One in Messiah Congregation

  קָּהָל אֶחָד בְּמָּשִׁיחַ

 

27 S. Maple Street, Hohenwald, Tn. 38462

Phone – 615 712-3931

 

 http://OneinMessiah.net

 

  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 13, 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 22

 

Coming Feast of Weeks: a Sabbath - 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 - pentkoste

 

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 [15And 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 fifth Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count.

 

Today’s Topic:

Nor did they inquired for Yehovah God

Other gods (male and female)

 

A question:

So why do we attend this congregation?

 

Things our congregation looks for with people we meet, if they:

 

 

If they: Keep the 4th commandment – Sabbath (and the rest of the commandments)

 

If they: Observe new moon, how and when?

 

If they: Keep the 3 feasts of Yehovah, how to do them and with the understanding of Yeshua in them.

 

If they: keep the other 7 Sabbaths of the 3 feasts

 

If they: Keep the food laws – clean and unclean

 

If they: Have the correct Bible version – KJV and the correct doctrine

 

If they: observe and keep the ordinances and understand the judgments

 

 

I did many studies in the past pertaining to this, they are on my website.

There are lists of possibilities for you to decide where to attend or not to attend.

 

Just to mention a few churches with different gods:

Catholic, Judaism, Protestant congregations, churches and any religion for that matter with another god or gods.

Then we have the many Messianic congregations which are all different and don’t agree with each other…

This eliminates most places to attend already.

 

They all have:

Wrong doctrines, wrong gods (female or male), no 4th commandment Sabbath, wrong Bible versions, wrong made up Hebrew words used, wrong dates for feasts or wrong ways to observe the feasts, wrong way of the new moon sightings, wrong websites, wrong social media platforms…

This is just some of the things we have to deal with all the time.

Yeshua said:

John 7 [24] Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

 

Pss.16 [4] Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

Another Jesus

Another spirit

Another gospel

Paul says:

Cor.11[4] For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, you might well bear with him. (Why would you put up with this) wrong…

 

Always be aware of Satan:

8 matches for evil spirits in Tanakh

6 matches for evil spirits in the Gospels and letters

 

Eph.2 [2] Wherein in time past ye 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…

 

2Cor.11 [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.

57 matches for the “Satan” in the Tanakh and the Gospels and letters

60 matches for “the devil” in the Gospels and letters

 

Just look at our Gregorian calendar (from the 1500s) we use today in the 21 century:

January - Janus is the Roman god of gates and doorways, depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. His festival month is January.

February - Februa is the Roman festival of purification, held on February fifteenth. It is possibly of Sabine origin.

March - Mars is the Roman god of war. He is identified with the Greek god Ares.

April - Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty. She is identified with the Roman goddess Venus.

May - Maia (meaning "the great one") is the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan.

June - Juno is the principle goddess of the Roman Pantheon. She is the goddess of marriage and the well-being of women. She is the wife and sister of Jupiter. She is identified with the Greek goddess Hera.

 

July - Julius Caesar's month - August - Augustus Caesar's month

September - the seventh month - today the 9th month

October - the eighth month - today the 10th month

November - the ninth month - today the 11th month

December - the tenth month - today the 12th month

 

Zeph.1

[1] The word of Yehovah which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
[2]
I will utterly consume all things from off the land, said Yehovah.
[3]
I will consume man and beast;

I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, said Yehovah.
[4]
I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;
[5] And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by
Yehovah, and that swear by Malcham;
[6] And them that are turned back from
Yehovah; and those that have not sought Yehovah, nor inquired for him.



Inquired = enquired

דּרשׁ darash {daw-rash'}

Meaning:  1) to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require,

 

(Qal) to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place), to consult, enquire of, seek, of God, of heathen gods, necromancers, to seek deity in prayer and worship, God, heathen deities, to seek (with a demand), demand, require , to investigate, enquire) to ask for, require, demand) to practice, study, follow, seek with application, to seek with care, care for…

 

(Niphal) to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God) to be sought, be sought out, to be required, of blood

 

Origin:  a primitive root

Usage:  AV - seek 84, enquire 43, require 12, search 7, misc 18; 164

 

 

 

Unbelief

Matt.13 [58] And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Matt.17 [20] And Yeshua said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Mark 6 [6] And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.

Mark 9 [24] And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

Mark 16 [14] Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

Rom.3 [3] For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

Rom.4 [20] He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God…

Rom.11 [20] Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith.

[23] And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graff them in again.

[30] For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

[21] For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
[22] Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shall be cut off.

[32] For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

Heb.3 [12] Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

[19] So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

 

Heb.4 [6] Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

[11] Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief

 

Unbelieving

Acts 14 [2] But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

Tit.1 [15] Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Rev.21 [8] But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

John 3 [18] He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

 

Other gods

63 matches for the term “other gods” in the Bible, here are a few:

Exod.20 [3] You shall have no other gods before me.

Exod.23 [13] And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.

Deut.5 [7] You shall have none other gods before me.

Deut.6 [14] You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

[15] (For Yehovah your God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of Yehovah your God be kindled against you, and destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Deut.7 [1] When Yehovah your God shall bring you into the land whither you goes to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before you, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
[2] And when
Yehovah your God shall deliver them before you; you shall smite them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them:
[3] Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son.

[4] For they will turn away your son from following me that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Yehovah be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

[5] But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
[6] For you are a holy people unto
Yehovah your God: Yehovah your God hath chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

Deut.8 [18] But you shall remember Yehovah your God: for it is he that gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore unto your fathers, as it is this day.

[19] And it shall be, if you do at all forget Yehovah your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

[20] As the nations which Yehovah destroyed before your face, so shall you perish; because you would not be obedient unto the voice of Yehovah your God.

Deut.11 [16] Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

[17] And then Yehovah's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which Yehovah gives you.

[18] Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
[19] And you shall teach them your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
[20] And you shall write them upon the door posts of your house, and upon your gates:
[21] That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which
Yehovah swore unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
[22] For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love
Yehovah your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
[23] Then will
Yehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
[24] Every place where on the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
[25] There shall no man be able to stand before you: for
Yehovah your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
[26] Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
[27] A blessing, if you obey the commandments of
Yehovah your God, which I command you this day:

[28] And a curse, if you will not obey the commandments of Yehovah your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.

Deut.13 [1] If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,

[2] And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto you, saying, Let us go after other gods, which you hast not known, and let us serve them;

[3] You shall not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for Yehovah your God proves you, to know whether you love Yehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
[4] You shall walk after
Yehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
[5] And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from
Yehovah your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which Yehovah your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put the evil away from the midst of you.

[6] If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, which is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you hast not known, you, nor your fathers;

[7] Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;
[8] You shall not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
[9] But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

[10] And you shall stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust you away from Yehovah your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
[11] And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
[12] If you shall hear say in one of your cities, which
Yehovah your God hath given you to dwell there, saying,

[13] Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known;

[14] Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
[15] You shall surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Deut.17 [1] You shall not sacrifice unto Yehovah your God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evil favor: for that is an abomination unto Yehovah your God.
[2] If there be found among you, within any of your gates which
Yehovah your God gives you, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of Yehovah your God, in transgressing his covenant,

[3] And had gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

[4] And it be told you, and you hast heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
[5] Then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto your gates, even that man or that woman, and shall stone them with stones, till they die.

Deut.18 [20] But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

Deut.28 [14] And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

[36] Yehovah shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you, unto a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.

[64] And Yehovah shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.

Deut.29 [25] Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: [26] For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them: [27] And the anger of Yehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
[28] And
Yehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.

Deut.30 [17] But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; [18] I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
[19] I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Deut.31 [18] And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

[20] For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore unto their fathers, that flows with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

 

Gods of

48 matches of “gods of”, here are some:

Exod.12 [12] For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Yehovah.

Exod.20 [23] You shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall you make unto you gods of gold.

Exod.32 [31] And Moses returned unto Yehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

Deut.6 [14] You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

Deut.13 [6] If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, which is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you hast not known, you, nor your fathers;

[7] Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

Deut.29 [14] Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
[15] But with him that stands here with us this day before
Yehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
[16] (For you know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which you passed by;
[17] And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
[18] Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from
Yehovah our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;

[19] And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

[20] Yehovah will not spare him, but then the anger of Yehovah and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and Yehovah shall blot out his name from under heaven.

 

Deut.31 [16] And Yehovah said unto Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

 

Num.5 [14] And the spirit of jealousy come upon him…

 

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.

Exod.12  all the gods of Egypt…

Exod.20 [23] Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

Judg. 10 … served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines…

2Kgs.17 [29] Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

[31] And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

2Kgs.18 [33] Had any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

[34] Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? …

2Chr.25 [14] the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

[20] the gods of Edom.

2Chr.28 [23] gods of Damascus, the gods of the kings of Syria

 

1Cor. 8[4] As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.


[5] For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)


[6] But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.


[7] Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge…

 

In closing for today:

There are just too many false gods to talk about  L Beware

Stay with the God of Israel in Scripture who created the heavens, the earth, the seas and everthing.

Next week will be the sixth Sabbath of the seven Sabbaths we were told to count.

Shabbat Shalom

שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם

 

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