Month: August 2020

Shalom,

Our teaching will be from Joshua 9.1-27.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, YES, GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.

And with that said, let’s read Joshua 9.1-27.

In summary, after The Children of Israel conquered, and possessed, and killed all the Canaanite people in Jericho, and in the city of Ai, all the kings of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites came together to fight Joshua and Israel.

But when the people, who were Hivites, who lived in Gibeon, a city in the land of Canaan about 5 1/2 miles northwest of Jerusalem, heard what Joshua and The Israeli army did to Jericho and Ai, they did some trickery and made themselves to appear as Ambassadors.

It’s interesting to note that the word Trickery comes from The Hebrew Word Ahr’mah, that means Trickery with Wisdom.

And the Hivites from Gibeon sent men dressed as though they were traveling from a far country with old sacks upon their donkeys, and old wine bottles that were ripped and torn, and old clothing, and old spotted shoes, and food that was dry and moldy.  And they went to Joshua to the camp of Gilgal.  Gilgal is by the Jordan River.  It was not a long walk.

And the men from Gibeon said to Joshua and the men of Israel, We come from a far country.  That’s a lie.  Because they didn’t want to get killed.  That makes sense.  And the Gibeonites said to Joshua and the men of Israel, Make a covenant with us.  And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you live among us, and how shall we make a covenant with you?  And the Gibeonites said to Joshua, We will be your servants.

And Joshua said to them, Who are you?  And where do you come from?  And they said, From a very far country.  Your servants have come because of The Name of The LORD Your GOD, for we have heard the fame of Him, and all that He did in Egypt, and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites and Bashan.  Therefore all our elders and people of our country spoke to us saying, Take food for your journey and go meet them, and say to them, We are your servants.  Therefore make a covenant with us.

So Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them without asking counsel from The LORD.  And Joshua agreed to let them live among the Children of Israel.  And the leaders of Israel swore an oath to The LORD that they could live in peace with Israel as servants.

So The Children of Israel continued their march through Canaan, and on the third day The Children of Israel came to the Gibeonite cities, and three other cities of the Gibeonites.  Not a far county, but a people of Canaan.  Still The Children of Israel did not kill them because the leaders of Israel had vowed an oath to The LORD GOD OF ISRAEL.  And The Congregation complained against the Israeli leaders.  But the leaders said to all The Congregation, We have vowed a vow to The LORD GOD of Israel.  Now therefore we can not touch them.  NUMBERS 30.1-2

These Jewish men knew The Word of GOD.

But this is what we will do with them, they said.  We will let the Gibeonites live lest wrath come upon us because of the oath we swore to The LORD.  And the leaders said to The Congregation, Let them live and let them be cutters of wood and drawers of water to all The Congregation as the leaders promised them.

So Joshua called for those Gibeonites, and asked them, Why have you tricked us telling us we are very far from you when you in fact are near by and live among us?  Now therefore, Joshua said, you are cursed.  None of you shall be freed from being servants cutting wood and drawing water for The House of my GOD.

Wow, I can think of a lot of things I would not want to do, but to help build The House of GOD, now that is a Blessing for the Gibeonites, not a curse.

And the Gibeonites answered Joshua, and said, We have certainly heard how The LORD Your GOD Commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land of Canaan and to kill all the people of Canaan.  Therefore we are scared to death for our lives because of you.  That is why we have done this thing.  Now we are in your hand.  As it seems good and right to you, that is what you should do to us.  EXODUS 23.23-33

So Joshua saw to it that they were not killed by the Children of Israel, and Joshua made them cutters of wood, and drawers of water for The Congregation, and for The Altar of The LORD to this day, The Bible says, in The Place that Joshua will choose.

Joshua said that the Gibeonites were cursed.  I’m not so sure they were cursed.  Working at The House of GOD is certainly not a curse.  JOSHUA 9.23

Let’s do a brief Biblical history on the Gibeonites who are Hivites while they lived in Israel and see if they were cursed or blessed.

The only people of Canaan that made peace with Israel were the Hivites, the people of Gibeon.  JOSHUA 11.16-20

Before Solomon built the first Temple in Jerusalem, The Tabernacle of The Congregation of GOD was in Gibeon along with a high place where Canaanite strange gods were worshiped by many of The Children of Israel.  Very sinful.

Originally, The Tabernacle in the wilderness was in Shiloh that was in the territory of the Tribe of Ephraim about 19 miles north of Jerusalem.  Thus The Tabernacle was moved from Shiloh to Gibeon.

2 CHRONICLES 1.1-3, JOSHUA 18.1

One of the reasons GOD exiled His Jewish People to Assyria and Babylon in 722 B.C.E. and 586 B.C.E. was because many Jewish People worshiped the strange gods of Canaan.  2 KINGS 17.6-25, JUDGES 3.1-6

JUDGES 3.1-6  GOD tested The Children of Israel among the Canaanite peoples, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and Jebusites to know if they would obey The Commandments of The LORD.  And they failed because verse 6 reads, And they, The Children of Israel, took their daughters, the daughters of the Canaanite peoples, to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served other gods. 

Continuing the brief history of the Hivites while they lived among The Jewish People in Israel, King David had Hivite men of war from Gibeon at his side.

1 CHRONICLES 12.1-4

And David had great respect for The Gibeonites.  2 SAMUEL 21.1-9

The Gibeonites were among The People of Judah whom GOD sent into captivity in 586 B.C.E. to Babylon.  And when the seventy years of captivity were complete, the Gibeonites returned with The Jewish People to Israel, and they worked at the second Temple.  NEHEMIAH 7.5, 25, NEHEMIAH 3.6-7

So from what I read in The Scriptures, Gibeonites, not all, blended in well with The Jewish People, and therefore I believe that GOD Blessed those Gibeonites who did not lead Jewish People to serve their strange gods.

LET’S TALK ABOUT SOME OF GOD’S BLESSINGS THAT GENTILES CAN EXPECT WHEN THEY BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.

WHEN GENTILES BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND DO NOT TEACH THE LIE TO JEWISH PEOPLE THAT TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IS ABOLISHED OR OPTIONAL, AND DO NOT TEACH THE LIE THAT THERE IS A TRINITY OF THREE DIFFERENT GODS, GOD WILL BLESS YOU.  SEE JUDGES 3.1-6

BECAUSE TEACHING JEWISH PEOPLE, OR FOR THAT MATTER, TEACHING ANY PEOPLE THAT THE LAW OF MOSES THAT IS THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD IS ABOLISHED IS CURSING JEWISH PEOPLE WITH A BLASPHEMOUS LIE.  THE SAME APPLIES FOR TEACHING THE TRINITY TO JEWISH PEOPLE OF THREE DIFFERENT GODS, THAT JESUS IS THE SECOND GOD, DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT FROM THE FATHER.  THAT TOO IS A LIE, AND THAT TOO IS CURSING JEWISH PEOPLE.  

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, ISAIAH 40.8, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9

GENESIS 12.3  GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS ABRAHAM, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND ISRAEL.  ABRAHAM IS THE FATHER OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND ISRAEL IS THE EVERLASTING HOMELAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  GENESIS 17.8

MESSIAH YESHUA WAS TOLD THAT A SERVANT OF A CERTAIN MAN, NOT JEWISH, WHO LOVES ISRAEL AND BUILT A SYNAGOGUE FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE LAND, NEEDED HEALING.  AND MESSIAH HEALED THE SERVANT.  LUKE 7.1-10

THEREFORE GOD WILL BLESS YOU WITH GOOD HEALTH FOR BLESSING THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.

GOD WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE WITH PROTECTION, AND CHILDREN, IF THEY WANT CHILDREN, OR MORE CHILDREN.  GENESIS 26.24

AND THE LORD WILL BLESS YOUR FAMILY FOR YOUR SAKE WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  GENESIS 30.27

GOD WILL BLESS YOU WITH HEALTH, AND TAKE SICKNESS AWAY FROM YOU, AND BLESS YOUR FOOD AND YOUR WATER WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  EXODUS 23.24-25

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

THE LORD WILL BLESS ALL THAT YOU DO.  HE WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU, AND PROTECT YOU.  AND YOU WILL LACK NOTHING WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  DEUTERONOMY 2.7

WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL, GOD WILL KEEP HIS COVENANT OF MERCY WITH YOU, AND HE WILL LOVE YOU, AND BLESS YOU, AND BLESS YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR WORK. 

DEUTERONOMY 7.12-13

GOD WILL BLESS YOU IN SO MANY WAYS WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  DEUTERONOMY 28.1-14

WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL, GOD WILL BLESS YOU, BECAUSE GOD SEES YOU AS RIGHTEOUS, AND WITH FAVOR GOD WILL SURROUND YOU AS A SHIELD OF PROTECTION.  PSALM 5.12

AND GOD WILL GIVE YOU GODLY COUNSEL, AND YOUR MIND WILL INSTRUCT YOU IN THE NIGHT.  PERHAPS IN DREAMS.  PSALM 16.7

WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL, THE LORD WILL BLESS YOU OUT OF ZION, AND YOU WILL SEE THE GOOD OF JERUSALEM ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE.  PSALM 128.1-6

WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL, YOURS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.  YOU WILL BE COMFORTED, AND INHERIT THE EARTH WHICH IS ETERNAL LIFE IN THE 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL AND IN HEAVEN FOREVER.  YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FILLED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS FROM GOD.  YOU WILL OBTAIN MERCY, AND YOU WILL SEE GOD.  YOU ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, AND YOU ARE BLESSED BY GOD WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  MATTHEW 5.1-12

YOU ARE IN THE FAMILY OF GOD WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  LUKE 8.21

AND GOD SEES YOU AS RIGHTEOUS, AND YOU WILL INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN, AND NOT EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT IN HELL, WHEN YOU BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  MATTHEW 25.46

SO YES, GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31-46

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

www.bethelohenu@gmail.com

Shalom,

Our teaching today will come from Joshua 8.1-35.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, THE LORD IS A MAN OF WAR.  HE GIVES VICTORY TO HIS PEOPLE WHO DO WHAT HE SAYS.

The events in Joshua Chapter 8 come immediately after GOD Commanded Joshua to destroy the cursed thing from among The Children of Israel for disobeying GOD by stealing Things of Jericho that were Devoted to GOD.  And GOD told Joshua, He that is taken with the Devoted Things shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he transgressed The Covenant of The LORD, and because he did wickedness in Israel.

Wickedness is disobeying GOD.  The Covenant of The LORD is GOD’S Spoken Word that is Law.

And the man Achan who stole The Devoted Things to The LORD, and all his family were taken, and stoned, and burned with fire because of this man’s sin.  JOSHUA 7.13-15, 25-26

JOSHUA 8.1  Earlier, Joshua, not knowing of Achan’s sin, had sent some 3,000 fighting men of Israel up to the Canaanite city of Ai that had few people, to destroy the city and possess it.  But the few people of Ai chased the 3,000 Israeli fighters and killed 36 of them because Israel had sinned by this man Achan for stealing The Devoted Things.  Now that Achan was dead, GOD has forgiven Israel, and again GOD stands with Israel in the battle.

And The LORD told Joshua, don’t be frightened.  Take all your people of war and go up to Ai.  I have given it into your hand, the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.

JOSHUA 8.2  So GOD said to Joshua, You shall do to Ai, and her king, as you did to Jericho and her king.  That is, destroy the city of Ai, kill all the people in it.  Kill the king, and set the place on fire.  But this time, GOD said, take the spoil and the animals for yourselves.

During their 40 year journey through the wilderness from Egypt to The Promised Land Canaan, GOD Commanded The Children of Israel often that they were to kill all the Canaanites when they entered Canaan because the Canaanites worshiped strange gods, sacrificed their children to their strange gods, their sexual relations were an abomination to GOD, and they practiced magic and witchcraft, and lived their lives in violation to every Law of GOD.

THEREFORE GOD WOULD NOT ALLOW HIS HOLY PEOPLE, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE CANAANITES.

EXODUS 23.23-33, DEUTERONOMY 18.9-14, DEUTERONOMY 20.16-18  

And GOD told Joshua how to fight this battle for the city of Ai.  Set an ambush behind the city.  An ambush is a surprise attack.

JOSHUA 8.3-8  So Joshua and all the men of war prepared for the battle with thirty thousand men.  And he sent them out at night.

And Joshua told them to lie in wait behind the city and be ready.  And he, Joshua, and all the people with him will approach the city.  But when the fighters of Ai come out against us, we will run from before them, and that will draw them out of the city.  Then the other group of fighters will ambush the city and take it, for The LORD Your GOD will deliver it into your hand.  And when you take the city, set it on fire as The LORD Commands us.

JOSHUA 8.9-17  So Joshua went with about 5,000 fighting men to approach the city.  And the other 25,000 fighters waited behind the city in ambush.

And the king of Ai saw the 5,000 Israelis approaching the city in the valley, and the king quickly assembled his men for the battle.  And they went out against the Israelis.  And Joshua and his men made as though they were beaten and ran from before the army of Ai into the wilderness.  And the king of Ai commanded his army to charge after the Israelis.  Thus the king and his army were drawn from their city, and there was not one man left in Ai.  They left the city open as they ran after the Israelis.

JOSHUA 8.18-23  And The LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out your spear toward Ai.  And Joshua did as GOD said.  And the ambush was on.  And the Israeli fighters ran into the city, and took it.  And they set the city of Ai on fire.  And when the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke from the city rising up into the sky.  And there was no power left in them to run this way or that way.  And they were surrounded by the Israeli army.  And the Israeli fighters who ran into the wilderness turned back on the men of Ai, and killed them as The LORD Commanded them, and they left none alive but the king whom they took and brought to Joshua.

JOSHUA 8.24-29  Israel killed that day about 12,000 men and women from the city of Ai in the field, and in the wilderness.  And Israel returned to destroy the city of Ai as GOD Commanded them.  And The Bible says that Joshua did not draw his hand back until he had every person of Ai killed.  Only the animals and the spoil of the city, Israel took for themselves according to The Word that GOD Commanded Joshua.

And Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever.  And the king of Ai was hung on a tree until evening.  And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that the king’s carcass should be taken down from the tree and tossed at the entrance of the city.  And heap on the carcass a great pile of stones that The Bible says, remains to this day.

JOSHUA 8.30-35  So Joshua built an Altar to The LORD GOD OF ISRAEL in Mount Ebal.  And they offered burnt offerings on it to The LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.  And Joshua had written upon the stones The Law of Moses in the presence of The Children of Israel.

The Law of Moses contains The Laws of GOD that were given by Moses.  And all Israel, and the elders, and the officers, and the judges, stood on one side of The Ark, and on the other side of The Ark were The Priests the Levites who carried The Ark of The Covenant of The LORD, as well as the stranger, as he that was born among them.  Half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half in front of Mount Ebal as Moses the Servant of The LORD commanded before that they should bless The People of Israel.

And afterward, Joshua read The Words of The Law, the blessings and the curses according to all that is written in The Book of The Law.  There was not a Word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all The Congregation of Israel, with the women and the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them.

OBEDIENCE TO GOD IS ESSENTIAL FOR VICTORY IN LIFE.

Now, you might ask, Why would GOD have all the Canaanites killed, because they didn’t know that it was an abomination to serve strange gods, nor did they know that sacrificing their children to their gods was an abomination, nor did they know about GOD’S Laws?  So why would GOD have them all killed?

The time in history when GOD Commanded The Children of Israel to enter Canaan and possess it, and kill every Canaanite was about 3,400 years ago.  Again, because the Canaanites served strange gods, sacrificed their children to their strange gods by passing them through fire killing their little kids, practicing magic, having abominable sexual relations, and disobeying every Law of GOD.

The following Scriptures will tell you why GOD Commanded Israel to kill all the Canaanites.  Because every abomination to The LORD that GOD hates, the Canaanites did to their gods.

DEUTERONOMY 18.9-10, DEUTERONOMY 12.29-31, LEVITICUS 20.1-5, 2 KINGS 16.1-3, 2 KINGS 21.1-7, JEREMIAH 19.1-8, JEREMIAH 32.34-36

Okay, the question is this, How would the Canaanites, and other peoples 3,400 years ago know anything about GOD and His Laws?  The Children of Israel were the only people in the world whom GOD gave His Laws to by Moses for Israel and all the world. The Canaanites and the rest of the world knew nothing about GOD, except The Jewish People, The Children of Israel.

Let’s go back in history.  There were no Jewish People until Abraham and Sarah about 2,000 years after GOD Created the heavens and the earth.  And there was no one there at the Creation to announce GOD’S Creation or teach GOD’S Laws.

But The Bible says, On the seventh day GOD ended His Work and He rested.  And GOD blessed The seventh day and made it Holy.

GOD SPOKE THESE WORDS TO MOSES SOME 2,500 YEARS AFTER THE CREATION THAT IS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE FOR ALL THE WORLD TO KNOW THAT GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL THAT ARE IN THEM.

And GOD made man out of the dust of the ground, and gave him life by breathing life into his nostrils.  And GOD made the woman Eve.  That you all know.  And GOD spoke directly to Adam, the first human, but he and his wife, as you know, disobeyed GOD.

GENESIS 1, GENESIS 2.1-3, 16-17, GENESIS 3.3.1-4

And The Bible says that Abel, a son of Adam and Eve, brought his firstborn sheep as a sacrificial offering to GOD.  And GOD respected Abel’s offering.  But GOD did not respect his brother Cain’s offering of the first of his crops.

How did Abel, Adam and Eve’s son, know that the correct offering to GOD was a clean animal sacrifice?  Who told him?  Who taught Him?

GENESIS 4.3-5

And Enoch.  Enoch walked with GOD, and GOD took him.

GENESIS 5.22-24  The Hebrew Word for, AND WALKED, as in, AND Enoch WALKED with GOD is, VAH’YEET’HALAKH, meaning, Enoch Followed GOD.  Enoch lived His Life according to GOD’S Laws of the time.  And GOD took Enoch to Heaven.

How did Enoch know how to follow GOD thousands of years before GOD gave His Laws to Moses for The Jewish People and for all the world to know how to live a GODLY life?  

Then The Bible describes the flood in Noah’s day, perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 thousand years after the Creation, but well before GOD’S Laws that were given to Moses. As you know, the flood killed every human being except Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their wives, because GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continuously.

But GOD said, Noah found grace in The Eyes of The LORD.  For Noah was a Just man and Perfect in his generations.  And Noah Walked with GOD.

GENESIS 6.5-9, GENESIS 4.11

How did Noah know anything about obeying GOD?  How did Noah even know what to obey?  But yet the rest of humanity did not obey GOD?  GOD said, they were wicked.

Then there is Abraham.  GOD said of Abraham while GOD was on His Way to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah because of their sin, For I know Abraham, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep The Way of The LORD to do Justice and Judgment that The LORD may bring upon Abraham that which He has Spoken of Him.

GENESIS 18.16-19

When GOD chose Abraham, GOD said that He would make of Abraham a great nation.  That nation is Israel.  And make his name great.  And Abraham shall be a blessing.  And GOD will bless those who bless Abraham and curse those who curse Abraham, and in Abraham shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

GENESIS 12.1-3

So, how did Abel, Enoch, Noah, and Abraham know how to walk with GOD, and please GOD?  How did they know what to obey to be perfect with GOD?  Moses wasn’t even born yet, and hundreds of years away from receiving GOD’S Laws from GOD, and recording them.

So how would the Canaanites know how to obey GOD?

Here’s my answer.  The breath every human being breathes is The Spirit of GOD.  The Spirit of GOD is GOD.  It is Written, And The LORD GOD formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed life into his nostrils.  And man became a living soul.  GENESIS 2.7

EVERY HUMAN BEING IS LED BY GOD, BY GOD’S SPIRIT IN US.  BUT VERY FEW ARE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO KNOW GOD, AND OBEY WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF US.

IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN MOST PEOPLE A HEART NOT TO UNDERSTAND, AND EYES NOT TO SEE, AND EARS NOT TO HEAR. 

THAT IS, GOD HAS GIVEN MOST PEOPLE A HEART NOT TO KNOW GOD, AND EYES NOT TO SEE THE TRUTH OF GOD, AND EARS NOT TO HEAR AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.3, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.4, ISAIAH 6.8-13, JOHN 12.37-40, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

AND MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD ALMIGHTY, SAYS, YOU HAVE NOT CHOSEN ME, BUT I HAVE CHOSEN YOU.  JOHN 15.16

AND MESSIAH ALSO SAYS, FOR MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN.  MATTHEW 22.14

GOD ALSO SPEAKS TO PEOPLE AS HE SPOKE TO ADAM AND ABRAHAM.

WE DON’T KNOW HOW GOD DOES IT, BUT GOD LEADS EVERY HUMAN BEING BY HIS SPIRIT THAT IS IN EVERYONE.

THEREFORE GOD LED ABEL, ENOCH, NOAH AND ABRAHAM BY HIS SPIRIT TO KNOW GOD, TO LIVE THEIR LIVES ACCORDING TO ALL THAT GOD REQUIRED OF THEM TO BE PERFECT WITH GOD, TO OBSERVE GOD’S HOLY SABBATH ON THE SEVENTH DAY, AND NEVER TO MURDER, AND TO DO EVERYTHING THAT GOD EXPECTED OF THEM. 

THEY WERE PERFECT IN THE SIGHT OF GOD BECAUSE GOD LED THEM IN THE WAY THAT THEY SHOULD GO.

EXODUS 15.11-13, DEUTERONOMY 8.11-15, HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.4, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.5, DEUTERONOMY 32.8-12, PSALM 143.10, ISAIAH 48.16-17, EZEKIEL 36.27-28, JOHN 6.44, ROMANS 8.14

OTHERS, GOD HAS GIVEN THEM A HEART NOT TO UNDERSTAND GOD, AND EYES NOT TO SEE THE TRUTH OF GOD, AND EARS NOT TO HEAR AND OBEY THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  DEUTERONOMY 8.3.

THEREFORE GOD, BY HIS SPIRIT IN THE CANAANITES, DID NOT GIVE THE CANAANITES A HEART TO UNDERSTAND GOD, NOR EYES TO SEE THE TRUTH OF GOD, NOR EARS TO HEAR AND OBEY GOD.  BUT RATHER, THE CANAANITES DID EVERY ABOMINATION TO THE LORD WHICH GOD HATES. LEVITICUS 12.31

BUT FOR THOSE WHO HEAR AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, AND KNOW AND BELIEVE THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, AND NOT A TRINITY OF THREE DIFFERENT GODS, GOD HAS GIVEN YOU A HEART TO UNDERSTAND GOD, AND EYES TO SEE THE TRUTH OF GOD, AND EARS TO HEAR AND OBEY GOD.  YOU ARE THE FEW WHO ARE CHOSEN BY GOD.

AND FOR THOSE WHOM GOD HAS LED TO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL AS IT IS WRITTEN IN GENESIS 12.3 AND MATTHEW 25.31-46, YOU ARE ALSO BLESSED.

SO, YES, THE LORD IS A MAN OF WAR.  HE GIVES VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO WHAT HE SAYS.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

Shalom,

Our teaching will come from Joshua 7.1-26.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, JESUS NEVER ABOLISHED THE LAW OF MOSES.  ABOLISHING THE LAW OF MOSES ABOLISHES THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD, AND THAT IS SIN THAT BRINGS EVIL UPON MAN.

ISAIAH 40.8, 1 PETER 1.23-25

And with that said, let’s read Joshua 7.1-26.

Let’s summarize these verses.

The Children of Israel entered The Promised Land Canaan after 400 years of Egyptian slavery, and walking through the wilderness for 40 years from Egypt to Canaan.

Canaan became The Land of Israel after The Children of Israel conquered and possessed Canaan that GOD gave to The Jewish People for an Everlasting Possession 3,400 years ago.  GENESIS 17.8

The Children of Israel were in Jericho of Canaan.  And GOD caused the wall of Jericho to fall down flat, and at GOD’S Command, The Children of Israel killed all the inhabitants of Jericho except Rahab the harlot, and all her family, because she hid The Jewish messengers that were sent to spy out the land.  And Israel possessed Jericho.

GOD Commanded Israel to kill all the Canaanites in the city, and burn Jericho because The LORD did not want His People, The Children of Israel, whom GOD made a Holy People, to defile themselves with the abominations of the Canaanites who worshiped false gods, had abominable sexual relations, practiced magic and witchcraft, and lived their lives in violation of Every Law of GOD.

HOLINESS IS LIVING BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.

EXODUS 23.20-33, LEVITICUS 18, LEVITICUS 19.2, LEVITICUS 20, NUMBERS 33.50-56, DEUTERONOMY 7.1-6-26, DEUTERONOMY 18.9-14, DEUTERONOMY 20.16-18, 1 KINGS 21.26

AND GOD COMMANDED JOSHUA TO SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, JERICHO, AND ALL THAT ARE IN IT, ARE DEVOTED TO THE LORD.  BEWARE, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM THE DEVOTED THINGS LEST YOU MAKE YOURSELVES A CURSED THING WHEN YOU TAKE OF THE DEVOTED THINGS, AND MAKE THE CAMP OF ISRAEL A CURSE.  JOSHUA 6.16-19

THIS COMMAND IS SIMILAR TO WHAT GOD COMMANDED ADAM WHOM GOD CREATED TO LIVE FOREVER.  GOD SAID TO ADAM, OF EVERY TREE OF THE GARDEN YOU MAY FREELY EAT, BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT.  FOR IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT OF IT, YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.

WE KNOW HOW THAT ENDED.  IN DEATH BECAUSE ADAM AND EVE DISOBEYED GOD.

GENESIS 2.16-17, GENESIS 3.4, 22, GENESIS 5.5

Back to Joshua.  But The Children of Israel sinned against GOD. A man by the name of Achan from the Tribe of Judah took of the Devoted Things, and the anger of The LORD burned against The Children of Israel.

But not knowing of GOD’S anger, Joshua sent about 3,000 men to a Canaanite city of few people called Ai to destroy it.  But the 3,000 men of Israel fled from before the few men of Ai.  And the Canaanite men killed about 36 Israeli men of war.  And the Canaanites chased them, and killed them, and the hearts of The Children of Israel melted, and became as water.

And Joshua tore his clothes and fell face down to the ground before The Ark of The LORD, he, and the elders of Israel, till evening, and put dust upon their heads.

And Joshua said, O LORD GOD, why have you brought this People over the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us?  If only we had been content to live on the other side of the Jordan.

And The LORD said to Joshua, Get yourself up.  Why are you going on this way on your face?  Israel has sinned.  And they have also transgressed My Covenant which I have Commanded them, for they have taken of The Devoted Things, and have stolen, and deceived, and put them among their things.

GOD’S COVENANT IS HIS SPOKEN WORD THAT IS LAW FOREVER. 

PSALM 105.8-10

And GOD said to Joshua, The Children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies because they were cursed.  Neither will I be with you any more except you destroy the cursed from among you.

Rise up and Sanctify The People for tomorrow.  For thus saith The LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel.  You can not stand before your enemies until you take away the cursed thing from among you.

In the morning you shall be brought according to your tribes, and the tribe which The LORD shall take shall come according to their families.  And the family which The LORD shall take shall come man by man.

And it shall be that he that is taken with The Devoted Thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has sinned against The Covenant of The LORD.  That is, he has sinned against The Spoken Word of GOD.  He has done wickedness in Israel.

So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.  And he brought the families of Judah, and he took the family of the Zarhites, and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man.  And Zabdi was taken.  And Joshua brought Zabdi’s household man by man, and Achan was taken.

And Joshua said to Achan, My son, I beg you, give Thanks to The LORD GOD OF ISRAEL and make confession to Him, and tell me now what you have done.  Do not hide it from me.

And Achan confessed, and said, I have sinned against The LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, and I have done this.

When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold of 50 shekels weight, I took them, and they are hid in the ground in my tent, and the silver is under it.

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there The Devoted Things to GOD were hidden in the tent.

And they brought them to Joshua, and to all The Children of Israel, and laid them out before The LORD.

And Joshua, and all Israel took Achan, and the silver, and the garment, and the bar of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor, a Hebrew word meaning Trouble.

And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us?  The LORD shall trouble you this day.  And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire after they stoned them with stones.

And they raised over him a great heap of stones.  So The LORD turned from the fierceness of His Anger.  And name of that place is called the Valley of Achor, or the Valley of Trouble.

Because of this man’s sin, he, and his wife, and his children, were killed, and all that he owned destroyed.  And 36 fighting men of Israel were killed because of one man’s sin, Disobeying The Spoken Word of GOD, The Everlasting Covenant of The LORD that GOD requires all mankind to obey.

Is not GOD The GOD of the Gentiles also?  ROMANS 3.29

WHY DON’T BIBLE TEACHERS TEACH WHAT SIN IS?

IT IS CLEARLY WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE THAT SIN IS BREAKING ANY LAW OF GOD IN THE LAW OF MOSES WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.

AND SIN IS ALSO TRANSGRESSING ANY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

LOOK, NO ONE CAN ABOLISH GOD’S LAW.  NOT EVEN GOD.

For a Bible teacher to prepare a Message or a Bible Study, that person must spend hours searching The Bible for thoughts and Words to speak, and verses of Scripture to back their teaching and explain.  The Bible teacher sees throughout The Scriptures that sin is disobeying anything GOD says.  Therefore The Bible teacher must tell the people whom he is teaching that Sin is disobeying any Word GOD Speaks in The Bible.  And sin is also Disobeying any Word GOD speaks in Torah, The Law of Moses.  It’s that simple because Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible is Law that must be obeyed by everyone.

1 JOHN 3.4, NUMBERS 5.6, NUMBERS 15.29-31, ISAIAH 24.4-6, ISAIAH 42.24-25, LUKE 8.21, LUKE 16.17

ANYONE WHO READS THE BIBLE CAN ALSO SEE THAT EVERY EVIL JUDGMENT FROM GOD SUCH AS KILLINGS, MURDER, WARS, PLAGUES LIKE CORONAVIRUS, BEING DISPOSSESSED FROM LANDS, SICKNESS, DISEASE, FIRES, EARTHQUAKES, STORMS, ETC., ARE BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEY THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD WRITTEN IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION. 

JOSHUA 6.16-19, JOSHUA 7.15, 1 CHRONICLES 16.15-17, ISAIAH 45.7

Jesus never came to abolish The Law of Moses.  Jesus The Messiah came to be our Atonement, and to set an example for humanity to follow by living your life according to The Law of Moses.  That is why Jesus did not sin.  He obeyed Torah, The Law of Moses.

MATTHEW 26.28, 1 PETER 2.21-22, ROMANS 5.11

The Church Doctrine that Jesus, or Paul, or whoever, abolished The Law of Moses is satanic.  By teaching that The Law of Moses is no longer in effect, The Church teaches Sin and Disobedience to GOD.  And sin, that is Disobedience to GOD, is the One Reason for all the evil in the world.

Abolishing The Law of Moses is a Salvation killer and a Doctrine for curses and hell.  Religion should teach how to have a relationship with The GOD of Heaven by living your life according to Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible.  That is what GOD requires of all mankind.  DEUTERONOMY 28

Look at the world today with coronavirus.  The United States looks like war zones in various places.  Because The Law of Moses is not obeyed.

GOD COMMANDS US NOT TO ADD TO THE WORD GOD COMMANDS US, NOR TAKE AWAY FROM IT, THAT WE KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD OUR GOD THAT GOD COMMANDS US.  DEUTERONOMY 4.2

THE SHEMA IS VERY IMPORTANT IN JUDAISM.

SHEMA YISRAEL ADONAI ELOHENU, ADONAI EKHAD.  HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.  DEUTERONOMY 6.4

HEAR, AS IN HEAR O ISRAEL, IS FROM THE HEBREW WORD, SHEMA, THAT ALSO MEANS, LISTEN AND OBEY.

GOD SAID THROUGH HIS PROPHET MOSES, HEAR O ISRAEL, LISTEN TO AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS.

GOD REQUIRES EVERYONE TO HEAR, LISTEN TO, AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN HIS BOOK, THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.

IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT IS ONE BIBLE, GOD PROVIDES THE WORLD WITH THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF SACRED WRITINGS DEDICATED TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, WRITTEN BY JEWISH PEOPLE FROM ISRAEL IN ANCIENT TIMES.

THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, HA SHEM, SPEAKS, OR IS WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 1,354 TIMES.

AND THE LORD, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, HA SHEM, SPEAKS, OR IS WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 719 TIMES.

AND THE JEWISH MESSIAH CALLED CHRIST IN CHRISTIANITY, WHO IS HA SHEM, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, SPEAKS, OR IS WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 556 TIMES.

AND JESUS, THE CHRISTIAN NAME FOR THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA, IS HA SHEM, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, SPEAKS, OR IS WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 983 TIMES.

THEREFORE GOD, THE LORD, MESSIAH, AND JESUS, ALL ONE AND THE SAME GOD, SPEAK, OR ARE WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 3,603 TIMES.

MANY JEWISH PEOPLE RECITE THE SHEMA EVERY MORNING AND EVENING BECAUSE THE SHEMA IS THE BASIC, THEOLOGICAL STATEMENT OF JUDAISM, THE JEWISH CONFESSION OF FAITH.  HEAR O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.

THE SHEMA TEACHES JEWISH PEOPLE AND ALL PEOPLES TO HEAR, LISTEN TO, AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS.  

GOD SPEAKS THROUGHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT 3,603 TIMES. 

MARK 12.29

ADD TO THAT, THE LORD GOD SPEAKS, OR IS WRITTEN ABOUT IN TNAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT, 10,210 TIMES, OR A TOTAL OF 13,813 TIMES IN BOTH TESTAMENTS.

THE BIBLE IS A BOOK ABOUT GOD, FOR GOD IS YOUR LIFE.

GOD COMMANDS EVERYONE TO HEAR, LISTEN TO, AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS.  IT IS WRITTEN. 

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

READING THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION IS READING ABOUT GOD, KNOWING AND UNDERSTANDING WHO GOD IS, AND WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF YOU.  GOD COMMANDS YOU TO HEAR, LISTEN TO, AND OBEY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IN TNAKH AND THE NEW TESTAMENT.  AND KNOW THAT THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, AND THE MESSIAH YESHUA, ARE HA SHEM ELOHIM, ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA IS THAT ONE GOD.

THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ALSO A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF SACRED WRITINGS DEDICATED TO THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA.

NEW TESTAMENT IN HEBREW IS B’RIT CHADASHA, MEANING NEW COVENANT.  AND GOD WILL MAKE A NEW COVENANT WITH YOU WHEN YOU RECEIVE MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, AND LIVE YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND GOD WILL PUT HIS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES IN YOUR INNERMOST BEING, AND WRITE IT UPON YOUR HEART.  AND GOD WILL BE YOUR GOD, AND GOD WILL COUNT YOU AMONG HIS PEOPLE.  AND THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL FORGIVE YOUR INIQUITY, AND REMEMBER YOUR SIN NO MORE. 

HEBREW BIBLE JEREMIAH 31.30-33, CHRISTIAN BIBLE JEREMIAH 31.31-34

THEREFORE REJECTING MESSIAH YESHUA IS SIN BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN, THE LORD GOD, IN THE PERSON OF MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD THE FATHER, THE ONE WHO SENT HIM.  AND HIS SHED BLOOD IS FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, THE FORGIVENESS OF ALL YOUR SINS.

BUT AFTER RECEIVING MESSIAH YESHUA, GOD REQUIRES YOU TO LIVE YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE WHICH IS NOT DIFFICULT, BUT FOR YOUR GOOD.

THEREFORE BELIEVING IN THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA FOR ATONEMENT, AND LIVING YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE RESULTS IN A GOOD, PROSPEROUS LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

LEVITICUS 17.8,9,11, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, MICAH 5.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, MICAH 5.2, ISAIAH 43.10-11, ISAIAH 53.10, MATTHEW 26.28. JOHN 11.26, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9, 1 JOHN 3.4

BARUKH HASHEM ADONAI YESHUA.  BLESSED IS THE LORD YESHUA.  

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gnail.com

Shalom,

Our teaching will continue in The Book of Joshua from Joshua 6.1-27.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL, AND GOD CURSES THOSE WHO CURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  WITNESS RAHAB THE HARLOT.

And with that said, let’s read Joshua 6.1-27.

After being delivered by The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY from 400 years of Egyptian slavery, and forty years of walking through a great and terrible wilderness to The Promised land Canaan that would become The Land of Israel, The Children of Israel have crossed The Jordan River and are in The Promised Land Canaan, in Jericho.  And there is no resistance from the Canaanites when The Children of Israel walk into Canaan.

Joshua had sent out two spies into Canaan to secretly spy out the land and Jericho.  And they entered a harlot’s house named Rahab and stayed there.

But the king of Jericho was told that two men of The Children of Israel came to Jericho to search out the country.  And the king sent men to Rahab’s house to inquire, but Rahab helped The Jewish spies escape.  And in so doing, the spies promised Rahab kindness when The Children of Israel destroy Jericho, and conquer the land of Canaan.  But they will keep Rahab and all her family alive.

So the spies searched out the land.  And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Truly The LORD has delivered all the land of Canaan into our hands because all the people and the country faint because of us.  JOSHUA 2

So let’s summarize Joshua Chapter 6.

Jericho was tightly shut up because of The Children of Israel.  Some two and a half, to three million Jewish People were in Canaan by The Jordan River.  And Jericho is in The Jordan Valley near the Jordan River.  And no one in Jericho went out, and no one went in.

And The LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given you Jericho into your hand, and their king, and their mighty men of war.

Now, you and all your men of war shall circle the city once.  This you shall do six days.  And seven Priests shall carry seven shofars before The Ark of The Covenant.

And the seventh day, you shall circle the city seven times, and The Priests shall blow their shofars.  And it shall be when they make a long blast of their shofars, and when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn, all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and The People shall enter the city.

So the army went before The seven Priests while The Priests blew their shofars.  And The Ark of The Covenant followed carried by four Levites.  So the Jewish army, the seven Priests blowing shofars, and The Ark of The Covenant.  And after The Ark were more army people.  And they circled the city of Jericho, and returned to the camp.

And on the seventh day, The People rose early and circled the city of Jericho seven times while The Priests blew their shofars.  And the seventh time, when the Priests blew their shofars with a loud and long blast, Joshua cried out to The People, Shout, for The LORD has given you the city.  And the city and all that is in it are devoted to The LORD.  Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in her house because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

So when The Priests blew their shofars loud and long, The People Shouted with a Great Shout, and the wall fell down flat and The People went into the city, and took it.

And they utterly destroyed all that were in the city, both men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

And Joshua said to the two men who spied out the country, go into the harlot’s house and bring out the woman and all that she has as you swore to her.  And the two spies went in and brought out Rahab, and her father and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had.  And they brought out all her family and relatives and sent them outside the camp of Israel.

And Israel burned the city with fire, and all that was in it.  Only the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and of iron they put into the Treasury of The House of The LORD.

And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s family, and all that she had.  And The Bible says, And she lives in Israel to this day because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

And Joshua commanded The People, saying, Cursed is the man before The LORD who rises up and builds this city Jericho.  With the loss of his first born shall he lay the foundation of the city, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of this city.

The curse was fulfilled in 1 KINGS 16.34

So The LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout all the country that is now Israel.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT GOD JUDGED THE CANAANITES BY KILLING THEM.  WHY?  BECAUSE THE CANAANITES LIVED THEIR LIVES IN ABOMINATION AND VIOLATION OF THE LAWS OF GOD. 

AND GOD COMMANDED HIS PEOPLE, WHOM HE CHOSE TO BE A HOLY PEOPLE, TO NOT DEFILE THEMSELVES IN ANY OF THESE THINGS, FOR IN ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS, THE NATIONS ARE DEFILED WHICH GOD DOES CAST OUT.  LEVITICUS 18.24-30, DEUTERONOMY 7.6

THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURES POINT THAT OUT THAT GOD COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO CONQUER AND POSSESS THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND KILL ALL THE CANAANITES, BECAUSE THE CANAANITES SERVED OTHER gods, PRACTICED MAGIC, AND WITCHCRAFT, THEIR ABOMINABLE  SEXUAL RELATIONS, AND THEIR DISOBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS.

JOSHUA 6.21, JOSHUA 9.24, GENESIS 15.16-21, EXODUS 23.20-33, LEVITICUS 18 AND 20, NUMBERS 33.50-56, DEUTERONOMY 7.1-26, DEUTERONOMY 18.9-14, DEUTERONOMY 20.16-18, 1 KINGS 21.26

AND GOD WARNS THE WORLD THAT THE SAME JUDGMENT WILL HAPPEN WHEN GOD JUDGES THE WORLD AND THE PEOPLE LIVING IN IT IN THE END OF DAYS.  GOD SAYS, THEREFORE THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH ARE BURNED AND FEW PEOPLE LEFT.  BECAUSE THEY HAVE DONE AWAY WITH GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE, CHANGED GOD’S ORDINANCES, AND MADE GOD’S EVERLASTING COVENANT, THAT IS GOD’S EVERLASTING WORD, VOID. 

ISAIAH 24, PSALM 105.8-10

AND SECONDLY, THE CONQUEST AND MIRACLE OF JERICHO WAS BECAUSE OF WHAT GOD DID.

PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN ABOUT GOD.  WHO HE IS.  WHAT HE REQUIRES OF YOU, AND EVERY HUMAN BEING?  WHY HE BLESSES, AND WHY HE CURSES?  WHY GOD GIVES PEOPLE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN, AND WHY HE DOESN’T?  YOU SHOULD KNOW OF GOD’S UNLIMITED POWER, AND GOD’S UNLIMITED KINDNESS.  AND THE ONLY PLACE TO FIND THESE ANSWERS IS IN THE BIBLE FROM EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE. DEUTERONOMY 8.3, MATTHEW 4.4, LUKE 4.4

PEOPLE, FOR THEIR OWN LIFE SHOULD LEARN FOR THEIR OWN SAKES THAT GOD REQUIRES OBEDIENCE TO HIM BY OBEYING HIS LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  THAT IS L’CHAIM, TO LIFES.  TO A GOOD LIFE ON EARTH, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

BECAUSE ABOLISHING GOD’S LAW OF MOSES BRINGS ON GOD’S JUDGMENTS AND PUNISHMENT.  LOOK AT THE WORLD TODAY.

BUT LIVING ACCORDING TO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE BRINGS BLESSINGS AND ETERNAL LIFE FROM GOD.

LIVING YOUR LIFE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE, THAT IS NOT DIFFICULT, ESTABLISHES A STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU AND THE GOD OF HEAVEN.  1 JOHN 5.3

THE TITLE OF THIS MESSAGE IS, GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL, AND GOD CURSES THOSE WHO CURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  WITNESS RAHAB THE HARLOT.

Rahab helped The Children of Israel.  If she didn’t, she and all her family would have been killed when GOD flattened the walls of Jericho, and destroyed the city, and killed everyone in it.  But Rahab and all her family lived.

And Rahab is in the lineage of King David and Messiah Yeshua.  And she was Righteous with GOD, and received Eternal Life in Heaven from GOD.

MATTHEW 1.1-6, 18-25, GENESIS 12.3

GENESIS 12.3 IS UNIQUE.  THERE IS NO OTHER COMMANDMENT LIKE IT IN THE BIBLE WHERE GOD BLESSES PEOPLE FOR BLESSING ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE, AND CURSES PEOPLE FOR CURSING ANOTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE.

BUT GOD BLESSES THOSE WHO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND ISRAEL.  ISRAEL, BECAUSE ISRAEL IS THE EVERLASTING HOMELAND OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  AND GOD CURSES THOSE WHO CURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ISRAEL.  GENESIS 17.8

AND GOD CONTINUES TO SAY TO ABRAM IN GENESIS 12.3, WHOSE NAME GOD CHANGED TO ABRAHAM IN GENESIS 17.5, AND IN YOU SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED.

ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH ARE BLESSED IN ABRAHAM AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE BECAUSE GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM, FOR IN ISAAC SHALL YOUR SEED BE CALLED.  (ISAAC IS ABRAHAM’S SON)

MEANING, IN ISAAC, THE JEWISH PEOPLE DESCEND.  THEREFORE IT IS THROUGH THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO DESCEND FROM ISAAC AND ABRAHAM THAT ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH ARE BLESSED. 

GENESIS 21.12, GENESIS 17.19

WHY ARE ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH BLESSED IN ABRAHAM AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE?

BECAUSE GOD GAVE ALL HIS LAWS, WORDS, TEACHINGS, INSTRUCTIONS, AND PROMISES, AND THE ENTIRE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, AND THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FOR YOU, AND ALL THE WORLD TO KNOW WHO GOD IS, AND WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF YOU, FOR YOUR GOOD.  AND TO BE RIGHT WITH GOD FOR BLESSINGS IN LIFE, AND ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN WHEN YOU OBEY GOD.  OR CURSES FROM GOD WHEN HE IS NOT OBEYED.  ISAIAH 43.10

THEREFORE, GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM, HE WILL BLESS THOSE WHO BLESS ABRAHAM, AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND ISRAEL.  AND GOD WILL CURSE THOSE WHO CURSE ABRAHAM, OR THE JEWISH PEOPLE, OR ISRAEL.

EVERYONE WHO BLESSES ABRAHAM, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND ISRAEL ARE BLESSED BY GOD WITH ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

AND EVERYONE WHO CURSES ABRAHAM, OR THE JEWISH PEOPLE, OR ISRAEL, ARE CURSED BY GOD INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT.

AND RAHAB IS A GOOD EXAMPLE.  GOD GREATLY BLESSED RAHAB WITH HIS KINDNESS.  GOD SAVED HER LIFE AND EVERYONE IN HER FAMILY.  HER MOTHER AND FATHER, HER BROTHERS, AND HER RELATIVES.  BUT EVERYONE ELSE IN JERICHO OF CANAAN WAS KILLED BECAUSE GOD COMMANDED IT.

MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE, TELLS US OF A FUTURE EVENT THAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN HE RETURNS TO ISRAEL FROM HEAVEN, AND ESTABLISHES HIS 1,000 YEAR MESSIANIC KINGDOM IN ISRAEL FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER.  GENESIS 15.18-21

Here is what will happen before Messiah returns.  A strong seven year Covenant will be made.  That is a strong seven year agreement that I believe will be a peace agreement with many from The State of Israel and perhaps the Palestinians, or some other entity.

And during the first 3 1/2 years of the seven year Agreement, there will be peace, and Israel will build Their Temple on The Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and the sacrificial system will be reinstated.

But after the 3 1/2 years of peace, a certain man, who is an idolator, and might even be Jewish, will cause the sacrifice to end, and he will bring idols into The Temple that will bring GOD’S wrath upon The Temple, and Israel, and the entire world.  DANIEL 9.27

That will begin the greatest tribulation the world will ever experience since the beginning of time.  And The Bible says, GOD will gather all the nations to battle Jerusalem.  And Jerusalem shall be taken captive by the Gentiles.

ZECHARIAH 14.1-2

AND THAT IS WHEN THE LORD GOD, THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA WILL RETURN FROM HEAVEN TO ISRAEL WITH ALL HIS HOLY ONES, HIS SAINTS, WHO LIVED BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.

AND GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST WHO IS JEHOVAH, WILL DESTROY ALL THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.  GOD WILL CAUSE THEIR FLESH TO MELT AWAY.

AND GOD ALMIGHTY, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, HASHEM ELOHIM, WILL ESTABLISH HIS MESSIANIC KINGDOM ON EARTH IN ISRAEL FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT TO THE EUPHRATES RIVER,  AND MESSIAH WILL REIGN FROM JERUSALEM.  ZECHARIAH 14

AND IN MATTHEW 25.31-46 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE MESSIAH YESHUA SAYS, THE SON OF MAN, WHO IS THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS THE ALMIGHTY GOD, WILL COME IN HIS GLORY AND ALL HIS HOLY ANGELS WITH HIM.  AND HE WILL SIT ON HIS THRONE OF GLORY.

AND BEFORE HIM SHALL BE GATHERED ALL THE NATIONS, THAT IS ALL THE GENTILES.  AND HE WILL SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER AS A SHEPHERD DIVIDES HIS SHEEP FROM HIS GOATS.

AND HE WILL SET THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND, BUT THE GOATS ON HIS LEFT.

THEN THE KING WILL 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.

AND MESSIAH EXPLAINS WHAT IT MEANS TO BLESS THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND BE BLESSED AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

HE SAID TO THE GENTILES ON HIS RIGHT HAND WHO WILL BE BLESSED AND INHERIT THE KINGDOM, I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME FOOD.  I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE ME WATER TO DRINK.  I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN.  I LACKED CLOTHING AND YOU CLOTHED ME.  I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME.  I WAS IN PRISON AND YOU CAME TO ME.

AND MESSIAH SAYS, THEN THE RIGHTEOUS WILL ANSWER HIM, AND SAY, LORD, WHEN DID WE SEE YOU HUNGRY AND GAVE YOU FOOD, OR THIRSTY AND GAVE YOU WATER TO DRINK?  WHEN DID WE SEE YOU A STRANGER, AND TOOK YOU IN, OR LACKING CLOTHING, AND CLOTHED YOU?  OR WHEN DID WE SEE YOU SICK, OR IN PRISON AND CAME TO YOU?

AND THE KING, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, WILL ANSWER AND SAY TO THEM, VERILY I SAY TO YOU, INASMUCH AS YOU HAVE DONE IT TO THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YOU HAVE DONE IT TO ME.

MESSIAH’S BRETHREN ARE THE JEWISH PEOPLE.  MATTHEW 1.1-2

THEN MESSIAH WILL SAY TO THEM ON HIS LEFT HAND, DEPART FROM ME YOU CURSED INTO EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS.  FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME NO FOOD.  I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE ME NOTHING TO DRINK.  I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU DID NOT TAKE ME IN.  I NEEDED CLOTHING AND YOU DID NOT CLOTHE ME.  I WAS SICK, AND IN PRISON, AND YOU WOULD NOT VISIT ME.

THEN THEY WILL ALSO ANSWER HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN DID WE SEE YOU HUNGRY, OR THIRSTY, OR A STRANGER, OR LACKING CLOTHING, OR SICK, OR IN PRISON, AND DID NOT MINISTER TO YOU?

THEN THE MESSIAH YESHUA WILL ANSWER THEM, SAYING, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, INASMUCH AS YOU DID NOT DO IT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE (MY JEWISH BRETHREN) YOU DID NOT DO IT TO ME.

AND THESE, MESSIAH SAYS, (WHO WERE UNKIND TO MESSIAH’S JEWISH BRETHREN) WILL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT.  BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO LIFE ETERNAL.

ALL GOD IS ASKING THE GENTILE WORLD TO DO IS BE KIND TO HIS JEWISH BRETHREN.  AND YOU WILL BE RIGHTEOUS WITH GOD, AND GOD WILL BLESS YOU WITH ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

BUT THOSE WHO CURSE THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY BEING UNKIND TO JESUS’ JEWISH BRETHREN, GOD WILL SEND INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

Shalom,

Our teaching will continue in The Book of Joshua from Joshua 5.10-15.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, AND THE GOD OF ISRAEL, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, SAID TO JOSHUA, REMOVE YOUR SHOES FROM OFF YOUR FEET, FOR THE PLACE WHERE YOU STAND ON IS HOLY.  AND JOSHUA DID SO.

And with that said, let’s turn to Joshua 5.10-15.

JOSHUA 5.10  And The Children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept The Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

After their forty year journey from Egyptian slavery to The Promised Land Canaan, The Children of Israel have crossed the Jordan River and entered the land Canaan, without any resistance.  JOSHUA 4.19-24

Now, GOD had told The Children of Israel numerous times in the wilderness that He would give them the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession.

NUMBERS 13.1-2

And years earlier, GOD said to Moses, Send men to search the land of Canaan which I give to The Children of Israel.  So Moses sent twelve men to search Canaan, and after forty days they returned and told Moses and all The Congregation, The people are strong who live in the land.  And the cities are walled and very great.  And we saw giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.  But we are not able to go up against the people for they are stronger than we.

And The People cried, and wept, and complained against Moses and Aaron, wishing they had never left Egypt, or would GOD we had died in the wilderness, they said.

And GOD became angry with The People for provoking The LORD their GOD, and not believing Him.  And those People who complained against GOD, and those spies who returned with the false report, GOD caused to die in the wilderness, and they did not enter The Promised Land Canaan.

And GOD said to The Jewish People who remained alive that they would wander in the wilderness forty years before they would enter The Promised Land.  A year for a day that the spies searched the land of Canaan forty days.

The account of the spies is recorded in Numbers 13 and 14.

Here in this verse, in Joshua 5.10, The Children of Israel are keeping The Passover in Canaan on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

It was forty years to the day that GOD delivered The Children of Israel from 400 years of Egyptian slavery on the first Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at evening.  Just as GOD said.  EXODUS 12.1-11, 37-38

JOSHUA 5.11  And they did eat the old grain of the land (that is the land of Canaan) on the day after The Passover, unleavened cakes of matzah in the same day.

JOSHUA 5.12  And the manna stopped on the day after they had eaten of the old grain of the land, neither had The Children of Israel manna anymore.  But they did eat of the produce of the land of Canaan that year.

JOSHUA 5.13  And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a Man before him with a sword drawn in His Hand.  And Joshua went to Him, and said to Him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?

JOSHUA 5.14  And He said, No, but as Captain of The Host of The LORD I am now come.  And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to Him, what does my LORD say to His servant?

JOSHUA 5.15  And The Captain of The LORD’S Host said to Joshua, Take your shoes from off your feet, for The Place where you stand on is Holy.  And Joshua did so.

Sound familiar?  GOD said to Moses at the burning bush, Do not come closer.  Put off your shoes from off your feet, for the place where you stand is Holy Ground.

And MESSIAH YESHUA, Who IS GOD ALMIGHTY washed His disciples feet on the evening of Passover at His Passover Seder, that Christianity calls The Last Supper, because Messiah’s Disciples were with GOD on Holy Ground.

EXODUS 3.1-6, JOHN 13.1-13, JOSHUA 5.15

REVELATION 22.8-9  Joshua knew that The Man was not an angel but GOD.

I have always believed from my Jewish upbringing that there is only One GOD and no others.  We Jews often recite The Shema.  Shema Y’Israel, Adonai Eloheynu, Adonai, Ekhud.  Hear O Israel, The LORD Our GOD, The LORD is ONE.  DEUTERONOMY 6.4

But GOD being One became complicated for me when I started reading The New Testament.  Because Yeshua The Messiah often speaks to His Father in Heaven.  And I was trying to work it out in my mind that both MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD, AND GOD ALMIGHTY ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

And as I continued reading The Bible, I did not understand certain Scriptures.  For example, in GENESIS 1.26, GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE AFTER OUR LIKENESS.

I believed in One GOD, but I just couldn’t understand The One GOD being Us and OUR.  I knew both The Father and Messiah were GOD, I just couldn’t understand, Let Us  make man in Our Image.

I looked at GOD Who is not a human being, that He was like a human being who can only be in one place and not other places at the same time.

But GOD can be in millions of different places in human form at the same time because that is GOD.  That is Who GOD is.

And in GENESIS 19.24,  where The Bible reads, THEN THE LORD RAINED UPON SODOM AND UPON GOMORRAH BRIMSTONE AND FIRE FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN.

The LORD was in Heaven, and The LORD was also with Abraham on earth.  but there is only One GOD.

I would think to myself Okay, you don’t understand.  Perhaps later GOD will give you understanding.

Then I would read in Psalm 45.8 in The Hebrew Bible, or Psalm 45.7 in The Christian Bible, that reads, THEREFORE GOD, THY GOD HAS ANOINTED YOU WITH THE OIL OF GLADNESS ABOVE YOUR FELLOWS.

Two called GOD but there is only One GOD.

And in Psalm 110.1, THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND UNTIL I MAKE YOUR  ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL.  Two GODS.

But I would just pass over these Scriptures not understanding but always believing there is Only One GOD.

Then GOD began to open my eyes slightly when I first read Isaiah 48.16, The Words GOD spoke to Isaiah; COME NEAR TO ME.  HEAR THIS.  I HAVE NOT SPOKEN IN SECRET FROM THE BEGINNING.  FROM THE TIME THAT IT WAS, THERE AM I.  AND NOW THE LORD GOD HAS SENT ME AND HIS SPIRIT.

Three Who are GOD.  The LORD GOD, Who sent Me, and His Spirit.  The LORD GOD sent Me, The Messiah Yeshua, and His Spirit.  His Spirit is GOD.  Three called GOD.  The LORD GOD, GOD The Messiah Yeshua, and His Spirit, are GOD.

THREE CALLED GOD, BUT THEY ARE ALL ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

I’m starting to understand GOD a little better.  The LORD GOD, and His Spirit, and Me, Who is The Messiah Yeshua, ARE THE SAME GOD.  ONE GOD.  Makes Biblical sense, but still complicated.

Certainly not the trinity of three different GODS.  That is pagan doctrine.  But One GOD Who are all One and The Same GOD.  That is Biblical Truth.

So I understand after all these years a little more about GOD.

JEREMIAH 23.24 is a great teaching from GOD that reads, 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.

It was easy for me to understand that GOD and His Spirit are one and the same.  And that The Spirit of GOD fills the heavens and the earth.  Think on that for a minute.  GOD fills the entire universe that has no beginning or end.  The universe is endless.  People look through great telescopes and see stars and planets and moons and suns, and more.  But they see just a small portion of GOD’S creation.  And GOD Who is Spirit fills the heavens and the earth.  JOHN 4.24

I thought often of GOD being with Moses and the seventy elders of Israel in Mount Sinai.  Was GOD still in Heaven while He was down here on earth with Moses and the seventy Elders in Mount Sinai?

The same with GOD being with Adam and Eve, and Noah, and Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Balaam, Joshua, and Yeshua The Messiah in Israel with His People.  Was GOD still in Heaven?

EXODUS 24.9-11, EXODUS 33.11, DEUTERONOMY 34.10

And I began to realize that GOD can be in Human Form in millions of different of places at the same time.  And GOD is always in Heaven.  That is who GOD is.

GOD ALMIGHTY IS MESSIAH YESHUA.  AND MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD ALMIGHTY, HASHEM, ELOHIM.

GOD ALMIGHTY AND MESSIAH YESHUA ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE.  AND YES, THEY TALK TO EACH OTHER. 

JOHN 17.1, PSALM 110.1

And Messiah Yeshua Who is GOD ALMIGHTY stands on the right hand of GOD Almighty.

While on earth, The LORD rained upon Sodom and Gomorah brimstone and fire from The LORD out of Heaven.  Both are The Same GOD.

AFTER IT PLEASED THE LORD TO HAVE MESSIAH KILLED AS A HUMAN BEING BECAUSE GOD CAN NOT DIE, TO GIVE HIS LIFE, AND SHED HIS BLOOD FOR OUR ATONEMENT, MESSIAH WAS RESURRECTED, AND SAT ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD IN HEAVEN. 

Both are one and The Same GOD.  MARK 16.19

Messiah told The High Priest at His trial before His Death the following day on the first day of Passover, that some time in the future you will see The Son of Man sitting on The Right Hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of Heaven.  That Power is GOD ALMIGHTY, YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD.  BOTH ARE GOD, ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  MATTHEW 26.62-66

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.  MESSIAH YESHUA IS THAT ONE GOD.  MESSIAH YESHUA IS GOD.  HE IS THE FATHER, THE SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE SON OF GOD, MELCHIZEDEK, OFTEN THE ANGEL OF GOD, AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD.  THEY ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  NO DIFFERENCES.

But GOD told Moses while speaking Face to face with Moses, No man can see My Face and live.  EXODUS 33.11, 18-23

Obviously, we human beings can not see The Face of GOD’S Spirit and live, but we see The Back Parts of GOD’S Spirit every day, just looking outside, or being outside, which is glorious.  GOD fills the heavens and the earth.

Prophesy in end times says that the enemies of Israel will melt, I believe, because they will see The Face of GOD.

ZECHARIAH 14.1-5, 12

GOD tells the readers of The Bible in the very first Scripture that GOD created the heavens and the earth.  GENESIS 1.1

Most people know that, and believe GOD created the heavens and the earth.  But most people do not know that The Hebrew Word for GOD in Genesis 1.1 is ELOHIM that means GODS.  GODS CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. YET THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

And many people know that The Hebrew Word most often used for GOD in Tnakh, The Old Testament is ELOHIM, meaning GODS.  But do not understand why GOD refers to Himself as GODS.  Because they know there is only One GOD.  Not many GODS.

IN FACT, GOD USES HIS NAME ELOHIM SOME 3,000 TIMES IN TNAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT BECAUSE GOD IS MANY GODS, BUT ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

GOD IS GOD, THE FATHER, THE ALMIGHTY, THE LORD, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, SOMETIMES THE SON OF MAN, THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, IMMANUEL, MELCHIZEDEK, OFTEN THE ANGEL OF GOD, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD, THE GLORY OF GOD, AND SO MUCH MORE.

THEY ARE ALL ONE AND THE SAME GOD. 

THAT IS WHY MESSIAH YESHUA SAYS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHEN YOU SEE ME, YOU SEE THE FATHER.

AND WHEN YOU SEE ME, YOU SEE THE ONE WHO SENT ME.

JOHN 14.9, 22-23, JOHN 12.44-45

YESHUA THE MESSIAH BEING GOD ALMIGHTY THE FATHER SHOULD BE NO SURPRISE TO JEWISH PEOPLE WHO READ THE BIBLE, BECAUSE GOD SAYS THROUGH HIS PROPHET ISAIAH, FOR UNTO US (THE JEWISH PEOPLE) A CHILD IS BORN.  UNTO US (THE JEWISH PEOPLE) A SON IS GIVEN.  AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.  AND HIS NAME SHALL BE CALLED, WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6

THAT CHILD AND SON GIVEN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE WHO IS CALLED WONDERFUL, COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, EVERLASTING FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE, IS THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA.

AND SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE, THIS JEWISH SON, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, WILL RETURN FROM HEAVEN TO ISRAEL AND RULE OVER ALL THE EARTH FROM JERUSALEM.  ZECHARIAH 14.4, 9

2,000 YEARS AGO, THIS JEWISH CHILD, OUR MESSIAH YESHUA WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, WAS BORN TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM A JEWISH VIRGIN BY THE NAME OF MIRIAM, WHOM CHRISTIANITY CALLS MARY.  ISAIAH 7.14

HE IS GOD’S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON.  AND GOD’S ONLY BEGOTTEN SON IS HIMSELF GOD ALMIGHTY, THE PROMISED JEWISH MESSIAH TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE, AND ALL THE WORLD WHO WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.

HOW WILL MESSIAH SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS?

THIS IS HOW MESSIAH YESHUA SAVES HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.  GOD WAS PLEASED TO MAKE HIS SOUL AN OFFERING FOR OUR SIN THAT MAKES ATONEMENT FOR JEWISH PEOPLE AND NON JEWISH PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE IN MESSIAH YESHUA, AND LIVE BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION THAT INCLUDES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES WRITTEN IN THE FIRST FIVE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE.

MATTHEW 1.1, 18-21, JOHN 3.16, ISAIAH 53.10

THE JEWISH PROPHET MICAH PROPHESIED THESE WORDS IN THE HEBREW BIBLE IN MICAH 5.1, AND THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE IN MICAH 5.2;

BUT THOU BETHLEHEM EPHRATAH (WHICH IS BETHLEHEM. GENESIS 48.7) THOUGH YOU BE LITTLE AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH, YET OUT OF YOU SHALL HE COME FORTH UNTO ME (GOD) WHO IS TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL, WHOSE GOINGS FORTH HAVE BEEN FROM OF OLD, FROM EVERLASTING.

MEANING, THE JEWISH MESSIAH YESHUA WILL COME FORTH OUT OF BETHLEHEM, TO GOD, WHO IS TO BE RULER IN ISRAEL, WHOSE ORIGIN IS FROM ETERNITY, WITHOUT BEGINNING, WITHOUT END.

THE ONLY ONE WHO CAME FORTH OUT OF BETHLEHEM TO GOD, WHO WILL BE RULER IN ISRAEL, WHOSE ORIGIN IS FROM ETERNITY, WITHOUT BEGINNING, WITHOUT END, IS THE MESSIAH YESHUA, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY, THE ONE AND ONLY GOD.

So, when Joshua saw The Man with His sword in His Hand, and went to Him and asked Him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?

And The Man said, No, but as Captain of The Host of The LORD I am now come.  And Joshua fell on his face, and bowed and said to Him, What does The LORD say to His servant?

And The Captain of The LORD’S Host said, Remove your shoes from off your feet for The Place where you stand on is Holy.  And Joshua did so.

JOSHUA KNEW HE WAS FACE TO FACE WITH GOD, AND TALKING TO GOD.

AND JOSHUA TALKED WITH THE GOD OF ISRAEL, THE MESSIAH OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ALL THE WORLD, MESSIAH YESHUA.

THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD, AND MESSIAH YESHUA, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE, IS THAT ONE GOD.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

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