Month: June 2019

Shalom,

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Deuteronomy 22.13-29.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD’S LAWS FOR SEX CRIMES.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 22.13-29

LET’S REVIEW THESE WORDS.  IF A MAN MARRIES A WOMAN AND HATES HER AFTER HAVING SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH HER, AND BRINGS UP AN EVIL NAME AGAINST HER, AND SAYS, I TOOK THIS WOMAN AND WHEN I HAD RELATIONS WITH HER, I FOUND HER NOT TO BE A VIRGIN.  THEN SHALL THE GIRL’S FATHER AND MOTHER PRODUCE THE EVIDENCE OF THE GIRL’S VIRGINITY BEFORE THE ELDERS OF THE CITY.

AND THE ELDERS OF THAT CITY SHALL TAKE THE MAN AND PUNISH HIM AND FINE HIM ONE HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER AND GIVE IT TO THE GIRL’S FATHER, FOR THE MAN HAS DEFAMED A VIRGIN IN ISRAEL.  AND HE SHALL NEVER HAVE THE RIGHT TO DIVORCE HER.

BUT IF THE CHARGE IS TRUE THAT THE GIRL WAS FOUND NOT TO BE A VIRGIN, THEN THE GIRL SHALL BE BROUGHT OUT TO THE ENTRANCE OF HER FATHER’S HOUSE, AND THE MEN OF HER CITY SHALL STONE HER TO DEATH.  FOR SHE DID WICKEDNESS IN ISRAEL TO PLAY THE WHORE WHILE LIVING IN HER FATHER’S HOUSE.  SO SHALL YOU PUT EVIL AWAY FROM AMONG YOU.

IF A MAN IS FOUND LYING WITH ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE, BOTH OF THEM, THE MAN AND THE WOMAN SHALL DIE.  SO SHALL YOU PUT AWAY EVIL FROM ISRAEL.

IF A WOMAN WHO IS A VIRGIN IS ENGAGED TO A MAN, AND A MAN COMES UPON HER AND LIES WITH HER, YOU SHALL TAKE THE TWO OF THEM OUT TO THE GATE OF THAT CITY AND STONE THEM TO DEATH.  THE GIRL BECAUSE SHE DID NOT CRY OUT FOR HELP IN THE CITY, AND THE MAN BECAUSE HE VIOLATED ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE.  SO SHALL YOU PUT AWAY EVIL FROM AMONG YOU.

BUT IF THE MAN COMES UPON THE ENGAGED GIRL IN THE FIELD, AND THE MAN FORCES HER, AND LIES WITH HER, THEN THE MAN ONLY THAT LAY WITH HER SHALL DIE.  AND YOU SHALL DO NOTHING TO THE GIRL.

IF A MAN COMES UPON A VIRGIN WHO IS NOT ENGAGED, AND HE TAKES HOLD OF HER AND LIES WITH HER, AND THEY ARE DISCOVERED, THE MAN WHO LAY WITH HER SHALL PAY THE GIRL’S FATHER FIFTY SHEKELS OF SILVER AND SHE SHALL BE HIS WIFE BECAUSE HE HAS VIOLATED HER.  HE CAN NEVER HAVE THE RIGHT TO DIVORCE HER.

THESE ARE NOT JEWISH LAWS FOR SEX CRIMES, THESE ARE GOD’S LAWS FOR ALL MANKIND.  AND ALL THESE SEX CRIMES THAT ARE COMMITTED ARE PUNISHABLE ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

AND READING THIS, YOU MIGHT THINK TO YOURSELF, WOW, THIS STUFF GOES ON EVERY DAY.  WE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS, ON THE INTERNET, IN BOOKS, AND MAGAZINES.  WE SEE IT IN THE MOVIES AND ON TV.

BUT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD THEY ARE WICKEDNESS.  SOME ARE PUNISHABLE BY STONING THE PERSON TO DEATH.

BUT TODAY, KILLING A PERSON BECAUSE OF CERTAIN OF THESE SEX CRIMES WOULD BE MURDER.

THUS THE MERCY OF GOD, AND THE GREAT IMPORTANCE FOR ATONEMENT AND LIVING YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAWS.  ALL OF THEM.  FOR MESSIAH YESHUA SAYS, BE THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT. 

MATTHEW 5.48

SEX CRIMES ARE SIN, AND IF THE GUILTY DO NOT RECEIVE GOD’S MERCY AND HAVE ATONEMENT FROM THE LORD OUR GOD, AND REFUSE TO LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, GOD HIMSELF WILL BRING UPON THEM THE DEATH PENALTY WHENEVER THAT MIGHT BE.

RELIGION IS ACTIVE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.  THIS WE ALL KNOW.  

BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW WHAT SIN IS?  THE ANSWER, VERY FEW.  BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT TAUGHT WHAT SIN IS.

GOD TEACHES THAT SIN IS DESPISING THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND BREAKING HIS COMMANDMENT WHICH COLLECTIVELY IS ALL GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

THE NEW TESTAMENT DEFINES SIN AS TRANSGRESSING THE LAW OF MOSES.

AND WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY DEFINES SIN AS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE DIVINE LAW.  AND THAT IS CORRECT BECAUSE THE DIVINE LAW IS THE LAW OF MOSES WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE THAT CONTAINS THE LAWS OF GOD.  AND THESE SEX CRIMES AND ALL GOD’S LAWS ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND DISOBEYING ANY ONE OF THEM IS SIN.

NUMBERS 15.30-31, 1 JOHN 3.4

ADD TO THAT, MANY BIBLE TEACHERS TEACH THE GREATEST HOAX IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, DONE AWAY WITH.  THAT IS TEACHING THAT THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE IS ABOLISHED. 

DEUTERONOMY 32.21

THESE FALSE BIBLE TEACHERS DECEITFULLY TEACH THAT CHRIST FULFILLED THE LAW OF MOSES BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS.  THEREFORE THE FALSE BIBLE TEACHERS SAY, THE LAW OF MOSES HAS NO FURTHER VALIDITY.  THAT IS A HOAX.

BUT THE WORDS OF CHRIST PROVE THEM TO BE LIARS BECAUSE CHRIST SAID AT HIS PASSOVER SEDER, CALLED THE LAST SUPPER IN CHRISTIANITY; FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.  

MATTHEW 26.28

CHRIST DID NOT SAY THAT HE SHED HIS BLOOD TO ABOLISH THE LAW OF MOSES.  THAT IS THE TEACHING OF SATAN FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL.  CHRIST, THE MESSIAH YESHUA SAID, HE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.

GENESIS 2.16-17, GENESIS 3.1-5

GOD TEACHES IN THE BIBLE WHAT WE MUST DO TO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR OUR SINS.  GOD SAYS, FOR IT IS THE BLOOD THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL.  AND THAT IS GOD’S TEACHING FROM TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES. 

LEVITICUS 17.11

WHILE THERE WAS A TABERNACLE IN THE DESERT FROM THE TIME GOD DELIVERED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM EGYPTIAN SLAVERY TO THE TIMES OF THE FIRST AND SECOND TEMPLES, ATONEMENT WAS MADE BY THE SHED BLOOD OF ANIMAL SACRIFICES ON THE ALTAR.

BUT WHILE THERE IS NO TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM ATONEMENT IS MADE BY THE DEATH AND SHED BLOOD OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA.  FOR GOD MADE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN.

THAT IS PROPHESIED BY THE PROPHET ISAIAH IN ISAIAH 53.10,

AND FULFILLED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.

BUT WHAT IS SO VERY IMPORTANT IN GOD’S TEACHING OF ATONEMENT IS RARELY TAUGHT.  AND THAT IS, ONCE YOU RECEIVE ATONEMENT THROUGH YOUR FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA BY HIS DEATH AND SHED BLOOD, GOD REQUIRES YOU TO LIVE YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO ALL GOD’S LAWS AND TEACHINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND SINCE EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IS LAW, GOD REQUIRES YOU TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD HE SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  

THAT IS ATONEMENT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.

THE BIBLE STANDS FOREVER ON GOD’S TEACHINGS AND LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE VERY FOUNDATION OF THE BIBLE.  AND THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD THAT STANDS FOREVER THAT NEVER ENDS NOR DOES HIS WORD EVER CHANGE.

PSALM 105.8-10, ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25

EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION IS IN AGREEMENT WITH EVERY LAW AND TEACHING THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE LAW OF MOSES.

THEREFORE THE LAW OF MOSES AND MESSIAH YESHUA TEACH THAT ALL MANKIND MUST LIVE BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.  WE ARE TO LIVE OUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  THAT IS THE MYSTERY OF GOD, THE GOSPEL, AND SALVATION, ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN, AND MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY.

SIN IS BREAKING ANY WORD, LAW, OR TEACHING OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA IS JEHOVAH.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, 1 JOHN 3.4

LISTEN TO THIS.  THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHES OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF MOSES. 

THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHES THAT SIN IS THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE LAW OF MOSES. 

AND THE DOCTRINE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SPOKEN BY THE MESSIAH YESHUA, IS, GO AND SIN NO MORE.  MEANING, GO AND LIVE YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF MOSES.  THAT WAY YOU WILL NOT SIN.

JOHN 5.14, JOHN 8.10-11, 1 JOHN 3.4, 1 JOHN 1.9

PAUL TEACHES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT; BY ONE MAN SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN, AND SO DEATH PASSED UPON ALL MEN, FOR ALL HAVE SINNED.

BY ONE MAN ADAM WHO DISOBEYED GOD, SIN ENTERED THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN. 

ROMANS 5.12

AGAIN, SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES. 

SO PAUL WRITES; WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN?  SHALL WE CONTINUE TO SIN THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND? (SHALL WE CONTINUE TO BREAK THE LAW OF MOSES THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?)  GOD FORBID.

SO PAUL CONTINUES HIS TEACHING; BEING BAPTIZED INTO MESSIAH’S DEATH, WE SHOULD ALSO WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE.

WALKING IN NEWNESS OF LIFE IS LIVING BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND HAVING FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  THEN YOU WILL BE IN THE LIKENESS OF MESSIAH’S RESURRECTION.  AND YOU ALSO WILL BE RESURRECTED INTO HEAVEN.

ROMANS 6.1-6

I FIND IT AMAZING THAT SO MANY PEOPLE WHO TEACH THE BIBLE HAVE SPENT YEARS AND YEARS IN BIBLE SCHOOLS, AND NEVER TELL ANYONE WHAT SIN IS.  DON’T YOU FIND THAT STRANGE?

THE BIBLE TEACHES US THAT SIN IS DESPISING THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND BREAKING GOD’S COMMANDMENT, HIS LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  AND GOD SAYS, BECAUSE THEY DESPISE THE WORD OF THE LORD AND HAVE BROKEN HIS COMMANDMENT, THAT SOUL SHALL UTTERLY BE CUT OFF.  HIS SIN SHALL BE UPON HIM.

BUT BECAUSE YOU NOW LIVE IN NEWNESS OF LIFE, LIVING BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, HAVING MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, YOU, LIKE MESSIAH YESHUA, WILL ALSO BE RESURRECTED INTO HEAVEN.

SO IN CONCLUSION, MESSIAH’S WONDERFUL COUNSEL TO YOU IS; BE THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT.  MATTHEW 5.48

SO I LOOKED UP THE WORD PERFECT IN GREEK.  PERFECT COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD TELEIOS THAT MEANS COMPLETE, OF FULL AGE, AND PERFECT.

AND BEING PERFECT WITH THE LORD OUR GOD IS TO WALK IN HIS STATUTES, AND TO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.

THEREFORE TO BE PERFECT WITH THE LORD OUR GOD, YOU MUST WALK IN EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE AND THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY.

1 KINGS 8.61, MATTHEW 26.28, JOHN 14.9

AND GOD IS PERFECT BECAUSE GOD LIVES HIS LIFE BY EVERY WORD HE SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.

THEREFORE UNTIL YOU DECIDE TO WALK IN NEWNESS OF LIFE, LIVING BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, YOU CONTINUE TO LIVE IN SIN.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom,

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Deuteronomy 22.1-12.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD’S LAWS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES CONCERNING THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS, WOMEN WEARING MEN’S CLOTHING, AND MEN WEARING WOMEN’S CLOTHING, AND OTHER LAWS.

KEEP IN MIND THAT THE LAWS AND TEACHINGS WRITTEN IN GENESIS THROUGH DEUTERONOMY CALLED THE LAW OF MOSES ARE GOD’S LAWS, NOT THE LAWS OF MOSES.

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

GOD SPOKE THOSE WORDS TO MOSES FACE TO FACE AND GOD GAVE MOSES EVERY LAW AND TEACHING THAT IS WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES THAT MOSES RECORDED AND IS NOW WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.

JEWISH PEOPLE WROTE IN THE BIBLE EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPOKE TO THEM FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  AND THROUGH THE JEWISH PEOPLE, GOD GAVE THE WORLD HIS BIBLE THAT TEACHES ALL HUMANITY TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.

EXODUS 24.13-18, EXODUS 25.21-22, EXODUS 33.11, DEUTERONOMY 34.10, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, ISAIAH 40.8, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

THE ORIGINAL WRITINGS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM MATTHEW THROUGH REVELATION WERE WRITTEN BY JEWISH PEOPLE IN HEBREW, NOT GREEK.

MATTHEW IN HEBREW IS MAH’TEET’YAHOO, MARK IN HEBREW IS MARCOS, LUKE IS LUKAHS, JOHN IS YOHANAN, PAUL IS SHAUL OR SAUL, PETER IS SHIMON, JUDE IS JUDAH, JAMES IS YAHAKOV OR JACOB, AND HEBREWS WAS WRITTEN BY A JEWISH PERSON, PERHAPS SHAUL WHO IS SAUL, WHO IS ALSO CALLED PAUL.

HOWEVER THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES DESPISE AND REJECT THE MESSIAH YESHUA AND THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITINGS WRITTEN BY THESE JEWISH MEN, AND REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THEIR WORDS AS SACRED SCRIPTURE. 

IT IS PROPHETIC.  ISAIAH 53.3

SHAUL WHO IS PAUL WRITES, I SAY THEN, HAVE THEY STUMBLED (THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO REJECT MESSIAH YESHUA AND THE NEW TESTAMENT) THAT THEY SHOULD FALL?  GOD FORBID.  BUT RATHER THROUGH THEIR FALL SALVATION HAS COME TO THE GENTILES TO PROVOKE THEM TO JEALOUSY.  ROMANS 11.11

HOWEVER MANY GENTILES HAVE PROVOKED THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO ANGER RATHER THAN JEALOUSY BECAUSE OF THEIR TERRIBLE HISTORY TOWARD JEWISH PEOPLE.

SO IT WAS THE ANCIENT GREEKS WHO TRANSLATED THE NEW TESTAMENT FROM HEBREW TO GREEK.  AND FROM GREEK, THE NEW TESTAMENT PORTION OF THE BIBLE HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO MORE THAN 1,000 LANGUAGES ALONG WITH THE HEBREW TRANSLATION OF TNAKH THE OLD TESTAMENT.

WHEN LOOKING UP THE WORD PAGAN IN THE RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER’S COLLEGE DICTIONARY, YOU WILL FIND THIS DESCRIPTION:  PAGAN: ONE OF A PEOPLE OR COMMUNITY OBSERVING A POLYTHEISTIC RELIGION AS THE ANCIENT ROMANS AND GREEKS.

A POLYTHEISTIC RELIGION BELIEVES IN MORE THAN ONE GOD OR MANY GODS.

THE ANCIENT GREEK BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT DID NOT UNDERSTAND OR KNOW GOD AS DID THE JEWISH WRITERS OF THE BIBLE.  THEY DID NOT COMPREHEND THE ONENESS OF GOD WHEN READING THAT JESUS WHO IS GOD SPEAKS TO THE FATHER WHO IS GOD.  THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THAT BOTH ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  THE GREEK TRANSLATORS SAW TWO DIFFERENT GODS IN THE FATHER AND JESUS.  AS ALSO IN OTHER SCRIPTURES WHERE IT IS WRITTEN OF TWO CALLED GOD.

BUT WRITERS OF THE BIBLE MUST KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA / JESUS IS THAT ONE GOD.  HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY.

GENESIS 19.24, PSALM 110.1, JOHN 17.1, ETC.

SO THE TRINITY WAS INVENTED.  THREE DIFFERENT PERSONS, ONE GOD, OR THREE DIFFERENT GODS, ONE GOD.  AND THAT IS MORE PAGANISM.

GOD IS A SPIRIT WHO FILLS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.  THUS THE GOD OF CREATION CAN BE IN MANY DIFFERENT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME IN HUMAN FORM.  AND GOD SPEAKS TO GOD.  THAT IS THE NATURE OF GOD.  GOD IS NOT A MAN.

GENESIS 1.2, GENESIS 2.7, GENESIS 17.1, GENESIS 18.1, GENESIS 19.24, EXODUS 24.9-10, DEUTERONOMY 4.35, 39, DEUTERONOMY 6.4, DEUTERONOMY 34.10, 1 SAMUEL 3.10, HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 45.8, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 45.7, PSALM 110.1, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JEREMIAH 23.24, MARK 12.29, JOHN 4.24, JOHN 10.30, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9, JOHN 17.1

WHEN GOD SAYS THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, BELIEVE IT WHETHER YOU UNDERSTAND IT OR NOT.  JOHN 14.23

WHEN GOD SPEAKS TO GOD, AS MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY SPEAKS TO THE FATHER WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FIRST THING TO DO IS BELIEVE GOD WHEN HE SAYS THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.  AND IN TIME GOD WILL GIVE YOU UNDERSTANDING THAT GOD THE FATHER, THE MESSIAH YESHUA / JESUS, THE SPIRIT, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

AND NO ONE IS EQUAL WITH GOD.  THAT IS PAGAN TEACHING.  MESSIAH YESHUA IS NOT EQUAL WITH GOD.  MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD, GOD ALMIGHTY.

GENESIS 18.14, MATTHEW 19.26, JOHN 5.18, PHILIPPIANS 2.6, ISAIAH 46.5

So with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 22.1-12

DEUTERONOMY 22.1-3  YOU SHALL NOT SEE YOUR BROTHER’S OX OR HIS SHEEP GO ASTRAY AND HIDE YOURSELF FROM THEM.  SURELY YOU SHALL RETURN THEM TO YOUR BROTHER.

AND IF YOUR BROTHER IS NOT NEAR TO YOU, OR IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HIM, THEN YOU SHALL BRING IT TO YOUR HOUSE, AND IT SHALL BE WITH YOU UNTIL YOUR BROTHER SEEKS AFTER IT, AND YOU SHALL RESTORE IT TO HIM.

AND SO SHALL YOU DO WITH HIS DONKEY, AND SO SHALL YOU DO WITH HIS CLOTHING, AND SO SHALL YOU DO WITH EVERYTHING THAT IS LOST OF YOUR BROTHER’S WHICH HE LOSES, AND YOU HAVE FOUND.  YOU SHALL NOT HIDE.

THESE ARE LAWS OF GOD THAT CONCERN THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS.  THEY BELONG TO SOMEONE ELSE AND MUST BE RETURNED TO THE OWNER AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO FOR YOU.

DEUTERONOMY 22.4  YOU SHALL NOT SEE YOUR BROTHER’S DONKEY OR HIS OX FALL DOWN BY THE WAY AND HIDE FROM THEM, THAT IS, THE OWNER AND HIS ANIMAL.  SURELY YOU SHALL HELP HIM LIFT IT UP.

WHICH MAKES ME THINK OF WHAT MESSIAH SAYS; WHATSOEVER YOU WOULD WANT MEN TO DO TO YOU, DO SO EVEN TO THEM.

MATTHEW 7.12

DEUTERONOMY 22.5  A WOMAN MUST NOT PUT ON MAN’S CLOTHING, NOR SHALL A MAN WEAR WOMAN’S CLOTHING.  FOR ALL WHO DO THESE THINGS ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD YOUR GOD.

WHY IS CROSS DRESSING AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD?  BECAUSE GOD MADE MEN TO BE MEN, AND WOMEN TO BE WOMEN.

CROSS DRESSING IS DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, AND AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD YOUR GOD.

LEVITICUS 18.22, LEVITICUS 20.13, ROMANS 1.18-32

ROMANS 1.28  THE WORD REPROBATE COMES FROM THE HEBREW WORD MAH’AHS MEANING REJECTING THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD.  THAT IS A REPROBATE, ONE WHO REJECTS THE WORD OF GOD AND DOES THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE EVIL IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.  1 SAMUEL 15.22-26

1 SAMUEL 15.23 & 26  REJECTED COMES FROM THE HEBREW WORD MAH’AHS MEANING REPROBATE.

DEUTERONOMY 22.6-7  IF IT HAPPENS TO BE A BIRD’S NEST BEFORE YOU IN THE WAY IN ANY TREE, OR ON THE GROUND WITH YOUNG ONES, OR EGGS, AND THE MOTHER IS SITTING UPON THE YOUNG, OR ON THE EGGS, YOU SHALL NOT TAKE THE MOTHER WITH THE YOUNG,

BUT YOU SHALL ALWAYS LET THE MOTHER BIRD GO, BUT THE YOUNG TAKE FOR YOURSELF SO THAT IT WILL BE WELL WITH YOU AND YOU WILL PROLONG YOUR DAYS.

GOD TEACHES US TO RESPECT THE LIFE OF OTHER CREATURES.

DEUTERONOMY 22.8  WHEN YOU BUILD A NEW HOUSE, YOU SHALL MAKE A GUARD RAIL FOR YOUR ROOF SO THAT YOU DO NOT BRING BLOOD ON YOUR HOUSE IF SOMEONE FALLS FROM IT.

THE SAME APPLIES TO ANY DANGEROUS SITUATION SUCH AS A SWIMMING POOL OR TALL STAIRWAY.

DEUTERONOMY 22.9  YOU SHALL NOT SOW YOUR VINEYARD WITH DIFFERENT SEEDS LEST THE FRUIT OF THE SEED WHICH YOU HAVE SOWN, AND THE FRUIT OF YOUR VINEYARD IS DEFILED.

LET’S LOOK AT ISAIAH 5.1  NOW WILL I SING TO MY BELOVED A SONG OF MY BELOVED TOUCHING HIS VINEYARD.  MY BELOVED HAS A VINEYARD IN A VERY FRUITFUL HILL.

GOD’S VINEYARD IS THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  NOT THAT EVERYONE MUST BE JEWISH TO BE PART OF GOD’S VINEYARD, BUT EVERYONE MUST SERVE GOD, THE FARMER OF THE VINEYARD, BY LIVING THEIR LIFE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS GOD ALMIGHTY.

AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL.  LIVE YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, HAVING MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD, HEALTHY, AND SUCCESSFUL LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  AND YOU WILL BE FULLY PART OF GOD’S VINEYARD.

DEUTERONOMY 22.10  YOU SHALL NOT PLOW WITH AN OX AND A DONKEY TOGETHER.

ALSO THE CHILD OF GOD WHO SERVES GOD BY LIVING ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE CAN NOT PLOW WITH THOSE WHO DO NOT SERVE GOD.  THAT IS TO SAY, YOU CAN NOT HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH THOSE WHO DO NOT LIVE BY THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, LUKE 4.4, EPHESIANS 5.11

DEUTERONOMY 22.11  YOU SHALL NOT WEAR A GARMENT MIXED OF WOOL AND LINEN TOGETHER.

DEUTERONOMY 22.12  YOU SHALL MAKE FOR YOURSELVES TWISTED THREADS ON THE FOUR CORNERS OF YOUR GARMENT WITH WHICH YOU COVER YOURSELF.

THE LORD COMMANDS US TO WEAR TZITZIT OR FRINGES IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF OUR GARMENTS THAT WHEN WE LOOK UPON THEM WE WILL REMEMBER THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD, AND DO THEM.  NUMBERS 15.37-41

SO IN CONCLUSION, GOD COMMANDS YOU AND ME AND ALL MANKIND TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION THAT INCLUDES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  HAVING MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  AND KNOW, BELIEVE, AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS.  AND THAT GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE FATHER, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE SPIRIT, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD. 

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom,

This evening at sundown is the beginning of Shavuot, also called The Feast of Weeks, and Pentecost.  Shavuot is a one day Festival of The LORD, and it falls fifty days from the Day after The Saturday Sabbath on Sunday of The Passover week.

Our teaching will be from The Words that GOD spoke to Moses about Shavuot / Pentecost that are recorded in Torah, The Law of Moses in Leviticus 23.15-22.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, ON THE DAY THAT BEGAN THE COUNT TO SHAVUOT / PENTECOST, THE DAY AFTER THE SATURDAY SABBATH ON SUNDAY OF THE PASSOVER WEEK, THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD, AND HE BREATHED ON HIS JEWISH DISCIPLES, AND SAID, RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.

And with that said, let’s read Leviticus 23.15-22.

LEVITICUS 23.15-16  AND YOU SHALL NUMBER TO YOU FROM THE DAY AFTER THE SABBATH FROM THE DAY YOU BROUGHT IN THE SHEAF OF THE WAVE OFFERING, SEVEN COMPLETE SABBATHS SHALL THEY BE,

TO THE DAY AFTER THE SEVENTH SABBATH YOU SHALL NUMBER FIFTY DAYS, AND YOU SHALL BRING A GRAIN OFFERING TO THE LORD.

I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT THE SHEAF OF THE WAVE OFFERING THAT WAS WAVED BY THE PRIEST BEFORE THE LORD IS PROPHETIC OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA, AND PERHAPS THE RESURRECTION OF HIS HOLY ONES, ALSO CALLED SAINTS. 

LEVITICUS 23.4-6, 9-12

A SHEAF IS AN OMER, OR A BUNDLE, PERHAPS OF GRAIN THAT WAS WAVED BY THE PRIEST BEFORE THE LORD.

THE HOLY ONES OF GOD ALSO CALLED SAINTS, OR K’DOE’SHIM IN HEBREW, ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR THEIR ATONEMENT, AND LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, 1 JOHN 3.4

LET’S SET A FOUNDATION FOR THIS TEACHING.  MESSIAH YESHUA HELD HIS PASSOVER SEDER THAT CHRISTIANITY CALLS THE LAST SUPPER, ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, THE EVENING OF PASSOVER.  AND AFTER HIS SEDER, THE MESSIAH AND HIS DISCIPLES WENT TO A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMONE.  AND THERE IN GETHSEMONE HE WAS TAKEN BY A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH SWORDS AND CLUBS FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE.

AND A BOGUS TRIAL WAS HELD.  AND ON THE FOLLOWING DAY, THURSDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF PASSOVER, THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH, ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, AND HE WAS KILLED ON A ROMAN STAKE, AND SHED HIS BLOOD TO BE CUT OFF OUT OF THE LAND OF THE LIVING FOR THE TRANSGRESSION OF HIS PEOPLE WAS HE STRICKEN.  FOR GOD MADE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR SIN.  AND THE SCRIPTURES WERE FULFILLED.

MESSIAH WAS THEN BURIED IN A TOMB THE SAME DAY ON THURSDAY.  HE WAS DEAD AND IN THE TOMB FOR THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS; THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY.  AND SATURDAY AFTER SUNDOWN, THE BEGINNING OF SUNDAY, ACCORDING TO THE LORD GOD, YESHUA THE MESSIAH ROSE FROM THE DEAD.

MESSIAH YESHUA WAS RESURRECTED ON THE DAY AFTER THE SATURDAY SABBATH ON SUNDAY, THE DAY THAT THE PRIEST WAVED THE WAVE OFFERING AT THE TEMPLE THAT STARTED THE COUNT TO SHAVUOT / PENTECOST.

AND LATE IN THE DAY, THE SAME DAY OF HIS RESURRECTION, WHEN HIS DISCIPLES WERE GATHERED TOGETHER, THE DOORS WERE SHUT, MESSIAH STOOD IN THE MIDST OF THEM, AND SAID TO THEM, PEACE BE UNTO YOU.  AND HE SHOWED THEM HIS HANDS AND HIS SIDE, AND HE SAID TO THEM, AS MY FATHER HAS SENT ME, EVEN SO I SEND YOU.  AND WHEN HE SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAID, RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.

MESSIAH YESHUA IS THE FATHER, THE SON OF GOD, THE MESSIAH, THE SPIRIT, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD ALMIGHTY, YEHOVAH, HA SHEM ELOHIM.

MARK 16.9, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, ISAIAH 52.13-15, ISAIAH 53.1-12, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9

JOHN 20.1-22, VERSE 19  MOST BIBLES READ, THE SAME DAY AT EVENING, OR SUNDAY EVENING BEING THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT WHERE THE DISCIPLES WERE ASSEMBLED FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS, CAME YESHUA AND STOOD IN THE MIDST, AND SAID TO THEM, PEACE BE UNTO YOU.

SO I THOUGHT THAT THE SAME DAY AT EVENING BEING THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK COULD NOT BE CORRECT BECAUSE GOD’S DAY STARTS AT SUNDOWN.  SO I LOOKED UP THE WORD EVENING IN GREEK, AND THE GREEK WORD FOR EVENING IS OPSIOS THAT MEANS LATE AFTERNOON.  GENESIS 1.5

GENESIS 1.5  EVENING IN HEBREW IS EH’REV MEANING SUNDOWN AND NIGHT.  MORNING IN HEBREW IS VO’KEHR MEANING THE BREAK OF DAY AND DAY.

SO MESSIAH BREATHED ON HIS DISCIPLES THE HOLY SPIRIT THE SAME DAY HE WAS RESURRECTED LATE IN THE AFTERNOON ON SUNDAY.  IF IT WAS IN THE EVENING IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE START OF MONDAY.

IT’S IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT.  YESHUA WAS RAISED ON THE DAY AFTER THE SATURDAY SABBATH ON SUNDAY DURING THE DAYS OF PASSOVER.  AND HE ALSO GAVE HIS DISCIPLES THE HOLY SPIRIT ON THE DAY HE WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, ON SUNDAY.

MESSIAH’S RESURRECTION FULFILLS SCRIPTURE BECAUSE MESSIAH ROSE FROM THE DEAD ON THE DAY AFTER THE SATURDAY SABBATH ON SUNDAY THAT BEGAN THE COUNT TO SHAVUOT / PENTECOST, THE DAY THAT THE PRIEST WAVED THE SHEAF OF THE WAVE OFFERING.  AND ON THE SAME DAY, MESSIAH BREATHED ON HIS DISCIPLES THE HOLY SPIRIT.

LEVITICUS 23.17  PART OF GOD’S COMMAND FOR SHAVUOT / PENTECOST CALLS FOR TWO WAVE LOAVES OF BREAD THAT ARE ALSO WAVED.  THEY ARE THE FIRST FRUITS UNTO THE LORD.

THE FIRST FRUITS ARE THE FIRST AND BEST OF THE CROP.

AND MESSIAH AND HIS HOLY ONES, THE SAINTS ARE THE FIRST FRUITS OF ALL HE CREATED.

1 CORINTHIANS 15.20, JAMES 1.18, REVELATION 14.1-4 

THE FIRST FRUITS ARE THE FIRST AND THE BEST OF ALL GOD CREATED.

LEVITICUS 23.18-19  WHEN THE TEMPLE IS STANDING IN JERUSALEM, ANIMAL SACRIFICES WERE OFFERED, AND WILL BE OFFERED TO THE LORD FOR BURNT OFFERINGS, FOR SIN OFFERINGS, AND FOR PEACE OFFERINGS.

MULTITUDES TODAY HAVE IT WRONG.  SO MANY PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT THAT WHEN THEY BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST THEY NO LONGER HAVE TO DO WHAT GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE BECAUSE THEY ARE TAUGHT THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED.

THE LAW OF MOSES JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD.  THEY ARE TOLD THAT ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST AND THEY HAVE A FIFTY YARD LINE SEAT IN HEAVEN.

TEACHING THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED IS TEACHING DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD. 

AND TEACHING DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD DOES NOT GET ANYONE INTO HEAVEN.

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

REVELATION 22.14 THE KING JAMES VERSION

MESSIAH YESHUA GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.  THAT IS, MESSIAH GAVE HIS LIFE TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS, TO BE OUR ATONEMENT. 

THAT’S WHAT HE SAID AT HIS PASSOVER SEDER, THE LAST SUPPER.  “FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.”

JESUS NEVER SAID ANYWHERE, EVER THAT HE CAME TO ABOLISH THE LAW OF MOSES.  THAT IS ONE BOLD LIE.  JESUS DID NOT COME TO TEACH DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD.  JESUS IS GOD, GOD ALMIGHTY WHO CAME TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR US AS A HUMAN BEING TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS THAT WE MAY HAVE LIFE.

THEN AFTER YOU HAVE FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, GOD REQUIRES YOU TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE INCLUDING THE LAW OF MOSES.  THEN YOU ARE HOLY TO THE LORD.  AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU A GOOD, SUCCESSFUL, AND HEALTHY LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL.

MATTHEW 26.28, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

A GOOD PERSONAL STUDY FOR EVERYONE IS THIS.  DO A SEARCH FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION AND DISCOVER THE REASON WHY GOD PUNISHES PEOPLE, SOMETIMES TO DEATH. 

AND YOU WILL FIND OUT THAT GOD PUNISHES PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DISOBEY GOD.  THEY DISOBEY THE WORDS THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

AND DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD IS WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT IN MANY BIBLE SETTINGS WHEN YOU ARE TAUGHT THAT THE LAW OF MOSES NEED NOT BE OBEYED.  THAT IS DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, AND AS PAUL WRITES, YOU HAVE BELIEVED IN VAIN.

AND THERE ARE TIMES THAT GOD WILL TEST YOU TO KNOW WHAT IS IN YOUR HEART WHETHER YOU WILL OBEY HIS COMMANDMENTS, OR NOT.

1 CORINTHIANS 15.1-2, ROMANS 2.13, ROMANS 6.1-2, 1 JOHN 3.4, ROMANS 8.6-7, JOHN 5.14, JOHN 8.10, 11, ACTS 5.32, 1 PETER 1.1-2, DEUTERONOMY 8.2

ROMANS 6.1-2  PAUL TEACHES, SHALL WE CONTINUE TO SIN?  THAT IS, SHALL YOU CONTINUE TO BREAK THE LAW OF MOSES?  GOD FORBID.  1 JOHN 3.4

JOHN 5.14 AND JOHN 8.11  MESSIAH TEACHES YOU TO SIN NO MORE.  THAT IS TO SAY THAT MESSIAH TEACHES YOU TO NOT LIVE YOUR LIFE IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT RATHER LIVE YOUR LIFE BY THE LAW OF MOSES.  1 JOHN 3.4 

THEREFORE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN VAIN IF THEY TRANSGRESS THE LAW OF MOSES.  1 JOHN 3.4

LEVITICUS 23.20  AGAIN THE PRIEST WAVED PORTIONS FROM THE SACRIFICES WITH THE BREAD OF THE FIRST FRUITS FOR A WAVE OFFERING BEFORE THE LORD THAT ARE HOLY TO THE LORD FOR THE PRIEST. 

AGAIN, I BELIEVE THAT THE WAVE OFFERING WAS PROPHETIC FOR MESSIAH’S RESURRECTION AND THE RESURRECTION OF HIS HOLY ONES.

LEVITICUS 23.21  SHAVUOT / PENTECOST IS A HOLY CONVOCATION.  A TIME SET APART FOR THE LORD TO ATTEND A SERVICE THAT HONORS THE LORD YOUR GOD TO OBSERVE THIS HOLY DAY THAT IS A FEAST OF THE LORD. 

SHAVUOT / PENTECOST IS A SABBATH.  NO WORK OF ANY KIND IS TO BE DONE ON THAT DAY.  IT IS A STATUTE FOREVER THROUGHOUT THE GENERATIONS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  AND THAT IS FOREVER.

ISAIAH 66.22, ZECHARIAH 12.10, ZECHARIAH 13.6

ZECHARIAH 13.6  MY FRIENDS IN HEBREW IS M’AH’HAH’VY, MEANING, THOSE WHO LOVE ME.

LEVITICUS 23.22  AND WHEN HARVESTING YOUR HARVEST, LEAVE SOME FOR THE POOR AND FOR THE STRANGER.  I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, THE LORD GOD SAYS.  AND YES, THE LORD TEACHES US KINDNESS ALSO.

SO IN CONCLUSION, SHAVUOT IS A TIME TO REMEMBER THE RESURRECTION OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA, AND MESSIAH BREATHING ON HIS DISCIPLES THE HOLY SPIRIT.

THE RESURRECTION OF MESSIAH IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE, HIS HOLY ONES WHO LIVE OUR LIVES BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, HAVING MESSIAH YESHUA FOR OUR ATONEMENT, WILL ALSO BE RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD, OR WHILE WE ARE ALIVE AT MESSIAH’S RETURN TO BE WITH THE LORD FOREVER IN THE MILLENNIUM IN ISRAEL AND IN ETERNITY IN HEAVEN. 

AND IT IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTAND THAT GOD GIVES THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO OBEY HIM.

BUT MOST IMPORTANT ABOUT SHAVUOT / PENTECOST IS TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  TO KNOW OF GOD’S GRACE AND KINDNESS, AND HIS LOVE FOR YOU.  AND REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY FROM SUNDOWN FRIDAY TO SUNDOWN SATURDAY TO KEEP IT HOLY.  IT IS THE SABBATH OF THE LORD YOUR GOD.  IN IT YOU SHALL NOT DO ANY WORK.

AND SHAVUOT / PENTECOST IS A REMINDER THAT EVERYONE NEEDS ATONEMENT FOR THEIR SINS OF BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND OUR ATONEMENT IS IN MESSIAH YESHUA, FOLLOWED BY OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  THAT IS ETERNAL LIFE, AND THAT IS THE GOSPEL.

AND REMEMBER THE LORD YOUR GOD IN EVERYTHING YOU DO, FOR HE IS GOD.  THERE ARE NO OTHERS.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom,

Our teaching from Torah, The Law of Moses will continue from Deuteronomy 21.15-23.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE JOY OF OBEYING THE LORD YOUR GOD.

And with that said, let’s read Deuteronomy 21.15-23.

DEUTERONOMY 21.15-17  IF A MAN HAS TWO WIVES, THE ONE LOVED, AND THE OTHER UNLOVED, AND THEY HAVE BORNE HIM CHILDREN, BOTH THE LOVED WIFE AND THE UNLOVED WIFE, AND IF THE FIRSTBORN SON IS HERS THAT WAS UNLOVED,

THEN IT SHALL BE IN THE DAY THAT HE CAUSES HIS CHILDREN TO INHERIT THAT WHICH HE HAS, HE MAY NOT MAKE THE FIRSTBORN SON OF THE BELOVED BEFORE THE SON OF THE UNLOVED WHO IS THE FIRSTBORN.

BUT HE SHALL REGARD THE SON OF THE UNLOVED FOR THE FIRSTBORN BY GIVING HIM A DOUBLE PORTION OF ALL THAT HE HAS, FOR HE IS THE BEGINNING OF HIS STRENGTH.  THE RIGHT OF THE FIRSTBORN IS HIS.

SOME BIBLES READ, THE HATED WIFE, AND OTHERS READ, THE UNLOVED WIFE.  I CHOSE FROM THE HEBREW WORDS SEH’NU’AH AND SEH’NEE’AH FOR HATED AND UNLOVED, THE WORD UNLOVED.

FIRST OF ALL, THIS LAW CONCERNS A MAN HAVING TWO WIVES.  SO I HAD TO THINK AWHILE IF THAT IS LAWFUL ACCORDING TO TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND THE ANSWER IS NO.

GENESIS 2.24  THE BIBLE SAYS, THEREFORE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE, NOT HIS WIVES, AND THEY SHALL BE ONE FLESH.

BUT I BELIEVE THAT GOD PUT THIS LAW IN PLACE TO PROTECT WOMEN WHO WERE MARRIED TO MEN WHO HAD MORE THAN ONE WIFE.

AS YOU KNOW, SOME MEN IN THE BIBLE HAD MORE THAN ONE WIFE.  A FELLOW BY THE NAME OF LAMECH HAD TWO WIVES, ESAU HAD TWO WIVES.  AND JACOB HAD FOUR WIVES, GIDEON HAD MANY WIVES, EVEN SEVENTY SONS.  THE PROPHET SAMUEL’S FATHER HAD TWO WIVES, DAVID HAD MORE THAN ONE WIFE, AND THEN OF COURSE THERE IS SOLOMON WHO HAD SEVEN HUNDRED WIVES AND PRINCESSES, AND THREE HUNDRED CONCUBINES.

GENESIS 4.19, GENESIS 26.34, JUDGES 8.30, 1 SAMUEL 1.1-2, 2 SAMUEL 3.2-5, 1 KINGS 11.1-3.

THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT I AM NOT GOING TO SPEND A WHOLE LOT OF TIME ON, BUT THE BIBLE DOES SAY, BE SUBJECT TO THE HIGHER POWERS, AND THAT IS THE GOVERNMENT. AND IN THE UNITED STATES IT IS POLYGAMY AND A CRIME TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE WIFE.  ROMANS 13.1-6

DEUTERONOMY 21.18-21  IF A MAN HAS A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON WHO WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF HIS FATHER, OR THE VOICE OF HIS MOTHER, AND WHEN THEY HAVE DISCIPLINED HIM, HE WILL NOT OBEY THEM.

THEN HIS FATHER AND HIS MOTHER SHALL TAKE HOLD OF HIM AND BRING HIM TO THE ELDERS OF HIS CITY, AND TO THE GATE OF HIS PLACE,

AND THEY SHALL SAY TO THE ELDERS OF HIS CITY, THIS IS OUR SON, AND HE IS STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS.  HE WILL NOT OBEY US, AND HE IS A GLUTTON AND A DRUNK.

AND ALL THE MEN OF HIS CITY SHALL STONE HIM WITH STONES THAT HE DIES.  SO SHALL YOU PUT EVIL AWAY FROM AMONG YOU, AND ALL ISRAEL SHALL HEAR AND FEAR.

AND I THOUGHT, THIS IS SEVERE PUNISHMENT.  HOWEVER THIS IS A RULING OF GOD.  BUT WHY?

I HAVE A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS.  THIS KID COULD GROW UP TO BE A MONSTER OF A HUMAN BEING.  THEREFORE THE LORD SAYS, SO SHALL YOU PUT EVIL AWAY FROM AMONG YOU, AND ALL ISRAEL SHALL HEAR AND FEAR.

ALSO, THE LORD SAYS, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER AS THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS COMMANDED YOU, THAT YOUR DAYS MAY BE PROLONGED, AND THAT IT MAY GO WELL WITH YOU IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU.

CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE SON OR DAUGHTER WHO WILL NOT OBEY HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD.

DEUTERONOMY 5.16, EXODUS 20.12

TODAY, IF A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON WHO IS A GLUTTON AND A DRUNK IS STONED TO DEATH BECAUSE HE DID NOT OBEY HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, THOSE THROWING THE STONES WOULD BE HAULED OFF TO JAIL.  THAT BEING THE LAW OF THE LAND.

GOD’S LAWS STAND FOREVER, AND THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IS LAW THAT NEVER CHANGES OR ENDS.  AND GOD HAS THE FINAL SAY.

ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25

FROM WHAT I READ IN THE BIBLE, JUST ABOUT EVERY PUNISHMENT THAT GOD HANDS OUT IS BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, DISOBEYING THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE.

MESSIAH YESHUA TEACHES FROM TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES TO ALL MANKIND THAT MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ONLY BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE LORD DOES MAN LIVE.

THE BIBLE CONDEMNS DISOBEDIENCE TO THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, EPHESIANS 2.2, EPHESIANS 5.6, COLOSSIANS 3.6, 1 TIMOTHY 1.9, 2 TIMOTHY 3.1-2, 1 PETER 2.7-8

WE HAVE PEOPLE TEACHING US THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED.  THAT IS TEACHING DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD.  BECAUSE THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD OF THE SPIRITS OF ALL FLESH.  NO ONE CAN ABOLISH THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND NO ONE CAN ABOLISH ONE WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.

THE LIE THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED IS THE SAME LIE THAT THE SNAKE SAID TO EVE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, YOU WILL SURELY NOT DIE IF YOU DISOBEY GOD.  ADAM AND EVE DIED BECAUSE THEY DISOBEYED GOD.  AND GOD CREATED ADAM AND EVE TO LIVE FOREVER.

GENESIS 3.4,22, GENESIS 5.5, NUMBERS 16.22

GOD COMMANDS THE CHILDREN TO OBEY THEIR PARENTS.  AND GOD COMMANDS EVERYONE TO OBEY HIM, THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.

YES, WHEN YOU HAVE FAITH IN MESSIAH YESHUA, YOU HAVE ATONEMENT FOR YOUR SINS.  YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN.  BUT THEN GOD REQUIRES YOU TO LIVE A HOLY AND GODLY LIFE IN OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  THAT IS HOLINESS AND GODLINESS, LIVING BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT IS SALVATION.

GOD TEACHES THAT REPENTANCE IS TURNING FROM ALL YOUR SINS.  SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES. AND TURNING TO GOD BY OBEYING ALL HIS STATUTES, THE LAW OF MOSES, DOING THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT.

BUT GOD SAYS, IF THE PERSON RETURNS TO HIS SIN AS THE UNGODLY WHO TRANSGRESS THE LAW OF MOSES, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL BE FORGOTTEN IN HIS SIN THAT HE HAS SINNED.  THAT IS A VERY SERIOUS TEACHING.

EZEKIEL 18.19-24, 1 JOHN 3.4

GOD’S LAWS AND COMMANDMENTS, THAT IS EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES, ARE NOT DIFFICULT. 

1 JOHN 5.3, 1 JOHN 1.9

DEUTERONOMY 21.22-23  AND IF A MAN HAS COMMITTED A SIN WORTHY OF DEATH, AND HE IS PUT TO DEATH, AND YOU HANG HIM ON A TREE,

HIS BODY SHALL NOT REMAIN ALL NIGHT UPON THE TREE, BUT SURELY YOU SHALL BURY HIM THE SAME DAY, FOR IT IS A REPROACH TO GOD THAT THE LAND SHOULD NOT BE DEFILED WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVES YOU FOR AN INHERITANCE.

THE TITLE OF THIS MESSAGE IS, THE JOY OF OBEYING THE LORD YOUR GOD.

AND I THOUGHT THAT AFTER TEACHING ABOUT THE SIN OF DISOBEYING GOD, SUCH AS THE REBELLIOUS AND STUBBORN SON WHO DISOBEYS HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND IS STONED TO DEATH, AND THE MAN WHO COMMITS A SIN WORTHY OF DEATH, AND IS HUNG ON A TREE, AND OVERALL, THE BIBLE CONDEMNS DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, PERHAPS A GOOD WAY TO CLOSE THIS MESSAGE IS FROM THE WORDS OF MESSIAH YESHUA TO THOSE WHO SIN, AND TO THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS.

MATTHEW 13.36-43

MESSIAH TOLD THIS PARABLE, SAYING, THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS LIKE A MAN WHO SOWED GOOD SEED IN HIS FIELD.  BUT WHILE MEN SLEPT, HIS ENEMY CAME AND SOWED TARES AMONG THE WHEAT, AND WENT HIS WAY.

BUT WHEN THE BLADE SPRUNG UP AND BROUGHT FORTH FRUIT, THEN THE TARES APPEARED ALSO.

THE TARES ARE FALSE GRAIN, NOXIOUS WEEDS.

SO THE SERVANTS OF THE HOMEOWNER CAME AND SAID TO HIM, SIR, DID YOU NOT SOW GOOD SEED IN YOUR FIELD?  FROM WHERE DID THE TARES COME FROM?  AND HE SAID TO THEM, AN ENEMY HAS DONE THIS.  AND THE SERVANTS SAID TO HIM, SHALL WE GO AND GATHER UP THE TARES?  BUT HE SAID, NO, LEST WHILE YOU GATHER UP THE TARES, YOU ROOT UP ALSO THE WHEAT WITH THEM.  LET THEM BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST, AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, FIRST GATHER THE TARES TOGETHER AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM, BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN.

AND MESSIAH’S DISCIPLES ASKED HIM TO EXPLAIN THE PARABLE.

AND MESSIAH SAID TO THEM, HE WHO SOWS THE GOOD SEED IS THE SON OF MAN.  THE SON OF MAN IS MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD ALMIGHTY.  THE FIELD IS THE WORLD.  THE GOOD SEED ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM, BUT THE TARES ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE WICKED ONE.  THE ENEMY THAT SOWED THE TARES IS THE DEVIL.  THE HARVEST IS THE END OF THE WORLD, AND THE REAPERS ARE THE ANGELS.

AS THE TARES ARE GATHERED AND BURNED IN THE FIRE, SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END OF THIS WORLD.  THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS AND THEY WILL GATHER OUT OF HIS KINGDOM ALL THINGS THAT OFFEND, AND THEM WHICH DO INIQUITY.  THOSE WHO OFFEND AND DO INIQUITY ARE PEOPLE WHO SIN.  SIN IS TRANSGRESSING THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND THE SON OF MAN WILL CAST THEM INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE.  THERE SHALL BE WAILING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.

THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER.  WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR, MESSIAH SAID, LET HIM HEAR.

RIGHTEOUS IS A WORD THAT MEANS BEING RIGHT WITH GOD, BEING LAWFUL, AND HOLY.  AND THE ONLY WAY TO BE RIGHT WITH GOD, AND LAWFUL, AND HOLY IS NOT LIVING IN SIN BY BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT RATHER LIVING YOUR LIFE IN OBEDIENCE TO THE LORD YOUR GOD ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND YOU WILL EXPERIENCE THE JOY OF OBEYING THE LORD YOUR GOD.

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, 1 JOHN 3.4

AND MESSIAH SAYS, THE RIGHTEOUS WILL SHINE FORTH AS THE SUN IN THE KINGDOM OF THEIR FATHER.  THE KINGDOM OF OUR FATHER IS NOT ONLY HEAVEN, BUT ALSO THE EARTH.  MEANING, A LOT OF WONDERFUL BLESSINGS WILL COME UPON YOU AND YOUR FAMILY ON THIS EARTH WHEN YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS; WHEN YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY WITH THE LORD YOUR GOD IN HEAVEN WHERE THERE WILL BE NO TEARS, OR DEATH, NOR SORROW, OR CRYING, OR PAIN, BUT EVERLASTING JOY AND GLADNESS.  FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY.

THAT IS THE JOY OF OBEYING THE LORD YOUR GOD.

WHO HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. 

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com