SHALOM,
OUR TEACHING WILL CONTINUE FROM THE SONG OF MOSES THAT IS WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.
AND OUR MESSAGE WILL COME FROM WORDS SPOKEN BY GOD IN DEUTERONOMY 32.15-28.
AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, ARE GOD’S JEWISH PEOPLE WALKING WITH GOD, LIVING ACCORDING TO TORAH, ALL GOD’S LAWS, STATUTES, AND ORDINANCES, WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AS GOD COMMANDS YOU, OR NOT?
THE WORDS OF THE SONG OF MOSES ARE FROM GOD TO TEACH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND TO SERVE AS A WITNESS AND A WARNING TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE. DEUTERONOMY 31.16-21
THE LORD BEGINS HIS SONG WITH, GIVE EAR O HEAVENS, AND I WILL SPEAK, AND HEAR O EARTH THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
AS YOU KNOW, THE WORD HEAR IN HEBREW IS SHEMA, MEANING HEAR AND OBEY. GOD SAYS TO ALL HUMANITY ON EARTH, HEAR AND OBEY THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
THE WORDS SPOKEN BY GOD IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE ARE GOD’S DOCTRINE FOR YOU TO HEAR AND OBEY.
AND GOD GOES ON TO SAY IN HIS SONG, ASCRIBE GREATNESS TO OUR GOD. HE IS THE ROCK. HIS WORK IS PERFECT, FOR ALL HIS WAYS ARE JUDGMENT. THAT IS EVERYTHING GOD SAYS AND DOES IS ACCORDING TO TORAH, GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES.
AND GOD GOES ON TO SAY IN HIS SONG, HE IS A GOD OF TRUTH, WITHOUT INIQUITY, JUST AND RIGHT IS HE. THEY, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, HAVE CORRUPTED THEMSELVES. THEIR BLEMISH IS NOT OF HIS CHILDREN. THEY ARE A PERVERSE AND CROOKED GENERATION.
DO YOU THUS REPAY THE LORD, O FOOLISH PEOPLE, AND NOT WISE? IS HE NOT YOUR FATHER WHO CREATED YOU? HAS HE NOT MADE YOU, AND ESTABLISHED YOU? SAYS THE LORD.
AND GOD TELLS US IN HIS SONG THAT HE ESTABLISHED THE BORDERS OF THE NATIONS ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF GOD’S JEWISH PEOPLE. FOR THE LORD’S INHERITANCE IS HIS PEOPLE, JACOB IS THE LOT OF HIS INHERITANCE.
AND GOD LED HIS PEOPLE IN THE WILDERNESS FROM EGYPT TO THE PROMISED LAND. HE INSTRUCTED THEM WITH HIS TORAH, HIS LAWS, STATUTES, AND ORDINANCES, WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AND RECORDED IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.
AND GOD KEPT HIS JEWISH PEOPLE AS THE APPLE OF HIS EYE.
THE LORD WATCHED OVER HIS PEOPLE, AND CARRIED THEM AS AN EAGLE WATCHES OVER HER YOUNG, AND CARRIES THEM. AND THE LORD ALONE DID LEAD HIS PEOPLE, AND THERE WAS NO STRANGE god WITH THEM. AND GOD MADE HIS PEOPLE RIDE ON THE HIGH PLACES OF THE EARTH, FEEDING THEM, AND PROTECTING THEM.
BUT, GOD SAID, JESHURUN, A HEBREW WORD THAT MEANS UPRIGHT, JUST, AND STRAIGHT, AND A TITLE AND NAME FOR ISRAEL THAT MEANS SUPREME DIGNITY, BUT JESHURUN BECAME FAT, AND KICKED. THAT IS, ISRAEL KICKED AGAINST GOD, AND BECAME GROSS, AND ABANDONED GOD WHO MADE YOU. AND THEY DESPISED THE ROCK OF THEIR SALVATION.
JESHURUN IS AN INTERESTING NAME THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO ISRAEL. WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WALK WITH GOD IN OBEDIENCE TO HIS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, THEY ARE UPRIGHT, JUST, AND STRAIGHT. THEY ARE SUPREME DIGNITY IN THE EYES OF GOD.
BUT WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WALK CONTRARY TO GOD IN DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S TORAH, KICKING AGAINST GOD, THEY BECOME FAT AND GROSS, AND STUBBORN, WHO ABANDON THEIR GOD AND DESPISE THE ROCK OF THEIR SALVATION.
THE SAME APPLIES TO GENTILES.
DEUTERONOMY 32.15-16 BUT JESHURUN, THAT IS ISRAEL, BECAME FAT, AND KICKED AGAINST GOD. YOU HAVE BECOME FAT. THAT IS YOU HAVE BECOME GROSS AND STUBBORN. YOU ARE GROWN THICK, YOU ARE COVERED WITH FATNESS. THEN ISRAEL ABANDONED GOD WHO MADE HIM, AND DESPISED THE ROCK OF HIS SALVATION.
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL PROVOKED GOD TO JEALOUSY WITH STRANGE gods. WITH ABOMINATIONS THEY PROVOKED THE LORD THEIR GOD TO ANGER.
OVER AND OVER AGAIN, GOD WARNED HIS JEWISH PEOPLE NOT TO WORSHIP idols and strange gods BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ABOMINATION TO GOD.
EXODUS 20.1-6, EXODUS 32.1-8, 31-35, LEVITICUS 19.1-4, NUMBERS 25.1-5, 9, NUMBERS 25.1-5, 9, NUMBERS 31.16, DEUTERONOMY 30.15-20, 1 KINGS 12.25, 28, 29, 1 KINGS 15.33-34, 1 KINGS 16.29-33, 2 KINGS 17.6-23, 2 CHRONICLES 36.5-21
GOD’S WARNING AGAINST IDOLATRY APPLIES TO THE GENTILES AS WELL.
ACTS 17.16, 1 JOHN 5.21, REVELATION 2.14-17
DEUTERONOMY 32.17 THEY SACRIFICED TO DEVILS, NOT TO GOD; TO gods WHOM THEY DID NOT KNOW, TO new gods THAT CAME UP OF LATE THAT YOUR FATHERS DID NOT FEAR.
THE BIBLE SAYS, THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM. AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS TO HATE EVIL, PRIDE, ARROGANCY, AND THE EVIL WAY. AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD PROLONGS DAYS, AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS STRONG CONFIDENCE, AND YOUR CHILDREN HAVE A PLACE OF REFUGE. THAT IS, SHELTER, HOPE, AND TRUST. AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE TO DEPART FROM THE SNARES OF DEATH. AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE INSTRUCTION OF WISDOM, AND BEFORE HONOR IS HUMILITY. AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS TO LIFE. AND HE THAT HAS IT SHALL REMAIN SATISFIED. HE SHALL NOT BE VISITED WITH EVIL. BY HUMILITY, AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD ARE RICHES, AND HONOR, AND LIFE.
BE IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD ALL THE DAY LONG. THE FEAR OF MAN BRINGS A SNARE, BUT WHOSO PUTS HIS TRUST IN THE LORD SHALL BE SAFE. FEAR GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, THE WHOLE LAW OF MOSES. THAT IS THE DUTY OF MAN.
BUT DO NOT FEAR FALSE gods.
THE HEBREW FOR FEAR, AS IN FEARING GOD, IS YEER’AHT, MEANING FEAR, REVERENCE, AFRAID, AND FRIGHTENED.
WHEN YOU FEAR GOD, YOU WILL DO WHAT HE SAYS, AND THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE.
PROVERBS 1.7, PROVERBS 8.13, PROVERBS 9.10, PROVERBS 10.27, PROVERBS 14.26-27, PROVERBS 15.33, PROVERBS 19.23, PROVERBS 22.4, PROVERBS 23.17, PROVERBS 29.25, ECCLESIASTES 12.13, DEUTERONOMY 32.17
DEUTERONOMY 32.18 OF THE ROCK WHO GAVE BIRTH TO YOU, YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN, AND YOU ARE BLIND TO GOD WHO FORMED YOU.
HOW MANY PEOPLE TODAY ARE BLIND TO GOD’S TEACHINGS, HIS LAWS, AND COMMANDMENTS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES? THAT IS THE REASON FOR CORONAVIRUS AND SO MANY OTHER EVILS. BECAUSE THE WORLD DISOBEYS GOD AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.
CORONAVIRUS IS NOT THE PRODUCT OF CHINA BUT THE JUDGMENT OF GOD AGAINST THE WORLD FOR DISOBEYING GOD, BY DISOBEYING HIS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.
DEUTERONOMY 28.15.21, MATTHEW 24.37, GENESIS 6.5-9
DEUTERONOMY 32.19-20 AND WHEN THE LORD SAW IT, HE ABHORRED THEM BECAUSE HIS SONS AND HIS DAUGHTERS PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER.
GOD SAID, I WILL HIDE MY FACE FROM THEM. I WILL SEE WHAT THEIR END SHALL BE. FOR THEY ARE A VERY PERVERSE AND FOOLISH GENERATION, CHILDREN IN WHOM IS NO FAITH.
DEUTERONOMY 32.21 THEY HAVE MOVED ME TO JEALOUSY WITH THAT WHICH IS NOT GOD. THEY HAVE PROVOKED ME TO ANGER WITH THEIR VANITIES. AND I WILL MOVE THEM TO JEALOUSY WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT A PEOPLE. I WILL PROVOKE THEM TO ANGER WITH A FOOLISH NATION?
WHO ARE THOSE WHO ARE NOT A PEOPLE THAT MOVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO JEALOUSY? AND WHO IS THE FOOLISH NATION THAT PROVOKES ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO ANGER, BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LORD THEIR GOD?
DEUTERONOMY 32.22 FOR A FIRE IS KINDLED IN MY ANGER, AND SHALL BURN TO THE LOWEST OF HELL, AND SHALL CONSUME THE EARTH WITH HER CROPS, AND SET ON FIRE THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MOUNTAINS.
THAT IS BUT A SMALL DESCRIPTION OF GOD’S ANGER BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO HIM. WITNESS CORONAVIRUS ON A WORLD THAT DISOBEYS GOD. AND THE WORLD IS BLIND TO THAT TRUTH.
DEUTERONOMY 32.23-24 I WILL HEAP EVILS UPON THEM. I WILL SPEND MY ARROWS UPON THEM.
THEY SHALL BE BURNT WITH HUNGER, AND DEVOURED WITH BURNING HEAT, AND WITH BITTER DESTRUCTION. I WILL SEND THE TEETH OF BEASTS WITH THE POISON OF SERPENTS OF THE GROUND.
I READ THE OTHER DAY ABOUT “THE BIBLE IN THE JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION”, BETTER KNOWN AS KABBALAH. KABBALAH TEACHES THAT GOD IS SEEN AS MOST TRANSCENDENT, AND THEREFORE MOST REMOVED FROM ORDINARY HUMAN LIFE, SEPARATE FROM THE NATURAL AND HUMAN WORLD, UNKNOWABLE, INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
ARE THEY KIDDING? HAVE THEY NOT READ THE BIBLE? HAVE THEY NOT READ TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES? HAVE THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION NOT SEEN HOW GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO OBEY HIM WITH A GOOD, HEALTHY LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. AND GOD JUDGES THOSE WHO DISOBEY HIM, WHO DISOBEY HIS TORAH, WITH CORONAVIRUS, WARS, DISEASE, MURDER, AND SO ON?
GOD KNOWS MORE ABOUT PEOPLE THAN WE KNOW ABOUT OURSELVES. GOD IS OUR LIFE, HE IS OUR BREATH, HE IS EVERYTHING THAT IS GOOD. HE IS IN US, WITH US, BESIDE US, AND ALL AROUND US. HE WALKS WITH US, AND PROTECTS US. AND GIVES US ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN TO BE WITH THE LORD OUR GOD FACE TO FACE AS KINGS AND PRIESTS. TO ALL WHO HAVE OBEYED HIS TORAH. AND FOR THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL. GENESIS 12.3, REVELATION 5.10\
TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IS THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD, A GUIDE TO KNOWING GOD AND UNDERSTANDING GOD. WHEN YOU OBEY TORAH.
GOD IS FAR FROM BEING SEPARATE FROM THE NATURAL HUMAN BEING. BUT RATHER GOD IS VERY CLOSE TO THE NATURAL HUMAN BEING. AND HE LOVES THAT PERSON WHO OBEYS WHAT HE SAYS IN TORAH AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE. THAT IS WHY GOD GAVE US LAWS AND TEACHINGS WRITTEN IN TORAH, SO THAT WE, THE NATURAL AND ORDINARY HUMAN BEINGS CAN EXPERIENCE THE BEST OF LIFE, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WHEN WE WALK WITH GOD AND LIVE ACCORDING TO GOD’S TEACHINGS AND LAWS.
TORAH SAYS, THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD, BUT THOSE THINGS THAT ARE REVEALED BELONG TO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN FOR EVER THAT WE ARE TO DO ALL THE WORDS OF THIS LAW.
HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.28, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.29
THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD, BUT LEARN AND DO TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, THAT GOD HAS REVEALED TO YOU. AND YOU WILL EXPERIENCE HOW CLOSE THE LORD YOUR GOD IS TO YOU IN YOUR WALK THROUGH LIFE.
GOD LOVES HIS PEOPLE, AND HE IS CLOSE TO ALL WHO LIVE BY HIS WORD. HOW CAN ANYONE SAY THAT GOD IS REMOVED FROM ORDINARY HUMAN LIFE, AND SEPARATED FROM THE HUMAN WORLD? THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE.
I THINK OF THE WORDS THAT KING DAVID WROTE; WHAT IS MAN THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM? AND THE SON OF MAN THAT YOU VISIT HIM? FOR YOU HAVE MADE HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, AND HAVE CROWNED HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOR.
GOD IS NOT SEPARATE FROM HUMAN BEINGS, BUT RATHER MOST HUMAN BEINGS HAVE SEPARATED THEMSELVES FROM GOD BY NOT OBEYING GOD. NOT OBEYING GOD’S TORAH, THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, AND NOT OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.
HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 8.5-6, 10, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 8.4-5, 9
DEUTERONOMY 32.25 THE SWORD OUTSIDE, AND TERROR INSIDE SHALL DESTROY BOTH THE YOUNG MAN, AND THE VIRGIN, THE NURSING CHILD, AND THE MAN OF GRAY HAIRS.
THIS IS ALL BECAUSE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LAW OF GOD, THE LAW OF MOSES.
GOD SAYS IN TORAH, AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IF YOU WILL DILIGENTLY OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD TO OBSERVE AND DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY, THAT IS EVERY WORD WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL SET YOU ON HIGH ABOVE ALL NATIONS OF THE EARTH.
AND ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME UPON YOU, AND OVERTAKE YOU IF YOU SHALL OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD.
AND FOLLOWING THESE WORDS ARE MANY, MANY BLESSINGS FROM GOD, WONDERFUL BLESSINGS.
BUT IT SHALL COME TO PASS, GOD SAYS, IF YOU WILL NOT OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD TO OBSERVE TO DO ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS AND HIS STATUTES WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY, THAT ALL THESE CURSES SHALL COME UPON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU.
AND THESE WORDS ARE FOLLOWED BY 52 VERSES OF CURSES.
DEUTERONOMY 28.1, 2, 15, 21 CORONAVIRUS IS A CURSE BECAUSE THE WORLD DISOBEYS GOD.
GOD IS VERY CLOSE TO EVERY HUMAN BEING. NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM THE LORD, BECAUSE GOD SAYS, CAN ANY HIDE HIMSELF IN SECRET PLACES THAT I SHALL NOT SEE HIM? SAITH THE LORD. DO NOT I FILL THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH? SAITH THE LORD. JEREMIAH 23.24
DEUTERONOMY 32.26-28 I SAID I WOULD SCATTER THEM INTO CORNERS. I WOULD MAKE THE REMEMBRANCE OF THEM TO CEASE FROM AMONG MEN.
WERE IT NOT THAT I FEARED THE WRATH OF THE ENEMY LEST THEIR ADVERSARIES SHOULD BEHAVE THEMSELVES IN IGNORANCE, AND LEST THEY SHOULD SAY, OUR HAND IS HIGH, AND THE LORD HAS NOT DONE ALL THIS.
FOR THEY ARE A NATION VOID OF COUNSEL, NEITHER IS THERE ANY UNDERSTANDING IN THEM.
SO AGAIN, MY QUESTION TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD? ARE YOU LIVING ACCORDING TO TORAH, ALL GOD’S LAWS, STATUTES, AND ORDINANCES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES, AS GOD COMMANDS YOU? OR NOT?
AND I ASK THE SAME QUESTION TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HA SHEM MESSIAH YESHUA THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, ARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD? ARE YOU LIVING YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO TORAH, ALL GOD’S LAWS, STATUTES, AND ORDINANCES THAT ARE WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, AS GOD COMMANDS YOU? OR NOT?
DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, HEBREW BIBLE MICAH 5.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE MICAH 5.2, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9
Shalom,
Ira Weinstein
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