Month: November 2018

Shalom,

Our teaching this morning from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Deuteronomy 17.1-5.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, CHRISTIANITY AND MANY MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONS HAVE ABOLISHED TORAH, GOD’S LAW OF MOSES, AND TEACH A PAGAN DOCTRINE OF THREE DIFFERENT gods.

THIS IS A SALVATION MESSAGE.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 17.1-5.

Christianity and many Messianic Jewish Congregations have decided to abolish The entire Torah, GOD’S Law of Moses that begins in Genesis 1.1 in which GOD says, In the beginning GOD created the Heavens and the earth, and continues in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, all containing GOD’S Laws, Teachings, and Instructions.  And concludes in Deuteronomy Chapter 34 when Moses died.

BY ABOLISHING THE LAW OF MOSES, CHRISTIANITY AND MANY MESSIANIC JEWISH CONGREGATIONS HAVE DONE AWAY WITH ALL GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS.  LEAVING THEM LAWLESS AND DISOBEDIENT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.

GOD NEVER ABOLISHED HIS TORAH.  IT STANDS FOREVER. 

ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25

SO THEREFORE WE CONTINUE TO TEACH THE GOD OF TRUTH AND HIS WORD THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

Earlier we read a serious account in Luke 16.19-31 in which Messiah tells a story about a rich man and poor man.  The poor man, Lazarus, died and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom in Heaven, and the rich man died and went to hell.

And the rich man in hell being in torment lifts up his eyes and sees Abraham far off in Heaven.  And the rich man pleads with Abraham, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to my brothers to testify to them lest they also come into this place of torment.

And Abraham said to the rich man in hell, They have Moses (which is The Law of Moses) and The Prophets.  Let them Hear them, which means, Let them Hear and Obey The Law of Moses and The Prophets.

But the rich man said, No, father Abraham.  But if one went to them from the dead they will repent.

And Abraham said to the rich man in hell, If they do not Hear and Obey Moses and The Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.

THE CRUCIAL POINT OF MESSIAH’S STORY IS THIS.  OBEDIENCE TO MOSES, THAT IS, OBEDIENCE TO TORAH, GOD’S LAW OF MOSES, AND THE PROPHETS RESULTS IN ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S LAW OF MOSES AND THE PROPHETS RESULTS IN ETERNAL LIFE IN HELL.

IT IS WRITTEN, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

SO WE CONTINUE TO TEACH THE LAW OF MOSES ON WHICH THE ENTIRE BIBLE STANDS FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

DEUTERONOMY 17.1  Sacrificing an animal to The LORD such as an ox or a sheep that has a blemish or anything evil or bad in it is an abomination to The LORD.

An abomination is anything that is disgusting, abhorrent, or detestable.

Therefore the sacrifice to The LORD, even for Atonement, must always be perfect, without blemish, or anything bad or evil in it.

As you know, GOD Commands His People in Torah, The Law of Moses that the animal sacrifice is forbidden when The Temple is not standing in Jerusalem.  LEVITICUS 17.8-9

There is no Temple in Jerusalem today.

Let’s look at a little history.

Messiah Yeshua was killed and shed His Blood when The Temple was standing and active in Jerusalem.  Messiah often taught there.

But some thirty-seven years after His Death, Burial, Resurrection, and Ascension into Heaven, the Roman armies rode into Jerusalem and killed some one million Jewish People, and destroyed The Temple in which Messiah Prophesied, Not one stone will be left upon another.  The stones of The Temple were thrown down by the Romans. MATTHEW 24.1-2

However, GOD predicted some seven hundred years before The Temple was destroyed that the future Messiah will be despised and rejected of men, and wounded and killed for our transgressions.  He will be bruised for our iniquities.  He was brought as a Lamb to the slaughter, and was cut off out the land of the living, even though He had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His Mouth.

But yet it pleased The LORD to bruise Him.  Literally, it pleased The LORD to break Him in pieces and kill Him,  and put Him to grief,

BECAUSE GOD MADE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN.  GOD MADE HIS SOUL TO ATONE FOR YOUR SINS.

But GOD prolonged Messiah’s days by resurrecting Him to Life.  And Messiah lives today and forever because MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY.   

And The Prophesy continues.  GOD’S Righteous Servant, Who is GOD ALMIGHTY, MESSIAH YESHUA, justifies many.  For He carries our iniquities thereby making Atonement for our soul.

And He poured out His Soul unto Death, and was numbered with the transgressors, and He carried the sins of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.  ISAIAH 53

ISAIAH CHAPTER 53, OF COURSE, IS PROPHESY OF THE MESSIAH YESHUA.  MESSIAH YESHUA IS THE FATHER, GOD ALMIGHTY WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR YOUR ATONEMENT AS A HUMAN BEING.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9

AS A HUMAN BEING, MESSIAH WAS KILLED ON A ROMAN CROSS TO SHED HIS BLOOD THEREBY MAKING ATONEMENT FOR MANY.

GOD SAYS IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, FOR IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.  LEVITICUS 17.11

SO MESSIAH GAVE HIS LIFE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES AS IT IS WRITTEN IN DEUTERONOMY 17.1

MESSIAH YESHUA’S ATONING SACRIFICE AND SHED BLOOD TO THE LORD OUR GOD TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR MANY IS PERFECT, WITHOUT BLEMISH, WITHOUT ANYTHING EVIL OR BAD IN HIM AS WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

THE ONLY ONE PERFECT THROUGHOUT THE CREATION, WITHOUT BLEMISH OR EVIL, OR BAD IS YESHUA THE MESSIAH WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO GAVE HIS LIFE AS A HUMAN BEING TO BE YOUR ATONEMENT.

GOD ALWAYS CONDUCTS HIS LIFE ACCORDING TO HIS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

EVEN IN DEATH AS A HUMAN BEING IN THE PERSON OF MESSIAH YESHUA TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SOUL, GOD CONDUCTS HIS LIFE ACCORDING TO TORAH.

DEUTERONOMY 32.4, PSALM 22.1, MATTHEW 27.46, 1 PETER 2.21-22

DEUTERONOMY 32.4  GOD’S WAYS ARE JUDGMENT, ACCORDING TO TORAH, THE LAW OF GOD

There hasn’t been a Temple standing in Jerusalem since the Romans destroyed it in 70 C.E./A.D.  Therefore causing the sacrifice to stop.

But it is taught in mainstream Judaism today that Atonement can be made by the payment of compensation for any wrong committed, or through suffering, or through the performance of certain rituals, all accompanied by repentance, and making things right in your life.  But that is not Biblical Doctrine for Atonement.

BECAUSE IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL, GOD SAYS IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  LEVITICUS 17.11

Christianity teaches that Atonement is made by the Death and Shed Blood of Jesus Christ, Who is Messiah Yeshua.  And that is correct.

But since Christianity and many Messianic Jewish Congregations that follow Christian doctrine have abolished The Law of Moses, Christians and many Messianic Jews continue to sin after they receive Jesus Christ by rejecting and disobeying The Law of Moses which their Bible teachers have been teaching for hundreds of years since the days of Constantine.

BUT GOD REQUIRES EVERYBODY TO OBEY HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE, HERE ON EARTH, IN THE FUTURE ONE THOUSAND YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL, AND THROUGHOUT ETERNITY IN HEAVEN.

THEREFORE CHRISTIANS AND MANY MESSIANIC JEWS HAVE NO ATONEMENT OR SALVATION BECAUSE THEY FOLLOW THE ABOMINABLE TEACHING THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED.

GOD NEVER ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, ISAIAH 40.8, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

CHRISTIANITY TEACHES THAT JESUS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES ON THE CROSS.  THAT IS NO WHERE WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.  IT IS A LIE.  THAT IS NOT THE JESUS OF THE BIBLE.  THAT IS ANOTHER JESUS WHO THINKS TO ABOLISH THE LAW.

THAT LIE IS FROM SATAN AND HIS MESSENGERS THAT BEGAN IN GENESIS 3.4-5 THAT RESULTS IN ETERNAL LIFE IN HELL. 

UNLESS THE SINNER REPENTS OF THEIR SINS OF BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES, AND TURNS TO GOD AND OBEYS ALL GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  THEN THAT PERSON WILL LIVE, AND NOT DIE.  1 JOHN 3.4, EZEKIEL 18.21

By rejecting The Law of Moses, and disobeying it, Christians, and many Messianic Jews are like the rich man in Luke 16.19-31 who went to hell because the rich man disobeyed The Law of Moses.

HERE ARE SOME SCRIPTURES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT TEACH YOU TO OBEY THE TRUTH, EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.

1 JOHN 3.4, LUKE 11.28, LUKE 16.17, ROMANS 7.1, 1 CORINTHIANS 7.19, 2 CORINTHIANS 2.9, GALATIANS 5.7, EPHESIANS 5.1, PHILIPPIANS 2.5, 1 PETER 2.21-22, COLOSSIANS 2.6, 8, 1 THESSALONIANS 1.6, 9, 1 THESSALONIANS 2.13, 2 THESSALONIANS 2.10, 13, 2 THESSALONIANS 3.1

THE TRUTH IS THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION THAT INCLUDES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

DEUTERONOMY 17.2-5  THINK ON THIS LAW FROM GOD WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES ABOUT SERVING OTHER gods AND WORSHIPING THEM.

IF THERE IS FOUND AMONG YOU WITHIN YOUR GATES, THAT IS, WITHIN YOUR CITIES OR TOWNS, A MAN OR A WOMAN THAT HAS DONE WICKEDNESS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD YOUR GOD IN TRANSGRESSING HIS COVENANT.

GOD’S COVENANT IS HIS WORD AND HIS LAW OF MOSES.

AND HAS GONE AND SERVED OTHER gods, AND WORSHIPED THEM, OR THE SUN, OR MOON, OR ANY OF THE HOST OF HEAVEN WHICH I HAVE NOT COMMANDED.

AND YOU ARE TOLD, AND YOU HAVE HEARD OF IT, AND INQUIRED DILIGENTLY, AND IT IS TRUE, AND THE THING IS CERTAIN THAT SUCH ABOMINATION IS DONE IN ISRAEL.  THEN SHALL YOU BRING FORTH THAT MAN OR THAT WOMAN WHICH HAS COMMITTED THAT WICKED THING, AND SHALL STONE THEM WITH STONES TILL THEY DIE.

GOD’S WORD IN THE BIBLE IS FOR THE WORLD.  NOT JUST ISRAEL.  ISRAEL IS GOD’S WITNESS TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE BIBLE. 

ISAIAH 43.10-11, 1 CHRONICLES 16.15-17, PSALM 105.8-10

THE TRINITY TEACHES THREE DIFFERENT gods BECAUSE THE TRINITY IS DESCRIBED AS THREE DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT PERSONS.  ONE GOD.

THE THREE DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT PERSONS OF THE TRINITY ARE THE FATHER IS A god, THE SON JESUS CHRIST IS ANOTHER  god, AND THE SPIRIT IS ANOTHER  god.  THREE gods.

THREE DIFFERENT gods CONTRADICT ONE GOD.

WHEN IT IS TAUGHT IN CHRISTIANITY THAT JESUS IS NOT THE FATHER, AND THAT JESUS WHO IS NOT THE FATHER IS WORSHIPED, THAT IS WORSHIPING ANOTHER god.

ADD TO THAT, ALL CHRISTIANITY RECEIVES THE FALSE DOCTRINE THAT THEIR JESUS HAS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES THAT HAS GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS WRITTEN IN IT.  THUS MAKING CHRISTIANITY DISOBEDIENT AND LAWLESS IN THE EYES OF GOD.

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

THE ONE GOD IS THE FATHER, WHO IS THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE SPIRIT, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

THEREFORE GOD SAYS, THE PENALTY FOR SERVING OTHER gods AND WORSHIPING THEM IS DEATH.

UNLESS THAT PERSON REPENTS AND TURNS TO GOD AND OBEYS ALL GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN HIS LAW OF MOSES THAT ALSO TEACHES THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.

JESUS IS THE FATHER.  JESUS IS ALSO THE SPIRIT, AND JESUS IS THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND JESUS IS SO MUCH MORE.

EXODUS 20.1-3, DEUTERONOMY 5.6-7, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9, ETC., ETC., ETC.

BELIEVING IN MORE THAN ONE GOD IS PAGAN.

AND THE TRINITY IS PAGAN.

IT IS WRITTEN IN THE SCRIPTURES THAT GOD TALKS TO GOD, OR THE FATHER SPEAKS TO MESSIAH YESHUA, AS IN PSALM 110.1, AND JOHN 17.  YET THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

GOD SPEAKS TO YESHUA, THE MESSIAH JESUS.  BUT BOTH ARE GOD ALMIGHTY THE ONE GOD.

THAT IS BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION.

BUT HERE’S THE THING.  GOD COMMANDS YOU TO BELIEVE IN ONLY ONE GOD.  EVEN IF YOU CAN NOT UNDERSTAND IT.

REMEMBER, GOD SAYS, THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD.  BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE REVEALED BELONG TO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN FOREVER THAT WE SHALL DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, (WHICH IS THE LAW OF MOSES).

SO, YOU AND I AND EVERY PERSON WHO CLAIMS TO BE A CHILD OF GOD MUST BELIEVE IN ONE GOD WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND IT OR NOT. 

AND YOU ARE COMMANDED BY GOD TO OBEY HIS LAW OF MOSES.

AND THAT ONE GOD IS MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST WHO IS THE FATHER, THE SON, THE SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE GLORY OF GOD, MELCHIZEDEK, AT TIMES THE ANGEL OF GOD, AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, AND SO MUCH MORE.

WHEN YOU SEE ME, MESSIAH SAID, YOU SEE THE FATHER.  WHEN YOU SEE ME, YOU SEE THE ONE WHO SENT ME.

HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.28, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.29, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6

SO HERE’S WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF YOU WHETHER YOU ARE JEWISH OR NOT.

OBEY AND DO EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  AND THAT INCLUDES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES. 

HAVE ATONEMENT IN MESSIAH YESHUA.

AND BELIEVE IN ONE GOD.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA IS THAT ONE GOD.

INCORPORATE THAT INTO YOUR LIFE AND YOU HAVE SALVATION.  THAT IS ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL.

DEUTERONOMY 6.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, MARK 12.29, LUKE 4.4

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

Shalom.

Our teaching this morning will continue in Torah, The Law of Moses from Deuteronomy 16.18-22.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, YOU SHALL NOT PERVERT JUDGMENT.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 16.18-22.

DEUTERONOMY 16.18  The Torah, which is The Word of GOD, also called The Law of Moses, requires Israel to appoint Judges and Officers in all their cities and towns.

The Judges hear and decide cases as is the custom today.  And the Officers have the responsibility to enforce the decisions of the Judges.

AND THE JUDGES ARE TO JUDGE THE PEOPLE WITH JUST JUDGMENT.

THE WORD JUST COMES FROM THE HEBREW WORD STEH’DEHK, MEANING, RIGHTEOUSNESS.

RIGHTEOUSNESS IN JUDGMENT, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN LIFE IS ATTAINED BY DOING WHAT TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES SAYS TO DO.

THE WORD JUDGMENT COMES FROM THE HEBREW WORD MEESH’PAHT THAT MEANS, LAWFUL.

BEING LAWFUL IN JUDGMENT IS JUDGING THE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

LIKEWISE, YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE ARE COMMANDED BY GOD TO LIVE A JUST AND LAWFUL LIFE ACCORDING TO TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  ROMANS 2.13

THEREFORE JUDGES ARE COMMANDED BY GOD TO JUDGE THE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

WHY HAVE THE NATIONS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES AND REPLACED IT WITH MAN MADE LAWS WHEN THE LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT?

HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 19.8, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 19.7

THE HEBREW WORD FOR, AS SOME BIBLES WRITE, CONVERTING, OR RENEWING, OR RESTORING THE SOUL, IS “SHOOV” THAT MEANS “TURN OR RETURN.”

THUS THE BIBLE READS, THE LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT, TURNING THE SOUL TO GOD, OR RETURNING THE SOUL TO GOD.

THE JUDGE, AND THE MAN AND WOMAN ARE PERFECT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD WHEN THE JUDGE JUDGES ACCORDING TO TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE MAN AND WOMAN LIVE THEIR LIVES ACCORDING TO TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  1 KINGS 8.61

ADD TO THAT, MESSIAH SAYS, NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS TO ME, LORD, LORD, SHALL ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, BUT HE OR SHE THAT DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.

THE WILL OF THE FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS FOR YOU AND ME TO DELIGHT TO DO THE WILL OF GOD BY HAVING GOD’S TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES WITHIN OUR HEART.  AND THAT WE LIVE BY GOD’S LAW OF MOSES.

PROOF OF DOING THE WILL OF THE FATHER IS LOVING GOD AND OBEYING HIM BY KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS.  MESSIAH’S COMMANDMENTS ARE COLLECTIVELY THE LAW OF MOSES.

ADD TO THAT, ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN IS GIVEN TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO LIVE BY TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND TORAH REQUIRES HAVING ATONEMENT.  AND THE ONLY ATONEMENT AVAILABLE TO MANKIND TODAY IS BY THE SACRIFICIAL DEATH, AND SHED BLOOD OF THE MESSIAH YESHUA.

MATTHEW 7.21, HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 40.9, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 40.8, ECCLESIASTES 8.5, LEVITICUS 17.11, JOHN 14.15

DEUTERONOMY 16.19  YOU SHALL NOT WREST JUDGMENT.

THE WORD WREST MEANS, PERVERT, PUT AWAY, TURN ASIDE, AND TURN AWAY.

GOD SAYS DO NOT PERVERT JUDGMENT BY PUTTING AWAY THE LAWS OF TORAH THAT HAS ALL GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN IT.

DO NOT PERVERT JUDGMENT BY TURNING ASIDE FROM GOD’S LAWS, OR TURNING AWAY FROM GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

NEVER TURN AWAY FROM TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IN JUDGMENT OR IN YOUR WALK WITH THE LORD YOUR GOD.

You shall not Respect or Regard persons.  Actually, the verse reads, You shall not Respect Faces.  The Judge should never favor one person above another, or even favor a person because of his or her face.

THE JUDGE MUST JUDGE WITH JUST JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAW OF MOSES. 

DEUTERONOMY 1.17, PROVERBS 24.23-25

Neither take a gift, The LORD GOD says, for the gift blinds the eyes of the wise.  The wise being The Judge or any GODLY person.

This GIFT, when speaking about Judgment, comes from the Hebrew word SHO’KHAD that means BRIBE.

Do not take a Bribe for the Bribe blinds the eyes of the wise.  You become blind to the truth when you accept a bribe.

And taking a bribe perverts the words of the Righteous.  The Righteous is the Judge who is called upon by GOD to be a Righteous Judge.  But when he or she takes a bribe the Judge turns from GOD and perverts GOD’S Law.

DEUTERONOMY 16.20  THAT WHICH IS ALTOGETHER JUST SHALL YOU FOLLOW THAT YOU SHALL LIVE, AND INHERIT THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU.

ALTOGETHER JUST IN HEBREW IS STEH’DEHK STEH’DEHK THAT MEANS, PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS.

PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS DOING WHAT GOD SAYS TO DO IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

THEREFORE THE BIBLE SAYS, THAT WHICH IS ALTOGETHER JUST SHALL YOU FOLLOW THAT YOU SHALL LIVE, AND INHERIT THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU.

Those Words were written some 3,400 years ago just prior to The Children of Israel entering into, and possessing the land of Canaan that became The Land of Israel that GOD promised Abraham and The Jewish People some 4,000 years ago.

GENESIS 12.7, GENESIS 13.15, GENESIS 17.8.

TODAY, GOD PROMISES ALL HUMANITY THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO INHERIT THE 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL THAT WILL BE LIKE THE GARDEN OF EDEN, WITH MESSIAH YESHUA “IF” YOU FOLLOW AFTER PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS.

REMEMBER, PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIVING BY TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND HAVING YOUR SINS FORGIVEN IN MESSIAH YESHUA.

AND GOD ALSO PROMISES EVERY HUMAN BEING THAT HE OR SHE IS ABLE TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WITH MESSIAH YESHUA “IF” YOU FOLLOW AFTER PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS.

PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS DESCRIBED BY MESSIAH YESHUA WHEN HE SAID, IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

BUT UNFORTUNATELY THERE ARE SO MANY BIBLE TEACHERS WHO TEACH THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, OR OPTIONAL.  AND BY TEACHING THAT LIE, AND FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOW THAT LIE THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED OR OPTIONAL, THE TEACHER AND THE DOER OF THE LIE REJECT SALVATION AND WILL NOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.  UNLESS THEY REPENT AND TURN TO GOD AND LIVE BY TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES. 

MATTHEW 7.21-23, EZEKIEL 18.21

NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES GOD, OR MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, OR THE PROPHETS, OR THE DISCIPLES, OR THE APOSTLES EVER SAY THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED OR OPTIONAL.  THAT IS TEACHING BLASPHEMY.  AND BLASPHEMY IS SPEAKING EVIL OF GOD.

FOR THE WORD OF GOD STANDS FOREVER. 

ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25

DEUTERONOMY 16.21  A better translation is, You shall not set up an ah’shay’rah (Hebrew for a false Canaanite goddess) of any trees near the altar of The LORD Your GOD which you shall make for yourself.

DEUTERONOMY 16.22  And you shall not erect any idol for yourself which The LORD Your GOD hates.

LET’S LOOK AT SOME OF GOD’S LAWS FOR MURDER, KIDNAPPING, AND STEALING.

MURDER

Let’s start with DEUTERONOMY 17.6.

At the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses shall he or she be worthy of death be put to death.  But at the mouth of one witness he or she shall not be put to death.

GOD CALLS FOR THE DEATH SENTENCE FOR MURDERERS.

EXODUS 21.12-15  He or she that strikes a person that he dies shall surely be put to death.

If a person does not lie in wait, but death came about because it was an act of GOD that GOD delivered that person into his hand, he or she shall not die for that person’s death.

But if a man schemes against another and kills him treacherously, the killer shall be put to death.

GENESIS 9.6, LEVITICUS 24.17, NUMBERS 35.16-21, 30-31

KIDNAPPING

EXODUS 21.16  He or she who kidnaps a person, whether he has sold him, or is still holding him shall be put to death.

DEUTERONOMY 24.7

STEALING/ROBBERY/THEFT

HEBREW BIBLE EXODUS 22.1-2, CHRISTIAN BIBLE EXODUS 22.2-3

If a thief is caught breaking in, and is killed, it is not murder.  If the thief is killed during daylight when the thief can be seen, it is murder.

Why? Because, One may kill his attacker to save his own life, but he may not kill the thief to save his property.

Since there is no Law in the United States to sell a thief, the thief should be handed over to the Judge for just judgment.

ZECHARIAH 5.1-4  Everyone that steals shall be cut off. Meaning, that person is to be destroyed  Unless he or she turns to GOD and turns from all their sins including stealing, to obeying GOD and every Word GOD speaks in The Bible.

PROVERBS 6.30-31  Do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his soul because he is hungry.  But if he is found he shall restore seven fold.  He shall give all that he owns in his house.

ECCLESIASTES 8.11  BECAUSE SENTENCE AGAINST AN EVIL WORK IS NOT EXECUTED SPEEDILY, THEREFORE THE HEART OF THE SONS OF MEN IS FULLY SET IN THEM TO DO EVIL.

To summarize,

Do not pervert Judgment.  That is, Do Not Turn Away from GOD’S Laws that are written in The Law of Moses.  And that is true for everyone who calls themselves a Child of GOD, a Believer in The Messiah Yeshua.

BECAUSE TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORD OF GOD.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

Shalom.

Our teaching this morning will continue in Torah, The Law of Moses from Deuteronomy 16.9-17.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, HOW DO YOU REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE REJOICING?

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 16.9-17.

The Feast of Weeks, known in Hebrew as SHAVUOT, for WEEKS, and also called PENTECOST, comes seven weeks after the day of the Sabbath during the days of Passover.  LEVITICUS 23.15

To make it somewhat confusing as to what Sabbath to begin the count of seven weeks to The Feast of Weeks, the Pharisees understand that The Sabbath to begin the count is The Day after The First Day of Passover.  The First Day of Passover is a Sabbath no matter what Day it falls on.  LEVITICUS 23.7

The Sadducees understood that The Sabbath to begin the count is The Saturday Sabbath during Passover.  Therefore they began the count the following day on Sunday.

While the Qumran Community of Jewish People believed that The Sabbath to begin the count of seven weeks was The Saturday Sabbath of the following week after Passover.

The Qumran Community of Jewish People lived on the western shore of the Dead Sea between approximately 150 B.C.E./B.C. and 68 C.E./A.D. where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in a cave at the shore of the Dead Sea in 1947.

Let’s again look at LEVITICUS 23.15 so that I can add my thoughts as to what Sabbath the count to seven Weeks should begin.

LEVITICUS 23.15  I associate the count to The Feast of Weeks with Messiah Yeshua’s Death, Burial, and Resurrection.

Messiah was killed on The First Day of Passover to make Atonement for our sins.

I see the day of The Wave Offering spoken of by GOD in LEVITICUS 23.15 to also be Prophetic of The Day (Sunday) Messiah was raised from the dead.

Messiah held His Passover Seder, called in Christianity The Last Supper, on Wednesday Evening.

Messiah was killed the following day Thursday on The First Day of Passover.

He was in the grave Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and raised early the first day of the week on Sunday.  MARK 16.9

Therefore it is my opinion that the count to The Feast of Weeks should begin on the Sunday after The Saturday Sabbath during Passover.

However I follow the Jewish Calendar for The Feast of Weeks that begins the count the day after Passover.

The Feast of Weeks, also called The Festival of The Harvest is usually celebrated during the time of May or June.

Some in Judaism see the Festival of Weeks to be associated with The LORD GOD descending upon Mount Sinai, and giving The Jewish People and the world The Ten Commandments.  That is not Biblical.

The Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost is a Festival celebrating the conclusion of the grain harvest along with having Atonement.

And The LORD calls upon us to Rejoice before The LORD Our GOD on The Feast of Weeks.  DEUTERONOMY 16.9-11

Then it is said in The Bible that we should observe The Feast of Tabernacles for seven days.  Although Leviticus 23.33-36 Commands us to observe The Feast of Tabernacles for eight days.  LEVITICUS 23.33-36

As in all The Festivals of The LORD that are written in Leviticus 23, GOD requires us to make atonement by the shed blood of a sacrifice offering to The LORD, or be sure that we have Atonement.

Our Atonement today, and the only Atonement that is available to all mankind was made by Messiah Yeshua’s voluntary death, and shed blood on a Roman Cross some 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem.

LEVITICUS 17.11, JOHN 19.33-34

And The Feast of Tabernacles is also a time to Rejoice before The LORD Our GOD.  DEUTERONOMY 16.13-15

When The Temple is standing in Jerusalem, GOD Commands the men to appear before Him three times in a year.  In The Feast of Unleavened Bread that is Passover, and in The Feast of Weeks that is also called Pentecost, and in The Feast of Tabernacles.

And they shall not appear before The LORD empty.  That, I believe means, the males must bring a clean animal for sacrifice to The LORD.

When there is a Temple standing in Jerusalem, the sacrificial system will be reinstated.  LEVITICUS 17.8-9

Therefore GOD says, We are to Rejoice before The LORD in The Feast of Weeks, and during The Days of Tabernacles.  And of course during The Days of Passover.

Passover is a time for The Jewish People to Rejoice because The LORD GOD established the first Passover in Egypt on the Day He delivered His People from four hundred years of Egyptian slavery.  And that began our journey to the Promised Land Canaan that is now called The Land of Israel.

The world should consider this.  If The Jewish People were altogether killed in Egypt while serving the Egyptians as their slaves 3,800 years ago, there would be no Messiah Yeshua to be our Atonement for all the sins we have committed.  There would be no Salvation, nor would there be an Eternal Life in Heaven.

And if The Jewish People were altogether killed in Egypt, there would be no Bible, no Teachings of GOD, no Law of GOD called Torah, The Law of Moses to lead a GODLY life, and no Teachings Who GOD is.

The world would be a pagan place to live.  Man living by their own evil thoughts, and godless teachings, serving man made gods, living in lawlessness.  Having no future.

As GOD said to Noah before the flood that destroyed all flesh but Noah and his family, The world was filled with the wickedness of man.  That every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And GOD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved The LORD in His Heart.

And in the days of Noah, The LORD destroyed man whom He created from the face of the earth, both man and beast and the creeping thing, and the birds of the air because GOD was sorry that He made them.

And only because Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, meaning that Noah obeyed GOD, His Laws, Teachings and Instructions did Noah find grace in The Eyes of GOD.

Therefore GOD saved only eight people, Noah, his wife, his three sons, and their wives.

Years later, GOD took Abraham and Sarah out from the Gentiles to make a special people to Himself called The Jewish People to receive The Spoken Word of GOD from GOD; GOD’S Laws, Teachings, and Instructions to lead a GODLY life.

And GOD ordained The Jewish People to bring The Word of GOD to the world.

GOD had The Jewish People write The Bible from Genesis through Revelation from The Words they received directly from THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY that teaches mankind what GOD requires of us to lead a GODLY and RIGHTEOUS life to have a good life on earth, and Eternal Life in Heaven.

And that is accomplished by living according to every Word that Proceeds out of The Mouth of GOD written in The Bible, and having Atonement in The Jewish Messiah Yeshua Who is GOD ALMIGHTY.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

HOW DO YOU REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD WHEN YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE REJOICING?

There are numerous books on the market that give you the writer’s opinion on how to rejoice when you don’t feel like rejoicing.

But the best Book to find the answer on how to rejoice before The LORD when you don’t feel like rejoicing is The Bible.  Because The Bible, that has The Written Word of GOD, and The Written Word of GODLY men and women, offers numerous ways to Rejoice before The LORD when you’re just not in the mood to rejoice.

For me, it’s just reading The Bible when I might not be in the mood to rejoice because The Bible is medicine, GOD’S medicine for everything.  Even rejoicing before The LORD.

When I’m looking for a pick me up, I’ll read The Psalms, such as Psalm 1, 2, 16, 34, 39, 45, 119.  I enjoy reading Isaiah especially from Isaiah 40 to Isaiah 66.  And The Books of Proverbs, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, and the letters of Peter.

Every reading in The Bible is good GODLY medicine to help you rejoice before The LORD when you might no feel like rejoicing.

The Bible is the best place to go to lift your spirits.

JEREMIAH 15.16  Jeremiah The Prophet said to GOD, Your Word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. 

Like Jeremiah, GOD has called you to Himself.

Also you will find in The Bible that you are not the only one who needs to be raised up by The LORD for some rejoicing.  As you well know, the world can be a tough place for everyone.

So let’s look at some Scriptures that might help you Rejoice when you are just not in the mood to Rejoice.  But you would like to Rejoice.

ISAIAH 57.15  GOD WHO INHABITS ETERNITY, WHOSE NAME IS HOLY, WHO LIVES FOREVER, WHO LIVES IN THE HIGH AND HOLY PLACE IN HEAVEN, WHO ALSO LIVES WITH THOSE THAT HAVE A CONTRITE AND HUMBLE SPIRIT.  THAT IS, THOSE WHO HAVE A CRUSHED SPIRIT, AND A HUMBLE SPIRIT.

A HUMBLE SPIRIT OBEYS GOD.

GOD PROMISES YOU THAT HE WILL REVIVE YOUR SPIRIT, AND HE WILL REVIVE THE HEART OF THE CRUSHED ONES.  THAT IS GOD’S PROMISE TO YOU.  HE WILL RESTORE LIFE AND JOY TO YOU.

ISAIAH 61.1-3  THE LORD GOD PROMISES YOU THAT HE, MESSIAH YESHUA WILL BIND UP THE BROKEN HEARTED, COMFORT ALL THAT MOURN, GIVE YOU BEAUTY FOR ASHES, THE OIL OF JOY FOR MOURNING, THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS.  THAT YOU WILL BE CALLED TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE PLANTING OF THE LORD THAT GOD WILL BE GLORIFIED. 

AND THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL CAUSE YOU TO REJOICE IN HIM AGAIN.

THAT IS GOD’S PROMISE TO YOU.  LUKE 4.18-21

1 PETER 4.12-14  BEING TESTED, GOING THROUGH TOUGH TIMES HAPPENS TO EVERYONE.  BUT WE OF THE FAMILY OF GOD ARE DIFFERENT BECAUSE GOD MIGHT BE TESTING YOU WITH A FIERY TRIAL TO SEE IF YOU WILL OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS OR NOT. 

BUT REJOICE, PETER SAYS, BECAUSE YOU ARE PARTAKERS OF MESSIAH’S SUFFERINGS, AND YOU WILL BE GLAD WITH GREAT JOY AT MESSIAH’S RETURN.  DEUTERONOMY 8.1-2

HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 5.12, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 5.11  REJOICE IN THE LORD BECAUSE GOD WILL ALWAYS DEFEND YOU. 

HE WILL SURROUND YOU AS WITH A SHIELD.  THAT IS GOD’S PROMISE TO YOU. 

GOD FILLS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.  THERE IS NO PLACE WHERE GOD IS NOT THERE TO HELP YOU, AND DEFEND YOU.  BECAUSE GOD LOVES YOU, AND BLESSES THE RIGHTEOUS.  THOSE WHO OBEY GOD AND DO THEIR BEST TO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT INCLUDES OBEYING GOD’S LAW OF MOSES. 

AND BECAUSE YOU PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE LORD YOU WILL REJOICE AND SHOUT FOR JOY. 

JEREMIAH 23.24, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 34.20, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 34.19  GOD WILL ALWAYS DELIVER THE RIGHTEOUS FROM EVERY AFFLICTION YOU MIGHT BE FACING.  KNOW THAT, AND BELIEVE IT.  BECAUSE THAT IS CAUSE FOR YOU TO REJOICE BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD. 

THE RIGHTEOUS ARE THOSE WHO OBEY GOD, WHO OBEY HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE. 

LUKE 21.19  IN YOUR PATIENCE YOU TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE.  WHEN YOU ARE PATIENT, YOU WILL HAVE A GOOD OUTCOME.  WHEN YOU ARE IMPATIENT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE ANXIETY, UNEASINESS, PERHAPS ANGER AND FEAR.  AND HAVING NO PATIENCE MIGHT PROVE DANGEROUS.

SO CALL ON GOD FOR PATIENCE.  FOR HELP IN DECISION MAKING.  CHECK YOUR BIBLE FOR HELP. 

BY BEING PATIENT YOU TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE.  NOT BEING PATIENT MIGHT COST YOU. 

ISAIAH 26.3, ROMANS 12.12

JAMES 1.2-4  TESTINGS WORK PATIENCE.

ACTS 16.34  BELIEVING IN GOD, AND BELIEVING GOD ARE KEY.  WHEN YOU’RE BUMMED OUT, THAT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT.  OPEN YOUR BIBLE TO SOME FAVORITE SCRIPTURES OF YOURS.  AND READ.  AND READ.  AND GOD WILL RESTORE YOUR HOPE.  HE WILL RESTORE YOUR CONFIDENCE, AND HE WILL RESTORE YOUR JOY.

YOU KNOW THERE IS MUCH IN THE WORLD TO TAKE YOUR JOY AWAY, AND CAUSE YOU TO BE SAD AND SORROWFUL.  BUT GOD IS ABOVE ALL THAT STUFF.  HE HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD.  AND BECAUSE THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS A SPECIAL AND UNIQUE LOVE FOR YOU THE LORD WILL RAISE YOU UP, AND REVIVE YOUR SPIRIT, AND CAUSE YOU TO REJOICE IN HIM BECAUSE YOU ARE A SPECIAL CHILD OF GOD.

Shalom.

Ira Weinstein

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