One in Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
27 S. Maple Street, Hohenwald, Tn. 38462
Phone – 615 712-3931
Email: ministermalachi@comcast.net
A part of the Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Today, we sadly
use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s.
Today is May 20,
2023
May - Maia's
month L
Old French Mai
Old English Maius
Latin Maius "of
Maia"
Latin Maius mensis "month of Maia"
Maius has
always had 31 days.
Maia (meaning
"the great one") is the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of
Faunus, and wife of Vulcan.
The God of Israel has His own Calendar: Zif, which is the second month, day 29
Next week two
Sabbaths in a row:
The Feast of
Weeks, a Sabbath – Sunday May 28, 2023
Feast of
Weeks, Sunday a Sabbath - Hag Sh'vu-ot - חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת
Feast of
Harvest Hag ha katseer - חַג
הַקָּצִיר
Pentecost πεντηκοστή - pentēkoste
Our seven
week journey we observe, in memorial, spiritually to meet God again on Mt.
Sinai, to receive the commandments and receive the Spirit of God.
From slaves in
Egypt, (our last lives of sin) to the people of God and the giving of the Law,
(10 commandments) and the giving of the Holy Spirit
We were told to count "Sabbaths" not omers.
An "omer" is a "sheaf" of barley - עמר omer - A dry measure of 1/10 ephah (about 2 liters)
Lev.23 [15] And you shall count unto you from the
morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of
the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete:
[16] Even
unto the morrow after the
seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat
offering unto Yehovah.
This Sabbath is
the sixth Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count.
New moon report:
Tomorrow - Sunday May 21 is Sivan סִיוָן {see-van'}
Esther
8:9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the
third month, that is, the month Sivan...
Today’s Topic:
The days of Noah
As the days of Noah were
Gen.6
[5] And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
[6] And it
repented Yehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved
him at his heart.
[7]
And Yehovah said, I will destroy
man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and
the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents Me that I have
made them.
[8]
… Noah found grace in the eyes of Yehovah.
[9] These are
the generations of Noah: Noah was a
just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
[10]
And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
[13] And God
said unto Noah, The end of all
flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them;
and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
[22] Thus
did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Gen.10
[1] Now these
are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto
them were sons born after the flood.
[32] These are
the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their
nations: and by these were the nations divided in
the earth after the flood.
Two
accounts, two witnesses, Matthew and Luke
Yeshua said:
Matt.24
[36] But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my
Father only.
[37] But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of
man be.
[38] For as in
the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered into the ark, [39] And knew not until the
flood came, and took them all away; so shall
also the coming of the Son of man be.
Luke.17
[26] And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the
Son of man. [27] They did eat, they drank, they
married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered
into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed
them all.
[28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they
bought, they sold, they planted, they built; [29] But the same day that Lot
went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
[30] Even thus
shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
What do you think
God thinks of today in 2023?
Another scenario:
[32] These
are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their
nations: and by these were the nations
divided in the earth after the flood.
[6] And the sons of
Ham; Cush,
and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
[8] And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth.
[9] He was a mighty hunter before Yehovah: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the
mighty hunter before Yehovah.
[10] And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the
land of Shinar.
[1] And the whole earth was of one
language, and of one speech.
[2] And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they
found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
[3] And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn
them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
[4] And they said, Go to, let us build
us a city and a tower, whose top may
reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
[5] And Yehovah came down to see the city and the tower, which the
children of men built.
[6] And Yehovah said, Behold, the
people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin
to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined
to do.
[7] Go to, let us go down, and
there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's
speech.
[8] So Yehovah scattered them
abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth:
and they left off to build the city.
[9] Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because Yehovah did there confound the
language of all the earth:
and from thence did Yehovah scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Beware, evil
spirits are always around:
Eph. 2
[2]
Wherein in time past you walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that now works in the children of
disobedience…
Two accounts
again, two witnesses, Matthew and Luke
Matt.12 [43] When the unclean
spirit is gone out of a man, he walks
through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.
[44] Then he says, I will return into my house from whence I
came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.
[45] Then goes he, and takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is
worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Luke 11 [24] When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest; and
finding none, he says, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
[25] And when he comes, he finds it swept and garnished.
[26] Then goes he, and takes to him seven other spirits more wicked than
himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is
worse than the first.
Paul said:
2 Cor. 11
[12] …
what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which
desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
[13] For
such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Messiah
[14] And
no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.[15]
Therefore it is no great thing if Satan’s
ministers also be transformed as the
ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Transforming
Μετασχηματίζω - metaschēmatizō - met-askh-ay-mat-id'-zo - From G3326 and a derivative of G4976; to transfigure or disguise
G3326
Μετά – meta
- met-ah'
A primary preposition (often used
adverbially); properly denoting accompaniment; “amid” (local or causal); modified
variously (in
several or different ways) …
Transformed
3339
μεταμορφόω metamorphoo
{met-am-or-fo'-o}
Meaning: 1) to change into another
form, to transform, to transfigure
Usage: AV - transfigure 2,
transform 1, change 1; 4
Transform
G3345
Μετασχηματίζω - metaschēmatizō - met-askh-ay-mat-id'-zo -to transfigure
or disguise; figuratively to apply (by accommodation): -
transfer, transform (self).
Many evil
spirits are around:
Eph. 6 [12] For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Peter said:
1 Pet. 5 [8] Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about,
seeking whom he may devour…
A short list
of evil spirits to beware of:
evil spirits,
lying spirit,
familiar spirits,
spirit of jealousy,
haughty spirit,
proud in spirit,
Be not hasty in
your spirit to be angry,
spirit of whoredoms,
unclean spirit,
a spirit
of an unclean devil,
spirit of divination,
the spirit
of bondage,
the spirit
of slumber,
the spirit
of the world,
the spirit of antichrist,
the spirit
of error,
foul spirit,
spiritual wickedness,
the spirit of
fear (of evil spirits and the world)
John talks about the devil:
1 John 4 [1] Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
[2]
Hereby know you the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesses that Yeshua the Messiah is come in the flesh is of God:
[3] And
every spirit that confesses not that Yeshua the Messiah is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of
antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come;
and even now already is it in the world.
[6] We
are of God: he that knows God hears us; he that is
not of God hears not us.
Hereby know we
the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Next week, it is
the seventh Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count.
In closing for today:
Next week, two Sabbaths in a row
Feast of Weeks, Sunday May 28, 2023 - Hag Sh'vu-ot
חַ֤ג
שָׁבֻעֹת֙
Feast of Harvest Hag
ha katseer
חַ֤ג
הַקָּצִיר
Pentecost πεντηκοστή - pentēkoste
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם