One in Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
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Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
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Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Today is April 11, 2020
April -- Aphrodite's month
Old English April (is)
Latin Aprilis
Etruscan Apru
Greek Aphro, short for Aphrodite.
Aprilis had 30
days, until Numa when it had 29 days, until Julius
when it became 30 days long.
Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
She is identified with the Roman goddess Venus.
We acknowledge Yehovah’s calendar:
We are now in the 1st month, ha Aviv – day 17
Passover is 8th
of April, Wed. evening meal.
The Feast of Unleavened
bread is in April, Thursday, the 9th through the 15th
Wednesday.
A first fruit, resurrection
day is Sunday the 11th
The Feast of Weeks, feast of
harvest, Pentecost is the 31th of May – Sunday.
After yesterday, the reading of Judges,
Today’s Topic:
No other gods, leaven
Commandments 1 and 2
Exod.20 [1] And God spoke all these
words, saying,[2] I am the Yehovah
your God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage. [3] You shall have no other gods before Me.
[4] You shall not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything
that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth:
[5] You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve
them: for I the Yehovah your God am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and
fourth generation of them that hate me;
[6] And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love
me, and keep my commandments.
Exod.34 [14] For you shall worship no other god, for Yehovah, whose
name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
[15] Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go
a whoring after their gods , and do sacrifice unto
their gods, and one call thee, and you eat of his sacrifice;
[16] And you take of their daughters unto your sons, and
their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make your sons go a whoring
after their gods.
[17] you shall make thee no
molten gods.
[18] The feast of
unleavened bread shall you keep. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as
I commanded thee, in the time of the month ha aviv / Abib: for in the month ha aviv / Abib you came out from Egypt.
Deut.32 [39]
See now that I, even I, am
he, and there is no god with me:
I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal:
neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. [40] For I lift up my hand to
heaven, and say, I live forever.
[41] If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I
will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.
[42] I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my
sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the
captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
[43] Rejoice, O you nations, with his people: for he will
avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries,
and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
When Solomon was good:
1Kgs.8 [22] And Solomon stood before the
altar of Yehovah in the presence of all the
congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:[23] And he said, Yehovah God of
Israel, there is no God like
thee, in heaven above, or on earth
beneath, who keeps covenant and mercy with your servants that walk before thee
with all their heart:
[24] Who have kept with your servant David my father that you promise him: you
spoke also with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this
day.
Same
story: 2 Chr.6 [14]
And said, O Yehovah God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor
in the earth; which keeps covenant, and shows mercy unto your servants, that
walk before thee with all their hearts…
Elijah
2K gs.1 [1] Then Moab rebelled against
Israel after the death of Ahab.
[2] And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in
his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers,
and said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub the god
of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
[3] But the angel of Yehovah said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king
of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel,
that you go to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
[4] Now therefore thus says Yehovah, you shall
not come down from that bed on which you are gone up, but shall surely die.
And Elijah departed.
[5] And when the messengers turned back unto him, he said unto them, why
are you now turned back?
[6] And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto
us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus says Yehovah, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel,
that you sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?
Therefore you shall not come down from that bed on which you are gone
up, but shall surely die.
[7] And he said unto them, what manner of man was he which came up to meet
you, and told you these words?
[8] And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of
leather about his loins.
And he said, it is Elijah the Tishbite.
[9] Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he
went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke unto
him, you man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
[10] And Elijah answered and said to the captain of
fifty, if I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume
thee and your fifty.
And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
[11] Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty
with his fifty.
And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king
said, Come down quickly.
[12] And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I
be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and your
fifty.
And the fire of God came down
from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
[13] And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty.
And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees
before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee,
let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your
sight.
[14] Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two
captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in your sight.
[15] And the angel of Yehovah said unto Elijah,
Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him
unto the king.
[16] And he said unto him, Thus says Yehovah, Forasmuch as you have sent messengers to inquire
of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron,
is it not because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word?
Therefore you shall not come down off that bed on which you are gone up,
but shall surely die.
[17] So he died according to the word of Yehovah
which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his
stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of
Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
[18] Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Naaman
2Kgs.5 [1] Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a
great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yehovah
had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor,
but he was a leper.
[2] And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away
captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
[3] And she said unto her mistress, would God my lord were with the
prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him
of his leprosy.
[4] And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus
and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
[5] And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto
the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver,
and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.
[6] And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this
letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman
my servant to thee, that you may recover him of his leprosy.
[7] And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that
he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this
man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? Wherefore consider, I
pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.
[8] And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of
Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore have you rent your clothes?
Let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in
Israel.
[9] So Naaman came with his horses and with his
chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.
[10] And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the
Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to thee, and you shall be
clean.
[11] But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will
surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yehovah
his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
[12] Are not Abana and Pharpar,
rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in
them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
[13] And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing,
would you not have done it? How much rather then, when he says to thee, Wash,
and be clean?
[14] Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according
to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh
of a little child, and he was clean.
[15] And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came,
and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in
all earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of your
servant.
[16] But he said, As Yehovah lives, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take
it; but he refused.
[17] And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I
pray thee, be given to your servant two mules' burden of earth?
For your servant will henceforth
offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto Yehovah.
[18] In this thing Yehovah pardon your servant,
that when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to
worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, Yehovah pardon your
servant in this thing.
[19] And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little
way.
[20] But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of
God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this
Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as Yehovah lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of
him.
[21] So Gehazi followed after Naaman.
And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted
down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all
well?
[22] And he said, All is well. My master hath sent
me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young
men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver,
and two changes of garments.
[23] And Naaman said, Be content, take two
talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with
two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare
them before him.
[24] And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and
bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.
[25] But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him,
Whence came you, Gehazi? And
he said, thy servant went nowhere.
[26] And he said unto him, went not mine heart with thee, when the man
turned again from his chariot to meet thee?
Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive yards,
and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?
[27] The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave
unto you, and unto your seed for ever. And he went out
from his presence a leper as white as snow.
King Hezekiah
2Kgs.19 [1] And it came to pass, when
king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of Yehovah.
[2] And he sent Eliakim, which was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
[3] And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah,
This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children
are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
[4] It may be Yehovah your God will hear all the
words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his
master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which Yehovah your God hath heard: wherefore lift up your prayer
for the remnant that are left.
[5] So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
[6] And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall you say to your master, Thus says
Yehovah, Be not afraid of the words which you have
heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
[7] Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and
shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his
own land.
[8] So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king
of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard
that he was departed from Lachish.
[9] And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of
Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers
again unto Hezekiah, saying,
[10] Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your
God in whom you trust deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria.
[11] Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all
lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
[12] Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
[13] Where is the king of Hamath,
and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim,
of Hena, and Ivah?
[14] And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and
read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of Yehovah,
and spread it before Yehovah.
[15] And Hezekiah prayed before Yehovah, and
said, O Yehovah God of Israel, which dwells between
the cherubims, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of
the earth: you have made heaven and earth.
[16] Yehovah, bow down your
ear, and hear: open, Yehovah, your eyes, and see: and
hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
[17] Of a truth, Yehovah, the kings of Assyria
have destroyed the nations and their lands,[18] And have cast their gods into
the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed
them.
[19] Now therefore, O Yehovah our God, I beseech
thee, save you us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know
that you are Yehovah God, even you only.
[20] Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yehovah
God of Israel, That which you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of
Assyria I have heard.
[21] This is the word that Yehovah hath spoken
concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath
despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
her head at thee.
[22] Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on
high? Even against the Holy One of Israel.
[23] By the messengers you have reproached the Lord, and have said, With
the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to
the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders,
and into the forest of his Carmel.
[24] I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have
I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
[25] Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times
that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
[26] Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed
and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the
grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
[27] But I know your abode, and your
going out, and your coming in, and your rage against me.
[28] Because your rage against me and your tumult is come up into mine
ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips,
and I will turn thee back by the way by which you came.
[29] And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things
as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which spring of the same;
and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant
vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
[30] And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yout again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
[31] For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of Yehovah of hosts shall
do this.
[32] Therefore thus says Yehovah concerning the
king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
[33] By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city, says Yehovah.
[34] For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake.
[35] And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Yehovah
went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five
thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead
corpses.
[36] So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and
dwelt at Nineveh.
[37] And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech
and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and
they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon
his son reigned in his stead.
Abijah
2Chr.13 [1] Now
in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah
to reign over Judah.
[2] He reigned three years in Jerusalem. His mother's
name also was Michaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.
And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
[3] And Abijah set the battle in array with an
army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam
also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen
men, being mighty men of valor.
[4] And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, you
Jeroboam, and all Israel;
[5] Ought you not to know that Yehovah God of
Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his
sons by a covenant of salt?
[6] Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant
of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.
[7] And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and
have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son
of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted,
and could not withstand them.
[8] And now you think to withstand the kingdom of Yehovah
in the hand of the sons of David; and you be a great
multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for
gods.
[9] Have you not cast out the priests of Yehovah,
the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner
of the nations of other lands? So that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself
with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
[10] But as for us, Yehovah is our God, and we
have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto Yehovah,
are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:
[11] And they burn unto Yehovah every morning and
every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the showbread also set they
in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps
thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of Yehovah
our God; but you have forsaken him.
[12] And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests
with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight you
not against Yehovah God of your fathers; for you shall
not prosper.
[13] But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come
about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment
was behind them.
[14] And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind:
and they cried unto Yehovah, and the priests sounded
with the trumpets.
[15] Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted,
it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
[16] And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them
into their hand.
[17] And Abijah and his people slew them with a
great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand
chosen men.
[18] Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the
children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon Yehovah
God of their fathers.
[19] And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took
cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshnah
with the towns thereof, and Ephrain
with the towns thereof.
[20] Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Yehovah struck him,
and he died.
[21] But Abijah waxed mighty, and married
fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
[22] And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his
ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.
The fool
Pss.14 [1]
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are
corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Pss.53 [1]
the fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have
done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
A few
more verses:
Isa.37 [19]
… (they) have cast their gods into the fire: for
they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
Isa.43 [1] .. Now thus says Yehovah that created thee, O Jacob, and He
that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by your name; you
are mine.
[2] When you passed through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the
rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when you walked through the fire, you shall
not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
[3] For I am Yehovah your God, the Holy One of
Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.
[4] Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable, and I
have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for your life.
[5] Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring your seed
from the east, and gather thee from the west;
[6] I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep
not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
[7] Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for
my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
[8] Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have
ears.
[9] Let all the nations be gathered together, and let
the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former
things?
Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let
them hear, and say, it is truth.
[10] Ye are my witnesses, says Yehovah, and my
servant whom I have chosen: that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me
there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
[11] I, even I, am Yehovah; and beside me there
is no savior.
[12] I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no
strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, says Yehovah,
that I am God.
[13] Yea, before the day was I am He; and there is none that can deliver
out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
[14] Thus says Yehovah, your redeemer, the Holy
One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon,
and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the
ships.
[15] I am Yehovah, your Holy One, the creator of
Israel, your King.
[16] Thus says Yehovah, which makes a way in the
sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
[17] Which brings forth the chariot and horse, the army
and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are
extinct, they are quenched as tow.
[18] Remember you not the former things, neither consider the things of
old.
[19] Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall you
not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the
desert.
[20] The beast of the field shall honor me, the dragons and the owls:
because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give
drink to my people, my chosen.
[21] This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise.
[22] But you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have
been weary of me, O Israel.
[23] you have not brought me the small cattle of your
burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not
caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
[24] you have bought me no sweet cane with money,
neither have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices: but you have made
me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities.
[25] I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for mine own sake,
and will not remember your sins.
[26] Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare you, that you may
be justified.
[27] Thy first father hath sinned, and your teachers have transgressed
against me.
[28] Therefore I have profaned the princes of the
sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse and Israel to reproaches.
Isa.44
[1] Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have
chosen:
[2] Thus says Yehovah that
made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O
Jacob, my servant; and you, Jesurun, whom I have
chosen.
[3] For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods
upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon
your offspring:
[4] And they shall spring up as among the grass, as
willows by the water courses.
[5] One shall say, I am Yehovah's;
and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall
subscribe with his hand unto Yehovah, and surname
himself by the name of Israel.
[6] Thus says Yehovah the King of
Israel, and his redeemer Yehovah of hosts; I am the
first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
[7] And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it
in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and
the things that are coming, and shall come, let them show unto them.
[8] Fear you not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from
that time, and have declared it?
You are even my witnesses.
Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God;
I know not any.
[9] They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and
their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses;
they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
[10] Who hath formed a god, or
molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
[11] Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen,
they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yout they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
[12] The smith with the tongs both works in the coals, and
fashions it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms: yea, he
is hungry, and his strength fails: he drinks no water, and is faint.
[13] The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with
a line; he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the compass, and makes
it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may
remain in the house.
[14] He hews him down cedars, and takes the cypress and
the oak, which he strengthened for himself among the trees of the forest: he
plants an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
[15] Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take
thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindles it, and bakes bread; yea, he makes a
god, and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and falls down thereto.
[16] He burns part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eats
flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warms himself, and says, Aha,
I am warm, I have seen the fire:
[17] And the residue thereof he makes a god, even his graven
image: he falls down unto it, and worships it, and prays unto it, and says;
Deliver me; for you are my god.
[18] They have not known nor understood: for he
hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts that they cannot
understand.
[19] And none considers in his heart, neither is there knowledge
nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I
have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it:
and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? Shall I fall down to the
stock of a tree?
[20] He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside,
that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not
a lie in my right hand?
[21] Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant:
I have formed thee; you are my servant: O Israel, you shall not be forgotten of
me.
[22] I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your
transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed
thee.
[23] Sing, O you heavens; for Yehovah
hath done it: shout, you lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, you
mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yehovah
hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
[24] Thus says Yehovah, your
redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am Yehovah
that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreads
abroad the earth by myself;
[25] That frustrates the tokens of the liars, and makes diviners
mad; that turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
[26] That confirms the word of his servant, and performs the
counsel of his messengers; that says to Jerusalem, you shall be inhabited; and
to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise
up the decayed places thereof:
[27] That says to the deep, be dry, and I will dry up your
rivers:
[28] That says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform
all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, you shall be built; and to the
temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Isa.45 [1] Thus says Yehovah
to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden,
to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the
loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall
not be shut;
[2] I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
[3] And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of
secret places, that you may know that I, Yehovah,
which call thee by your name, am the God of Israel.
[4] For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine
elect, I have even called thee by your name: I have surnamed thee, though you have
not known me.
[5] I am Yehovah, and there is
none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though you have not known
me:
[6] That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there is none beside me. I am Yehovah, and there is
none else.
[7] I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
I Yehovah do all these things.
[8] Drop down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down
righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring
forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I Yehovah have created it.
[9] Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with
the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What makes you? Or your work, He hath no hands?
[10] Woe unto him that says unto his father, What begettest you? or to the woman,
What have you brought forth?
[11] Thus says Yehovah, the Holy One of Israel,
and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the
work of my hands command you me.
[12] I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have
stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I
commanded.
[13] I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways:
he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not
for price nor reward, says Yehovah of hosts.
[14] Thus says Yehovah, The labor of Egypt, and
merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of
stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be your: they shall come
after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee,
they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and
there is none else, there is no God.
[15] Verily you are a God that hides yourself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
[16] They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of
them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
[17] But Israel shall be saved in Yehovah with an
everlasting salvation: you shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without
end.
[18] For thus says Yehovah that created the
heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it,
he created it not in vain, he formed it to be
inhabited: I am Yehovah; and there is none else.
[19] I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not
unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I Yehovah
speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
[20] Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped
of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven
image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
[21] Tell you, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together:
who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? have not I Yehovah? And there is no God else beside
me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
[22] Look unto me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am
God, and there is none else.
[23] I have sworn by Myself, the word is gone out
of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee
shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
[24] Surely, shall one say, in Yehovah have I
righteousness and strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are
incensed against him shall be ashamed.
[25] In Yehovah shall all the
seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
Jer.2
[10] For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see;
and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see
if there be such a thing.[11] Hath a nation changed their gods, which are no gods?
but my people have changed their glory for that
which doth not profit. [12] Be astonished, O you heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be you
very desolate, says Yehovah.
[13] For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the
fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that
can hold no water.
Jer.5 [7]
How shall I pardon thee for this? Your children have
forsaken me, and sworn by them that are
no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery,
and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Jer.16 [19] O Yehovah,
my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the
Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things
wherein there is no profit.
[20] Shall a
man make gods unto himself, and they are
no gods?
Satan,
the devil, the old serpent
Ezek.28 [1] The word of Yehovah came again unto me, saying,
[2] Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted
up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas; yout you are a man, and not God, though you
set your heart as the heart of God:
[3] Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no
secret that they can hide from thee:
[4] With your wisdom and with your understanding you have
gotten thee riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures:
[5] By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your
riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:
[6] Therefore thus says the Lord Yehovah; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God;
[7] Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of
the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your
wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
[8] They shall bring thee down to the pit, and you shall die the deaths of
them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
[9] Will you say before him that slays thee, I am God? but
you shall be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slays thee.
[10] You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yehovah.
[11] Moreover the word of Yehovah came unto me,
saying,
[12] Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the
king of Tyrus, and say unto him,
Thus says the Lord Yehovah; you sealed up the
sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
[13] you have been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was your
covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the
beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle,
and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your
pipes was prepared in thee in the day that you were created.
[14] you are the anointed cherub that covers; and
I have set thee so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up
and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
[15] you were perfect in your ways from the day
that you were created, till iniquity was found in thee.
[16] By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the midst of
thee with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane
out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire.
[17]Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your
wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast thee to the ground,
I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
[18] you have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities,
by the iniquity of your traffic; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the
midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth
in the sight of all them that behold thee.
[19] All they that know thee among the people shall be
astonished at thee: you shall be a terror, and never shall you be any more.
Hos.13
[1] When Ephraim spoke trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when
he offended in Baal, he died.
[2] And now they sin more and more, and have made them
molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding,
all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that
sacrifice kiss the calves.
[3] Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as
the early dew that passes away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind
out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
[4] Yet I am Yehovah
your God from the land of Egypt, and you shall know no god but me: for there is no savior beside me.
Acts 19
[19] Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books
together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them,
and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
[20] So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
[21] After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he
had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I
have been there, I must also see Rome.
[22] So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a
season.
[23] And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
[24] For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver
shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
[25] Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said,
Sirs, you know that by this craft we have our wealth.
[26] Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost
throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people,
saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
[27] So that not only this, our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana
should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and
the world worshipped.
[28] And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried
out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
[29] And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius
and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed
with one accord into the theatre.
[30] And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples
suffered him not.
[31] And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto
him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.
[32] Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was
confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.
[33] And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him
forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.
[34] But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the
space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the
Ephesians.
[35] And when the town clerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of
Ephesus, what man is there that knows not how that the city of the Ephesians is
a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from
Jupiter?
[36] Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, you ought to
be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
[37] For you have brought hither these men, which are
neither robbers of churches, nor blasphemers of your goddess.
[38] Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a
matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.
[39] But if you inquire anything concerning other matters, it shall be
determined in a lawful assembly.
[40] For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar,
there being no cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
[41] And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the
assembly.
Gal.4
[8] Howbeit then, when you knew not
God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods. [9] But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known
of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye
desire again to be in bondage?
[10] Ye observe days,
and months, and times, and years.
[11] I am afraid of
you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Acts 17
[16] Now while
Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the
city wholly given to idolatry.
[17] Therefore
disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with
the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.
[18] Then certain
philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks,
encountered him. And some said, what will this babbler say? Other some, He seems
to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and
the resurrection.
[19] And they
took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May
we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, of?
[20] For you
bring certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these
things mean.
[21] (For all the
Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but
either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
[22] Then Paul
stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of
Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.
[23] For as I
passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE
UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.
[24] God that
made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth,
dwells not in temples made with hands;
[25] Neither is
worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he gives to
all life, and breath, and all things;
[26] And hath
made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth,
and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their
habitation;
[27] That they
should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though
he be not far from every one of us:
[28] For in him
we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have
said, for we are also his offspring.
[29] Forasmuch
then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is
like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by are and man's device.
[30] And the
times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commands all men everywhere to
repent:
[31] Because he
hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the
world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given
assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
In closing:
We need to trust in our God for everything.
No other god, leaven
There is no other God that can
deliver us after this (today’s crises in 2020) or any sort except Our God of
Israel!
Shabbat Shalom