Month: February 2021

Shalom,

Today’s message is about Purim.  The Hebrew word Purim means Lots, for The Feast of Lots, or The Festival of Purim.  And Purim is a great Jewish Holiday that began Thursday at sundown, February 25th, to Friday at sundown, February 26th.

Purim is a Jewish Holiday but not a Commanded Festival of GOD.

Purim happened during the days of The Great Persian Empire in 355 B.C.E./B.C.  Persia is Iran.

The story of Purim is written in The Book of Esther.

And the Title of our message is, Purim, The Threat of Death That Turned to Joy.

The Persian Empire was massive.  It stretched from India to Ethiopia and had perhaps the entire world’s Jewish population living throughout the Empire.  Israel was part of The Persian Empire.

Ahasuerus was The King of Persia.  And he was a weak King who did not understand the cultural differences of his Empire.

Ahasuerus is better known as King Xerxes.  And he helped create Purim.

The Persian Empire controlled 44% of the world’s population.  I always think of what The Bible says.  The Most High Rules over the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever He will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.

HEBREW BIBLE DANIEL 4.14, CHRISTIAN BIBLE DANIEL 4.17  

So in the third year of the king’s reign, he made a huge feast for all his princes, and servants, and nobles, and all the powers of Persia and Media.  They were all there before the king at his feast.  Persia and Media are current day Iran.

And the king gloried in the riches of his glorious kingdom.  And his feast went on for six months.  Think on that for a moment.

And the king followed that feast with a feast for all the people who were present in the Shushan Palace for the small and the great for seven days in the Court of the garden in the king’s palace with all the king’s luxurious and garish furnishings.  And the drinking continued.

Shushan was the name for both the Palace and the large city where the Palace was located.

That Palace and city would be the ruins of Persepolis in today’s Iran.

And Vashti, the queen also made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to the king Ahasuerus.

Now on the seventh day of one of those feasts when the king was drunk and happy with wine, he commanded his servants to bring his queen Vashti before him with her royal crown to show off her beauty to the people, and the princes, for she was beautiful to look at.

But the queen refused.  And the king was beside himself with anger.

So the king called his experts, and his wise men, and those who knew Persian law and judgment, and those who saw the king’s face every day, and those who sat first in the kingdom.  And the king asked these people, What shall we do to queen Vashti according to law because she has not performed the commandment of the king?

And one of the king’s wise men answered, and said, Before the king and the princes, the queen Vashti has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and all the people who are in all the provinces of the great empire of the king Ahasuerus.  For this deed of the queen will be told to all the women in the empire, and they will despise their husbands when they hear that the queen Vashti refused to appear before her husband the king.  And there will be contempt and wrath throughout the kingdom.

The Bible says, Whatsoever The LORD pleases, that is what The LORD does.  Therefore Queen Vashti’s refusal to appear before the king is of The LORD our GOD to bring a Jewish girl Esther to be Queen in The Great Persian Empire because of the hatred, and sorrow that was to come.  But that sorrow in The Jewish community will turn to joy.

ISAIAH 46.9-11, HEBREWS 4.3

So the wise man continued speaking.  If it please the king, do not let queen Vashti come before the king Ahasuerus.  But let the king give Vashti’s estate to another who is better than she.  And when the king’s decree is published throughout the empire, for it is great, all the wives will give honor to their husbands, both to the great and to the small.

And the saying pleased the king and the princes, and the king did exactly as his wise man said.

So the king had letters sent to all the king’s provinces that every man should bear rule in his own house.  And the letters were published according to the many languages of the peoples.

And in time when the king was calm, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.  But the king did not change his mind.  It was said, and it is written.

And yet another proposal was set before the king.  Hold a beauty contest.  Let the most beautiful virgins in the kingdom gather at the Shushan Palace to the house of the women, and to the custody of the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women.  And let their things for purification be given to them.  And let the lady who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.  And that pleased the king.

Now in Shushan the Palace, there was a certain Jewish man whose name was Mordecai, a Benjamite who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.  And Mordecai brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter.  For Esther had neither father or mother.  And Esther was Jewish, and she grew into a beautiful woman whom Mordecai, when Esther’s father and mother died, took for his own daughter.

So after reading the king’s announcement about the beauty contest with the winner becoming Queen of Persia, Mordecai brought Esther to the king’s house to the custody of the keeper of the women.  And immediately Esther found favor with the keeper of the women, and he preferred her above all the other ladies.

The secret things belong to The LORD Our GOD, but those things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever that we are to do all The Words of This Law, The Torah, GOD’S Law of Moses.

HEBREW BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.28, CHRISITAN BIBLE DEUTERONOMY 29.29

The Jewish girl Esther was soon to become Queen of Persia.

Esther told no one that she was Jewish because that is what Mordecai told her to do.  Don’t tell any one you are Jewish.

And the the king loved Esther more than any other woman, and he placed the Royal Crown on Esther’s head, and made her Queen instead of Vashti.  And the king made a feast, and another feast called, Esther’s feast.  And the king made a release of something in the provinces, and he gave gifts according to the estate of the king.

GOD is not mentioned in this story of Purim, but The HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, BLESSED BE HE is very much involved, for THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL will never forsake His People.

And Mordecai, Esther’s uncle, overheard a plot to kill the king Ahasuerus.  And he told it to Esther the Queen, and Esther reported it to the king, and that the information was made known by Mordecai.  And after a thorough investigation, those who planned the king’s death were both hung on a tree.  And it was written in the Book of the Chronicles before the king.

Now comes the rise of the arch enemy of The Jews, Haman the Agagite, the anti Semite Jew hater.  Haman was a descendant of Agag the Amalakite king.

So after all these things, king Ahasuerus promoted the anti Semite Haman the Agagite above all the king’s princes.  And every one bowed to this Haman, but Mordecai.  And it was told to Haman that Mordecai was a Jew.

And when Mordecai continued not to bow down to Haman, Haman the anti Semite became furious and hated Mordecai.

So Haman set out to kill Mordecai and all the Jews in the kingdom.

This was 2,476 years ago.  So you can see that anti-Semitism is not a new thing but an old cancer.

Haman’s ancestors were Amalakites.  And surprisingly, the Amalakites descend from Esau Jacob’s twin brother.  And you well know that Jacob was a great man of GOD.  And GOD named Jacob Israel.  Esau and Jacob are the twin sons of Isaac, and the grandsons of Abraham.

GENESIS 36.9-12, EXODUS 17.8-16, DEUTERONOMY 25.17-19, 1 SAMUEL 15.1-35

So back to Haman the anti-Semite.  Haman’s people began to toss Pur, that is, they tossed Lots before Haman to determine the best time for Haman and his gang to kill the Jews.

And here’s an anti-Semitic lie.  Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered throughout and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom.  And their laws are different from all people.  And they do not keep the king’s law.  Therefore it is not to the king’s profit to let them live.

If it please the king, Haman said, let it be written that The Jews be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the king’s treasure to get the job done.

And here’s the failure of king Ahasuerus.  The king took his ring from off his finger and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the enemy of The Jews, and said to Haman, Do with them as it seems good to you.  ESTHER 3.1, 8-11

Anti-Semites are stupid.  They are jealous of The Jewish People because GOD loves The Jewish People, and has Chosen The Jewish People to be a Holy People to The LORD Their GOD, to be a Special People to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.  And because The LORD loves The Jewish People.  And that GOD Has Chosen The Jewish People to be His Servants and His Witnesses.

Anti-Semitic jealousy grows into anti-Semitic hatred of Jewish People.  And anti-Semites have an evil spirit of hate toward The Jewish People.  And anti-Semitism is hatred of GOD because GOD chose The Jewish People to be His Chosen. And GOD is Jewish.

EXODUS 4.22, MATTHEW 1.1-2

The Jewish People brought The Bible to the world writing The words of Genesis through Revelation from the Words GOD spoke to them in Bible times for all humanity to know, and believe, and understand GOD.  And that there is only One GOD and no others. And His Name is Messiah Yeshua.

And that GOD requires all humanity to be obedient to every Word GOD Speaks Written in The Bible for a good, healthy, and peaceful life on earth, and eternal life in The Kingdom of Heaven.

And it is The Jewish People who gave The Jewish Messiah Yeshua to the world, Who is GOD Almighty, Who gave His Life as a human being for the forgiveness of your sins for your Salvation, and Eternal Life in Heaven.  But anti-Semites are too dumb to see that.

DEUTERONOMY 7.6-8, ISAIAH 43.10-11 

Not only are anti-Semites dumb, but king Ahasuerus fell into that category of dumb.  The king’s wife, Queen Esther is Jewish, but the king, remarkably, doesn’t know that.  And that spells death to Haman because GOD blesses those who bless The Jewish People, and GOD curses those who curse The Jewish People.  But GOD forgave the king because he did help The Jewish People.

GENESIS 12.3, MATTHEW 25.31-46

So the king had his scribes write all that Haman the anti-Semite said, and sent it to the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and the rulers of the people of every province after their own language in the name of king Ahasuerus.  And the writings were sealed with the king’s ring.

And the letters were sent by horseback into all the king’s provinces to destroy, kill, and cause to perish all Jews both young and old, little children and women, in one day on the thirteenth day of the twelfth Hebrew Month Adar.  That anniversary was this past Thursday.  And to plunder and rob The Jews for a prey.  A decree if accomplished would have wiped The Jews off the earth.  That will never happen because GOD loves The Jewish People with an everlasting love.  He will never leave them nor forsake them.

ESTHER 3.13-15, JEREMIAH 31.1-3

And the king’s decree of death was given in the Shushan Palace.  And the king and Haman sat down to drink.  But the people in the city of Shushan were worried and confused.

And when Mordecai read what was to be done to his People, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out through the city crying with a loud bitter cry.  And he came to the front of the Palace gate, but no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

And in all the provinces there was a great mourning among The Jewish People, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

And Esther’s maids told her about Mordecai, and she was grieved and sent him clothing, and told Mordecai to take off the sackcloth.  But he refused and would not receive her gift.

And Esther sent one of the king’s chamberlains to find out what was wrong.  And when he came to Mordecai, Mordecai told him of Haman’s payment to the king’s treasuries to kill and destroy all the Jewish People.  And he gave him a copy of the writing of the decree to kill all the Jews.  And show it to Esther, Mordecai said, and tell her to go to the king and plead with him for her People.

And when the chamberlain told Esther the words of Mordecai, and the decree to kill all The Jews, she sent the chamberlain back to Mordecai to tell him that whoever comes to the king and is not called, there is but one law, to put that person to death.  Because the king must hold out his scepter that the person may live.  And I have not been called to come to the king these past thirty days.

So Mordecai sent word back to Queen Esther, Do not think within yourself that you will escape in the king’s house more than all The Jews.  For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then shall relief and deliverance arise to The Jews from another place.  But you and your father’s house will be destroyed.  And who knows whether you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Then Esther returned her answer to Mordecai.  Go and gather all The Jewish People together that are present in Shushan, and fast for me.  Neither eat or drink for three days, night and day.  I and also my maidens will fast likewise.  And then I will go to the king which is not according to law.  And if I perish, I perish.

So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther told him.

So on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, and the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house.

And when the king saw Esther the Queen standing in the court, she received favor in his sight.  And the king held out the golden scepter to Queen Esther, and Esther touched the top of the scepter.

And the king said to Queen Esther, What troubles you Queen Esther?  What is your request?  Even to half the kingdom shall be granted to you.

And Esther said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.

And the king commanded, Cause Haman to make haste to do as Queen Esther has said.  So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

And the king said to Queen Esther at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, and it shall be granted to you, and what is your request?  Even to half the kingdom shall it be performed.

And Esther said, My petition and my request is, if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.

So Haman left and he was as happy as a little kid with his first ice cream cone.  But when Haman saw Mordecai at the king’s gate, and Mordecai would not stand up for him, or even acknowledge him, Haman hated Mordecai even more.

And Haman arrived home and called all his friends, and his wife Zeresh and told them how wonderful he is, and boasted of his great wealth, and the large number of children he has, and the promotion he received from the king, and how he was above all the princes and servants of the king.  And Esther the Queen did not allow anyone else at her banquet that she prepared but myself and the king.  And tomorrow I am invited by her along with the king.

Poor jerk Haman doesn’t know that Queen Esther is Jewish, and she knows his evil.

And Haman said, All this avails nothing to me as long as I see Mordecai The Jew sitting in the king’s gate.

Then Zeresh his wife, and all his friends said to him, Let gallows be made of eighty feet high, and tomorrow speak to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it.  Then go happily with the king to the banquet.

That night, however, the king couldn’t sleep.  Again The LORD was at work.  And the king commanded that The Book of Records of The Chronicles be brought to him.  And they were read before the king.

And it was found written that Mordecai had told of the two who sought to kill the king Ahasuerus.  And the king said, What honor and dignity have been done to Mordecai for this?  And they said, Nothing has been done for him.

And the king said, who is in the court?  Now Haman had come to the court to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on gallows eighty feet high that Haman had prepared.

Haman stands in the court, the king’s servants said.  Let him come in, the king said.  And here comes Haman, happy as can be.  And the king said to Haman, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?

And Haman, thinking he is the man, happily said, For the man whom the king delights to honor, let the royal apparel be brought that the king wears, and the horse that the king rides on, and the royal crown that is set on the king’s head, and let the royal apparel and the horse be delivered by the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes that they may clothe the man whom the king delights to honor.

And bring him on horseback through the street of the city and proclaim before him, Thus shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

Good, the king said.  Hurry, and take the apparel and the horse just as you have said and so do to Mordecai The Jew who sits at the king’s gate.  And do not omit a single detail of all you have suggested.

Oy vay, Haman must have thought.  Oy gehvalt, I’m a dead man.  Perhaps not in Yiddish.

So Haman took the king’s apparel and his horse and arrayed Mordecai in the king’s clothing, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and cried before him, probably not so loud, Thus shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

And Mordecai came to the king’s gate, but Haman ran home, his head covered in mourning.  And Haman told his wife Zeresh, and all his friends everything that had befallen him.  And the wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, If Mordecai is a descendant of The Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.

And while they were yet talking, the king’s men came and rushed Haman off to the banquet that Esther the Queen had prepared.  So the king and Haman came to the banquet with Queen Esther.  And the king said to Esther, What is your petition Queen Esther?  And it shall be granted to you.  And what is your request?  And it shall be performed even to half the kingdom.

Then Queen Esther answered, and said, If I have found favor in your sight O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me as my wish, and my People as my request.  For we have been sold, my People and I to be destroyed, massacred, and slaughtered.  Had we only been sold as bondmen and bondwomen I would have kept silent, for the enemy is not worthy of the king’s trouble.

And the king asked Esther, Who is he?  And where is he that presumes in his heart to do such a thing?  And Esther said, The enemy and the adversary is this wicked Haman.  And Haman became terrified before the king and his Queen.

And the king rose up from the banquet of wine in wrath and went into the palace garden.  And Haman the creep, stood up and begged Queen Esther for his life.  For he saw that the king had determined evil against him.

And the king returned only to see the creep Haman fallen on the sofa where Esther was sitting.  And the king said, Will he force himself on The Queen also before me in my house?  And as the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face, and hung him on the gallows that Haman prepared for Mordecai.  And the king’s wrath was pacified.

So on that day, the king Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the enemy of The Jews, to Esther the Queen.  And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told the king that Mordecai was her uncle.  And the king took off his ring that he had given to Haman and gave it to Mordecai.  And Esther placed Mordecai over the house of Haman.

And Esther fell on her knees in tears before the king and begged him to prevent the slaughter of her Jewish People.  And the king said to Queen Esther and Mordecai, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he sought to kill The Jews.  But the writing that has been sealed by the king can not be reversed.

But let it be written to The Jews that the king has granted The Jews in every city to gather themselves together, and stand and fight for their lives.  To destroy and kill and cause to perish all who assault The Jews on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month which is the Hebrew month Adar.  And let The Jews plunder their enemies.

And a copy of the writing of the king’s commandment was sent to every province, and was published to all people that The Jews should stand and fight for their lives on that day, and retaliate against their enemies.

And on the thirteenth day of the Hebrew Month Adar, The Jews killed all who set out to kill them.  And no one could withstand them for the fear of The Jews fell upon all the peoples.

And many of the people in the Empire became Jewish.

And the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king helped The Jews because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.  For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went throughout the kingdom.

So The Jews killed all their enemies with the sword, and killed those who hated them.  And in Shushan, The Jews killed five hundred men.  And they killed Haman’s ten sons.  But they took none of their goods.  And on the fourteenth day of the Hebrew Month Adar, The Jews killed another three hundred in Shushan who set out to kill them.

And in the other provinces of the kingdom, The Jews stood for their lives and killed another seventy five thousand, but they took none of their goods.

And on the thirteenth and fourteenth days of the Hebrew Month Adar, The Jews rested from their enemies, and The Threat of Death Turned to Joy, and From Mourning To A Good Day.  Barukh Ha Shem Adonai Yeshua, Blessed is The Name of The Lord Yeshua.

And they made it a time of feasting and gladness.  Therefore The Jewish People call these days Purim on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of The Hebrew Month Adar.  This year this past Thursday the 25th of February at sundown to Friday the 26th of February at sundown, a day of feasting and gladness.

And Esther The Queen, and Mordecai The Jew wrote a second letter confirming that these days of Purim shall never cease among The Jewish People, and the memory of Purim shall never perish among their descendants.

BARUKH ADONAY ELOHAYNU YESHUA HAMASHIAKH,

BLESSED IS THE LORD OUR GOD YESHUA THE MESSIAH.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shalom,

Our teaching will come from Ezekiel 16.1-37.

And the title of our message is, Jerusalem is GOD’S adulterous wife, while the nations are GOD’S adulterous children.

And with that said, I will read Ezekiel 16.1-37 along with my comments.

This is not a very happy reading.  GOD says to The Jewish People what He says to all the world for their sin.  And remember, sin for all people is disobeying Torah, The Law of Moses, and sin is also disobeying any Word Spoken by GOD in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation.  Sin is disobeying GOD, any Word GOD Speaks in The Bible.  And sin today is rejecting The Jewish Messiah Yeshua, The Jesus Christ of The New Testament, Who is ELOHIM, GOD ALMIGHTY, HA SHEM, THE FATHER.  

1/  Starting with Ezekiel 16.1, Again The Word of The LORD came to Ezekiel, saying,

2/  Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations.

The abominations of The Jewish People were worshiping idols and disobeying Torah, GOD’S Law, The Law of Moses.  And idols are also an abomination.

GOD repays Jewish iniquity and sin double because GOD expects more from His Jewish People.  GOD Spoke Face to face with Moses to give us His Laws written in Torah, The Law of Moses, that Moses gave to The Jewish People.  And The Jewish People through The Bible gave GOD’S Law to the nations.  Therefore GOD expects more from His Jewish People.  And therefore GOD repays us double for our iniquity and sins.

EXODUS 33.11, JEREMIAH 16.17-18

As a point of information to The Jewish People and the Gentiles, at some point in the future GOD will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle.  Why?  Because of Jewish sin.  Disobeying Torah, The Law of Moses, and rejecting Their Messiah Yeshua, The Jesus Christ of The Bible Who is HA SHEM, ELOHIM, THE FATHER, GOD ALMIGHTY.

And GOD will save a remnant of His Jewish People when the nations attack Israel because the remnant obeyed GOD and received their GOD and Messiah, Messiah Yeshua.

And The LORD GOD, The Jewish MESSIAH YESHUA will return from Heaven to Israel and destroy those nations attacking Jerusalem because of their sin, disobeying Torah, The Law of Moses, and hating The Jewish People.  ZECHARIAH 14

3/  And GOD said to Ezekiel, Thus saith The LORD GOD to Jerusalem, Your birth, and your place of both is of the land of Canaan.  Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.  Meaning, you are like Amorites and Hittites, Canaanite people who were idolaters, living abominable lives in The Sight of GOD.

4/  And as for your birth in the day you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor were you rubbed with salt to firm your tender flesh, nor were you wrapped in garments of cloth.

5/  No eye pitied you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion upon you, but you were cast out into the open field.  Meaning, no one had compassion for Israel, The Jewish People in the day you were born.  When you were in Egyptian slavery for four hundred years, no one wanted you.  No one cared for you.  You were unwanted, abandoned to die.  Even during the Holocaust, and the Inquisitions, and the Crusades.

6/  And when I passed by you, The LORD GOD said, and I saw you wallowing in your own blood, and I said to you when you were in your blood, Live, Yes, I said to you when you were in your blood, Live.

And GOD caused the baby Israel to live.  And miraculously, because of GOD, Israel and The Jewish People live today, and will live as long as the new heavens and the new earth shall remain before Me, saith The LORD.  And The Jewish People, not all, and Our Name Israel, shall remain before GOD forever.  ISAIAH 66.22

7/  As the bud multiplies in the field, saith The LORD GOD, I have caused you to grow, and become great, and your beauty is most splendid.  Your breasts are fashioned, and your hair has grown, whereas you were naked and bare.

8/  Now, when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of love, and I spread My skirt over you, and covered your nakedness.  Yes, I swore an Oath to you, and entered into Covenant with you, saith The LORD GOD, and you became Mine.

The Jewish People became GOD’S wife.  And GOD became our Husband, forever married to His People.  ISAIAH 54.5-10 

GOD’S Covenant with His Jewish People is Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation that we shall do, and be obedient.  That GOD is The GOD of The Jewish People, and the land of Canaan that became The Land of Israel is The Everlasting Homeland of The Jewish People.

And The New Covenant, The Jewish Messiah Yeshua, The Almighty GOD, is our Atonement, and that GOD has put His Law, The Law of Moses in our hearts to obey Him always, and GOD will be our GOD, and we are His People.  And GOD will forgive our iniquity, and remember our sin no more if we continue in obedience to Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation, and have Messiah Yeshua for our Atonement.

And that The New Testament is a continuation of Tnakh, The Old Testament that contains The Spoken Word of GOD.

And GOD’S Covenant is also for non Jewish People who love GOD and prove it by obeying Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible that includes The Law of Moses, with Messiah Yeshua.  And that is Life, even Eternal Life.

GENESIS 17.8, EXODUS 24.6-8, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, JEREMIAH 31.31-34, MATTHEW 4.4, MATTHEW 26.28, LUKE 4.4

9/  And GOD said, then I Washed you with Water, yes, I thoroughly Washed away your blood from you, and I Anointed you with oil.

GOD Anointing The Jewish People with oil was setting His Jewish People apart to Dedicate and Appoint His People to be His Servant and His Witnesses, to be a Holy People to The LORD our GOD, and Special to live by Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible.  And to Know and Believe GOD and Understand that there is only One GOD and no others.  That GOD is The Father, The Son, The Messiah Yeshua, The Spirit, The Holy Spirit, The Saviour, and much more.

And as GOD’S Witnesses, we Jewish People are to preach  The Gospel of The Kingdom to all the world for a witness to all the nations. And then shall the end come. And The Gospel of The Kingdom is Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation, and that Yeshua The Messiah, The Jesus Christ of The Bible, is The Jewish Messiah for The Jewish People and all the world.

And when GOD says, He washed away our blood from us, GOD means that we are clean from sin by obeying The Spoken Word of GOD written throughout The Bible.

NUMBERS 23.9, DEUTERONOMY 7.6-11, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, DEUTERONOMY 33.27-29, ISAIAH 43.10-11, HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9. 6, DANIEL 9.25-26, MATTHEW 4.4, MATTHEW 24.14, LUKE 4.4, JOHN 4.25-26, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9, 1 PETER 1.25

10/  I clothed you also with broidered work, saith The LORD, and furnished you with leather sandals, and I clothed you with fine linen, and I covered you with silk.

11/  And I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain on your neck.

12/  And I put a jewel on your forehead, and earrings in your ears, and a crown of beauty upon your head.

13/  And you were adorned with gold and silver.  And your clothing was of fine linen and silk, and embroidered fine work.  You ate the finest of foods, honey, and oil.  And you were very, very beautiful, and you became fit for Royalty.

GOD treated The unwanted Jewish People as a Queen, and provided His People with everything they needed, and everything they desired.

14/  Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect.  It was My Splendor that I set upon you, saith The LORD GOD.

15/  But you trusted in your beauty, and played the whore, worshiping idols rather than worshiping The LORD Your GOD.  And because of your fame, you poured out your fornications of idol worship on all who passed by to be his.  That is, Israel, The Jewish People, became like all other idol worshiping nations, with the nations.

Even after The LORD GOD says, I am The LORD Your GOD Who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.  You shall have no other gods before Me.  You shall not make to yourselves any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.  You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them.  For I The LORD Your GOD am a Jealous GOD visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them who hate Me, and showing mercy to thousands of them who love Me and Keep My Commandments.  EXODUS 20.1-6

16/  And from your clothing, GOD said, you took, and decked out your high places of idols for your pagan worship, clothing of different colors.  And you played the whore worshiping idols rather than worshiping The LORD your GOD.  This you should not have done, and it will not continue.

17/  And you took your beautiful jewels of My gold and of My silver which I have given to you, and you made for yourselves idols of men and became whores like them, worshiping them.

18/  And you took your beautiful embroidered garments, and clothed your idols with them, and put My anointing oil, and My incense before them.

19/  My food also which I gave you, fine flour and oil, and honey with which I fed you.  You have even set that before your idols for a sweet savor.  And so it is, saith The LORD GOD.

20-21/  And you have taken your sons and your daughters whom you have borne to Me, and these you have sacrificed to your false gods to be devoured for food.  Is this of your whoredoms and pagan worship a small matter that you have slaughtered My Children and given them to pass through fire for them?

22/  And in all your abominations and your whoredoms of idolatry, you have not remembered the days of your youth when you were naked and bare, and you wallowed in your blood.  There was no one to help you, or save you except Me, The LORD Your GOD.

23-24/  And it happened, after all your wickedness, woe, woe, to you saith The LORD GOD, that you have also built to yourselves temples for your idols, and you have made your idols to be on every street.

25/  At the beginning of every street you have built your high places for your idols, and you have made your beauty to be abhorred, and you have opened your feet to every one that passes by, and you have multiplied your whoredoms.

26/  You have whored with the great men of Egypt your neighbors by worshiping your idols, and you have increased your whoring to provoke Me to anger, saith The LORD GOD.

27/  Behold, I have stretched out My Hand over you by famine to cause small amounts of food upon you, and delivered you to the will of them that hate you, the Philistines who are ashamed of you by your lewd way.

28/  You have played the whore also with the Assyrians because you were never satisfied.  You played the whore with them, and yet you were never satisfied.

ISAIAH 55.1-3  When you thirst after GOD, He will give you His sumptuous food, His Word, His Teachings, and His Messiah Yeshua, Who is GOD Himself, and The Sure Mercies of David Whom GOD greatly Loves, and Eternal Life, all without money, and without price.  And by being obedient to The LORD you will delight in The LORD Your GOD forever.

29/  And GOD said to The Jewish People, You have multiplied your fornications, worshiping idols in Canaan to Babylon and yet you were not satisfied.

30-31/  How weak and degenerate is your heart, saith The LORD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an overbearing whorish woman, in that you build your eminent high places for your idols at the head of every highway, and your high place at every open space, and you have not been as a prostitute because you scoff at money.

32/  But as a wife who commits adultery, and The Jewish People are GOD’S wife, you take strangers instead of your Husband, The Holy One of Israel, GOD ALMIGHTY.

33/  Gifts are given to all prostitutes, saith The LORD, but you give gifts to all your lovers, and hire them that they may come to you on every side of your whoredom.

34/  And in you is the opposite of other women.  You solicit instead of being solicited.  You give gifts instead of receiving gifts.  Thus you are the opposite of other woman.

Think back to the three exiles of The Jewish People from Israel in 722 and 586 B.C.E./B.C., because of Jewish whoredoms in Israel of worshiping idols.  And in 70 C.E./A.D. because Jewish People rejected Their GOD and Messiah Yeshua Ha Mashiakh.  And for those reasons, The GOD of Israel exiled His Jewish People from Israel for 2,000 years to the four corners of the earth.  And Israel was looted during those three exiles.  The Temples were looted of their treasure, and The Jewish People lost their Temples in 586 B.C.E./B.C. and 70 C.E./A.D. because of worshiping idols, and rejecting our GOD and MESSIAH, YESHUA HA MASHIAKH.

Want a vivid picture of the looting of The second Temple, search for pictures of the arch of Titus in Rome.

2 KINGS 17.6-25, 2 CHRONICLES 36.11-21, LUKE 19.41-44, MATTHEW 23.37-39

35/  And GOD said to Israel, therefore O harlot, hear The Word of The LORD.

36/  Thus saith The LORD GOD, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness discovered, that is, your prostitution is revealed through your whoredoms of idol worship with your lovers, the nations, and with all the idols of your abominations.  And by the blood of your children whom you sacrificed through fire to your idols which you gave to them,

37/  Behold, therefore I will gather all your lovers, the nations that Israel was allied with, whom you have taken pleasure.  All that you have loved, with all the nations whom you have hated, I will gather them against you, saith The LORD, because you are an adulteress woman.

LAMENTATIONS 1.1-3, ZECHARIAH 14.1-12

Next Shabbat we will celebrate Purim, so the following Shabbat we will continue this Chapter.

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

www.bethelohenu.org

bethelohenu@gmail,com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shalom,

Our teaching will come from Ezekiel 15.1-8.

And The Title of our message is, The Useless Vine.

And with that said, let’s read Ezekiel 15.1-8.

The words of Ezekiel, a Prophet and a Priest, are dated between 593 and 571 B.C.E./B.C.

Let’s review these Words that The LORD Spoke to Ezekiel.

GOD likens Israel to a vine that flourishes and thrives in the vineyard.  But Israel in the day was a fruitless and useless vine growing among the trees in the forest.

And The Word of The LORD came to Ezekiel, saying,

Son of man, How is the vine more than any other tree, or a branch that is among the trees of the forest?

Shall wood be taken from the vine to do any work?  Or will men take from the vine a peg, a peg that is like a nail, to hang things on the vine?

Behold the vine is tossed into the fire for fuel, and the fire will devour the vine.  Is the vine useful for anything?

Behold when the vine was whole, it was useless for anything, GOD said.  How much less when the fire has devoured the vine, and is burned?

Therefore, Thus saith The LORD GOD, As the vine among the trees of the forest which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem to the fire.

And I will set My Face against them.  They shall go out from one fire and another fire will devour them.  And you shall know that I am The LORD when I set My Face against them.

And I will give The Land to be desolate.  That is The Land Of Israel will GOD make desolate because the inhabitants of Jerusalem have done treachery, saith, The LORD GOD.  That treachery was worshiping idols, and disobeying Torah, The Law of Moses.

Again, in Ezekiel 15, GOD likens Israel to a fruitful vine, but this vine is useless, growing among the trees in the forest.  The other trees in the forest can be used for building and other projects, but this vine is useless except to be thrown in the fire for fuel.

Israel in the day was useless in The Sight of GOD to be GOD’S Servant and Witnesses to be HOLY in Obedience to GOD, and Obedient to Torah, GOD’S Law, The Law of Moses.  Israel produced nothing worthy of being GOD’S Chosen People, nor did Israel produce any Spiritual Fruit to be The People of GOD.  But rather the fruit they chose to produce was worshiping idols, and disobeying Torah, The Law of Moses.  And in The Sight of GOD, that is worthy of being tossed into unquenchable fire.

DEUTERONOMY 7.6-10, PSALM 80.7-16, ISAIAH 5.1-7, ISAIAH 43.10-11, JEREMIAH 2.21-24, HOSEA 10.1-4, JOEL 1.5-12, JOHN 15.1-6

JOHN 15.1-6  THE FRUIT MESSIAH IS SPEAKING OF IS OBEDIENCE TO GOD, OBEDIENCE TO TORAH, HIS LAW OF MOSES.  THE WORD THAT MESSIAH SPEAKS IS THE WORD OF GOD THAT IS ALWAYS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF MOSES.  AND WHEN YOU ABIDE IN MESSIAH, THAT IS, WHEN YOU ENDURE AND REMAIN CONTINUOUSLY IN MESSIAH YESHUA, OBEYING TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, MESSIAH WILL ABIDE IN YOU.  HE WILL REMAIN FOREVER IN YOU BECAUSE YOU LIVE BY TORAH, AND YOU BRING FORTH MUCH FRUIT FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD.

BEARING FRUIT IS ENDURANCE, LIVING YOUR LIFE WITH GOD IN ACCORDANCE TO GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION.  FOR WITHOUT ME, MESSIAH SAYS, YOU CAN DO NOTHING.

AND IF A PERSON DOES NOT LIVE BY WHAT GOD SAYS, AND THAT INCLUDES THE LAW OF MOSES, JESUS SAYS, HE IS CAST FORTH AS A BRANCH, AND IS WITHERED, AND MEN GATHER THEM, AND CAST THEM INTO THE FIRE, AND THEY ARE BURNED.

BUT THOSE WHO LIVE BY WHAT GOD SAYS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION, WITH MESSIAH FOR YOUR ATONEMENT, AND FOLLOW GOD’S LAW, THE LAW OF MOSES, YOU HAVE LIFE, EVEN LIFE ETERNAL.

MATTHEW 4.4, MATTHEW 26.28, LUKE 4.4, DEUTERONOMY 8.3, 1 PETER 2.21-22

Last week when those two people came into our Congregation to convert us to the path that leads to hell by their attempt to pull The Law of Moses out of us, I immediately thought of satan the snake in The Garden of Eden going to Adam and Eve with his lie to successfully move them to disobey GOD.  The result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience to GOD was death and curses.  And what awaits satan is the lake of fire and brimstone to be tormented day and night forever and ever.  And that is what that couple can expect unless they repent and turn to GOD, and obey GOD, as Paul did.

Satan will never turn to GOD and obey Him.  And those who will not turn to obey GOD, Every Word GOD speaks in The Bible, that is what they are appointed to do.  Unless they bless The Jewish People and Israel.  Or they repent according to Scripture by turning from all their sins of breaking The Law of Moses, and live their lives according to The Law of Moses, and do that which is Lawful and Right, they shall surely live.  They will not die, says The LORD GOD.

GENESIS 2.16-17, GENESIS 3.1-6, GENESIS 5.5, GENESIS 12.3, EZEKIEL 18.21-24, MATTHEW 25.31-46, 1 PETER 2.7-8, REVELATION 20.7-10

From The Beginning of The Creation, and even before The Creation, The Bible teaches Obedience to GOD. 

As The Bible says often, GOD made it manifest.  GOD makes it known to the world in The Bible, The Book of GOD, that GOD requires Obedience to Every Word He Speaks starting with GOD’S Command to Adam, Don’t eat from that tree lest you die.

Even before The Creation.  EZEKIEL 28.13-19 is about satan.

Satan has a huge army of liars whose mission is to pull The Law of Moses out of people like us who live our lives for The LORD Our GOD by doing our best to live by Every Word GOD speaks in The Bible, and have faith in Messiah Yeshua for our Atonement.

Judaism has its demons also, who make great efforts to pull The Messiah Yeshua out of Jewish People who believe in Messiah.  These Jewish Anti Messiahs don’t know that what they are doing is attempting to pull Ha Shem, The GOD OF ISRAEL out of Jewish People.  They too are in a heap of trouble unless they turn to GOD and receive The Truth Who is their Messiah, The Messiah Yeshua of The Bible, The LORD their GOD.

Solomon, as everyone knows, writes, There is nothing new under the sun.  Disobedience to GOD, and demonic people whose mission it is to pull The Word of GOD out of people are nothing new.  These types of people have been here since the days of Adam that began with satan.  It’s always the same.  It’s a test, as in The Parable of the sower.  And last week we passed that test.

ECCLESIASTES 1.9, DEUTEORNOMY 8.1-2, MATTHEW 13.1-23

The world knows about the flood in the days of Noah.  But are we taught the reason GOD brought the flood that killed the entire world population except Noah and his family of eight?  No.  GOD destroyed the world because the world, like today, disobeys GOD.  Like today, there must have been false teachers in the days of Noah telling the masses, You don’t have to obey what GOD says.

But GOD will destroy the earth again, and most people on it for the same reason, Disobedience to GOD.

ISAIAH 24.4-6, 19-23, ISAIAH 26.19-21

GOD had at the least two laws in the days of Noah.  The seventh day Sabbath on Saturday, Genesis 2.1-3, and the food laws of clean and unclean animals that today are written in Leviticus 11, and Deuteronomy 14.

And like today, there was wickedness in the days of Noah.  GOD says so in GENESIS 6.5.  The Hebrew word for Wickedness and Evil is Rah, meaning Evil, Displeasing GOD, Wrong by not doing what GOD Commands, and Wicked.  And GOD destroyed the wicked for not obeying Him, not doing what GOD Commands.

And today, we have people telling us that we must not obey GOD’S Law, The Law of Moses.  That Jesus is all you need.  Forget The Law of Moses, they say, because Paul teaches in The Bible that we don’t have to obey The Law.

Paul teaches in The Bible the very opposite, to obey The Law of Moses.  Look, any Scripture verse that teaches you not to obey The Law of Moses is an intentional lie to mislead you.  The Jewish People who wrote The Original Manuscripts of The Bible in Hebrew from Genesis through Revelation were GODLY People who loved GOD and did, and taught what GOD says and teaches that includes Torah, The Law of Moses.

But those who teach that we are no longer under The Law are not GODLY but of the adversary satan.  The same satan who lied and tricked Adam and Eve not to obey GOD.  How did that end for them? 

ROMANS 2.13, ROMANS 3.30-31  FAITH IS LOVING GOD AND DOING WHAT HE SAYS, AND TRUSTING IN GOD.

ROMANS 6.1-2.  SHOULD WE CONTINUE TO SIN?  GOD FORBID, NO.  SIN IS BREAKING THE LAW OF MOSES.  1 JOHN 3.4.  SHALL WE CONTINUE TO BREAK THE LAW OF MOSES? PAUL TEACHES,  GOD FORBID, NO.

ROMANS 6.4  NEWNESS OF LIFE IS LIVING YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO TORAH, GOD’S LAW.  AND GOD HAS ONLY ONE LAW FOR ALL MANKIND, THE LAW OF MOSES.

ROMANS 8.6-7  THE CARNALLY MINDED DO NOT OBEY THE LAW OF MOSES, AND THAT IS DEATH, AND HATING GOD.  THE SPIRITUALLY MINDED DO WHAT GOD SAYS.  THEY HAVE LIFE AND PEACE.  WE HAVE PEACE WITH GOD, EVEN IN A WORLD THAT’S FILLED WITH TRIBULATION.  BUT GOD IS ALWAYS WITH THE SPIRITUALLY MINDED.

MESSIAH YESHUA SAYS, BEWARE OF FALSE PROPHETS.  YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS.  THEIR FRUITS STINK BECAUSE THEY DISOBEY GOD.  AND MANY TEACH TO DISOBEY GOD, EVEN SAYING THAT OBEYING THE LAW OF MOSES WILL CAUSE YOU TO LOSE YOUR SALVATION.  OBEDIENCE TO GOD WITH MESSIAH IS SALVATION.  DISOBEDIENCE TO THE LAW IS DEATH, UNLESS THE SINNER REPENTS.

MATTHEW 7.13-29, EZEKIEL 18.21-24

SATAN’S DISCIPLES ARE LAWLESS.  THEY DON’T OBEY GOD, THEY DON’T KNOW WHO GOD IS.  THEY DON’T KNOW WHO THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE IS.

THE FAMILY OF GOD SEEK TO LIVE OUR LIVES BY EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS, BECAUSE WE LOVE GOD.  OBEDIENCE TO GOD IS PLEASING TO GOD, AND RESULTS IN ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.  DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD IS A PATH TO HELL.  MATTHEW 7.13-14

JEWISH ANTI MESSIAHS SHOULD BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAYS.  FIRST, IN TNAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT, JESUS IS GOD, ELOHIM, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER. 

AND THEN WE ARE TAUGHT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT JESUS IS ALSO THE JEWISH MESSIAH.

HEBREW BIBLE ISAIAH 9.5, CHRISTIAN BIBLE ISAIAH 9.6, JOHN 1.41-42, JOHN 4.24-26, JOHN 12.44-45, JOHN 14.9

WRITTEN IN GENESIS 1.1 IS, IN THE BEGINNNING, GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.  THE HEBREW FOR GOD IS ELOHIM, MEANING GODS.  MEANING, THAT THE GOD OF ISRAEL IS HA SHEM, GOD ALMIGHTY, THE FATHER, THE SON, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, THE JESUS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, THE SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND MUCH MORE.  ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  THE GOD OF ISRAEL IS ELOHIM, YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE JESUS OF THE BIBLE.

GENESIS 15.6 READS, AND ABRAM BELIEVED IN THE LORD AND GOD COUNTED IT TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

RIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD IS SORT OF LIKE PUTTING A PUZZLE TOGETHER TO MAKE THE COMPLETE PICTURE.  THE SAME WITH GOD.  BELIEVING IN GOD IS ONE PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.  OBEYING GOD, EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IS ANOTHER PIECE.  KNOWING AND BELIEVING THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND NO OTHERS, IS ANOTHER PIECE.  KNOWING AND BELIEVING THAT YESHUA, JESUS IS THAT ONE GOD, AND MESSIAH, IS ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.  BELIEVING THAT THE DEATH AND SHED BLOOD OF MESSIAH YESHUA IS OUR ATONEMENT WHILE THERE IS NO TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM IS ANOTHER PIECE OF THE PUZZLE.

PUTTING ALL THOSE PIECES TOGETHER YOU GET THE WHOLE PICTURE OF GOD.  YOU KNOW AND UNDERSTAND GOD, AND YOU KNOW HOW TO WALK WITH GOD.  NOT A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE WALK WITH THE LORD IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD, BECAUSE GOD SAYS, MANY ARE CALLED, BUT FEW ARE CHOSEN. 

GENESIS 26.4-5, MATTHEW 8.11, MATTHEW 22.14

SO JAMES, A NICE JEWISH BOY WHOSE HEBREW NAME IS YAH’AH’KOVE, JACOB, WRITES, DON’T BE TOO ANXIOUS TO BE A BIBLE TEACHER.  BECAUSE IF YOU TEACH THE LIE TO DISOBEY GOD, YOU ARE IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE WITH GOD.

JAMES 3.1  MASTERS ARE TEACHERS, BIBLE TEACHERS.

SOLOMON WROTE, THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER OF LIFE; FEAR GOD, AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS.  THAT IS, FEAR GOD, AND DO EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE.  AND THAT INCLUDES TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES.

ECCLESIASTES 12.13

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

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Shalom,

Our teaching will continue in The Book of Ezekiel from Ezekiel 14.12-23.

AND THE TITLE OF OUR MESSAGE IS, IS IT SIN FOR JEWISH PEOPLE TO REJECT JESUS?

So with that said, let’s read Ezekiel 14.12-23.

The Word of The LORD came again to Ezekiel saying, son of man, when a land sins against Me by trespassing treacherously, then I will stretch out My Hand upon it, and will break the staff of bread in it, and will send famine upon it, and cut off man and beast.  That is, GOD will destroy man and beast because of the sins of the people in that land.  Remember, sin is breaking The Law of Moses.  Add to that, sin is disobeying any Spoken Word of GOD written in The Bible from Genesis through Revelation.

NUMBERS 15.30-31, DEUTERONOMY 8.3

When Joseph was Governor of Egypt under Pharaoh, GOD brought a famine upon the earth to bring The Children of Israel, all seventy, down from Canaan to Egypt to make of Abraham a great nation of The Jewish People while they were slaves in Egypt for four hundred years.

In Verse 13 where GOD says, Son of man, when the land sins against Me.  The correct translation is, Son of man, when “a” land sins against Me.  The Hebrew does not read, The Land but, a land, any land, any country.  When any nation sins against GOD.

GENESIS 12.1-2, GENESIS 41.15,28-30

And GOD said to Ezekiel, Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in their land, they shall save only themselves by their Righteousness.  Righteousness is Obedience to GOD, Obedience to Every Word GOD Speaks in The Bible.

If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, saith The LORD, and they make the land desolate by death, and though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, lived in that land, as I Live, saith The LORD, they shall save neither sons nor daughters.  They only shall be saved, but the land shall be desolate.

Therefore children can not rely on The Righteousness of their parents for Salvation.

Or, if I bring a sword upon that land, saith The LORD, and say, Sword, go through that land so that I cut off and destroy man and beast from it, though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I Live saith The LORD GOD, they shall save neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be saved.

Or if I send a pestilence, (like coronavirus) into that land, and pour out My fury upon that land in blood, and cut off, and destroy from it man and beast, though Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live saith The LORD GOD, they shall save neither son nor daughter, but they shall save only their own souls by their Righteousness.

For thus saith The LORD GOD, How much more when I send My four evil judgments upon Jerusalem, because of their sins of disobeying The GOD of Their fathers; the sword, and the famine, and the evil beast, and the pestilence, to cut off and destroy from it man and beast.

And yet behold, The LORD says, A Remnant has been left in Jerusalem that shall be brought forth to you, Ezekiel, both sons and daughters.  Behold, they shall come forth to you, and you shall see their Way, and their Doings.  The Way and the Doings of The Remnant are Righteousness, Obedience to Torah, The Law of Moses.  And you, Ezekiel, shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem concerning all that I have done in it, saith The LORD GOD.

And they shall come forth to you when you see their Ways and their Doings of Righteousness.

AND YOU SHALL KNOW THAT I HAVE NOT DONE ALL THAT I HAVE DONE IN JERUSALEM WITHOUT CAUSE, SAITH THE LORD GOD.

ALL THE EVILS, AND TROUBLES, AND DEATH, THAT GOD HAS DONE TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM, AND THROUGHOUT ISRAEL, AND TO THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH, ARE BECAUSE OF OUR SINS.  DISOBEYING GOD, DISOBEYING HIS TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND TODAY, DISOBEYING TORAH, AND REJECTING THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, WHO IS YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE.

Ever since I was a kid, and that’s a long time ago, it was like a tattoo in my Jewish heart that I was to reject and despise Jesus Christ.  And today, most Jewish People reject Jesus Christ.

IS IT A SIN FOR JEWISH PEOPLE TO REJECT JESUS CHRIST WHOSE HEBREW NAME AND TITLE ARE YESHUA HA MASHIAKH, YESHUA THE MESSIAH?

YES, IT IS SIN.  WHY?  BECAUSE JESUS, YESHUA THE MESSIAH OF THE BIBLE IS THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB.

TNAKH, THE OLD TESTAMENT, PROPHECIES AND TEACHES THAT JESUS, YESHUA THE MESSIAH, IS THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS.

TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, READS, AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT.

YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS THE LORD YOUR GOD.

THOSE WORDS ARE SUNG OFTEN IN HEBREW BY JEWISH PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; V’AH’HAVTAH ET ADONAY ELO’HAY’KHAH, B’KHAL L’VAH’VEH’KHAH, OO’V’KHAL NAHF’SH’KHAH, OO’V’KHAL ME’O’DEH’KHAH.  AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT. 

DEUTERONOMY 6.5

YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE, IS THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND HE IS JEWISH. 

YESHUA IN HEBREW MEANS SALVATION, HELP, DELIVERANCE, HEALTH, SAVED, AND VICTORY.  HA MASHIAKH MEANS, THE MESSIAH.  YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, IS NOT ONLY THE PROMISED JEWISH MESSIAH, HE IS ALSO ADONAY ELO’HAY’KHAH, THE LORD YOUR GOD.  MATTHEW 1.1-2

THESE WORDS ABOUT JESUS DO NOT COME OUT OF THIN AIR.  THEY ARE TAUGHT IN TORAH, AND THE PROPHETS, AND THE WRITINGS, AND THE WRITINGS OF THE JEWISH NEW TESTAMENT THAT IS WRITTEN BY JEWISH PEOPLE.

AND GOD TEACHES THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND ALL MANKIND THAT JESUS IS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, FROM THE VERY FIRST WORDS GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE IN GENESIS 1.1, IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.

BIG DEAL, YOU MIGHT SAY.  I’VE KNOWN THIS SINCE I’M A KID.  YEAH, REALLY?  WELL, DID YOU KNOW THAT THE HEBREW WORD FOR GOD IN MANY SCRIPTURES IS ELOHIM?  DID YOU KNOW THAT ELOHIM, THE HEBREW WORD FOR GOD IN GENESIS 1.1, AND WRITTEN NUMEROUS TIMES THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE MEANS GODS?  YES, GODS.  BUT YOU KNOW WELL THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.  AND THAT YOU LEARNED FROM THE TIME YOU WERE A JEWISH KID THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD.

SO WHY ARE WE JEWS NOT TAUGHT IN THE SYNAGOGUE, OR WHEN THE RABBI PREPARES US FOR BAR OR BAT MITZVAH THE MEANING OF ELOHIM, GODS, WHEN WE SPEAK OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL?

THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT TEACH ONE GOD, AND NO OTHERS.  THE ONE GOD IS ELOHIM, GOD ALMIGHTY.  GOD ALMIGHTY IS THE LORD, THE FATHER, YHVH, THE SON WHO IS THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS, THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.  ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.

PROVERBS 30.4 ASKS THE QUESTION, WHAT IS GOD’S NAME, AND WHAT IS HIS SON’S NAME, IF YOU KNOW?

YES, GOD HAS A SON.  AND GOD’S SON IS HIMSELF, GOD ALMIGHTY.  AND HIS NAME IS YESHUA, HIS TITLE IS MASHIAKH, MESSIAH, WHOM THE WORLD KNOWS AS JESUS.  BOTH ARE ONE, AND BOTH ARE THE SAME GOD.

GENESIS 1.26 READS, AND GOD, ELOHIM, SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE AFTER OUR LIKENESS.

GOD, ELOHIM, REFERS TO HIMSELF AS US, AND OUR, BECAUSE GOD ALMIGHTY HIMSELF IS YESHUA THE MESSIAH, GOD’S SON.

GOD IS NOT A MAN.  HE IS GOD.  GOD IS UNSEARCHABLE, HIS WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT.  GOD HAS NO LIMITATIONS.  MAN HAS LIMITS.  GOD IS EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD.  HE IS GOD.

AND THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS ALSO THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.  ALL ARE ONE AND THE SAME GOD.  THERE ARE NO OTHERS.

GOD, WHO IS MESSIAH YESHUA, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE, SPEAKS TO THE WORLD IN THE BIBLE THROUGH HIS PROPHETS. 

GOD SPOKE THE WORDS OF TORAH FROM GENESIS THROUGH DEUTERONOMY TO HIS PROPHET MOSES.  AND GOD HAD MOSES RECORD EVERYTHING GOD SPOKE TO HIM; SPEAKING THE CREATION INTO EXISTENCE, THE CREATION OF HUMANITY, AND SATAN, ENOCH, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB, THE CREATION OF THE NATIONS.  AND GOD COMPLETED THE TORAH WHEN MOSES DIED JUST PRIOR TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ENTERING AND CONQUERING THE LAND OF CANAAN THAT BECAME THE LAND OF ISRAEL.  AND THE TORAH IS PERFECT, AND TORAH THE LAW OF MOSES IS GOOD.

TORAH IS THE BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE, AND THE FOUNDATIONAL TEACHING FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING TO LIVE THEIR LIVES IN HOLINESS IN THE EYES OF GOD.  AND THE SPOKEN WORD OF GOD NEVER CHANGES OR ENDS.

GOD SAID TO HIS PROPHET ISAIAH; FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.  UNTO US 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

I DON’T KNOW OF ANY JEWISH CHILDREN CALLED, MIGHTY GOD, OR EVERLASTING FATHER. 

NOW SOME JEWISH PARENTS MIGHT CALL THEIR LITTLE KIDS, WONDERFUL, OR EVEN MY SON THE COUNSELOR, BUT NEVER MIGHTY GOD OR EVERLASTING FATHER.

BUT THIS SPECIAL SON, GOD’S SON, WHO WAS BORN FROM US, FROM THE JEWISH PEOPLE, IS MESSIAH YESHUA, KNOWN TO THE WORLD AS JESUS.  AND JESUS, THE JESUS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, IS GOD HIMSELF.  JESUS IS MESSIAH YESHUA, THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE FATHER, YHVH, THE SPIRIT OF GOD, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT.  AND HE IS WONDERFUL, OUR COUNSELOR, THE MIGHTY GOD, THE EVERLASTING FATHER, AND THE PRINCE OF PEACE.  MESSIAH YESHUA, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE IS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB.

AND MESSIAH WAS BORN TO US FROM THE JEWISH VIRGIN MIRIAM, WHOM THE WORLD CALLS MARY.

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD, AND NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR THE LORD.

AND THE PROPHET ISAIAH ALSO SAYS, AND THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER.  WHEN MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS RETURNS TO ISRAEL IN THE FUTURE, HE WILL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH.  AND HE WILL REIGN FROM JERUSALEM.  ZECHARIAH 14.1-9

THE LORD IS MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS.

GOD PROPHESIED TO THE PROPHET MICAH, SAYING, BUT YOU BETHLEHEM EPHRATAH, (EPHRATAH IS BETHLEHEM) THOUGH YOU ARE 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. 

HEBREW BIBLE  MICAH 5.1, CHRISTIAN BIBLE  MICAH 5.2

THE HEBREW FOR WHOSE GOINGS FORTH HAVE BEEN FROM OF OLD, FROM EVERLASLTING, MEANS, WHOSE ORIGIN IS EVERLASTING, WITHOUT BEGINNING, WITHOUT END.  THAT IS MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST, WHO IS GOD ALMIGHTY THE MESSIAH, FROM EVERLASTING, WITHOUT BEGINNING, AND WITHOUT END.

YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT.  YESHUA THE MESSIAH IS THE LORD YOUR GOD.  HE IS THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, THE GOD OF ISAAC, AND THE GOD OF JACOB.  HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY, YOUR MESSIAH.

GOD CAN NOT DIE.  SO GOD MADE HIMSELF A HUMAN BEING IN THE PERSON OF MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS, TO GIVE HIS LIFE, AND SHED HIS BLOOD FOR YOUR ATONEMENT WHILE THERE IS NO TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM.

THE REASON WE HAVE ANTI SEMITISM IS BECAUSE WE JEWISH PEOPLE, NOT ALL, DISOBEY TORAH, THE LAW OF MOSES, AND MANY JEWISH PEOPLE REJECT THE GOD OF THEIR FATHERS, YESHUA THE MESSIAH, THE JESUS CHRIST OF THE BIBLE.  AND REJECTING GOD IS SIN.  TREACHEROUS SIN.

THEREFORE REPENT BY DOING THAT WHICH IS LAWFUL AND RIGHT BY LIVING ACCORDING TO TORAH, AND BELIEVING IN THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS, THE MESSIAH YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST FOR YOUR ATONEMEENT. 

EZEKIEL 18.21-24, ISAIAH 53.1-12, LEVITICUS 17.11

THAT IS HOW YOU, AND EVERY OTHER HUMAN BEING BECOME PART OF THE REMNANT.  BY OBEYING EVERY WORD GOD SPEAKS IN THE BIBLE FROM GENESIS THROUGH REVELATION WHICH IS NOT DIFFICULT, WITH FAITH IN YOUR MESSIAH YESHUA FOR YOUR ATONEMENT.  AND THAT IS ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN. 

DEUTERONOMY 8.3, ISAIAH 53.10

Shalom,

Ira Weinstein

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