Month: July 2020

Shalom,

Our Teaching will continue in The Book of Joshua from Joshua 5.1-9.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, DOES GOD ONLY REQUIRE JEWISH PEOPLE TO LIVE BY HIS LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT NOT GENTILES?  AND DOES GOD REQUIRE GENTILE MALES TO BE CIRCUMCISED?

So with that said, let’s read Joshua 5.1-9.

JOSHUA 5.1  And it came to pass when all the kings of the Amorites who were across the Jordan River toward the sea, and all the Canaanite kings, who were by the sea, heard that The LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before The Children of Israel until they passed over, that their heart melted.  Neither was there spirit in them anymore because of The Children of Israel.

JOSHUA 5.2  At that time, The LORD said to Joshua, Make sharp knives, and circumcise again The Children of Israel the second time.

JOSHUA 5.3  And Joshua made sharp knives and circumcised The Children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

JOSHUA 5.4  And this is the reason why Joshua had the circumcision performed.  All The People who had come out of Egypt, all the males, the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way as they came out of Egypt.

JOSHUA 5.5  For all The People who came out were circumcised.  But all The People who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

JOSHUA 5.6  For The Children of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness till all the nation, who were men of war, who came out of Egypt were consumed because they did not Obey The Voice of The LORD, to whom The LORD swore that He would not show them The Land which The LORD swore to their fathers that He would give us, a Land flowing with milk and honey.

It is never good to disobey The Voice of The LORD Your GOD, His Spoken Word Written in The Bible.

JOSHUA 5.7  And their children whom He raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised.  For they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.

JOSHUA 5.8  After the circumcising of the whole nation was complete, they remained where they were in the camp until they recovered.

JOSHUA 5.9  And The LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from off you.  Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.

Gilgal in Hebrew means, Rolling.

Perhaps the disgrace of Egypt was because of the lack of circumcision during the 400 years of Egyptian slavery.

THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, DOES GOD ONLY REQUIRE JEWISH PEOPLE TO LIVE BY HIS LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES, BUT NOT GENTILES?  AND DOES GOD REQUIRE GENTILE MALES TO BE CIRCUMCISED?

The Bible begins with The Books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.  These five Books are called Torah, The Law of Moses.

The Law of Moses is also called, The LORD’S Law, The Law of GOD, The Law of Truth, and GOD refers to His Law as My Law.

EXODUS 13.9, NEHEMIAH 8.8, JEREMIAH 31.33, MALACHI 2.6, HEBREW BIBLE MALACHI 3.22, CHRISTIAN BIBLE MALACHI 4.4

THESE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE ARE THE FOUNDATION OF GOD’S TEACHINGS.  MEANING, EVERY WORD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, MUST AGREE WITH GOD’S TEACHINGS IN THE LAW OF MOSES IN GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY.

There is Only One GOD.  And GOD has only One Law for all humanity.  That Law is The Law of Moses that is Written in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy that GOD Spoke to Moses for Israel, The Jewish People.  And as GOD’S Witnesses and Servant, The Jewish People recorded GOD’S Laws in The Bible in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy for all the world to live by for your good.

Numbers 15.15-16, Deuteronomy 8.3, Isaiah 43.10, Matthew 4.4, Luke 4.4, 1 John 3.4

SO YES, GOD REQUIRES ALL PEOPLE, JEWISH AND NON JEWISH PEOPLE, TO LIVE BY HIS LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES.  IT IS WRITTEN.

A Prophet hears what GOD Speaks to him or her, and then The Prophet speaks those Words to the people.  Moses, The Prophet of GOD, wrote, Man does not live by bread only, but by every Word that proceeds out of The Mouth of GOD does man live.

Man in Hebrew is AH’DAHM meaning, Human, a Person, and Mankind.

Bread in Hebrew is L’KHEM meaning, Food, and Bread.

Therefore, GOD says to you, Every Human Being is required to live by Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation.  And that includes The Law of Moses written in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Look, we all know that many people who do not live by one Word GOD Speaks experience great success in their lifetimes.  But they will never see Heaven unless they repent and live a GODLY life as taught in Ezekiel 18.21.

But those who do live a GODLY Life by living according to every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible that includes GOD’S Law, The Law of Moses, will be Blessed by GOD, and will prosper in GOD, and have good success, and will spend Eternity in Heaven where GOD says, He will Live with us, and we shall be His People, and GOD Himself shall be with us, and be our GOD.

And GOD will wipe away all tears from our eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying.  Neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things, like death, pain, sorrow, sickness, and coronaviruses, will have passed away.

JOB 24.19-20, HEBREW BIBLE ISIAH 64.3, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 64.4,  MATTHEW 7.21-23, 24-27, LUKE 16.17, 1 JOHN 3.4, REVELATION 21.1-4

However GOD has a way to Eternal Life in Heaven for those Gentiles who will not obey GOD, if they Bless The Jewish People and Israel. 

GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31-4

MY QUESTION IS THIS?  DO RELIGIOUS TEACHERS TEACH GOD’S LAWS THAT ARE WRITTEN IN GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS, AND DEUTERONOMY THAT GOD REQUIRES ALL PEOPLES TO LIVE BY?  

BECAUSE GOD NEVER SAYS THAT ONLY JEWISH PEOPLE ARE REQUIRED TO LIVE BY GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES.  BUT RATHER GOD SAYS, MAN IS TO LIVE BY EVERY WORD OF GOD.

PAUL WRITES AN INTERESTING SCRIPTURE IN ROMANS 4.15 THAT READS, BECAUSE THE LAW WORKS WRATH, AND YES THE LAW WORKS WRATH WHEN NOT OBEYED.  LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES TODAY.  CERTAIN CITIES LOOK LIKE WAR ZONES IN SYRIA BECAUSE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, WHY?  BECAUSE MOST AMERICANS WILL NOT OBEY A SINGLE WORD GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE. 

SO, YES, THE LAW, THAT IS THE LAW OF MOSES, WORKS WRATH WHEN NOT OBEYED.  

PAUL WRITES IN ROMANS 4.15, BECAUSE THE LAW WORKS WRATH, FOR WHERE THERE IS NO LAW (NO LAW OF GOD, THE LAW OF MOSES) THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION.

TRANSGRESSION IS SIN, VIOLATING THE LAW OF MOSES.  1 JOHN 3.4

THE CHURCH HAS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES. 

A HORRIBLE DOCTRINE.  SO WITHOUT THE LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES, IN THE EYES OF CHRISTIANS, AND MANY MESSIANICS, THERE IS NO TRANSGRESSION. BUT THEY’RE FOOLING THEMSELVES.  GENESIS 3.4

BECAUSE IN THE EYES OF GOD, BY NOT OBEYING THE LAW, THERE IS GREAT TRANSGRESSION.  THEY ARE SINNING AGAINST GOD.  AND THAT SIN BRINGS GOD’S WRATH.

WE WITNESS GOD’S WRATH TODAY, BECAUSE GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES IS NOT BEING TAUGHT NOR IS IT OBEYED HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.  WITNESS THE RIOTS, CORONAVIRUS THAT WON’T STOP, RACISM, MURDERS, WARS, HATE, VIOLENCE, KILLINGS, TERRORISM, ANTI SEMITISM, AND IT’S NOT LETTING UP, IN FACT IT’S GETTING WORSE.  BECAUSE GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES IS NOT TAUGHT, NOR OBEYED HERE IN THIS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

GOD ALSO TELLS THE WORLD THAT NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO ADD TO GOD’S SPOKEN WORD IN HIS LAW OF MOSES AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE, NOR IS ANYONE ALLOWED TO TAKE AWAY FROM GOD’S SPOKEN WORD IN HIS LAW, AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.

DEUTERONOMY 4.2, HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 13.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 12.32

LOOK, NO WHERE DOES GOD EVER SAY THAT HIS LAW IS ABOLISHED, OR CHANGED, OR ADDED TO, OR SUBTRACTED FROM.  RELIGION CREATES THAT LIE. 

THE RABBIS UNFORTUNATELY HAVE CHANGED SOME OF GOD’S LAWS TO THEIR OWN LAWS. 

THE RABBIS SAY THEY HAVE THE POWER TO ENACT LAWS BECAUSE OF THE BIBLICAL WRITING OF DEUTERONOMY 17.10-11,

DEUTERONOMY 17.10-11 WRITTEN IN THE JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY OF AMERICA BIBLE, 1917, READS,

10/ AND THOU SHALT DO ACCORDING TO THE TENOR OF THE SENTENCE WHICH THEY, (THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES, AND THE JUDGE, VERSE 9) SHALL DECLARE UNTO THEE FROM THAT PLACE WHICH THE LORD SHALL CHOOSE.  AND THOU SHALT OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THEY SHALL TEACH THEE.

11/  ACCORDING TO THE LAW (THAT LAW IS GOD’S LAW, THE TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES) WHICH THEY SHALL TEACH THEE, AND ACCORDING TO THE JUDGMENT WHICH THEY SHALL TELL THEE THOU SHALT DO.  THOU SHALT NOT TURN ASIDE FROM THE SENTENCE WHICH THEY SHALL DECLARE UNTO THEE, TO THE RIGHT HAND NOR TO THE LEFT.

NOW MAIMONIDES, THE GREAT JEWISH PHILOSOPHER OF THE 1100’S WROTE ABOUT RABBIS MAKING CHANGES IN TORAH, GOD’S LAW.

THIS CHANGING OF LAWS BY THE RABBIS IS DECIDED UPON, MAIMONIDES SAYS, IF IT IS MADE CLEAR THAT THE ENACTMENT (THE ENACTMENT IS THE RABBIS CHANGING GOD’S LAW) IS OF RABBINIC STATUS ONLY, AND THAT IT IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING OR ENHANCING TORAH, LAW.

I RESPECTFULLY REJECT ANYONE CHANGING ANY OF GOD’S LAWS.  NO ONE CAN CHANGE GOD’S LAWS.  GOD’S LAWS ARE RECORDED IN THE BIBLE, NEVER TO CHANGE, NEVER TO END, NEVER TO ADD TO, AND NEVER TO SUBTRACT FROM.  GOD’S LAWS ARE FOREVER.  

GOD’S LAWS DO NOT NEED OUR PROTECTION.  GOD’S LAW IS FOR OUR GOOD.  TORAH TOV.  GOD DOES NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO CHANGE HIS LAWS, RABBI, PRIEST, PASTOR, WHOEVER, NOT EVER.  GOD CAN NOT CHANGE HIS LAWS. 

DEUTERONOMY 4.2, ISAIAH 40.8

SO, RABBIS HAVE MADE CHANGES TO GOD’S LAWS.  THEY SHOULDN’T. HERE ARE SOME;

RABBIS HAVE CHANGED GOD’S FESTIVAL OF A MEMORIAL PROCLAIMED BY THE BLAST OF HORNS, TO ROSH HASHANNAH, THE NEW YEAR.  THAT IS DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD.  LEVITICUS 23.23-25

RABBINIC LAW TEACHES THAT JEWISH PEOPLE MUST FAST DURING YOM KIPPUR, THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.

BUT GOD DOES NOT CALL FOR A FAST ON YOM KIPPUR, BUT TO HAVE ATONEMENT, AND HUMBLE OURSELVES BEFORE THE LORD OUR GOD BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN TORAH AND THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE.

ATONEMENT TODAY IS MADE BY THE DEATH AND SHED BLOOD OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA.  LEVITICUS 17.8,9,11, ISAIAH 53.10

ON YOM KIPPUR, THE BIBLE SAYS, AFFLICT YOURSELF.  THE HEBREW WORD FOR AFFLICT IS AH’NAH THAT MEANS TO HUMBLE YOURSELF BY OBEYING GOD.  LEVITICUS 23.26-32

GOD NAMES EVERY MONTH, THE FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FOURTH, MONTH, ETC.  THE RABBIS CHANGED THOSE MONTHS IN BABYLON TO BABYLONIAN NAMES SUCH AS NISAN, IYYAR, SIVAN, TAMUZ, ETC.

RABBIS CREATED THE LAW THAT JEWISH PEOPLE CANNOT EAT MEAT AND DAIRY TOGETHER.  THAT IS NOT BIBLICAL.  GOD, ABRAHAM, AND THE THREE ANGELS, ATE MEAT AND DAIRY TOGETHER.  GENESIS 18.1-2, 8

AND RABBIS HAVE ADDED ONE DAY TO GOD’S FESTIVALS IN LEVITICUS 23 THAT JEWISH PEOPLE CALL THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS, EXCEPT YOM KIPPUR.  

GOD TEACHES IN PROPHESY THAT A SPECIAL CHILD, A SPECIAL SON, BORN TO, AND GIVEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL BE CALLED, WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.

THAT PROPHESY WAS FULFILLED IN THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE JESUS  CHRIST OF THE BIBLE.  HE IS WONDERFUL, OUR COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, THE PRINCE OF PEACE. 

BUT THE RABBIS TEACH THAT MESSIAH YESHUA IS NOT THE MESSIAH NOR IS HE THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER.  BUT HE IS ACCORDING TO GOD’S PROPHESY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE IN ISAIAH 9.5, AND THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE IN ISAIAH 9.6 

GOD ALSO PROPHESIES THAT OUT OF BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH, THAT IS BETHLEHEM, SHALL HE COME FORTH UNTO ME (GOD) WHO IS TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL, WHOSE ORIGIN IS FROM OF OLD, HAVING NO BEGINNING, WITHOUT END, FROM EVERLASTING, FOREVER.

THAT RULER WHO WILL REIGN AS KING, WHO COMES OUT OF BETHLEHEM IS MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD ALMIGHTY, WRITTEN IN THE HEBREW BIBLE IN MICAH 5.1, AND THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE IN MICAH 5.2.

MESSIAH YESHUA IS NOT ONLY THE PROMISED JEWISH MESSIAH, HE IS THE GOD OF ISRAEL, HASHEM, ELOHIM, THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE KING OF GLORY, THE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH, THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, THE KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

NOW, THE QUESTION OF CIRCUMCISION?  DOES GOD REQUIRE THAT ONLY JEWISH MEN SHOULD BE CIRCUMCISED, BUT NOT GENTILE MEN?

GOD IS THE GOD OF ALL HUMANITY.  AND GOD HAS ONLY ONE LAW FOR ALL HUMANITY.  AND THAT ONE LAW IS THE LAW OF MOSES THAT GOD REQUIRES ALL MANKIND TO LIVE BY.  NOT JUST JEWISH PEOPLE, BUT ALL PEOPLES AND LANGUAGES.  NUMBERS 15.15-16

AND CIRCUMCISION IS GOD’S LAW.  GENESIS 17.1-14

I DO NOT READ IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD EXCUSES GENTILE MALES FROM BEING CIRCUMCISED.  I DO READ, HOWEVER, THAT CERTAIN MEN IN THE BIBLE HAVE EXEMPTED GENTILES FROM CIRCUMCISION.  BUT GOD’S SPOKEN WORD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE HAS AUTHORITY OVER THE WORD OF MEN AND WOMEN.  AND GOD NEVER EXEMPTS GENTILES FROM CIRCUMCISION.

ACTS 15.1-41, GALATIANS 2.3, DEUTERONOMY 4.2

NO WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES GOD EXEMPT GENTILE MALES FROM CIRCUMCISION.  BECAUSE GOD SAYS, MAN DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ONLY BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD DOES MAN LIVE. 

JAMES WRITES IN JAMES 2.10, FOR WHOSOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET OFFENDS, THAT IS, SINS, IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. 

ACCORDING TO THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE, GENTILE MEN SHOULD BE CIRCUMCISED FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD.  AND GOD REQUIRES EVERYBODY, JEWISH PEOPLE AN NON JEWISH PEOPLE TO LIVE BY HIS LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES.  IT’S ALL FOR YOUR GOOD. 

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom,

Our teaching will continue in The Book of Joshua from Joshua 4.1-24.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE MIGHTY HAND OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD OF ISRAEL.  WHAT DOES GOD HAVE TO DO WITH THE UPCOMING 2020 ELECTION FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?  EVERYTHING.

And with that said, let’s read Joshua 4.1-24.

JOSHUA 4.1  And it was when all the nation, The Children of Israel, had crossed over the Jordan river, that The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

JOSHUA 4.2  Take for you twelve men, one man out of each Tribe.

JOSHUA 4.3  And charge them, saying, Take twelve stones from this place, from the middle of the Jordan river, from the place where the feet of The Priests feet stood firm, twelve stones.  And you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place where you shall lodge this night.

JOSHUA 4.4  Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of The Children of Israel out of every Tribe a man.

JOSHUA 4.5  And Joshua said to them, Pass over before The Ark of The LORD your GOD into the middle of the Jordan, and each man shall lift up one stone on his shoulder according to the number of the Tribes of The Children of Israel.

JOSHUA 4.6  That this may be a sign among you that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean to you?

JOSHUA 4.7  Then you shall answer them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD when it passed over the Jordan.  The waters of the Jordan were cut off.  And these stones shall be for a Memorial to The Children of Israel forever.

JOSHUA 4.8  And The Children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out from the middle of the Jordan as The LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the Tribes of The Children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.

JOSHUA 4.9  And Joshua lifted up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan river in the place where the feet of The Priests who carried The Ark of The Covenant stood.  And they are there to this day.

JOSHUA 4.10  For the Priests who carried The Ark stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything was finished that The LORD commanded Joshua to speak to The People according to all that Moses commanded Joshua.  And The People hastened and passed over.

JOSHUA 4.11  And it came to pass when all The People had finished passing over, that The Ark of The LORD passed over, and The Priests in the presence of The People.

JOSHUA 4.12  And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before The Children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

JOSHUA 4.13  And 40,000 prepared for war passed over before The LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

JOSHUA 4.14  On that day, The LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel.  And they feared him as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

JOSHUA 4.15  And The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

JOSHUA 4.16  Command The Priests who carry The Ark of The Testimony that they come out of the Jordan.

JOSHUA 4.17  And Joshua commanded The Priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

JOSHUA 4.18  And it came to pass, when The Priests who carried The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD came up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of The Priest’s feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of The Jordan returned to their places, and flowed over all its banks as they did before.

JOSHUA 4.19  And The People came up out of the Jordan river on the tenth day of the first month, and camped in Gilgal in the east border of Jericho.

The tenth day of the first month has significance.  On the tenth day of the first month forty years earlier when GOD delivered The Children of Israel from 400 years of Egyptian slavery, GOD told Moses to speak to all The Congregation of The Children of Israel that every man shall take a perfect lamb for his household, and keep it till the fourteenth day of the month.  And kill it in the evening of the fourteenth day.

That lamb was the Passover lamb.  And its blood was shed, and struck on the door posts of The Jewish homes.  And when GOD saw the blood on The Jewish homes, GOD passed over them, and did not destroy The Jewish People.  But that night, GOD destroyed the first born Egyptians.  EXODUS 12.1-13

Some 1400 years later, on the tenth day of the first month, Messiah Yeshua rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.  Four days later, on the fourteenth day of the first month, the first day of Passover, Messiah Yeshua was killed, and His blood shed for our Atonement.  JOHN 12.1, 12-15, LEVITICUS 17.8, 9, 11

So the tenth day of the first month, 3,400 years ago is also a day to remember when GOD dried up the Jordan river for The Children of Israel to pass over on dry ground into The Promised Land Canaan that would become The Land of Israel, The GOD Given, Everlasting Homeland of The Jewish People.  GENESIS 17.8

JOSHUA 4.20  And these twelve stones that they took out of the Jordan river, Joshua set up in Gilgal.  (Gilgal is on The Israel side of the Jordan river.)

JOSHUA 4.21  And Joshua spoke to The Children of Israel, saying, when your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?

JOSHUA 4.22  Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan river on dry ground.

JOSHUA 4.23  For The LORD Your GOD dried up the waters of the Jordan river from before you until you passed over, as The LORD Your GOD did to The Red Sea which He dried up from before us until we passed over.

JOSHUA 4.24  THAT ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH SHALL KNOW THE HAND OF THE LORD THAT IT IS MIGHTY.  THAT YOU SHALL FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD FOREVER.

These miracles of GOD are just another day in The Life of GOD.

GOD chose The Jewish People whom He loves to be His Witnesses and His Servant.  Key for The Jewish People being GOD’S Witnesses is writing The Bible from Genesis through Revelation from every Word GOD Spoke to Them during Bible times, and every miracle of GOD They Witnessed during Bible times.

DEUTERONOMY 7.6, ISAIAH 43.10-12

Therefore GOD had The Jewish People write The Bible for all the world to Know GOD, Believe GOD, and Understand GOD.

Moses, The Prophet of GOD Writes, 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 should do all The Words of This Law.  This Law is GOD’S Law, The Law of Moses.

In other words, GOD does many, many things, including miracles.  But we have no clue how He does them.  GOD  keeps it a secret.  But our job, GOD says, is to obey His Law, that is The Law of Moses.  And The Law of Moses is the first five Books of The Bible.

HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.28, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.29

THE TITLE OF THIS MESSAGE IS, THE MIGHTY HAND OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, THE GOD OF ISRAEL.  WHAT DOES GOD HAVE TO DO WITH THE UPCOMING 2020 ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?  EVERYTHING.

I BELIEVE THAT EVERYTHING GOD DOES IS A MIRACLE.

LIFE IS A MIRACLE.  GOD’S CREATION OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL THAT ARE IN THEM ARE MIRACLES.  GOD SPOKE THE CREATION INTO EXISTENCE.  THINK ON THAT FOR A MOMENT. 

GENESIS 1.3, 6-7, 11, 14-15, 20-21, 24

GOD IS SUPERNATURAL.  HE HAS NO BEGINNING OF DAYS, AND NO END OF LIFE.  HE IS WITHOUT FATHER, AND WITHOUT MOTHER.  GOD FILLS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, AND IN PLACES MAN WILL NEVER SEE, AT LEAST NOT IN THIS LIFE TIME.  GOD FILLS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WITH HIS SPIRIT.  AND GOD’S SPIRIT IS GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF.

EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A MIRACLE FROM GOD.

SO, LET’S TALK ABOUT THE UPCOMING 2020 ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT.  DONALD TRUMP THE INCUMBENT, AND JOE BIDEN, NO DOUBT, THE CHALLENGER.

WHAT DOES GOD ALMIGHTY HAVE TO DO WITH THIS ELECTION, AND EVERY ELECTION?  EVERYTHING.

BUT FIRST, LET’S REVIEW SOME MIRACLES THAT GOD DID BY HIMSELF, AND MIRACLES GOD DID THROUGH PEOPLE.

GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING IN THEM.  GOD CREATED LIFE.  GOD CREATED ALL HUMAN BEINGS EQUAL, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD, AND IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD.  GOD CREATED OUR MINDS, OUR INTELLECT, OUR LOOKS, OUR PERSONALITY, OUR BODY, OUR ETERNAL EXISTENCE.  GOD GIVES US LIFE AND BREATH, AND ALL THINGS.  GOD CREATED THE FOOD WE EAT, AND THE AIR WE BREATHE.

GOD CREATES LIGHT, AND DARKNESS.  HE MAKES PEACE, AND CREATES EVIL.  ISAIAH 45.7  GOD CREATED THE FLOOD IN THE DAYS OF NOAH THAT DESTROYED THE WORLD AND ALL THE PEOPLE IN IT BUT NOAH AND HIS FAMILY BECAUSE NOAH OBEYED GOD.  GOD RAINED FIRE AND BRIMSTONE UPON  SODOM AND GOMORRAH TO DESTROY IT.  GOD CAUSED THE BURNING BUSH TO BURN THAT DID NOT CONSUME.  GOD CAUSED MOSES’ ROD TO BECOME A SNAKE.  GOD MADE MOSES’ HAND LEPROUS AND RESTORED IT INSTANTLY.  GOD CREATED THE TEN PLAGUES HE SENT ON EGYPT THAT DESTROYED THEIR LAND BECAUSE PHARAOH REFUSED TO LET GOD’S PEOPLE, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, GO.  GOD OPENED THE RED SEA FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO CROSS ON DRY LAND TO CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.

GOD BROUGHT WATER FROM A ROCK FOR THE PEOPLE AND THEIR ANIMALS TO DRINK.  HE OPENED THE EARTH TO BRING DOWN KORAH AND THE OTHER DISOBEDIENTS TO SOMEWHERE UNDER THE EARTH.  HE CAUSED AARON’S STAFF TO BUD, BALAAM’S DONKEY TO TALK TO BALAAM.  GOD DIVIDED THE JORDAN RIVER, TWICE. 2 KINGS 2.7-8  GOD CAUSED THE WALLS OF JERICHO TO FALL DOWN WHEN THE PRIESTS BLEW THEIR SHOFARS.  GOD CAUSED THE SUN AND THE MOON TO STAND STILL UNTIL ISRAEL DESTROYED THEIR ENEMIES, THE AMORITES.  AND GOD CAUSED RAVENS TO FEED ELIJAH.  THOSE ARE JUST A FEW OF GOD’S MIRACLES.

AND LET’S NOT FORGET GOD’S MIRACLE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF ONLY SOME 14 MILLION PEOPLE, AND THEIR EVERLASTING HOMELAND ISRAEL WHOM SO MANY PEOPLES HAVE TRIED TO KILL AND ANNIHILATE FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH, BUT WILL NEVER SUCCEED.  BECAUSE GOD SAYS TO HIS JEWISH PEOPLE, FOR AS THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH WHICH I WILL MAKE SHALL REMAIN BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD, SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS AND YOUR NAME REMAIN.  THAT IS FOREVER.  ISAIAH 66.22

YESHUA, JESUS THE MESSIAH, IS HIMSELF GOD ALMIGHTY.  HE DID MANY MIRACLES THAT NO MAN CAN DO BUT GOD.  HERE’S A FEW OF MESSIAH’S MIRACLES.

MESSIAH YESHUA CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL THAT ARE IN THEM.  HE CREATED ALL HUMANITY AND EVERY LIVING THING.  JOHN 1.1-4  MESSIAH TURNED WATER INTO WINE, CALMED A STORM, FED 5,000 PEOPLE WITH FIVE LOAVES OF BREAD AND TWO FISH, WALKED ON WATER, FED 4,000 PEOPLE WITH SEVEN LOAVES OF BREAD AND A FEW FISH, SUPERNATURALLY PUT TAX MONEY IN A FISH’S MOUTH, WITHERED A FIG TREE, HEALED PETER’S MOTHER IN LAW, CURED A MAN WITH LEPROSY, HEALED A PARALYZED MAN, HEALED AN INVALID, RAISED A DEAD CHILD TO LIFE, RESTORED A BLIND AND MUTE MAN WITH SIGHT AND SPEECH, CURED A WOMAN WITH A FLOW OF BLOOD, GAVE SIGHT TO THE BLIND, RAISED LAZARUS FROM THE DEAD TO LIFE, RESTORED A MAN’S EAR THAT HAD BEEN CUT OFF BY A SWORD.

AND THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF MESSIAH’S MIRACLES.

DOES GOD DECIDE WHO WILL BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?  DOES GOD DECIDE WHO WILL LEAD EVERY NATION?  THE ANSWER IS YES.

AND THESE PRESIDENTS AND LEADERS WHOM GOD DECIDES TO CHOOSE, MAY OR MAY NOT BE GOOD.  THEY MAY BE GREAT, OR THEY MAY BE EVIL.  IT IS GOD’S CHOICE FOR HIS PURPOSE.  AND PERHAPS FOR GOD TO EXECUTE JUDGMENT.

HOW DO WE KNOW THAT GOD CHOOSES THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND ALL LEADERSHIP THROUGHOUT THE WORLD?  WE KNOW BECAUSE GOD REVEALS THAT TO US IN THE BIBLE THAT THE CHOICE IS HIS, FOR HIS PLEASURE.

ISAIAH 46.9-11 REMEMBER THE FORMER THINGS OF OLD, FOR I AM GOD, AND THERE IS NONE ELSE.  I AM GOD AND THERE IS NONE LIKE ME.

DECLARING THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, AND FROM ANCIENT TIMES THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT YET DONE, SAYING MY COUNSEL SHALL STAND, AND I WILL DO MY PLEASURE.

CALLING A RAVENOUS BIRD FROM THE EAST, THE MAN THAT EXECUTES MY COUNSEL FROM A FAR COUNTRY.  YES, I HAVE SPOKEN IT, I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS.  I HAVE PURPOSED IT, I WILL ALSO DO IT.

GOD TOLD ABRAHAM HUNDREDS OF YEARS BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT DOWN TO EGYPT AND BECAME SLAVES FOR 400 YEARS, THAT HE, GOD ALMIGHTY WOULD GIVE THE LAND OF CANAAN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR AN EVERLASTING POSSESSION.  GENESIS 15.13-21

GOD TELLS THE EXACT TIME OF MESSIAH YESHUA’S FIRST COMING IN  DANIEL 9.20-27

GOD TELLS US IN THE BIBLE THAT THE SON OF GOD, THE MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, WHO WILL BE FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, AND FROM BETHLEHEM.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, MICAH 5.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, MICAH 5.2

GOD PROPHESIED THAT HE WILL BRING BACK THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH AFTER SOME 2,000 YEARS OF EXILE.  IT HAPPENED IN 1948.  MANY JEWISH PEOPLE RETURNED TO ISRAEL AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR, AND ARE STILL COMING TO ISRAEL.

ISAIAH 11.11-12, JEREMIAH 31.10-14, EZEKIEL 36.16-24

AND GOD SPEAKS OF THE FUTURE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL.  EZEKIEL 36.25-28

AND GOD TELLS US, IT IS HE WHO DECIDES WHO BECOMES THE LEADER OF A COUNTRY, EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

JEREMIAH 27.5  I HAVE MADE THE EARTH, THE MAN AND THE ANIMALS THAT ARE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH BY MY GREAT POWER AND BY MY OUTSTRETCHED ARM.  AND HAVE GIVEN IT TO WHOM IT SEEMED RIGHT IN MY EYES.

DANIEL 4.31-32  KNOW THAT THE MOST HIGH RULES IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN AND GIVES IT TO WHOMSOEVER HE WILL.

DANIEL 5.17, 21  THE MOST HIGH GOD RULES IN THE KINGDOM OF MEN AND HE APPOINTS OVER IT WHOMSOEVER HE WILL.

ROMANS 11.36  FOR OF HIM, AND THROUGH HIM, AND TO HIM,  ARE ALL THINGS, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER, AMEN.

SO,YES, GOD WILL DECIDE FOR HIS PURPOSE WHO WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 2020, DONALD TRUMP OR JOE BIDEN.  IT IS WRITTEN.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

Shalom:

Our teaching will come from Joshua 3.1-17

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, AFTER FORTY YEARS, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CROSS THE JORDAN RIVER INTO THE PROMISED LAND, THE LAND OF CANAAN, THAT BECAME THE GOD-GIVEN, EVERLASTING JEWISH HOMELAND, THE LAND OF ISRAEL.  GENESIS 17.8

And with that said, let’s read Joshua 3.1-17.

JOSHUA 3.1  And Joshua rose early in the morning, and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan River, he and all The Children of Israel.  And they remained there in Shittim before they crossed.

The time of this event was some 3,400 years ago, forty years after GOD freed The Children of Israel from four hundred years of Egyptian slavery.  The Jewish People were at the end of their forty year journey from Egypt to the Promised Land Canaan.  And They were preparing to cross the Jordan river into Canaan that would become The GOD-Given, Everlasting Jewish Homeland, The Land of Israel.  GENESIS 17.8

JOSHUA 3.2  And it came to pass after three days, the officers went through the host.

3,400 years ago, the host was The Israeli Army.  The IDF, The Israeli Defense Forces are not strangers to war.

JOSHUA 3.3  And they, the Israeli officers, commanded The People saying, When you see The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD Your GOD, and The Priests, the Levites, carrying it, you shall set forth from your place and follow after it.

The Ark of The Covenant was a Chest that was made of shittim wood, overlaid with pure gold inside and out that was 4 feet long, 2 1/4 feet wide, and 2 1/4 feet high.  And a crown of gold all around it.

And The Top of The Ark was pure gold, and a crown of gold all around it.  Some Bibles call The Top of The Ark of The Covenant, The Mercy Seat.

Four rings were fastened on the side of the ark at the top four corners to insert poles made of shittim wood, and also overlaid with pure gold.  And the poles were placed in the rings for the Levites to carry The Ark.  And the Poles were never taken out from the rings.

And two cherubim of pure gold were at each end of The Ark with stretched out wings that covered The Top of The Ark of The Covenant.  And their faces looked upon each other looking toward the Top of The Ark of The Covenant.

The Ark of The Covenant was always in The Tabernacle when the People were not on the move to The Promised Land Canaan.  And there in The Holy of Holies, inside The Tabernacle was where The LORD met with Moses Face to face from above The Top of The Ark between the two cherubim to give Moses His Commandments, all His Laws for The Children of Israel, that all the world should live by.  Because Moses, The Prophet of GOD, speaking The Words that GOD told him to speak, said, Man shall not live by bread alone but by Every Word that proceeds out of The Mouth of The LORD does man live.  And those very same Words are repeated by The Messiah Yeshua in The New Testament.

EXODUS 25.10-22, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

Inside The Ark of The Covenant were The Two Tablets of Stone with The Ten Commandments Written on them by The Finger of GOD.

1 KINGS 8.9, 2 CHRONICLES 5.10

I know it is written in some Bibles in Deuteronomy 31.26 that The Book of The Law, that is The Torah, The Law of Moses, was put in the side of The Ark.  That is incorrect.  The Book of The Law was put at the side of The Ark, not inside The Ark.

The Hebrew reads in Deuteronomy 31.26, Say’fehr Ha’Torah hazeh vay’sahm’tehm oh’toe me’stahd Ahrone B’reet YEHOVAH ELO’HEY’KHEM.  This Book of The Law you shall put it at the side of The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD Your GOD.

JOSHUA 3.4  Yet there shall be a space between you and The Ark of The Covenant, about two thousand cubits by measure.  Do not come near it that you may know the way by which you must go.  For you have not passed this way before.

2,000 cubits are 3,000 feet, or about 10 American football fields.  The space between The People and The Ark when they crossed the Jordan.

JOSHUA 3.5  And Joshua said to The People, Sanctify yourselves That is, Be Holy before The LORD Your GOD, for tomorrow The LORD will do wonders among you.

Being Holy before The LORD is something we should be 24/7, all the time.  And being Holy before The LORD is living our life by every Word GOD speaks in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation.

And tomorrow, GOD said, The LORD will do wonders among you.

JOSHUA 3.6-10  And Joshua spoke to The Priests saying, Take The Ark of The Covenant and pass over The Jordan before The People.  And they took up The Ark of The Covenant and went before The People.

7/  And The LORD said to Joshua, “This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

I believe that GOD spoke those wonderful Words to Joshua, not only for The People to know that GOD will magnify Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and that they will know that as GOD was with Moses, GOD will also be with Joshua, but GOD also spoke those Words to Joshua for Joshua’s assurance that The LORD was with him as He was with Moses.

8/  And The LORD said to Joshua, You shall command The Priests who carry The Ark of The Covenant, saying, When you come to the brink of the water of The Jordan, you shall stand still in The Jordan.

9/  And Joshua said to The Children of Israel, Come here and hear The Words of The LORD Your GOD.

10/  And Joshua said, By this you shall know that The Loving GOD is among you, and that He will, without fail, drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

GOD does everything for a reason.  And GOD drove out the Canaanite nations because of their sins against GOD.  Their abominations are described by GOD in the following Scriptures.

GENESIS 15.13-21, LEVITICUS 18.1-30, DEUTERONOMY 18.9-14, 1 KINGS 21.26

JOSHUA 3.11-13  And Joshua said, Behold, The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD of all the earth passes over before you into The Jordan.

12/  Now therefore take twelve men out of The Tribes of Israel, out of every Tribe a man.

13/  And it shall come to pass as soon as the soles of the feet of The Priests who carry The Ark of The LORD, The LORD of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of The Jordan, that the waters of The Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above, and they shall stand upon a heap.

WHEN GOD GOES BEFORE YOU, YOU WILL SUCCEED.  WHETHER GOD MAKES A PATH OF DRY GROUND TO CROSS THE JORDAN RIVER INTO THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN, OR GOD OPENS THE WATERS OF THE RED SEA FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO WALK ON DRY GROUND TO CONTINUE THEIR JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.  GOD CAN MAKE YOU SUCCEED.  BECAUSE NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.

I always think of what GOD said to Joshua when he took over from Moses when Moses died.  Because GOD’S Words apply today every bit as they applied to Joshua 3,400 years ago.  GOD’S Spoken Word is forever, and they never change

GOD SAID, ONLY BE STRONG AND VERY COURAGEOUS THAT YOU OBSERVE TO DO ACCORDING TO ALL THE LAW, ALL THE LAW OF MOSES, WHICH MOSES MY SERVANT COMMANDED YOU.  DO NOT TURN FROM IT TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT THAT YOU SHALL PROSPER WHEREVER YOU GO.

THIS BOOK OF THE LAW SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, BUT YOU SHALL MEDITATE IN IT DAY AND NIGHT THAT YOU 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, GOD SAID, BE STRONG AND OF A GOOD COURAGE.  DO NOT BE AFRAID, NEITHER LOSE YOUR COURAGE, FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.  JOSHUA 1.7-9

WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE.  ALL GOD WANTS FROM YOU IS THAT YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE IN OBEDIENCE TO HIM.  TO OBEY HIS LAW, ALL HIS LAW OF MOSES IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.  AND GOD WILL OPEN THE RED SEA FOR YOU TO SUCCEED.  AND GOD’S LAW IS NOT DIFFICULT.  IN FACT IT’S EASY.  1 JOHN 5.3, 1 JOHN 1.9

BUT YOU MIGHT ASK, WHAT ABOUT JESUS?

JESUS IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE IN YOUR LIFE FOR ATONEMENT, THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS, AND TO FOLLOW HIS STEPS, WHO DID NO SIN.  JESUS DID NOT SIN BECAUSE MESSIAH OBEYED EVERY WORD OF THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND THOSE ARE HIS STEPS WE MUST FOLLOW.  OBEDIENCE TO GOD.

MATTHEW 26.28, 1 PETER 2.21-22

LOOK, JESUS NEVER ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES.  THOSE WHO TEACH THAT JESUS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES AND THOSE WHO LIVE LIKE JESUS ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES CAN TAKE CREDIT FOR ALL THE VIOLENCE, THE CHAOS, THE MURDERS, THE SHOOTINGS, FIRES, LOOTINGS, DESTRUCTION, THE CORONAVIRUS, ALL THE EVILS OF TODAY.  BECAUSE MUCH OF THE WORLD IS TAUGHT THE LIE THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED.  AND MANY MORE HAVE ZERO INTEREST IN WHAT GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE. 

THAT DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, DISOBEYING GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES BRINGS GOD’S WRATH AND HIS JUDGMENTS ON THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE WORLD.

TEACHING THE STUPIDITY THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED, AND LIVING A LIFE OF DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S LAW OF MOSES,  AND DISOBEDIENCE TO ANY WORD THAT GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, THAT DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD IS THE CAUSE FOR ALL THE PROBLEMS AND EVILS IN THE WORLD.

ISAIAH 24.4-6, ISAIAH 45.7, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, REVELATION 16, EZEKIEL 18.21

JAMES WRITES, MY BRETHREN, BE NOT MANY TEACHERS KNOWING THAT WE SHALL RECEIVE THE GREATER CONDEMNATION.  JAMES 3.1 

THE ACTUAL TRANSLATION OF THIS VERSE READS, NOT MANY TEACHERS BECOME BROTHERS OF ME, KNOWING THAT GREATER JUDGMENT WE WILL RECEIVE. 

THOSE TEACHING THE LIE THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED WILL RECEIVE THE GREATER CONDEMNATION UNLESS THEY REPENT AND TURN TO GOD AND OBEY AND TEACH ALL GOD’S LAW WRITTEN IN THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND IF THEY DO NOT REPENT, JESUS WILL SAY TO THEM, DEPART FROM ME, YOU THAT WORK INIQUITY.  MATTHEW 7.21-23, EZEKIEL 18.21 

JOSHUA 3.14-17  And it came to pass when The People removed from their tents to pass over the Jordan, and The Priests carrying The Ark of The Covenant before The People,

15/  and as they who carried The Ark came to the Jordan river, and the feet of The Priests who carried The Ark were dipped in the brim of the water, for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest,

16/  that the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon a heap very far from the city of Adam that is beside Zaretan, and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even The Salt Sea (The Dead Sea), failed and were cut off.  And The People passed over right opposite Jericho.

17/  And The Priests who carried The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of The Jordan river, and all Israel crossed over on dry ground until all The Nation had completely crossed over the Jordan river.

AFTER FORTY YEARS, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CROSSED THE JORDAN RIVER INTO THE PROMISED LAND CANAAN THAT BECAME THE GOD-GIVEN, EVERLASTING JEWISH HOMELAND, THE LAND OF ISRAEL. 

BARUKH HASHEM ADONAI YESHUA HAMASHIAKH, BLESSED IS THE NAME THE LORD YESHUA THE MESSIAH.

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

 

Shalom,

Our teaching will be from Joshua 2.1-24.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD BLESSES THEM WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  THAT IS A GIFT FROM GOD.  AND GOD CURSES THEM WHO CURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  THAT IS A JUDGMENT FROM GOD.

And with that said, let’s read Joshua 2.1-24.

Earlier, GOD had spoken to Joshua and said to him, Moses My servant is dead.  Now therefore arise and go over this Jordan, you and all this People to the land that I give to them, to The Children of Israel.  JOSHUA 1.2

LET’S SUMMARIZE WHAT WE JUST READ IN JOSHUA 2.1-24

Joshua sent out two men to secretly spy out Jericho.  Jericho was in the land of Canaan.  Jericho is now in The Land of Israel.  And they went and came into a harlot’s house named Rahab, and they rested there.

Now there are two Rahabs mentioned in The Bible.  This Rahab in Jericho who was a harlot, and another Rahab that is a name for Egypt.

And both Rahabs have the same Hebrew name, Rah’khav.

To clear up what might be a confusion with the Rahabs, let’s look at two Scriptures about the other Rahab meaning Egypt.

HEBREW BIBLE PSALM 89.11, CHRISTIAN BIBLE PSALM 89.10  GOD has broken Rahab, in pieces, that is Egypt.  GOD has scattered His enemies with His Strong Arm.

Rahab the harlot was not an enemy of Israel, but one who Blessed Israel.  She was an enemy of GOD being a harlot, but she cleared things up for herself with GOD when she Blessed The Jewish People and Israel, and had Faith in The GOD of Israel.

So things changed for the good when Rahab became a Blessing to The Jewish People and Israel when she assisted them in Jericho.

ISAIAH 51.9, GENESIS 12.3, HEBREWS 11.31

So the spies went into the harlot Rahab’s house and rested there.

And it was told the King of Jericho about The Jewish spies who came to Jericho to spy out the land.  But Rahab took the two spies and hid them.

And she said to the king’s men, Some men came to me but I didn’t know where they came from.  And when it was dark, the men left.  Where they went, I don’t know.  Pursue after them quickly and you will overtake them, she said to the king’s men.

But Rahab had brought the spies up to the roof and hid them in stalks of flax that are long stem plants to make yarn and string.

So all the kings men pursued after The Jewish spies to the Jordan River.

And Rahab went up to the roof.  The roofs are flat in the Middle East, at least most of them are, and the roof of Rahab’s house had to be flat because The Jewish spies were comfortable up there.

And Rahab said to the men, I know that The LORD has given you The Land, and that your terror has fallen upon us, and all the people of the land faint because of you.

We have heard how The LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other side of the Jordan River, Sihon and Og whom you utterly destroyed.

And as soon as we heard these things our hearts melted.  And there was no courage in any man because of you.  For The LORD Your GOD, He is GOD in Heaven above, and in earth beneath.

Now please, swear to me by The LORD since I have shown you kindness that you will also show kindness to my father’s house, and give me a true sign.  And that you will save alive my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death.

And the men answered her, Our life for yours if you tell no one about our mission.  And when The LORD has given us this land, we will deal kindly and truly with you.

Then she let the men down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the town wall, and she lived on the actual wall.

And she said to them, Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers violently meet you.  And hide yourselves there for three days until the pursuers return, and then go and do what you must do.

And the men said, We will be released from your oath which you made us swear unless when we come into the land that you tie this cord of scarlet line in the window, the one that you let us down from, and you bring your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father’s household home to you in your house.

And anyone who ventures outside the doors of your house into the street, their blood shall be upon their head, and we will be innocent.  But if a hand is laid on anyone who remains in your house with you, their blood shall be on our heads.

And if you say anything of our mission, then we are released from your oath which you made us swear.  And she said, As you have said, so be it.  And she sent them away, and they left, and she tied the scarlet line in the window.

And the spies went to the mountain and stayed there three days until the pursuers returned.  And the pursuers searched for the spies but could not find them.

So the two men went down the mountain, crossed the Jordan, and returned and came to Joshua, and told them everything that happened to them.

And they said to Joshua, Truly The LORD has delivered all the land into our hands because all the people of the land faint because of us.

I don’t think we have ever done a teaching of GOD Blessing those who Bless The Jewish People and Israel, and GOD Cursing those who Curse The Jewish People and Israel.  And that’s what our message will be about today.

GOD BLESSED RAHAB FOR BLESSING THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.

Rahab married a Jewish man from the tribe of Judah because she is in the lineage of Messiah Yeshua.  Which means she is also in the lineage of King David.  MATTHEW 1.1-6, 18-21

MATTHEW 1.5-6  As I read this genealogy, Rahab married Salmon a Jewish man from the tribe of Judah.  And Rahab gave birth to Boaz.  And Boaz whose wife was Ruth gave birth to Obed.  And the wife of Obed gave birth to Jesse the father of King David.  RUTH 4.18-22

And many years later from this same lineage, Miriam, a nice Jewish girl whom Christianity calls Mary, was engaged to Joseph, a Jewish man from the Tribe of Judah.  And Miriam, a virgin, gave birth to The Jewish Messiah Yeshua.  After the birth of Messiah, Miriam and Joseph married.

BUT MESSIAH’S FATHER IS NOT JOSEPH.  MESSIAH’S FATHER IS GOD ALMIGHTY.  AND LISTEN TO THIS, MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY. 

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

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

GOD ALMIGHTY MIRACULOUSLY CAUSED THE JEWISH VIRGIN MIRIAM TO BECOME PREGNANT AND GIVE BIRTH TO A SON, MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY THE FATHER.  ISAIAH 7.14

IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE LORD?  NO.  GENESIS 18.14

SO GOD IN HIS GREATNESS BLESSED RAHAB FOR BLESSING THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  SHE IS IN THE LINEAGE OF KING DAVID, AND THE MESSIAH YESHUA.

MATTHEW 25.31-46  IS END TIMES TEACHING THAT GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE WITH ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN, AND CURSES THOSE WHO CURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY SENDING THEM INTO EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.

MATTHEW 25.31  When The Son of Man, Who is Messiah Yeshua, shall come in His Glory, and all His Holy Angels with Him, then shall He sit upon The Throne of His Glory.

32/  And before Him shall be gathered all the nations (All The Gentiles).  And He shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep.

33/  And He shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

34/  Then shall the King say to them on His right hand, Come you Blessed of My Father, inherit The Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.  (The Kingdom is Heaven.)

35/  For I was hungry and you gave Me meat to eat.  I was thirsty and you gave Me water to drink.  I was a stranger and you took me in.

36/  Naked and you clothed Me.  I was sick and you visited Me.  I was in prison and you came to Me.

37/  Then shall the Righteous (The Righteous do what GOD says.  They Bless GOD’S Jewish People) Then shall The Righteous answer Him, saying, LORD, when did we see You hungry and fed you, and thirsty and gave you water to drink?

38/  When did we see You a stranger and took You in?  Or naked and clothed You?

39/  Or when did we see You sick, or in prison and came to You?

40/  And The King shall answer and say to them, Verily I say to you, In as much as you have done it to one of the least of these My Brethren, you have done it to Me.

MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, IS SAYING, WHEN YOU BLESS MY BRETHREN, YOU BLESS ME.

JESUS IS JEWISH.  THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARE HIS BRETHREN.

MATTHEW 1.1 ff, EXODUS 4.22, GENESIS 12.3

41/  Then shall He say to them on His left hand, Depart from Me you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  (That is hell).

42/  For I was hungry and you gave Me no meat to eat.  I was thirsty and you gave Me no water to drink.

43/  I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.

44/  Then shall they also answer Him, saying, LORD, When did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to You?

45/  And He shall answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, In as much as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.

46/  And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but The Righteous into Life Eternal.

GOD IS WARNING THOSE WHO HATE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.

BUT GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS HIS JEWISH PEOPLE.

IT IS SAID THAT THE NEW TESTAMENT HAS REPLACED THE OLD TESTAMENT.  WELL, THAT’S A LIE.  THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT ARE ONE AND THE SAME BIBLE, JUST AS GOD THE FATHER AND MESSIAH YESHUA ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS THAT MESSIAH YESHUA MAKES ATONEMENT FOR OUR SOUL, REPLACING THE ANIMAL SACRIFICE.  AND THAT IS PROPHESIED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. ISAIAH 53.10

WITHOUT THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM, MESSIAH YESHUA, BY HIS DEATH AND SHED BLOOD AS A HUMAN BEING, IS OUR ATONEMENT THAT REPLACES THE ANIMAL SACRIFICE.  BECAUSE GOD FORBIDS THE ANIMAL SACRIFICE WHILE THERE IS NO TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM. 

LEVITICUS 17.8, 9, 11

WHEN THE TEMPLE IS REBUILT IN JERUSALEM, THE ANIMAL SACRIFICE WILL AGAIN BECOME THE WAY TO MAKE ATONEMENT.  ZECHARIAH 14.21

THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACHES THAT THE LAW OF MOSES IS FOR ALL MANKIND, AND MUST BE OBEYED.  TEACHING THAT THE LAW IS ABOLISHED IS BLASHPHEMOUS, ANTI GOD, AND A SALVATION KILLER.

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

BLESSING THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL RESULTS IN ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  

Continuing with Biblical Teaching that GOD Blesses those who Bless The Jewish People and Israel, and curses those who curse The Jewish People and Israel, GOD Blessed Rahab, a Gentile woman for protecting the two Jewish spies sent to Jericho to spy out her land Jericho.

I can’t think of a whole lot of Gentiles in The Bible who blessed The Jewish People and Israel.

But Egypt and Syria come to mind.  ISAIAH 19.24-25

GOD will Bless Egypt and Assyria in the end days.  Egypt, because Pharaoh, King of Egypt, appointed Joseph the son of Jacob to become Governor of Egypt under Pharaoh.  And Pharaoh allowed The Jewish People, 70 in all, to move down to Egypt to escape the famine in Canaan.  There The Jewish People became a great nation.  And after 400 years of slavery, Israel was set free by GOD and went on to conquer Canaan that became The Land of Israel.  For that GOD will bless Egypt in the end days and during The 1,000 year Messianic Kingdom in Israel.

And Assyria, because Abraham, the father of The Jewish People was born in Ur of the Chaldees in Assyria.  And he and his family moved from Ur of the Chaldees to Canaan that became The Promised Land for The Jewish People, and called The Land of Israel.

LET’S READ ISAIAH 19.19-25.  GOD HAS A LONG MEMORY.

BUT GOD CURSES THOSE WHO CURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  AND THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OF THOSE PEOPLE.

The Amalekites are no longer a people or a nation.  They are dead and gone.  That is a judgment from GOD because they fought The Children of Israel when The Jewish People came out of Egypt.  EXODUS 17.8-16

The kings of the Amorites, Sihon and Og would not allow The Children of Israel to cross peacefully  through their land on their way to The Promised Land, and the Amorites came out to battle The Jewish People.  But The Jewish People killed the Amorites and their kings, Sihon and Og and took their land.  The Amorites are no longer a people, and Ammon is no longer a nation.  That is a judgment from GOD.  Their land became part of Israel.  NUMBERS 21.21-35

The Midianites and Balaam are no longer a people, and Midian is no longer a nation.  That is a judgment from GOD because the Midianites and Balaam caused The Jewish People to sin against GOD with their idols.

Midian was a son of Abraham.  Midian was Jewish.

GENESIS 25.1-2, NUMBERS 31.1-18

Many people in the United States, and Europe, and throughout the world are in danger of hell fire and curses from GOD because so many people hate The Jewish People and Israel for no reason.

Many say that the Jews occupy Israel, or The West Bank.  They know that’s a lie because Israel, that includes The West Bank, has been Jewish Land for 3,400 years.  The anti-Semites visit hatred upon The Jewish people for no reason, but GOD will visit the Jew haters with everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels because of their hatred of Jewish People and Israel.  And that results in eternity in hell.

But there are many people who stand with the Jewish People, even during this time when Israel is considering annexing Land in The West Bank where Jewish settlements are.

Recently, a number of People signed a letter endorsing Israel’s plan to extend sovereignty over parts of The West Bank where Jewish Settlements stand.  They are Lawmakers from Slovenia, Wales, Finland, Italy, Romania, The Netherlands, Zambia, Malawi, Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria, Madagascar, Kenya, Argentina, Columbia, Suriname, Mexico, The Dominican Republic, and Guatemala.

AND I SAY TO YOU WHO SUPPORT THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL, THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU, THE LORD MAKE HIS FACE SHINE UPON YOU, AND BE GRACIOUS TO YOU, THE LORD LIFT UP HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU, AND GIVE YOU PEACE.  NUMBERS 6.22-27 

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

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