Shalom,
OUR TEACHING FROM TORAH WILL CONTINUE FROM DEUTERONOMY 31.1-6.
AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, MOSES PREPARED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO CONQUER THE PROMISED LAND, TELLING THEM, BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS. DO NOT FEAR THEM, NOR BE IN AWE OF THEM, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS HE WHO GOES WITH YOU. HE WILL NOT FAIL YOU, NOR FORSAKE YOU.
AND WITH THAT SAID, LET’S READ DEUTERONOMY 31.1-6.
DEUTERONOMY 31.1-2 AND MOSES WENT AND SPOKE THESE WORDS TO ALL ISRAEL.
AND HE SAID TO THEM, I AM ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS OLD THIS DAY. I CAN NO MORE GO OUT AND COME IN. ALSO THE LORD HAS SAID TO ME, YOU SHALL NOT GO OVER THIS JORDAN.
MOSES DIED AT THE AGE OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS OLD IN THE LAND OF MOAB. THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, MOAB WAS A COUNTRY BY THE DEAD SEA AND JERICHO. TODAY, MOAB IS PART OF CURRENT DAY JORDAN. DEUTERONOMY 34.5-7
AND GOD DID NOT ALLOW MOSES TO CROSS OVER THE JORDAN RIVER AND ENTER THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN THAT BECAME THE LAND OF ISRAEL BECAUSE EARLIER, MOSES DISOBEYED GOD.
IT WAS THE TIME THAT MIRIAM, THE SISTER OF MOSES HAD DIED. AND THERE WAS NO WATER FOR THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL AT THAT CERTAIN DESERT PLACE. AND THE PEOPLE COMPLAINED AGAINST MOSES AND AARON BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WATER TO DRINK. SO MOSES AND AARON WENT TO THE DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE OF THE CONGREGATION, AND THEY FELL ON THEIR FACES, AND THE GLORY OF GOD APPEARED TO THEM.
AND THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, TAKE YOUR ROD AND GATHER THE ASSEMBLY TOGETHER, YOU AND AARON YOUR BROTHER, AND SPEAK TO THE ROCK BEFORE THEIR EYES AND IT WILL GIVE FORTH ITS WATER. AND YOU SHALL BRING WATER TO THEM OUT OF THE ROCK. AND YOU SHALL GIVE THE CONGREGATION AND THEIR ANIMALS WATER TO DRINK.
SO MOSES AND AARON GATHERED THE CONGREGATION OF SOME THREE MILLION PEOPLE BEFORE THE ROCK, AND MOSES SAID TO THEM, RATHER HE YELLED AT THEM, HEAR NOW YOU REBELS, MUST WE BRING YOU WATER OUT OF THIS ROCK?
AND MOSES LIFTED UP HIS HAND, AND SLAMMED THE ROCK TWICE WITH HIS ROD, AND THE WATER CAME OUT ABUNDANTLY. AND THE CONGREGATION OF THREE MILLION, AND THEIR ANIMALS DRANK.
ANOTHER GREAT MIRACLE OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, YESHUA THE MESSIAH.
AND THE LORD SPOKE TO MOSES AND AARON, AND GOD SAID TO THEM, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT BELIEVE ME, TO SANCTIFY ME IN THE EYES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THAT IS TO SAY, BECAUSE YOU DID NOT REGARD ME AS HOLY IN THE EYES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, NOR DID YOU RESPECT ME, NOR DID YOU FEAR ME, THEREFORE YOU SHALL NOT BRING THIS CONGREGATION INTO THE LAND WHICH I HAVE GIVEN THEM. NUMBERS 20.1-13
THE LORD TOLD MOSES TO SPEAK TO THE ROCK, AND THE ROCK WILL GIVE WATER TO THE PEOPLE AND THEIR ANIMALS. BUT MOSES, IT SEEMS, YELLED AT THE PEOPLE, AND SLAMMED THE ROCK TWICE WITH HIS ROD. AND THE CLINCHER WAS MOSES SAYING TO THE PEOPLE, MUST WE BRING YOU WATER OUT OF THE ROCK? MOSES AND AARON APPEARED TO BE TAKING CREDIT FOR BRINGING WATER OUT OF A ROCK FOR THE PEOPLE AND THEIR ANIMALS TO DRINK RATHER THEN THANKING THE LORD THEIR GOD FOR HIS GREAT MIRACLE.
PEOPLE GIVE MOSES THE CREDIT FOR BRINGING THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN FROM EGYPT OVER THAT FORTY YEAR PERIOD. AND MOSES DESERVES ALL THE HONOR IN THE WORLD FOR CARRYING OUT HIS GREAT RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD AND HIS PEOPLE. BUT IT WAS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA WHO FREED THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF EGYPTIAN SLAVERY, AND BROUGHT THE PEOPLE FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND.
THE LAND OF ISRAEL WAS ORIGINALLY THE LAND OF CANAAN.
MOSES DIED IN MOAB. BUT HE DID NOT GO INTO THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN, AS GOD SAID TO HIM. DEUTERONOMY 34.1-5
DEUTERONOMY 31.3 BEFORE MOSES DIED, HE SAID TO THE PEOPLE, THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL GO OVER BEFORE YOU, AND HE WILL DESTROY THESE NATIONS FROM BEFORE YOU, AND YOU SHALL POSSESS THEM. AND JOSHUA SHALL GO OVER BEFORE YOU AS THE LORD HAS SAID.
IT’S INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ENTERED AND POSSESSED THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN THAT BECAME THE JEWISH HOMELAND ISRAEL 3,400 YEARS AGO, THE LORD GOD TAUGHT HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE HOW TO LEAD A HOLY LIFE FOR THEIR GOD BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS. KNOWING THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD. AND TO LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT. AND TO CLING TO THE LORD YOUR GOD. BUT TO FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND WALK IN ALL HIS WAYS, THAT GOD IS THEIR LIFE, AND THE LENGTH OF THEIR DAYS.
AND HOW IS THAT ACCOMPLISHED? BY LIVING YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAW, CALLED THE LAW OF MOSES.
DEUTERONOMY 6.4-6, DEUTERONOMY 10.12-13, DEUTERONOMY 30.19-20, 2 KINGS 21.8, 2 CHRONICLES 34.14, LUKE 2.21-23, EXODUS 13.1-2
EXODUS 13.1-2 SANCTIFY (MAKE HOLY) TO ME ALL THE FIRSTBORN, IN HEBREW IS, KAH’DEHSH’LEE KHAL B’KHOR.
THE LORD GAVE MOSES HIS LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS TO GIVE TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. IN TURN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, WHO TODAY ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE, GAVE THE WORLD GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS, CALLED THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THE ENTIRE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, TO LIVE BY FOR THEIR GOOD.
I LOVE THE WORDS THAT GOD SPOKE TO JOSHUA AFTER MOSES DIED, AND JUST BEFORE JOSHUA LED THE PEOPLE INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN TO CONQUER IT AND POSSESS IT.
CANAAN WAS NOT A SMALL LAND. THE BORDERS OF CANAAN WERE FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT THAT INCLUDED LEBANON, TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER, A 1700 MILE RIVER THAT FLOWS THROUGH SYRIA AND IRAQ INTO THE PERSIAN GULF. THOSE ARE THE GOD GIVEN BORDERS OF ISRAEL. GENESIS 15.18-21
GOD SAID TO JOSHUA IN JOSHUA 1.6-9, BE STRONG AND OF A GOOD COURAGE. FOR UNTO THIS PEOPLE (THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL) SHALL YOU DIVIDE FOR AN INHERITANCE THE LAND WHICH I SWORE TO THEIR FATHERS TO GIVE THEM.
ONLY BE STRONG AND VERY COURAGEOUS THAT YOU OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW WHICH MOSES MY SERVANT COMMANDED YOU. DO NOT TURN FROM IT TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT THAT YOU SHALL PROSPER WHERESOEVER YOU GO.
IT TAKES STRENGTH AND COURAGE TO OBSERVE AND DO ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW OF MOSES. WHY? BECAUSE OF THE OPPOSITION THAT WILL COME AGAINST YOU FOR LIVING YOUR LIFE FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD ACCORDING TO GOD’S LAW. THEREFORE BE STRONG AND VERY COURAGEOUS THAT YOU OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW WHICH MOSES THE SERVANT OF GOD COMMANDS YOU. 1 JOHN 5.3
AND GOD CONTINUED, THIS BOOK OF THE LAW (THE LAW OF MOSES) SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. BUT YOU SHALL MEDITATE IN IT DAY AND NIGHT THAT YOU SHALL OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN IN IT. FOR THEN YOU SHALL MAKE YOUR WAY PROSPEROUS, AND THEN YOU SHALL HAVE GOOD SUCCESS.
HAVE NOT I COMMANDED YOU? BE STRONG AND OF A GOOD COURAGE. BE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE DISCOURAGED, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.
THESE WORDS SPOKEN BY GOD TO JOSHUA ARE FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING IN THE WORLD.
YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE SAYS TO THE WORLD, IT IS WRITTEN, MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD. DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4
DEUTERONOMY 31.4-5 MOSES SAID TO THE PEOPLE, AND THE LORD SHALL DO TO THEM (THE CANAANITES) AS HE DID TO SIHON AND TO OG, KINGS OF THE AMORITES, AND TO THE LAND OF THEM WHICH HE DESTROYED.
AND THE LORD SHALL GIVE THEM UP BEFORE YOUR FACE THAT YOU MAY DO TO THEM ACCORDING TO ALL THE COMMANDMENTS WHICH I HAVE COMMANDED YOU.
DURING ISRAEL’S EXODUS TO THE PROMISED LAND FROM EGYPT, MOSES SENT MESSENGERS TO SIHON, THE KING OF THE AMORITES REQUESTING PERMISSION TO PASS THROUGH HIS LAND. WE WILL NOT TURN INTO YOUR FIELDS, OR INTO YOUR VINEYARDS. WE WILL NOT DRINK THE WATERS OF YOUR WELLS, BUT WE WILL GO ALONG BY THE KING’S HIGHWAY UNTIL WE ARE PAST YOUR BORDERS, THE MESSENGERS SAID TO THE KING.
BUT SIHON THE KING WOULD NOT ALLOW ISRAEL TO PASS THROUGH HIS BORDER. BUT RATHER SIHON GATHERED ALL HIS PEOPLE TOGETHER AND WENT OUT AGAINST ISRAEL INTO THE WILDERNESS AND FOUGHT AGAINST ISRAEL.
AND ISRAEL KILLED THE KING WITH THE SWORD, AND POSSESSED HIS LAND. AND ISRAEL TOOK ALL THE CITIES, AND DWELT IN ALL THE CITIES OF THE AMORITES, AND IN ALL THEIR VILLAGES.
AND MOSES SENT OUT SPIES TO SPY OUT A PLACE CALLED JAZER, AND ISRAEL TOOK THEIR VILLAGES AND DROVE OUT THE AMORITES THAT WERE THERE.
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TURNED AND WENT UP BY THE WAY OF BASHAN. TODAY, BASHAN IS THE GOLAN HEIGHTS. AND OG, THE KING OF BASHAN WENT OUT AGAINST ISRAEL, HE AND ALL HIS PEOPLE TO THE BATTLE IN A PLACE CALLED EDREI. EDREI WAS A CAPITAL CITY OF OG, THE KING OF BASHAN.
AND THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, FEAR HIM NOT, FOR I HAVE DELIVERED HIM INTO YOUR HAND, AND ALL HIS PEOPLE, AND HIS LAND. AND YOU SHALL DO TO HIM AS YOU DID TO SIHON, KING OF THE AMORITES.
SO ISRAEL KILLED OG, THE KING OF BASHAN, AND HIS SONS, AND ALL HIS PEOPLE UNTIL THERE WERE NONE LEFT HIM ALIVE. AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL POSSESSED HIS LAND, THE LAND OF KING OG THAT TODAY IS THE GOLAN HEIGHTS. NUMBERS 21.21-35
DO A HISTORY STUDY ON ISRAEL. NUMEROUS NATIONS FROM EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST CONQUERED ISRAEL, FOR A TIME WHILE SO MANY JEWISH PEOPLE FROM ISRAEL WERE IN THE DIASPORA, THE SCATTERING OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL. BECAUSE GOD EXILED HIS PEOPLE THREE TIMES. IN 722 BCE/BE TO ASSYRIA, IN 586 BCE/BC TO BABYLON, AND IN 70 CE/AD TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE TO THEIR GOD, THE GOD OF JACOB.
BUT TODAY JEWISH PEOPLE ARE IN CONTROL OF THEIR LAND IN ISRAEL. YET SO MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BELIEVE THAT ISRAEL SHOULD NOT EXIST. THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES FOR ANTI-SEMITISM.
BUT THE BIBLE TELLS US IN PROPHESY THAT ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH WILL DISAPPEAR BUT ISRAEL. BECAUSE ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL DISOBEY GOD. THEY DISOBEY GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS, AND INSTRUCTIONS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.
DEUTERONOMY 7.9-11, ISAIAH 66.22, REVELATION 21.1-2
DEUTERONOMY 31.6 AND MOSES SAID TO THE PEOPLE, BE STRONG AND OF A GOOD COURAGE. FEAR NOT, NOR BE AFRAID OF THEM, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD, HE IT IS THAT DOES GO WITH YOU. HE WILL NOT FAIL YOU NOR FORSAKE YOU.
MANY TEACH THESE WORDS, OR WORDS SIMILAR. BE STRONG IN THE LORD, GOD WILL SAVE YOU. FEAR NOT, GOD WILL DELIVER YOU. DON’T BE AFRAID, GOD WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS. GIVE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER, AND HE WILL SAVE YOU FROM ALL YOUR TROUBLES.
BUT ARE WE TAUGHT WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF US TO HEAR OUR PRAYERS, AND ANSWER? GOD TELLS US, DO NOT SIN, BUT OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES.
SIN IS TRANSGRESSING THE LAW OF MOSES. NUMBERS 15.29-31, 1 JOHN 3.4
BELIEVING IN JESUS IS NOT A TICKET TO SIN. BELIEVING IN JESUS IS NOT A TICKET TO TRANSGRESS THE LAW OF MOSES. THAT IS MAN’S INVENTION. BUT GOD TELLS US WHAT HE REQUIRES FROM EVERY HUMAN BEING. HIS WORDS ARE WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE AND DO FOR YOUR GOOD.
YES, GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO BELIEVE IN YESHUA THE MESSIAH, JESUS CHRIST FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS. BUT THAT MUST BE FOLLOWED BY A HOLY LIFE TO THE LORD YOUR GOD BY OBSERVING AND DOING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES GOD’S LAWS, TEACHINGS. AND INSTRUCTIONS, THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.
DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, MATTHEW 26.28, LUKE 4.4
SO, WHAT DOES GOD REQUIRE OF YOU FOR HIM TO HEAR YOUR PRAYERS AND ANSWER? THE WORDS THAT COME TO MIND ARE WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IN DEUTERONOMY 6.4-9.
HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD THE LORD IS ONE.
THE HEBREW FOR HEAR IS SHEMA THAT MEANS, HEAR AND OBEY. HEAR AND OBEY, O ISRAEL, AND ALL THE WORLD, EVERY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.
AND THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.
YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE IS THAT ONE GOD. HE IS JEHOVAH, ELOHIM, THE FATHER, THE SON, THE MESSIAH, THE SAVIOR, THE SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND SO MUCH MORE.
AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT.
YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS GOD ALMIGHTY, WHO SAYS, IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS. JOHN 14.15
GOD’S COMMANDMENTS ARE EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION THAT INCLUDES 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 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.
YES, TEACH YOUR CHILDREN GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE. AND YOU WILL ALSO BE TEACHING YOURSELF TORAH AND THE BIBLE.
AND YOU SHALL BIND THEM (GOD’S SPOKEN WORD IN THE BIBLE) FOR A SIGN UPON YOUR HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE AS FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES.
AND YOU SHALL WRITE THEM UPON THE DOOR POSTS OF YOUR HOUSE, AND ON YOUR GATES.
I DO NOT BELIEVE GOD IS TALKING ABOUT TEFILLIN, SOMETIMES CALLED PHYLACTERIES THAT ARE WORN BY ADULT JEWISH MALES DURING WEEK DAY SERVICES.
BUT I BELIEVE THAT WHEN GOD SAYS, AND YOU SHALL BIND THEM FOR A SIGN UPON YOUR HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE AS FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES, AND YOU SHALL WRITE THEM UPON THE DOOR POSTS OF YOUR HOUSE, AND ON YOUR GATES, MEANS THAT EVERYTHING WE DO WITH OUR HANDS AND OUR BODY MUST BE ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.
AND BEING FRONTLETS BETWEEN OUR EYES IS HAVING EVERY WORD OF TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IN OUR MIND TO MEDITATE ON, AND DO.
AND YOU SHALL WRITE THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD UPON THE DOOR POSTS OF YOUR HOUSE AND ON YOUR GATES.
HAVING MEZUZAHS IN YOUR HOUSE AND UPON YOUR GATES IS WONDERFUL ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE BECAUSE THEY HAVE WORDS OF TORAH WRITTEN IN THEM.
MEZUZAH IN HEBREW MEANS DOOR POST.
BUT IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE LIVE OUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN HIS LAW OF MOSES, AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE WHEN WE ARE IN OUR HOMES, AND WHEREVER WE MAY GO, FOR GOD IS YOUR LIFE.
THEREFORE BE STRONG, AND OF A GOOD COURAGE. FEAR NOT, NOR BE AFRAID, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS HE WHO GOES WITH YOU. HE WILL NOT FAIL YOU, NOR FORSAKE YOU.
AND THEN BECAUSE YOU OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE THAT INCLUDES HIS LAW OF MOSES, OR YOU ARE STRIVING TO LEARN AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, FOR GOD KNOWS YOUR HEART, AND YOU BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, AND NOT A TRINITY OF THREE DIFFERENT gods, GOD WILL HEAR YOUR PRAYERS, AND ANSWER YOU.
Shalom,
Ira Weinstein
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