WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL?

Shalom,

Our teaching will continue from Torah, The Law of Moses from Deuteronomy 21.10-14.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL?

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 21.10-14.

WHEN YOU GO FORTH TO BATTLE AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES, AND THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS DELIVERED THEM INTO YOUR HANDS, AND YOU HAVE TAKEN THEM CAPTIVE,

AND YOU SEE AMONG THE CAPTIVES A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, AND YOU DESIRE HER, AND YOU TAKE HER TO BE YOUR WIFE,

THEN YOU SHALL BRING HER HOME TO YOUR HOUSE, AND SHE SHALL SHAVE HER HEAD, AND TRIM HER NAILS,

AND SHE SHALL PUT OFF THE CLOTHING OF HER CAPTIVITY, AND SHE SHALL LIVE IN YOUR HOUSE AND GRIEVE FOR HER FATHER AND HER MOTHER FOR A MONTH OF DAYS.  AND AFTER THAT YOU SHALL GO INTO HER AND BE HER HUSBAND AND SHE SHALL BE YOUR WIFE.

AND IT SHALL BE IF YOU HAVE NO DELIGHT IN HER, THEN YOU SHALL LET HER GO WHEREVER SHE WISHES.  BUT YOU SHALL NOT SELL HER AT ALL FOR MONEY, NOR SHALL YOU TREAT HER LIKE A SLAVE, BECAUSE YOU HAVE HUMBLED HER.

THESE ARE LAWS OF WAR ESTABLISHED BY THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THAT APPLIED TO THE WAR WITH CANAAN, AND WARS OUTSIDE OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL.

GOD COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO DESTROY AND POSSESS CANAAN BECAUSE THE INIQUITY OF THE CANAANITES WAS FULL, AND GOD PROMISED TO GIVE CANAAN, THE PROMISED LAND, TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION THAT BECAME THE LAND OF ISRAEL.

GENESIS 15.16, GENESIS 17.8

OTHER WARS CONCERN NATIONS THAT ATTACK ISRAEL, AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE DEFEND THEMSELVES, AND DEFEAT THE ENEMY, AND ADVANCE INTO THE ENEMIES’ COUNTRY AND TAKE CAPTIVES.

THE ONLY NATION THAT THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE ATTACKED WITHOUT PROVOCATION IS THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN THAT GOD COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO POSSESS TO BECOME THEIR EVERLASTING HOMELAND, ERETZ YISRAEL, THE LAND OF ISRAEL.

THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE NOT A CONQUERING PEOPLE.  THEY NEVER HAVE BEEN, NOR EVER WILL BE.  THE JEWISH PEOPLE SEEK TO LIVE IN PEACE BUT THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE NATIONS LOOK TO DESTROY HER AND OCCUPY HER GOD-GIVEN LAND.  BUT EVERLASTING PEACE WILL COME TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL WHEN THE MESSIAH YESHUA RETURNS AND DESTROYS ALL THAT HATE ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  ZECHARIAH 14.12

ISRAEL HAS BEEN OCCUPIED BY THE ASSYRIANS, CURRENT DAY N. IRAQ AND S.E. TURKEY, IN 722 B.C.E./B.C., THE BABYLONIANS, CURRENT DAY IRAQ IN 586 B.C.E./B.C., THE PERSIANS, TODAY’S IRAN IN 538 B.C.E./B.C., THE GREEKS IN 332 B.C.E./B.C., THE ROMANS IN 37 B.C.E./B.C., THE BYZANTINES, IN 324 C.E./A.D., THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE THAT THE ROMAN EMPEROR CONSTANTINE DEDICATED A NEW ROME, THE ISLAMIC ARABS IN 638 C.E./A.D., THE CRUSADERS, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EUROPEANS FROM 1099 TO 1260 C.E./A.D., THE MUSLIM MAMLUKS IN 1260 C.E./A.D., THE OTTOMAN TURKS IN 1517 C.E./A.D., AND THE BRITISH IN 1917 TO THE TIME THE JEWS KICKED THEM OUT AND DECLARED THE LAND OF ISRAEL THEIR SOVEREIGN NATION IN 1948.

AND STILL ISRAEL BATTLES HER ENEMIES.  AND ISRAEL WILL DEFEAT HER ENEMIES.  BUT WARS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MESSIAH YESHUA RETURNS AND KILLS ALL THE ENEMIES OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  DANIEL 9.26

SO GOD SAYS TO ISRAEL, IF A MAN SEES A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN FROM THE CAPTIVES OF WAR, AND DESIRES TO TAKE HER TO BE HIS WIFE, THEN TAKE HER ACCORDING TO MY LAWS, SAITH THE LORD YOUR GOD.

LET’S TALK ABOUT GOD’S LAWS.

YESHUA THE MESSIAH, WHOM CHRISTIANITY CALLS JESUS CHRIST, WAS ASKED, WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL?

AND MESSIAH ANSWERED, AND SAID, THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL IS, HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. 

MARK 12.29

THESE WORDS THAT MESSIAH SPOKE COME FROM TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IN DEUTERONOMY 6.4

LET’S EXPLAIN WHAT THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT MEANS.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR HEAR, AS IN, HEAR O ISRAEL, IS SHEMA.  SHEMA MEANS, HEAR AND OBEY.  GOD TEACHES ALL MANKIND TO HEAR AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, AND THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE. 

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT TEACHES THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

LUKE 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

IF WHAT YOU HEAR OR READ DOES NOT AGREE WITH GOD’S COMMANDMENT, OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, AND THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, THEN WHAT YOU ARE HEARING OR READING IS NOT TRUTH.

GOD CHOSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE HIS WITNESSES TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT GOD, AND WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF ALL MANKIND.  AND THAT WAS ACCOMPLISHED WHEN JEWISH PEOPLE WROTE THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

EVERY WRITER OF THE BIBLE IS JEWISH EXCEPT PERHAPS LUKE.  MATTHEW IS MAHTEETYAHU, MARK IS MARCOS, LUKE IS LUKAS, JOHN IS YOKHANAN, PAUL IS SHAUL OR SAUL, JAMES IS YA’AKOV, OR JACOB, PETER IS SHIMONE, AND JUDE IS YEHUDAH, OR JUDAH.  ALL ARE JEWISH AS IS MESSIAH YESHUA AND HIS DISCIPLES AND APOSTLES WHO WERE JEWISH. 

AND GOD IS JEWISH.

EXODUS 4.22 MATTHEW 1.1-2, ISAIAH 43.10-11, ROMANS 2.13

GOD IS THE GOD OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND THE GENTILES.  AND EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IS FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING TO HEAR AND OBEY.  AND GOD HAS ONLY ONE LAW FOR EVERYBODY.  AND THAT ONE LAW IS THE LAW OF MOSES THAT HAS GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN IT FOR ALL MANKIND TO LIVE BY.

THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.  AND THE LAW OF MOSES DOES NOT CONTAIN THE LAWS OF MOSES.  RATHER THE LAW OF MOSES CONTAINS THE LAWS COMMANDED BY GOD FOR ALL MANKIND.

THE LAW OF MOSES TEACHES GOD’S SABBATH FROM SUNDOWN FRIDAY TO SUNDOWN ON SATURDAY, AND THE OTHER SABBATHS OF GOD.  GOD’S LAW OF MOSES ALSO TEACHES THE FESTIVALS OF THE LORD SUCH AS PASSOVER AND TABERNACLES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN LEVITICUS 23.  AND THE LAW OF MOSES TEACHES ATONEMENT, AND GOD’S FOOD LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN LEVITICUS 11 AND DEUTERONOMY 14,  AND OTHER LAWS OF GOD THAT WHEN OBEYED ALONG WITH YOUR FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS, YOU LIVE A HOLY LIFE IN THE LORD YOUR GOD.  AND THAT RESULTS IN A GOOD, HEALTHY, AND SUCCESSFUL LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL.

SO GOD ALMIGHTY, YESHUA THE MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST SAYS TO ALL MANKIND, HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.

WHY HEAR O ISRAEL?  BECAUSE GOD REQUIRES ALL ISRAEL, WHO ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE, TO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  AND AS GOD’S WITNESSES, THE JEWISH PEOPLE TELL THE WORLD THROUGH THE BIBLE THEY WROTE THAT GOD REQUIRES EVERY HUMAN BEING TO OBEY HIM.  TO OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  AND THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.  THAT WITH FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA IS SALVATION. 

AND THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD NEVER CHANGES OR ENDS.

MATTHEW 4.4, ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25

WHEN MESSIAH WAS ASKED, WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL, HE SAID, THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL IS, HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.

MESSIAH DID NOT SAY, THE LORD IS THREE.  MESSIAH SAID, THE LORD IS ONE.

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.  NOT ONE GOD IN THREE DIFFERENT PERSONS, OR ONE GOD IN THREE DIFFERENT gods.  THE TRINITY TEACHES THAT THE FATHER IS A GOD, THAT JESUS IS ANOTHER GOD DISTINCT IN NATURE AND DIFFERENT THAN THE FATHER.  AND THE SPIRIT IS ANOTHER GOD DISTINCT IN NATURE AND DIFFERENT FROM BOTH THE FATHER AND THE SON. 

THE TRINITY TEACHES THREE DIFFERENT gods AND THAT IS IDOLATRY.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JOHN 8.58, JOHN 10.30, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9

IT IS WRITTEN IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO HAS BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, OUT OF THE HOUSE OF SLAVERY.  YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER gods BEFORE ME. 

EXODUS 20.1-3, DEUTERONOMY 5.6-7

GENESIS 1.1 READS, IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.

THE HEBREW WORD FOR GOD IN GENESIS 1.1 IS ELOHIM, MEANING GODS.  BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.

32 TIMES IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1, THE HEBREW WORD FOR GOD IS ELOHIM, MEANING GODS.  BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.  IN FACT, THE HEBREW WORD ELOHIM, MEANING GODS, IS WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT SOME 3,000 TIMES.  BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.

SO WHY DOES GOD REFER TO HIMSELF AS ELOHIM, GODS?

BECAUSE GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE FATHER,, THE LORD IN HEAVEN, HE IS MESSIAH YESHUA, THE SON OF MAN, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE, AND GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE SON OF GOD, THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND OFTEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD AND THE ANGEL OF GOD.  WHEN MELCHIZEDEK MET WITH ABRAHAM, THAT WAS GOD ALMIGHTY, YESHUA THE MESSIAH.  AND WHEN GOD ALMIGHTY APPEARED TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, MOSES, AND OTHERS, THAT WAS MESSIAH YESHUA.

ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD. 

THUS GOD’S NAME, AND A VERY IMPORTANT NAME IS ELOHIM.

WHEN MESSIAH YESHUA SPOKE WITH GOD THE FATHER IN HEAVEN, GOD SPEAKS TO GOD. 

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

JOHN 17.1, MARK 16.19, PSALM 110.1, GENESIS 1.26, GENESIS 3.22

WHEREVER YOU SEE GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE, THAT IS MESSIAH YESHUA.

JOHN 1.1-5, GENESIS 17.1, GENESIS 18.1, GENESIS 19.24, EXODUS 24.10, EXODUS 33.11, 17-23

EXODUS 33.17-23  GOD IS SPIRIT.  BUT WHEN GOD APPEARS IN HUMAN FORM, THE FACE OF GOD IS SEEN.  IN THIS WRITING OF EXODUS 33.23, MOSES SAW THE BACK OF GOD’S SPIRIT, BUT MAN CANNOT SEE THE FACE OF GOD’S SPIRIT AND LIVE.

JEREMIAH 23.24, JOHN 4.24

I BELIEVE THAT WILL CHANGE WHEN WE, THE FAMILY OF GOD ARE LIKE HIM IN HIS LIKENESS IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL, AND IN HEAVEN WITH THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, YESHUA THE MESSIAH.

PSALM 17.15, 1 JOHN 3.2 

WHAT IS SIN?  SIN IS DISOBEYING GOD BY DISOBEYING THE LAW OF MOSES.  DISOBEYING ANY LAW WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IS SIN.

1 JOHN 3.4-6, PSALM 105.8-10, REVELATION 14.12-13, ETC.

HOW DO WE LIVE OUR LIFE DEAD TO SIN?  BY OBEYING THE LAW OF MOSES. 

ROMANS 6.1-6, 1 PETER 2.21-22, 1 JOHN 3.4

WHY WILL GOD DESTROY THE WORLD?  BECAUSE THE WORLD DISOBEYS THE LAW OF MOSES. 

ISAIAH 24.4-6, 1 JOHN 3.4

AND GOD’S LAWS ARE NOT DIFFICULT. 

1 JOHN 5.3, JOHN 1.9

WHEN YOU HAVE DOUBT READING A SCRIPTURE, OR HEARING A BIBLE TEACHER, ALWAYS REMEMBER THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL; HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE. 

OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, AND THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. 

EVERY WORD IN THE BIBLE MUST AGREE WITH THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.

AND THE ONLY WAY TO RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TO OBEY GOD.  EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  ACTS 5.32

SO IN CONCLUSION, THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMANDMENT OF ALL IS, HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.  MEANING, HEAR AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

THAT IS THE GOSPEL, THE MYSTERY OF GOD, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

ELOHIM

THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY HAS MANY NAMES, BUT THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT BIBLICAL NAMES OF GOD ARE YEHOVAH AND ELOHIM.

YEHOVAH IN HEBREW MEANS LORD.  ELOHIM IN HEBREW MEANS GODS.  ALTHOUGH WHEN APPLIED TO THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD OF ISRAEL, ELOHIM, GODS, IS USED IN THE SINGULAR, GOD.

SO WHY DOES GOD REFER TO HIMSELF SOME 3,000 TIMES IN TNAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES AS ELOHIM, GODS, WHEN THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS?

BECAUSE GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE FATHER, THE LORD IN HEAVEN.  HE IS MESSIAH YESHUA, THE SON OF MAN, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE.  AND GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE SON OF GOD, THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND OFTEN THE ANGEL OF GOD, AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD.  GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE GLORY OF GOD, THE SHEKHINAH, THE DIVINE PRESENCE OF GOD.  WHEN MELCHIZEDEK  MET WITH ABRAHAM, THAT WAS YESHUA THE MESSIAH, GOD ALMIGHTY.  WHEN GOD ALMIGHTY APPEARED TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, MOSES, AND OTHERS, THAT WAS MESSIAH YESHUA. 

ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD. 

THUS AN IMPORTANT NAME FOR GOD IS ELOHIM.   

GENESIS 1.26, GENESIS 3.22, GENESIS 14.18-20, GENESIS 17.1, GENESIS 18.1, GENESIS 19.24, EXODUS 3.2-4, EXODUS 20.1-3, EXODUS 24.10, EXODUS 33.11,17-23, DEUTERONOMY 5.6-7, DEUTERONOMY 6.4, HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 45.8, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 45.7, PSALM 110.1, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, ISAIAH 43.10-11, ISAIAH 44.6,8, ISAIAH 45.5,6,14,18,21, ISAIAH 48.16-18, MATTHEW 1.1,21, MARK 12.29, MARK 14.61-62, MARK 16.19, JOHN 8.58, JOHN 10.30, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9, JOHN 17.1, HEBREWS 7.1-3

EXODUS  33.17-23  GOD IS SPIRIT.  HOWEVER WHEN GOD APPEARS IN HUMAN FORM, THE FACE OF GOD CAN BE SEEN.  MOSES SAW THE THE BACK OF GOD’S SPIRIT.  BUT MAN CANNOT SEE THE FACE OF THE FULLNESS OF GOD’S SPIRIT AND LIVE.

JEREMIAH 23.24, JOHN 4.24

I BELIEVE THAT WILL CHANGE WHEN WE, THE FAMILY OF GOD ARE LIKE HIM IN HIS LIKENESS IN THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL, AND IN HEAVEN WITH THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM ELOHIM THE MESSIAH YESHUA

PSALM 17.15, 1 JOHN 3.2

DEUTERONOMY 6.4 READS IN HEBREW, SHEMA YISRAEL, ADONAI ELOHAYNU (OUR GODS), ADONAI EKHUD. 

HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD (OUR GODS), THE LORD IS ONE.

ONE IN HEBREW, AS THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE, IS EHKHUD, A PLURAL FORM OF ONE BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. 

AND THE LORD OUR GOD IS OUR GODS AND ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

   

 

 

 

  

 

 

GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU WHEN YOU DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE LORD.

Shalom,

Our teaching will continue from The Law of Moses in Deuteronomy 21.1-9.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU WHEN YOU DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE LORD.

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

DEUTERONOMY 21.1-8  IF ONE IS FOUND KILLED IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU TO POSSESS IT, LYING IN THE FIELD, AND IT IS NOT KNOWN WHO HAS KILLED HIM,

THEN YOUR ELDERS AND YOUR JUDGES SHALL COME FORTH AND THEY SHALL MEASURE TO THE CITIES WHICH ARE AROUND THE ONE KILLED.

AND IT SHALL BE THAT THE CITY THAT IS NEAREST TO THE ONE KILLED, THE ELDERS OF THAT CITY SHALL TAKE A HEIFER WHICH HAS NOT BEEN WORKED WITH, AND WHICH HAS NOT DRAWN IN THE YOKE,

AND THE ELDERS OF THAT CITY SHALL BRING THE HEIFER DOWN TO A ROUGH VALLEY WITH A STREAM IN IT, THAT HAS NEITHER BEEN PLOWED NOR SOWN, AND SHALL BREAK THE HEIFER’S NECK BY THE BROOK.

AND THE PRIESTS, THE SONS OF LEVI, SHALL COME NEAR, FOR THEM THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CHOSEN TO MINISTER TO HIM, AND TO BLESS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD.  AND BY THEIR MOUTH SHALL EVERY CONTROVERSY AND EVERY STROKE BE.

AND ALL THE ELDERS OF THE CITY THAT IS NEAREST TO THE ONE KILLED SHALL WASH THEIR HANDS OVER THE HEIFER WHOSE NECK WAS BROKEN BY THE BROOK.

AND THEY SHALL ANSWER AND SAY, OUR HANDS HAVE NOT SHED THIS BLOOD, NEITHER HAVE OUR EYES SEEN IT.

ATONE FOR YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL WHOM YOU HAVE REDEEMED AND RESCUED, O LORD, AND FORGIVE THEM, AND DO NOT PUT INNOCENT BLOOD IN THE MIDST OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL.

THE KEY HERE IS THAT GOD FORGIVES THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL BECAUSE OF THE SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER, AND ATONEMENT MADE BY THE HEIFER.  PERHAPS THE WAY THE HEIFER WAS KILLED REVEALS THE AGONY THAT THE INNOCENT VICTIM EXPERIENCED, AND THE PUNISHMENT THE MURDERER WILL RECEIVE.

ALSO IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ELDERS OF THE CITY THAT IS NEAREST TO THE DEAD BODY, AND THE PRIESTS TO DETERMINE WHO DID IT.  AND THEN THE PRIESTS WILL DECIDE THE PUNISHMENT FOR THE KILLER IF AND WHEN HE OR SHE IS FOUND.

BUT NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM GOD.

DEUTERONOMY 19.21, JEREMIAH 23.23-24

DEUTERONOMY 21.9  AND YOU SHALL PUT AWAY THE GUILT OF INNOCENT BLOOD.  THAT IS TO SAY, GOD WILL CLEAR THE INNOCENT FROM SIN AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHEN THEY SHALL DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE LORD.

THE TITLE OF THIS MESSAGE IS, GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU WHEN YOU DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE LORD.

SO I DECIDED TO LOCATE THE FIRST BLESSING OF GOD THAT IS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE THINKING THAT ABEL RECEIVED THE FIRST BLESSING.  AND THEN I REMEMBERED THAT ABEL WAS KILLED BY HIS BROTHER CAIN.

I’M ASSUMING THAT GOD BEGAN THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM WITH ADAM AND EVE WHEN THE LORD MADE COATS OF ANIMAL SKINS FOR THEM AFTER GOD HAD ADAM SACRIFICE A CLEAN ANIMAL OR ANIMALS TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR THEIR SIN, DISOBEYING GOD BY DISOBEYING THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD.

LET’S GO BACK IN HISTORY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION WHEN GOD PLANTED THE GARDEN OF EDEN AND THERE HE PUT THE MAN ADAM WHOM HE FORMED OUT OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND.  AND YOU ALL KNOW THE WORDS OF SOLOMON, THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.

AND YOU ALL KNOW THE WORDS THAT GOD SAID TO ADAM IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN.  OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT, BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT.  FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT OF IT, YOU WILL SURELY DIE. 

THESE ARE THE FIRST WORDS THAT GOD SPOKE TO A HUMAN BEING.  A COMMANDMENT.  AND GOD’S COMMANDMENT IS LAW.

SO AS THE WORLD KNOWS, ADAM AND EVE DISOBEYED GOD AND LISTENED TO THE SNAKE SATAN, AND ATE THE FRUIT OF THE TREE THAT GOD COMMANDED ADAM NOT TO EAT.  AND IN TIME, AS GOD SAID, ADAM AND EVE, WHOM GOD CREATED TO LIVE FOREVER, DIED BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN OF DISOBEYING THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD.

SO GOD BEGAN THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM FOR ATONEMENT BACK THEN WITH ADAM AND EVE BECAUSE OF THEIR SIN OF DISOBEYING GOD.  AND I’M SURE ADAM AND EVE TOLD THEIR CHILDREN TO OBEY GOD, AND THAT GOD REQUIRED AN ANIMAL SACRIFICE TO FORGIVE THEIR SINS.

AND YOU KNOW WELL THESE WORDS THAT GOD SPEAKS IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES; AND THESE WORDS WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY SHALL BE IN YOUR HEART, AND YOU SHALL TEACH THEM DILIGENTLY TO YOUR CHILDREN AND SHALL TALK OF THEM WHEN YOU SIT IN YOUR HOUSE, AND WHEN YOU WALK BY THE WAY, AND WHEN YOU LIE DOWN AND WHEN YOU RISE UP.  DEUTERONOMY 6.6-7

I’M GUESSING THAT ADAM AND EVE TAUGHT SIMILAR WORDS TO THEIR KIDS.  ADAM AND EVE BOTH SPOKE WITH GOD FACE TO FACE, AND AFTER THEY DISOBEYED GOD, THE LORD TOLD THEM WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE FOR THEIR SIN.  YOU CAN READ OF THEM IN GENESIS 3.  BUT LIKE MOST CHILDREN AND ADULTS, VERY, VERY FEW PEOPLE DO WHAT GOD SAYS.

SO CAIN, ADAM AND EVE’S FIRST SON, DECIDED TO DISOBEY GOD.  AND RATHER THAN BRING A CLEAN ANIMAL TO THE LORD FOR A SACRIFICE TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR HIMSELF, HE BROUGHT CROPS FROM HIS GARDEN TO THE LORD.  AND ABEL, HIS BROTHER, THE SECOND BORN TO ADAM AND EVE, OBEYED GOD AND BROUGHT THE FIRST BORN OF HIS FLOCK FOR A SACRIFICE.  AND THE BIBLE SAYS, THE LORD HAD RESPECT FOR ABEL’S OFFERING, BUT THE LORD DID NOT RESPECT CAIN’S OFFERINGS OF CROPS.

AND GOD ASKED CAIN, WHY ARE YOU ANGRY?  WHY IS YOUR FACE FALLEN?  AND GOD ASSURED CAIN THAT IF HE DID WELL AND OBEYED GOD, THE LORD WOULD ACCEPT HIM AND RECEIVE HIM, AND GIVE HIM FAVOR.  AND CAIN WOULD BE RIGHT WITH GOD.  AND GOD WILL BLESS HIM.

THAT IS WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES THROUGHOUT FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, BY GOD, MESSIAH YESHUA, THE PROPHETS, THE DISCIPLES, THE APOSTLES, THE WRITERS OF THE BIBLE, AND SO MANY OTHERS, THAT IF YOU DO RIGHT BY OBEYING GOD, BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, THE LORD WILL ACCEPT YOU, AND RECEIVE YOU, AND GIVE YOU FAVOR, AND YOU WILL BE RIGHT WITH GOD, AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU.

GOD’S SPOKEN WORD IN THE BIBLE NEVER CHANGES OR ENDS.  THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME.

BUT THE WORLD FOR THE MOST PART DOES NOT OBEY GOD, OR ANYTHING GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE.  AND HORDES OF PROFESSIONAL BIBLE TEACHERS TEACH THE WORLD NOT TO OBEY GOD WITH THE IDIOTIC TEACHING THAT JESUS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES. 

THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.  AND FOR THOSE WHO TEACH THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, THEY HAVE CREATED BIG PROBLEMS FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THOSE WHO RECEIVE THEIR LIE.  2 PETER 3.16

2 PETER 3.16  TO WREST THE SCRIPTURES MEANS TO PERVERT, TWIST, ABUSE, POISON, LEAD ASTRAY, AND TORTURE THE SCRIPTURES. 

SO CAIN KILLED ABEL.  WHY?  BECAUSE CAIN’S WORKS OF DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD WERE EVIL, AND HIS BROTHER ABEL’S WERE RIGHTEOUS.  1 JOHN 3.12

CAIN AND ABEL WERE NOT JEWISH.  FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION, GOD REQUIRES ALL MANKIND TO OBEY HIM.  TO OBEY EVERY WORD SPOKEN BY GOD.  BUT THOSE WHO TEACH THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED OR OPTIONAL TEACH THE WORKS OF EVIL.

AND PERHAPS THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS THE CANCER OF ANTI SEMITISM HAS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.  WHY?  ONE REASON IS BECAUSE GOD SAID TO SATAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT HE WOULD PUT HATRED BETWEEN THE WOMAN, WHO IS ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND SATAN AND HIS SEED.  SATAN’S SEED ARE THOSE WHO ARE LIKE SATAN WHO HATE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.

AND PERHAPS ANOTHER REASON FOR ANTI SEMITISM IS BECAUSE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT TO OBEY GOD WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD IS NOT TAUGHT TO OBEY THE GOD OF CREATION, THE GOD OF THE BIBLE

JEWISH PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT TO OBEY GOD FROM THE BIBLE, BUT MOSTLY THROUGH THE TEACHINGS OF TALMUD.  TALMUD IS RABBINIC LAW, THAT IS ALSO JEWISH LAW.  AND ALTHOUGH TALMUD, WITH ITS MANY RABBINIC LAWS, IS PREDOMINATE IN JEWISH LIFE, THE TALMUD ALSO TEACHES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE PROPHETS, AND THE WRITINGS SUCH AS THE PSALMS AND THE PROVERBS. 

JEWISH PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT TO OBEY THE BIBLICAL TEACHINGS OF GOD.

BUT MUCH OF THE WORLD TEACHES THAT TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IS ABOLISHED.  AND THE REST OF THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF JUDAISM SIMPLY DOES NOT TEACH THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD FROM THE BIBLE.  THEREFORE LIKE CAIN, MANY PEOPLE REJECT THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE, OR THEY ARE NOT TAUGHT THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD, OR THEY DON’T CARE, OR THEY HAVE NO INTEREST IN THE BIBLE, OR THEY REJECT THE BIBLE.

BUT ONE DAY THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT IS FULLY PART OF THE BIBLE, AND THAT MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THEIR MESSIAH.  BUT WHEN WILL NON JEWISH PEOPLE START TO SEE THE TRUTH OF BIBLICAL TEACHING?

GENESIS 2.15-17, GENESIS 3.1-6, 15, 21, GENESIS 5.5, ISAIAH 52.13-15, ISAIAH 53, ECCLESIASTES 1.9, ZECHARIAH 12.10, REVELATION 12.13

SO WITH THAT SAID, LET’S TALK ABOUT THE BLESSINGS THAT GOD GIVES TO THOSE WHO DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF GOD.

DOING RIGHT IN THE EYES OF GOD IS EXACTLY WHAT GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, AND MOSES  TEACH THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.  DOING RIGHT IS LIVING BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD.  AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. 

GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE AND CAIN AND ABEL TO OBEY HIM AND IT WOULD GO WELL WITH THEM.  AND THAT IS WHAT GOD TEACHES YOU FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE AND IT WILL GO WELL WITH YOU.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

THE FIRST BLESSING RECORDED IN THE BIBLE IS WRITTEN IN GENESIS CHAPTER 1 WHERE GOD SAID, IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND EVERYTHING IN THEM.  AND GOD CREATED US, EVERY HUMAN BEING.  AND ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE IN PREDESTINATION, WE HAVE GOD’S GREAT BLESSING TO LIVE ON THIS EARTH WHICH AT TIMES CAN BE A TOUGH ASSIGNMENT.  BUT GOD IS WITH US, TO PROTECT US, AND GIVE US GOOD SUCCESS, AND BLESS US WHEN WE OBEY HIM.  AND WE ALSO HAVE THE GREAT BLESSING IF WE DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD BY OBEYING HIM, OF SPENDING ETERNITY IN HEAVEN WITH THE LORD OUR GOD, MESSIAH YESHUA WHERE THERE IS NO DEATH, NO SIN, NO CURSE, NO PAIN, NO TEARS, AND NO SORROW, BUT EVERLASTING JOY AND HAPPINESS.

AND THE BIBLE GIVES US THE FORMULA, THE GOOD NEWS, THE GOSPEL, THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON HOW TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.  AND GOD’S FORMULA TO ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS BY DOING THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF GOD.  LIVING YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES GOD’S SPOKEN WORD WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 40.9, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 40.8, MATTHEW 7.21-23, ROMANS 8.29-30, EPHESIANS 1.5, 11, REVELATION CHAPTERS 21 & 22

THE INDIVIDUAL WHO IS FIRST RECORDED IN THE BIBLE TO RECEIVE GOD’S BLESSING WAS ENOCH.  GENESIS 5.21-24

ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD, AND HE WAS NOT, FOR GOD TOOK HIM.  GOD TOOK ENOCH TO HEAVEN PROBABLY THE SAME WAY GOD TOOK ELIJAH TO HEAVEN.  2 KINGS 2.1, 11

ELIJAH WALKED WITH GOD AS ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD, AND GOD TOOK ELIJAH TO HEAVEN WHILE HE WAS YET ALIVE AS HE DID WITH ENOCH.

FOR ANYONE TO BE TAKEN UP INTO HEAVEN LIKE ENOCH AND ELIJAH, YOU MUST CLOSE YOUR EARS TO THE LIE THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, BUT OPEN YOUR EARS TO THE TRUTH THAT GOD REQUIRES YOU TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES. 

AND LIVING BY THE LAW OF MOSES IS NOT DIFFICULT.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, LUKE 4.4, LUKE 8.21, 1 JOHN 5.3

THE WORD WALKED IN HEBREW, AS IN ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD, IS KHAH’LAKH MEANING, FOLLOWED.  ENOCH FOLLOWED GOD BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPOKE IN ENOCH’S DAY.  READ GENESIS CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH CHAPTER 5 TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT GOD SPOKE IN THE DAYS OF ENOCH.

THE NEXT PERSON AND PERSONS BLESSED IN THE BIBLE ARE NOAH AND HIS FAMILY, EIGHT PEOPLE IN ALL.  WHY?  BECAUSE NOAH WAS A JUST MAN AND PERFECT, AND NOAH WALKED WITH GOD.  AND GOD SAW NOAH AS RIGHTEOUS BEFORE HIM.

GOD SAVED ONLY EIGHT PEOPLE FROM THE FLOOD, NOAH AND HIS FAMILY.  AND THEY ALSO INHERITED ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  EVERYONE ELSE DIED IN THE FLOOD BECAUSE THEY DISOBEYED GOD. 

GENESIS 6.5-9

GOD SAID, NOAH WAS A JUST MAN.  THE HEBREW FOR JUST IS STAH’DEEK MEANING LAWFUL.  THAT IS LAW ABIDING.  NOAH OBEYED GOD.  AND HE WAS RIGHTEOUS AS ENOCH AND ELIJAH WERE RIGHTEOUS.  NOAH DID WHAT GOD SAID.  HE DIDN’T LISTEN TO THOSE WHO SAID DIFFERENTLY, LIKE THOSE WHO SAY THE LAW IS ABOLISHED.

FROM THE DAYS OF ADAM AND EVE, MANY ARE BLESSED BY GOD FOR OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS WHICH ARE BUT A FEW.

GENESIS 7.1-2, MATTHEW 7.13-14, MATTHEW 22.14

HERE’S A FAMILIAR SCRIPTURE SEEN BY MANY EVERY SUNDAY.  MATTHEW 26.26-28

MESSIAH DID NOT SAY THAT HE CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW OF MOSES.  BUT ON THE CONTRARY, HE CAME TO SHED HIS BLOOD FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.  MATTHEW 1.21

AND THEN WHAT, NOW THAT YOU BELIEVE IN MESSIAH YESHUA?  GOD REQUIRES YOU TO DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF GOD BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, AND THAT INCLUDES OBEYING THE LAW OF MOSES. 

AND YOU WILL MEET ABEL AND ENOCH IN HEAVEN, AND ELIJAH, AND NOAH AND HIS FAMILY, AND ALL THOSE IN THE FAMILY OF GOD WHO LIVED THEIR LIVES ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS, AND THOSE WHO BLESSED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.

GENESIS 12.3, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, MATTHEW 25.31-46

HERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES TEACHING YOU THAT GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU WHEN YOU DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF GOD.

DEUTERONOMY 28, MATTHEW 6.31-33, MATTHEW 13.23, ACTS 5.32, ROMANS 2.13, ROMANS 8.6-7, EPHESIANS 5.1, JAMES 1.25, AND REVELATION 22.14 IN KJV & NKJV

SO YES, GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU AND CONTINUE TO COME UPON YOU WHEN YOU DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF THE LORD.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

GOD’S LAWS FOR WAR AND MILITARY SERVICE

Shalom,

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue in Deuteronomy 20.1-20.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD’S LAWS FOR WAR AND MILITARY SERVICE.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 20.1-20.

DEUTERONOMY 20.1  WHEN YOU GO OUT TO BATTLE AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES AND SEE HORSES AND CHARIOTS, AND A PEOPLE MORE THAN YOU, DO NOT BE AFRAID OF THEM, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHO BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT.

CAN THIS BE THE REASON FOR ANTI SEMITISM?  BECAUSE THE LORD GOD IS WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE, EVEN IN WAR?  IS ANTI SEMITISM AND ANTI ISRAEL A PRODUCT OF JEALOUSY THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE, AND THAT GOD IS WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE, EVEN IN WAR?

ANTI SEMITISM CONTINUES BEING A GLOBAL CANCER TODAY THAT SPITS OUT LIES ABOUT JEWISH PEOPLE.

BUT GOD IS WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE, EVEN IN WAR.

SO WHY IS GOD WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE?  BECAUSE IT IS AN ACT OF GRACE ON BEHALF OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY TO CHOOSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE.

THE PROPHET MOSES SPOKE GOD’S WORDS TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS 3,400 YEARS AGO JUST BEFORE THEY FOUGHT AGAINST, AND POSSESSED THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT GOD GAVE HIS JEWISH PEOPLE FOR AN INHERITANCE.

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

THE LORD DID NOT SET HIS LOVE UPON YOU NOR CHOOSE YOU BECAUSE YOU WERE MORE IN NUMBER THAN ANY PEOPLE, FOR YOU WERE THE FEWEST OF ALL PEOPLE.

BUT BECAUSE THE LORD LOVED YOU, AND BECAUSE HE WOULD KEEP THE OATH WHICH HE HAD SWORN TO YOUR FATHERS, HAS THE LORD BROUGHT YOU OUT WITH A MIGHTY HAND AND DELIVERED YOU AND RESCUED YOU OUT OF THE HOUSE OF SLAVERY FROM THE HAND OF PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT.

KNOW THEREFORE, GOD SAID, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD, HE IS GOD, THE FAITHFUL GOD WHO KEEPS COVENANT AND MERCY WITH THEM WHO LOVE HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS.

GOD’S COVENANT IS HIS WORD SPOKEN IN THE BIBLE THAT IS LAW THAT GOD KEEPS, ALONG WITH HIS MERCY TO THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS.  THAT IS FOREVER.

AND GOD REPAYS THEM WHO HATE HIM TO THEIR FACE, TO DESTROY THEM.  HE WILL NOT BE SLACK TO HIM WHO HATES HIM.  GOD WILL REPAY HIM TO HIS FACE.

THEREFORE GOD SAYS, YOU SHALL KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS AND THE STATUTES AND THE JUDGMENTS WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY TO DO.  GOD’S COMMANDMENTS, STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS ARE HIS LAWS AND TEACHINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.

AND IT SHALL BE, GOD SAYS, BECAUSE YOU OBEY THESE JUDGMENTS, GOD’S LAWS, AND KEEP, AND DO THEM, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD SHALL KEEP TO YOU THE COVENANT AND THE MERCY THAT HE SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS.

AND HE WILL LOVE YOU, AND BLESS YOU, AND MULTIPLY YOU.  HE WILL ALSO BLESS THE FRUIT OF YOUR WOMB, AND THE FRUIT OF YOUR LAND, YOUR GRAIN, AND YOUR WINE, AND YOUR OIL, THE INCREASE OF YOUR CATTLE, AND THE FLOCKS OF YOUR SHEEP IN THE LAND THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD SWORE TO YOUR FATHERS TO GIVE YOU.

YOU SHALL BE BLESSED ABOVE ALL PEOPLE.  THERE SHALL NOT BE MALE OR FEMALE BARREN AMONG YOU, OR AMONG YOUR CATTLE.

AND THE LORD WILL TAKE AWAY FROM YOU ALL SICKNESS, AND PUT NONE OF THE EVIL DISEASES OF EGYPT WHICH YOU KNOW, UPON YOU.  BUT HE WILL LAY THEM UPON ALL THAT HATE YOU.

FOR YOU ARE MY WITNESSES SAITH THE LORD, AND MY SERVANT WHOM I HAVE CHOSEN THAT YOU SHALL KNOW AND BELIEVE ME, AND UNDERSTAND THAT I AM HE.  BEFORE ME THERE WAS NO GOD FORMED, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE AFTER ME.

I, I AM THE LORD, AND BESIDE ME THERE IS NO SAVIOR.

DEUTERONOMY 7.6-15, PSALM 105.8-10, ISAIAH 43.10-11

GOD CHOSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE BECAUSE HE LOVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  AND GOD CHOSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BRING HIS SPOKEN WORD, THE WORD OF GOD, TO THE WORLD THAT HE LOVES, BY WRITING THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

BUT IF GOD ALLOWED THE NATIONS TO WIPE OUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH AS SO MANY HAVE TRIED, THERE WOULD BE NO BIBLE, NO MESSIAH, AND THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WOULD HAVE DISAPPEARED FOREVER.  A TRAGEDY BECAUSE THERE IS NO RELIGION IN THE WORLD OTHER THAN JUDAISM THAT TEACHES THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD.

ALL THE OTHER RELIGIONS BELIEVE IN GOD, BUT THEIR LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS, ARE WRITTEN BY MEN, NOT GOD.

2 PETER 3.16

BUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE ERRED ALSO.  RATHER THAN TEACH THE PURE BIBLE THAT JEWISH PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN WHICH HAS THE TORAH THAT HAS GOD’S LAWS AND TEACHINGS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, AND THE PROPHETS, AND THE WRITINGS, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT, JUDAISM TEACHES TALMUD, RABBINIC LAW THAT HAS TORAH WRITTEN IN IT, BUT IS OVERWHELMED WITH RABBINIC LAW.

GOD NEVER COMMANDED THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO BE TAUGHT RABBINIC LAW.  GOD COMMANDS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ALL HUMANITY TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, LEVITICUS 10.10-11, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

THAT IS THE REASON MESSIAH YESHUA HAD PROBLEMS WITH THE PHARISEES.  NOT BECAUSE HE HATED THEM.  ABSOLUTELY NOT, BUT BECAUSE THE PHARISEES TAUGHT TALMUD, RABBINIC LAW TO HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE RATHER THAN PURE TORAH THAT CONTAINS THE PURE WORD OF GOD.  AND RABBINIC LAW, THAT IS JEWISH LAW, IS TAUGHT TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE TODAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD RATHER THAN THE PURE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.  AND THE BIBLE INCLUDES THE NEW TESTAMENT.

BUT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR EVERY NON JEWISH PERSON TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO BE FULLY PART OF GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE.  NOT BY BECOMING JEWISH, BUT BY LIVING YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.  FOR MESSIAH YESHUA SAYS, IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.

MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

DEUTERONOMY 20.2-4  AND GOD, SPEAKING THROUGH HIS JEWISH PROPHET MOSES, SAID, AND IT SHALL BE WHEN YOU COME NEAR TO THE BATTLE, THAT THE PRIEST SHALL APPROACH AND SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE,

AND HE SHALL SAY TO THEM, HEAR O ISRAEL, YOU APPROACH THIS DAY TO BATTLE AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES.  LET NOT YOUR HEARTS FAINT.  FEAR NOT, AND DO NOT TREMBLE, NEITHER BE TERRIFIED BECAUSE OF THEM.

FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS HE THAT GOES WITH YOU TO FIGHT FOR YOU AGAINST YOUR ENEMIES TO SAVE YOU.

GOD FILLS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.  THAT IS TO SAY, THE SPIRIT OF GOD FILLS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.  AND THERE IS NO BEGINNING OR END TO THE HEAVENS WHICH ARE THE TOTALITY OF SPACE.

AND SINCE THE SPIRIT OF GOD FILLS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, GOD IS, AND CAN BE IN MANY DIFFERENT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME IN HUMAN FORM.  GOD IS MELCHIZEDEK, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA.  GOD IS YEHOVAH, GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM.  AND GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE SON OF GOD.  AND GOD IS THE ANGEL OF GOD, AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD.  AND IN SPIRIT, GOD IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.  AND AS A HUMAN BEING, GOD IS MESSIAH YESHUA, AND GOD ALMIGHTY, AND GOD ALMIGHTY THE FATHER IN HEAVEN.  AND GOD IS THE SAVIOR.

ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  ALL ARE ELOHIM.  ELOHIM IN HEBREW MEANS GODS, YET THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA IS THAT ONE GOD, GOD ALMIGHTY, AND SO MUCH MORE.  HE IS ELOHIM. 

ISAIAH 43.10-11, HEBREWS 7.1-3

GOD SAID THROUGH HIS PROPHET MOSES, 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 ARE TO DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW.  THAT IS, WE ARE TO DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW OF MOSES.

EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS A MIRACLE.  SPEAKING THE CREATION INTO EXISTENCE, CREATING LIFE.  RAISING THE DEAD, HEALING THE SICK.  GUIDING THE PATH OF EVERY HUMAN BEING AND EVERY LIVING THING.  THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD BUT THE THINGS THAT ARE REVEALED BELONG TO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN FOREVER THAT WE ARE TO DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW OF MOSES.

BUT YET THE WORLD IGNORES GOD AND DOES NOT LIVE BY HIS LAWS AND TEACHINGS, AND WORD, WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND FOR THE MOST PART IN THIS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WE ARE TAUGHT THAT ALL THE WORDS OF THE LAW OF MOSES ARE ABOLISHED.  AND WE WONDER WHY THIS COUNTRY HAS SO MANY PROBLEMS, AS DOES THE REST OF THE WORLD FOR DISOBEYING GOD.

HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.28, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.29, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JEREMIAH 23.24, MATTHEW 18.10, JOHN 8.58, JOHN 10.30, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9

DEUTERONOMY 20.5-9 AND THE OFFICERS SHALL SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE, SAYING, WHAT MAN IS THERE THAT HAS BUILT A NEW HOUSE, AND HAS NOT DEDICATED IT?  LET HIM GO AND RETURN TO HIS HOUSE, LEST HE DIE IN THE BATTLE, AND ANOTHER MAN DEDICATE IT.

AND WHAT MAN IS HE THAT HAS PLANTED A VINEYARD, AND HAS NOT EATEN OF IT?  LET HIM GO AND RETURN TO HIS HOUSE LEST HE DIE IN THE BATTLE AND ANOTHER MAN EAT OF IT.

AND WHAT MAN IS THERE THAT IS ENGAGED TO A WOMAN AND NOT MARRIED TO HER?  LET HIM GO AND RETURN TO HIS HOUSE LEST HE DIE IN THE BATTLE AND ANOTHER MAN TAKE HER.

AND THE OFFICERS SHALL SPEAK FURTHER TO THE PEOPLE, AND SAY TO THEM, WHO IS THE MAN WHO IS AFRAID AND FAINT OF HEART?  LET HIM GO AND RETURN TO HIS HOUSE LEST HIS BROTHER’S HEART FAINTS AS WELL AS HIS HEART.

AND IT SHALL BE WHEN THE OFFICERS HAVE FINISHED SPEAKING TO THE PEOPLE THAT THEY SHALL MAKE CAPTAINS OF THE ARMIES TO LEAD THE PEOPLE.

SO NOW ISRAEL HAS AN ARMY WITHOUT MEN WHO RECENTLY BUILT A NEW HOUSE BUD DID NOT DEDICATE IT, AND WITHOUT MEN WHO RECENTLY PLANTED A VINEYARD BUT HAVE NOT EATEN OF IT, AND WITHOUT MEN WHO WERE RECENTLY ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED, AND WITHOUT MEN WHO ARE AFRAID AND FAINTHEARTED.

BUT THE ARMY OF ISRAEL HAS THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY WHO GOES WITH THEM TO FIGHT AGAINST THEIR ENEMY TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE.

DEUTERONOMY 20.10-18  AND MOSES SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE THE WORDS OF GOD, SAYING, WHEN YOU COME NEAR TO A CITY TO FIGHT AGAINST IT, THEN YOU SHALL CALL OUT TO IT FOR PEACE.

AND IF THEY ANSWER YOU, AND THEY SEEK PEACE, AND THEY OPEN THE CITY TO YOU, THEN IT SHALL BE THAT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE FOUND IN THAT CITY SHALL BE LABORERS FOR YOU, AND THEY SHALL SERVE YOU.

BUT IF THEY WILL NOT MAKE PEACE WITH YOU, BUT WILL MAKE WAR AGAINST YOU, THEN YOU SHALL LAY SIEGE TO IT AND SURROUND THE CITY, AND ATTACK IT.

AND WHEN THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS DELIVERED THE CITY INTO YOUR HANDS, YOU SHALL KILL EVERY MALE OF THE CITY WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD.

ISRAEL IS NOT DOING TODAY WHAT GOD COMMANDS IN THIS PASSAGE, BUT WHEN THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, YESHUA THE MESSIAH RETURNS, HE BY HIMSELF WILL CARRY OUT HIS WORDS.  ZECHARIAH 14.12

BUT THE WOMEN, AND THE LITTLE ONES, AND THE CATTLE, AND ALL THAT ARE IN THE CITY, EVEN ALL THE SPOIL OF IT, YOU SHALL TAKE FOR YOURSELF, AND YOU SHALL EAT THE SPOIL OF YOUR ENEMIES WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.

SO SHALL YOU DO TO ALL THE CITIES THAT ARE VERY FAR OFF FROM YOU WHICH ARE NOT OF THESE CANAANITE NATIONS.

BUT OF THE CITIES OF THESE PEOPLE WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES TO YOU FOR AN INHERITANCE, YOU SHALL NOT KEEP ALIVE ANYTHING THAT BREATHES.

BUT YOU SHALL UTTERLY DESTROY THEM, THE HITTITE, AND THE AMORITE, THE CANAANITE, AND THE PERIZZITE, THE HIVITE, AND THE JEBUSITE, AS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS COMMANDED YOU.

SO THEY WILL NOT TEACH YOU TO DO AFTER ALL THEIR ABOMINATIONS WHICH THEY HAVE DONE FOR THEIR gods, AND YOU WOULD SIN AGAINST THE LORD YOUR GOD.

THOSE WHO TEACH THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED ARE AN ABOMINATION.  THEY SIN AGAINST MESSIAH YESHUA, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. 

1 JOHN 3.4-10, REVELATION 3.10, ISAIAH 24.4-6

1 JOHN 3.4-6  THOSE WHO SIN, THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS THE LAW OF MOSES, DO NOT KNOW GOD. 

DEUTERONOMY 20.19-20  WHEN YOU SHALL BESIEGE A CITY MANY DAYS, TO WAGE WAR AGAINST IT TO SEIZE IT, YOU SHALL NOT DESTROY ITS TREES BY FORCING AN AXE AGAINST THEM, FOR YOU MAY EAT OF THEM.  AND YOU SHALL NOT CUT THEM DOWN, FOR IS THE TREE OF THE FIELD A MAN THAT IT SHOULD BE BESIEGED OF YOU?

ONLY THE TREE THAT YOU KNOW IS NOT A TREE FOR FOOD, THAT YOU MAY DESTROY AND CUT DOWN, AND YOU MAY BUILD SIEGE-WORKS AGAINST THE CITY THAT MAKES WAR WITH YOU UNTIL IT IS SUBDUED.

SO HOW TO SUMMARIZE THIS TEACHING?

KNOW THAT GOD IS WITH YOU ALWAYS, IN WAR, IN PEACE, AND EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU ARE DOING ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES THAT HAS GOD’S LAWS AND TEACHINGS WRITTEN IN IT.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

GOD’S LAWS FOR THE MURDERER, THE INNOCENT, AND THE TESTIMONY AND INTEGRITY OF WITNESSES.

Shalom,

Our studies in Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Deuteronomy 19.1-21.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD’S LAWS FOR THE MURDERER, THE INNOCENT, AND THE TESTIMONY AND INTEGRITY OF WITNESSES.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 19.1-21.

DEUTERONOMY 19.1-2  WHEN THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CUT OFF THE NATIONS WHOSE LAND THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU, AND YOU REPLACE THEM, AND DWELL IN THEIR CITIES AND IN THEIR HOUSES,

YOU SHALL SEPARATE THREE CITIES FOR YOURSELVES IN THE CENTER OF THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU TO POSSESS.

THESE BIBLICAL WORDS FROM THE PROPHET MOSES WERE WRITTEN SOME 3,400 YEARS AGO THAT FULFILLS THE PROMISE THAT GOD MADE WITH ABRAHAM TO GIVE THE LAND OF CANAAN TO HIM AND HIS JEWISH DESCENDANTS FOREVER.  GENESIS 13.12-18

YET THE WORLD IS LIED TO DAILY.  THE WORLD IS TOLD THAT THE WEST BANK, KNOWN IN ISRAEL AS JUDEA AND SAMARIA ARE HELD UNDER ISRAELI MILITARY OCCUPATION.  BUT THE WEST BANK IS JEWISH LAND IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, AND HAS BEEN JEWISH LAND FOR 3,400 YEARS.

WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY DESCRIBES THE WORD OCCUPATION AS SEIZURE AND CONTROL OF AN AREA BY MILITARY FORCES.  ESPECIALLY A FOREIGN TERRITORY.

JUDEA AND SAMARIA, THE WEST BANK, HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PART OF ISRAEL, AS NORTH CAROLINA IS PART OF THE UNITED STATES, AND NEVER FOREIGN TERRITORY TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  HOWEVER THE WEST BANK IS FOREIGN TERRITORY TO THE PALESTINIAN ARABS, AND OCCUPIED BY PALESTINIAN ARABS.

LIKE ALL GOD’S CREATION, THE LAND OF ISRAEL BELONGS TO GOD, AND GOD HAS GIVEN THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION.  AND OFTEN REPEATED BY THE LORD THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE AS WRITTEN HERE IN DEUTERONOMY 19.1 THAT READS, “WHOSE LAND THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU,” THE JEWISH PEOPLE.

4,000 YEARS AGO, GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM THAT HE WOULD GIVE THE LAND OF CANAAN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOREVER.  AND 600 YEARS LATER, GOD COMMANDED THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO CONQUER AND POSSESS THE LAND OF CANAAN FOR THEIR INHERITANCE TO BECOME THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THE JEWISH HOMELAND FOR AS LONG AS THE EARTH REMAINS.

GENESIS 15.18-21, GENESIS 17.8, LEVITICUS 25.23

Webster’s Dictionary describes RELIGION as, The service and worship of GOD, or the supernatural.  And a personal set and institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices.

IN OTHER WORDS, A RELIGION IS BELIEF IN GOD, AND ITS RULES ARE MADE BY PEOPLE.

AS COMPARED TO THE BIBLE THAT IS NOT A RELIGION BUT A WAY TO LEARN ABOUT GOD, TO KNOW GOD, BELIEVE IN GOD, WHOSE RULES ARE MADE BY GOD, AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WITH GOD

MY POINT IS THIS.  MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE IN GOD, AND MANY READ THE BIBLE.  THEREFORE THEY SHOULD BELIEVE GOD THAT HE HAS GIVEN ALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THAT INCLUDES THE WEST BANK, TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOREVER, RATHER THAN BELIEVE LIES ABOUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  GENESIS 12.3

THE JEWISH PEOPLE DO NOT OCCUPY ISRAEL NOR DO THEY OCCUPY THE WEST BANK.  ALL ISRAEL, THAT INCLUDES THE WEST BANK, IS THE HOMELAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOREVER.

IT IS THE PALESTINIAN ARABS WHO OCCUPY LAND IN ISRAEL IN THE WEST BANK THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION.  AND THE PALESTINIANS SEEK TO KILL THE JEWS AND OCCUPY ALL ISRAEL.  SEE THE ACTIONS OF HAMAS, HEZBULLAH, AND THE PLO, AND KNOW THEIR CHARTER.

THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN, EVER.  WHY?   BECAUSE GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE THE PALESTINIAN ARABS WERE A PEOPLE, “AND I WILL GIVE TO YOU AND TO YOUR DESCENDANTS AFTER YOU THE LAND WHEREIN YOU ARE A STRANGER, ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD.”

ABRAHAM’S DESCENDANTS ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO DESCEND FROM ABRAHAM AND ISAAC. 

GENESIS 21.12

AND YES, GOD DOES HAVE BORDERS FOR THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WHO ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  DEUTERONOMY 32.8

AND THE ENEMIES OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL CONTINUE TO LOSE MEN AND WOMEN AND BLOOD BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO GOD, NOR WILL THEY DO WHAT GOD SAYS, THAT GOD HAS GIVEN THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOREVER.

AND WHEN THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA RETURNS, AND IT MAY NOT BE ALL THAT FAR OFF, HE WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM IN THE ORIGINAL BORDERS OF ISRAEL FROM A RIVER IN EGYPT TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND HIS HOLY ONES, WHOSE KINGDOM IS AN EVERLASTING KINGDOM, AND ALL DOMINIONS SHALL SERVE AND OBEY HIM.

GENESIS 15.18-21, DANIEL 7.27, ZECHARIAH 14

SO, DEUTERONOMY 19.1-3 READS, WHEN THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS CUT OFF THE NATIONS, THAT IS, WHEN THE LORD YOUR GOD DESTROYS THE KENITES, THE KENNIZITES, THE KADMONITES, THE HITTITES, THE PERIZZITES, THE REPHAIM, THE AMORITES, THE CANAANITES, THE GIRGASHITES, AND THE JEBUSITES, AND GIVES THE JEWISH PEOPLE THEIR CITIES, AND THEIR HOMES, AND YOU LIVE IN THEM, AND REPLACE THEM, YOU SHALL SEPARATE THREE CITIES FOR YOURSELVES IN THE CENTER OF THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU TO INHERIT, THAT EVERY SLAYER OF A HUMAN BEING MAY FLEE THERE.

DEUTERONOMY 19.4-6  AND GOD SAYS, THIS IS THE CASE OF ONE WHO KILLED A PERSON AND FLEES THERE TO THE CITY OF REFUGE, AND SHALL LIVE.  THE PERSON WHO KILLS SOMEONE BY ACCIDENT, WITH NO INTENT WHOM HE DID NOT HATE IN TIME PAST.

FOR INSTANCE, THE LORD GOD SAYS, A MAN GOES INTO THE WOODS WITH SOMEONE TO CUT WOOD, AND HIS HAND SWINGS AN AXE TO CUT A TREE, AND THE AXE HEAD SLIPS OFF ITS HANDLE AND HITS HIS FRIEND, AND KILLS HIM.  THAT MAN SHALL FLEE TO ONE OF THOSE CITIES AND LIVE, LEST THE AVENGER OF BLOOD WHO SEEKS TO TAKE VENGEANCE FOR THE KILLING PURSUES THE KILLER IN THE HEAT OF HIS ANGER, AND OVERTAKES HIM BECAUSE THE WAY IS LONG, AND KILLS HIM.  YET THERE WAS NO DEATH PENALTY, NO SENTENCE OF DEATH BECAUSE THE SLAYER DID NOT HATE HIM, NOR WAS HE AN ENEMY BEFORE.

DEUTERONOMY 19.7-9  SO GOD COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO SEPARATE THREE CITIES FOR THEMSELVES.  AND IF THE LORD GOD ENLARGES YOUR BORDERS AS HE HAS SWORN TO YOUR FATHERS, AND GIVES YOU ALL THE LAND WHICH HE HAS PROMISED YOUR FATHERS,

IF YOU WILL KEEP ALL THESE COMMANDMENTS.  THAT IS, IF YOU WILL KEEP ALL GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, TO DO THEM WHICH GOD COMMANDS YOU THIS DAY, TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND WALK IN HIS WAYS FOREVER, THEN YOU SHALL ADD THREE MORE CITIES BESIDE THESE THREE.

THESE WORDS SPOKEN BY GOD ARE SO VERY IMPORTANT.  IF YOU WILL KEEP ALL GOD’S COMMANDMENTS, THAT IS TO SAY, IF YOU WILL KEEP ALL GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, TO DO THEM WHICH GOD COMMANDS YOU THIS DAY, TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND WALK IN HIS WAYS FOREVER, AND AS DEUTERONOMY 28.1 AND 2 READ, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL SET YOU ON HIGH ABOVE ALL NATIONS OF THE EARTH, AND ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME ON YOU, AND OVERTAKE YOU, IF YOU WILL OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD.

AND DEUTERONOMY 28.15 READS, BUT IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF YOU WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, TO OBSERVE TO DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS, THAT IS, ALL HIS LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AND HIS STATUTES WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY, ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON YOU, AND OVERTAKE YOU.

THE BIBLE TEACHES YOU TO LEARN ABOUT GOD, TO KNOW GOD, AND BELIEVE IN GOD, WHOSE RULES ARE MADE BY GOD.  AND THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT IF YOU LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, YOU WILL INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WITH GOD.

MATTHEW 26.28  

BUT IF YOU LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW GOD, WHO TEACH YOU TO DISOBEY GOD BY DISOBEYING GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, YOU WILL NOT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WITH GOD, BUT AS GOD SAYS IN DEUTERONOMY 28.15, ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON YOU, AND OVERTAKE YOU.

1 JOHN 3.4-10, MATTHEW 7.21-23

BUT GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  

GENESIS 12.3, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

It’s interesting to note that the three times THE GOD OF ISRAEL exiled His Jewish People out of The Land of Israel into captivity in 586 B.C.E./B.C., 722 B.C.E./B.C., and 70 C.E./A.D., was because of sin, disobeying GOD.  Not obeying THE LAW OF MOSES which is The Spoken Word of GOD

GOD exiled The Jewish People out of Israel in 70 C.E./A.D. because they rejected Their Messiah Yeshua Who is GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM.  They should have known the time of His coming, Messiah said.

DANIEL 9.20-26, LUKE 19.41-44, 1 JOHN 3.4

So many people, Messianic Jews and Christians are taught the huge lie that because you believe in Yeshua The Messiah / Jesus Christ, you are free from obeying The Law of Moses.  You are saved by grace, and you don’t have to obey The Law of Moses, you are taught.  You have been taught a lie.  A very serious lie.

GOD Chose The Jewish People by an act of grace to be His Chosen People.  We did not do anything to be GOD’S Chosen People.  But yet GOD not only Chose The Jewish People, GOD Commands His Chosen People to always Obey Torah, His Law of Moses.

For Messianic Jews and Gentiles to be fully part of GOD’S Chosen People, along with your belief in Messiah Yeshua/Jesus Christ, you best obey The Law of Moses also. 

Obedience to Torah, The Law of Moses is Commanded by GOD throughout The Bible.

What does Paul say? Is GOD The GOD of The Jews only?  Is He not also The GOD of The Gentiles?  Yes, of The Gentiles also.

DEUTERONOMY 28, LUKE 8.21, ROMANS 3.29, 31

The sooner people realize that, the better off they will be in the end, because The Spoken Word of GOD that Jewish People recorded in The Bible that includes The Law of Moses is for all mankind, Jews and Gentiles to obey.

THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IN THE BIBLE MUST ALWAYS HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THE TEACHINGS OF YOUR BIBLE TEACHERS. 

MATTHEW 5.17  YESHUA THE MESSIAH / JESUS CHRIST SAID, DO NOT THINK THAT I HAVE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW OR THE PROPHETS.  I HAVE NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO FULFIL. 

TO FULFIL THE PROPHESIES CONCERNING THE JEWISH MESSIAH.

JOHN 14.9  YESHUA / JESUS SAID, HE THAT HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER.

SO IF GOD CAST OUT HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMELAND ISRAEL THREE TIMES BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, WILL GOD NOT ALSO PUNISH THOSE WHO DISOBEY HIM ACCORDING TO HIS SPOKEN WORD IN THE BIBLE?

DEUTERONOMY 18.19, ISAIAH 24.5-6

BACK TO DEUTERONOMY 19.10  THEREFORE, THE KILLER OF A PERSON BY MISTAKE, WITHOUT ANY INTENT OF MURDER CAN FLEE TO ONE OF THESE CITIES OF REFUGE BECAUSE HE IS INNOCENT AND NO BLOOD SHALL BE UPON HIM.

DEUTERONOMY 19.11-12  BUT IF A PERSON HATES SOMEONE, AND LIES IN WAIT FOR THAT PERSON, AND KILLS HIM, AND ESCAPES TO ONE OF THESE CITIES OF REFUGE, THEN THE ELDERS OF HIS CITY SHALL BRING HIM BACK FROM THE CITY OF REFUGE AND DELIVER HIM INTO THE HAND OF THE ONE WHO WILL EXACT RETRIBUTION FOR THE MURDER THAT HE SHALL DIE.

DEUTERONOMY 19.13  NO ONE SHALL PITY THE MURDERER, BUT YOU SHALL PUT AWAY THE GUILT OF INNOCENT BLOOD FROM ISRAEL THAT IT WILL GO WELL WITH YOU.

THAT IS BIBLICAL TEACHING.  OBEY WHAT GOD SAYS FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION AND IT WILL GO WELL WITH YOU.

DEUTERONOMY 19.14  THIS IS LAW.  JEWISH PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS SET UP LANDMARKS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL.  LANDMARKS ARE BOUNDARY MARKERS.  GOD SAYS, YOU SHALL NOT REMOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR’S LANDMARK WHICH WAS SET UP IN TIME PAST IN YOUR INHERITANCE WHICH YOU SHALL INHERIT IN THE LAND THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU TO POSSESS IT.

DEUTERONOMY 19.15  ONE WITNESS IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO CONVICT A PERSON OF ANY OFFENSE OR SIN.  BUT THE MATTER IS ESTABLISHED ONLY IF THERE ARE TWO OR THREE WITNESSES TESTIFYING AGAINST HIM.

DEUTERONOMY 19.16-19  IF A FALSE WITNESS COMES FORWARD AND LIES IN TESTIMONY AGAINST ANYONE, THEN BOTH WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE CONTROVERSY SHALL STAND BEFORE THE LORD, BEFORE THE PRIESTS, AND THE JUDGES, WHICH SHALL BE IN THOSE DAYS.  AND THE JUDGES SHALL MAKE THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.  AND IF THE WITNESS IS A FALSE WITNESS WHO LIES IN HIS TESTIMONY AGAINST HIS BROTHER, THEN THEY SHALL DO TO HIM AS HE SCHEMED TO DO TO HIS BROTHER.  SO SHALL YOU PUT THE EVIL AWAY FROM AMONG YOU.

DEUTERONOMY 19.21  AND YOU SHALL NOT PITY THE CONVICTED PERSON.  AND THIS IS HOW YOU SHALL JUDGE THE GUILTY; LIFE FOR LIFE, EYE FOR EYE, TOOTH FOR TOOTH, HAND FOR HAND, FOOT FOR FOOT.

SO, IN SUMMARY, IF YOU WILL DILIGENTLY OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD TO OBSERVE AND DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS WHICH GOD COMMANDS YOU, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL SET YOU ON HIGH ABOVE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, AND ALL GOD’S BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU, AND OVERTAKE YOU, IF YOU WILL OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, HIS SPOKEN WORDS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

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