRATION OF THE ALMIGHTY REVEALS TO EVERY HUMAN BEING THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. 

VERY EARLY AFTER THE CREATION GOD TEACHES THAT HE IS THE ONE AND ONLY GOD.  GENESIS 2.2

GENESIS 2.2  AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE, AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY.

HIS AND HE ARE ONE.  ONE GOD.

“HIS WORK” IN HEBREW IS M’LAKH’TOE.

“WHICH HE HAD MADE” IN HEBREW IS AH’SHERE AH’SAH.

“AND HE RESTED” IN HEBREW IS VAH’YEESH’BOTE.

EVEN BEFORE THERE WERE HUMANS ON EARTH, GOD TAUGHT THAT HE IS GOD, THE ONLY GOD.

VERY EARLY AFTER THE CREATION, EVEN BEFORE GOD CREATED THE JEWISH PEOPLE, GOD BEGAN TO INTRODUCE SOME OF HIS LAWS TO HUMANITY.

GOD SPOKE HIS SEVENTH DAY WEEKLY SABBATH ON SATURDAY INTO LAW.  GENESIS 2.1-3

WHEN THERE WAS ONLY ONE HUMAN BEING ON EARTH, GOD TAUGHT ADAM THAT HE, GOD, REQUIRES EVERY HUMAN BEING TO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS.  GENESIS 2.16-17

AND MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY,  CONFIRMS THAT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.  MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

PAUL TEACHES THAT PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND GOD’S ETERNAL POWER AND HIS DIVINE NATURE.  THEREFORE THEY KNOW OF GOD.  THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE.  ROMANS 1.20-22, PSALM 14.1-3

GOD BEGAN TEACHING HIS FOOD LAWS IN THE DAYS OF ADAM AND EVE, CAIN AND ABEL, AND IN THE DAYS OF NOAH IN GENESIS 4.3-4 and GENESIS 7.1-2

GENESIS 4.4  Firstlings are firstborn animals.  Flock in Hebrew is TS’ONE meaning Sheep, Goats, Lambs, and Cattle. Animals that are clean and may be eaten according to GOD’S Food Laws.

As you well know, during the course of the exodus from 400 years of Egyptian slavery to The Promised Land, GOD taught The Children of Israel His Torah, all His Laws and Teachings that The Children of Israel and all people must live by and obey.  They are written in the first five books of The Bible, and called The Law of Moses.  They never change or end.  ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23

And one of those Laws is to reject idols and false gods because they are an abomination to GOD.  And GOD’S judgment falls upon those who make idols and bow down to them.  LEVITICUS 26.1, 30-33

The Bible speaks of the abominations of the Canaanite nations, and why GOD dispossessed them and brought The Children of Israel into their land.

GOD told Israel, Do not bow down to their gods or serve them.  EXODUS 23.20-25, 32-33, EXODUS 34.11-17, LEVITICUS 18.1-5, DEUTERONOMY 18.9-14, DEUTERONOMY 20.16-18

DEUTERONOMY 7.2-5  Tough Words from THE GOD OF CREATION against the Canaanite nations who did abominable works against GOD.

Kill them and utterly destroy them, GOD said.  Make no covenant or union with them.  Show no mercy to them.  Make no marriages with them for they will turn your children away from following Me, to serve other gods.  Then the anger of The LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

GOD told His People how to deal with the Canaanite nations.  Destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.

I don’t know if people understand, even most teachers of The Bible don’t understand the mistake they make when they eliminate GOD’S Law of Moses that is written in the first five books of The Bible.

Early in my walk with The LORD, I often heard that GOD will one day destroy this earth, and burn it up and make it vanish away.  And I thought, Why will GOD destroy the earth?

I thought, Maybe because not everyone believes in Jesus.  Then I looked around, here in America, in Europe, Central and South america, and all the countries that have overwhelming belief in Jesus Christ. But yet there was chaos all over the place.

Listening to Christian radio, watching the Preachers on TV preaching Jesus, and the love of Jesus, but never, ever any conditions to receive His Love.  Just believe in Jesus, they say, and you’re going to Heaven and you will be prosperous and have great success.  But never any conditions.  Just believe in Jesus.  And I looked around and still saw the chaos throughout the Jesus believing world.

So I kept searching The Bible to find out Why GOD will destroy the earth and so many people with it.  And when you seriously search The Bible for answers, you will find those answers.  And usually not the answers you hear on radio or TV.

And The LORD started to reveal some Scriptures to me why He will destroy the world and so many people in it.  ISAIAH 13.9-11

GOD WILL DESTROY THIS EARTH AND THE SINNERS ON IT BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN, THEIR EVIL, THEIR WICKEDNESS, AND THEIR INIQUITY. 

SIN, EVIL, WICKEDNESS AND INIQUITY ARE ALL ONE AND THE SAME.  DISOBEYING GOD.  NOT OBEYING WHAT THE LORD SAYS IN THE BIBLE, BUT PROVOKING HIM TO ANGER. 

AND THE PROUD KNOW OF GOD AND HIS POWER BUT CHOOSE TO DISOBEY GOD AND REBEL AGAINST HIM.

AND I BLAME THAT ON THE BIBLE TEACHERS.  THEY HAVE NO EXCUSE.  1 JOHN 3.4, NUMBERS 15.31, ISAIAH 24.4-6, ISAIAH 26.19-21

BUT LISTEN, GOD BLESSES THOSE MIGHTILY WHO OBEY GOD, WHO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, AND THAT INCLUDES HIS TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES.

EXODUS 19.5-6, DEUTERONOMY 4.30-31, DEUTERONOMY 5.29, DEUTERONOMY 7.12-13, DEUTERONOMY 28.1-2 ff, JOB 36.11, ISAIAH 58.13-14, GALATIANS 1.10, EPHESIANS 4.24, EPHESIANS 5.1, JAMES 1.21, 22, 25

EPHESIANS 4.24  RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HOLINESS IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD, HIS WORD THAT INCLUDES HIS LAW OF MOSES.

REVELATION 22.14 (KJV)  BLESSED ARE THEY WHO DO HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT THEY MAY HAVE RIGHT TO THE TREE OF LIFE, AND MAY ENTER IN THROUGH THE GATES INTO THE CITY.

DEUTERONOMY 7.6  GOD DOES NOT WANT HIS PEOPLE TO EVER BE INVOLVED WITH GODLESSNESS THAT PRODUCES ABOMINATIONS.

FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD.  THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF ABOVE ALL PEOPLE THAT ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE JEWISH TO BE FULLY PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE.  BUT TO BE FULLY PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE YOU MUST LEARN HIS TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND DO IT, ALONG WITH YOUR FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA.

THOSE ARE WORDS JAMES TAUGHT THE GENTILES WHO TURNED TO GOD, MESSIAH YESHUA IN ACTS 15.21

AND AS PAUL WROTE TO THE GALATIANS, DO I NOW OBEY MEN OR GOD?  OR DO I SEEK TO PLEASE MEN?  FOR IF YET I PLEASED MEN, I SHOULD NOT BE THE SERVANT OF MESSIAH.  GALATIANS 1.10

ADD TO THAT MESSIAH’S WORDS; BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS WHICH COME TO YOU IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING, BUT INWARDLY THEY ARE RAVENING WOLVES.  YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS.

THEIR FRUITS ARE THIS.  DO THEY TEACH AND LIVE BY EVERY WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE?  DO THEY OBEY GOD’S LAW OF MOSES?  MATTHEW 7.15-16

FOR YOU ARE A HOLY PEOPLE UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD.  THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN YOU TO BE A SPECIAL PEOPLE UNTO HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE UPON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.  If you do what GOD says.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com