Shalom,
Our Teaching from The Law of Moses will continue in The Hebrew Bible in Deuteronomy 23.11-26, or in The Christian Bible in Deuteronomy 23.10-25.
AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD’S LAWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, AND PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF DISEASE IN THE ISRAELI MILITARY CAMP.
AND WITH THAT SAID, LET’S READ IN THE HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.11-26, OR IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.10-25.
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.11-12
CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.10-11
IF THERE IS AMONG YOU ANY MAN THAT IS NOT CLEAN BY REASON OF UNCLEANNESS, THE SOLDIER MUST THEN LEAVE THE CAMP, AND HE MUST NOT REENTER THE CAMP.
BUT IT SHALL BE WHEN EVENING COMES, HE SHALL BATHE IN WATER, AND AT SUN DOWN HE MAY ENTER THE CAMP.
THE HEBREW WORDS FOR UNCLEANNESS, ARE MEEK’RAY LY’LAH MEANING AN ACCIDENT AT NIGHT THAT MANY INTERPRET TO MEAN A NOCTURNAL EMISSION.
LEVITICUS 18.5 GOD SAYS, YOU SHALL THEREFORE KEEP MY STATUTES AND MY JUDGMENTS. THAT IS, YOU SHALL OBEY EVERY WORD, LAW, TEACHING AND INSTRUCTION THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, WHICH IF A PERSON (A JEWISH PERSON OR A NON JEWISH PERSON) DOES, HE OR SHE SHALL LIVE IN THEM. I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.
THE WORD LIVE COMES FROM THE HEBREW WORD KHY THAT AMONG ITS MANY DESCRIPTIONS ALSO MEANS WELFARE.
WELFARE IS HEALTH, GOOD FORTUNE, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY, ETC.
PROSPERITY CERTAINLY IN GOD. KNOWING AND BELIEVING GOD, AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHER GODS BESIDE HIM. AND PERHAPS FINANCIAL PROSPERITY.
SO GOD IS SAYING TO YOU, IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO MY WORDS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, YOU WILL HAVE GOOD HEALTH, GOOD FORTUNE, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY, ETC.
THAT IS WHAT GOD IS TELLING THE ISRAELI ARMY, AND THAT IS WHAT GOD IS TELLING YOU, AND THAT IS WHAT GOD IS TELLING ALL MANKIND; IF YOU LIVE ACCORDING TO MY WORDS WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, YOU WILL HAVE GOOD HEALTH, GOOD FORTUNE, HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY, ETC.
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.13-15
CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.12-14
YOU SHALL HAVE AN AREA OUTSIDE THE CAMP WHERE YOU MAY RELIEVE YOURSELF.
YOU SHALL HAVE A SHOVEL IN ADDITION TO YOUR WEAPON, AND IT SHALL BE WHEN YOU SIT OUTSIDE IN THAT AREA, YOU SHALL TURN BACK AND COVER THAT WHICH COMES FROM YOU.
FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD WALKS IN THE MIDST OF YOUR CAMP TO DELIVER YOU, AND TO GIVE UP YOUR ENEMIES BEFORE YOU. THEREFORE SHALL THE CAMP BE HOLY THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD SEES NO UNCLEAN THING IN YOU, AND TURNS AWAY FROM YOU.
GOD SAYS, THE CAMP SHALL BE HOLY THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD SEES NO UNCLEAN THING IN YOU AND TURNS AWAY FROM YOU.
BEING HOLY IS A REQUIREMENT OF GOD TO BE IN THE FAMILY OF GOD, AND TO BE A SERVANT AND A WITNESS OF GOD. AND THAT IS VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS BECAUSE GOD SAYS, YOU SHALL BE HOLY FOR I THE LORD YOUR GOD AM HOLY.
AND BEING HOLY AS THE LORD YOUR GOD IS HOLY IS LIVING YOUR LIFE AS GOD LIVES HIS LIFE. GOD LIVES HIS LIFE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD HE SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.
AND THAT IS BEING HOLY. LIVING YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.
AND THAT MEANS, LISTEN TO THIS, NOT ABOLISHING THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT LIVING BY THE LAW OF MOSES.
THAT IS WHY YESHUA THE MESSIAH SAYS, BE THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT. BECAUSE GOD REQUIRES YOU TO LEAD A HOLY LIFE TO BE IN THE FAMILY OF GOD, AND TO BE HIS SERVANT AND HIS WITNESS.
GOD NEVER BREAKS HIS LAW. BUT WE STUMBLE AND SIN FROM TIME TO TIME. HOWEVER WE ARE FORGIVEN BY THE LORD OUR GOD WHEN WE CONFESS OUR SINS OF BREAKING ANY LAW WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, KNOWING THAT GOD IS FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SINS AND CLEANSE US FROM ALL INIQUITY.
ADD TO THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS GOD ALMIGHTY WHO IS MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS HOLY.
AND THERE IS NO WAY ON GOD’S EARTH THAT GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL LIVE IN ANY PERSON WHO REJECTS HIS LAW OF MOSES THAT IS THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD. JOHN 14.9, 21-24
REMEMBER, MESSIAH YESHUA IS JEHOVAH, GOD ALMIGHTY THE FATHER WHO SAYS, IF A PERSON LOVES ME, HE WILL KEEP MY WORDS, MY COMMANDMENTS, MY LAW OF MOSES. AND MY FATHER WILL LOVE HIM, AND WE WILL COME INTO THAT PERSON. (WE BEING THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS THE FATHER, THE MESSIAH, AND THE SPIRIT WHO ARE ALL ONE AND THE SAME GOD) AND WE WILL MAKE OUR HOME WITH THAT PERSON.
LEVITICUS 19.1-2, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, DEUTERONOMY 32.1-4, PSALM 32.5, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, ISAIAH 40.8, MATTHEW 4.4, MATTHEW 5.48, LUKE 4.4, JOHN 12.44-45, ACTS 5.32, 1 PETER 1.15-16, 1 PETER 2.21-22, 1 JOHN 1.9
DEUTERONOMY 32.1-4 GOD’S DOCTRINE, EVERY WORD HE SPEAKS, IS FOR THE ANGELS AND GOD HIMSELF IN HEAVEN, AND ALL MANKIND ON EARTH.
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.16-17
CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.15-16
YOU SHALL NOT DELIVER A SERVANT TO HIS MASTER WHO HAS SOUGHT REFUGE WITH YOU FROM HIS MASTER.
HE SHALL LIVE WITH YOU IN ANY PLACE HE MAY CHOOSE AMONG THE SETTLEMENTS WITHIN YOUR GATES WHERE IT IS PLEASING TO HIM. YOU SHALL NOT OPPRESS HIM.
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.18-19
CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.17-18
THERE SHALL BE NO WHORE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL, NOR A HOMOSEXUAL OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL.
YOU SHALL NOT BRING THE WAGES OF A WHORE OR THE WAGES OF A DOG INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD IN FULFILLMENT OF ANY VOW. FOR BOTH ARE ABHORRENT TO THE LORD YOUR GOD.
A DOG IS CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE A MALE PROSTITUTE OR A HOMOSEXUAL. LEVITICUS 18.22
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.20-21
CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.19-20
YOU SHALL NOT CHARGE INTEREST FOR LOANS TO YOUR BROTHER, WHETHER INTEREST ON MONEY, OR INTEREST ON FOOD, OR INTEREST ON ANYTHING THAT IS LOANED.
TO A STRANGER YOU MAY CHARGE INTEREST ON A LOAN, BUT TO YOUR BROTHER YOU SHALL NOT CHARGE INTEREST ON A LOAN THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD MAY BLESS YOU IN ALL THAT YOU SET YOUR HAND TO IN THE LAND WHERE YOU GO TO POSSESS.
FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY MOST BIBLE TEACHERS DO NOT TEACH GOD’S BLESSINGS FOR OBEYING THE LAW OF MOSES???
GOD SAYS THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE THAT HE WILL BLESS YOU FOR OBEYING THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT HE WILL LAY CURSES ON YOU FOR DISOBEYING THE LAW OF MOSES.
A GOOD EXAMPLE OF OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IS NOAH. THE ONLY PEOPLE GOD SAVED IN THE FLOOD WERE NOAH AND HIS FAMILY. EIGHT PEOPLE. BECAUSE NOAH OBEYED GOD, AND HE WAS PERFECT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD. GENESIS 6.9
PAUL WRITES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. (AGAIN, SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES) BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH YESHUA THE MESSIAH OUR LORD.
ROMANS 6.23, 1 JOHN 3.4
YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS JEHOVAH, GOD ALMIGHTY WHO SPOKE THE LAW OF MOSES TO MOSES. AND YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS THE ONE WHO SAID, YOU SHALL BE HOLY FOR I THE LORD YOUR GOD AM HOLY. AND IT IS MESSIAH YESHUA WHO SAYS, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.
THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHES OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF MOSES, AND SO SHOULD EVERY BIBLE TEACHER.
EXODUS 33.11, LEVITICUS 19.1-2, DEUTERONOMY 28, MATTHEW 4.4
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.22-24
CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.21-23
WHEN YOU VOW A VOW TO THE LORD YOUR GOD, YOU SHALL NOT DELAY TO PERFORM IT. SURELY THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL REQUIRE IT OF YOU, AND IT SHALL BE SIN WITH YOU.
BUT IF YOU DO NOT VOW, IT SHALL NOT BE SIN FOR YOU.
WHAT HAS GONE FROM YOUR LIPS YOU SHALL KEEP AND SHALL PERFORM ACCORDING AS YOU HAVE VOWED TO THE LORD YOUR GOD, EVEN A FREE WILL OFFERING WHICH YOU HAVE PROMISED WITH YOUR MOUTH.
A FREE WILL OFFERING IN TABERNACLE AND TEMPLE TIMES WAS ONE OF THE SACRIFICES MADE BY AN INDIVIDUAL VOLUNTARILY FOR PERHAPS ATONEMENT FOR A SIN HE COMMITTED, OR SOMETHING ELSE.
YOUR FREE WILL OFFERINGS TO THE LORD ARE THE WORDS YOU SPEAK TO GOD IN PRAYER. PSALM 119.108
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.25-26
CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 23.24-25
WHEN YOU COME INTO YOUR NEIGHBOR’S VINEYARD, THEN YOU MAY EAT GRAPES TO YOUR DESIRE, TO YOUR FILL, BUT YOU SHALL NOT PUT ANY IN YOUR BASKET.
WHEN YOU ENTER ANOTHER MAN’S FIELD OF STANDING GRAIN, YOU MAY PLUCK EARS WITH YOUR HAND, BUT YOU MUST NOT LIFT A SICKLE TO YOUR NEIGHBOR’S GRAIN.
I WOULD SAY, BE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR NEIGHBOR’S PERMISSION TO ENTER HIS FIELD AND PICK FROM HIS CROPS.
SO IN CONCLUSION, I WILL REPEAT A FEW WORDS THAT GOD SAYS IN THE LAW OF MOSES TO THE ARMIES OF ISRAEL, TO THE ARMIES OF THE WORLD, TO YOU, AND TO ALL PEOPLES EVERYWHERE;
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IF YOU WILL OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD TO OBSERVE AND DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS, (THAT IS EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE LAW OF MOSES) WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL SET YOU ON HIGH ABOVE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH,
AND ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME ON YOU, AND OVERTAKE YOU, IF YOU OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD.
BUT IT SHALL COME TO PASS IF YOU WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD TO OBSERVE AND DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HIS STATUTES WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY THAT ALL THESE CURSES WILL COME UPON YOU, AND OVERTAKE YOU. DEUTERONOMY 28.1, 2, 15
Shalom,
Ira Weinstein
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