One in Messiah
Congregation
Shabbat
Shalom
July 19, 2008
God has His own
calendar - 4th month, 15th day,
no name in scripture
2Kgs.25 [3] And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
(We do not use, as Judaism, the pagan name Tammuz, a Phoenician deity to name one of the Lord's months)
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This last week (1000's of years ago), in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month:
Jer.39 [2] And in the eleventh
year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day
of the month, the city was broken up.
Jer.52 [6] And in the fourth
month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city,
so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
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Topic: Are you Jealous, Zealous for the Lord's sake?
Zeal - Zealous = Jealous
(From Numbers to
Revelation)
ëÌÄé àÈðÉëÄé éÀäåÈä àÁìÉäÆéêÈ, àÅì ÷ÇðÌÈà
I the LORD thy God
am a jealous God
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Exod. 20 the Ten Commandments
[1] And God spake all
these words, saying,
[2] I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
[3] Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
[4] Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven
above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth:
[5] Thou shalt not bow down
thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy 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 shewing mercy
unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
[7] Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD
thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
[8] Remember the sabbath
day, to keep it holy.
[9] Six days shalt thou labour,
and do all thy work:
[10] But the seventh day is the sabbath of the
LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
[11] For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
[12] Honour thy father and thy mother: that
thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee.
[13] Thou shalt not kill.
[14] Thou shalt not commit adultery.
[15] Thou shalt not steal.
[16] Thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy neighbour.
[17] Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's
wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any
thing that is thy neighbour's.
[12] Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest,
lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
[13] But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down
their groves:
[14] For thou shalt worship no
other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
[15] Lest thou 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 thou eat of
his sacrifice;
[16] And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters
go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
[17] Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
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H7065 ÷ðà qana - A primitive root;
to be (causatively make) zealous, that is, (in a bad sense) jealous or envious:
- (be) envy (-ious), be (move to, provoke to) jealous (-y), very, (be)
zeal (-ous).
BDB Definition: to envy, be jealous,
be envious, be zealous - to be jealous of, to be envious of, to be zealous for,
to excite to jealous anger, to provoke to jealous anger, cause jealousy
Total KJV
Occurrences: 31
jealous, 10
Num_5:14 (3), Num_5:30, 1Ki_19:10,
1Ki_19:14, Eze_39:25,
Joe_2:18, Zec_1:14,
Zec_8:2 (2)
envied, 5
Gen_26:14, Gen_30:1, Gen_37:11,
Psa_106:16, Eze_31:9
jealousy, 5
Deu_32:16, Deu_32:21 (2), 1Ki_14:22,
Psa_78:58
envious, 4
Psa_37:1, Psa_73:3, Pro_24:1,
Pro_24:19
envy, 3
Pro_3:31, Pro_23:17, Isa_11:13
zealous, 2
Num_25:11, Num_25:13
enviest, 1
Num_11:29
zeal, 1
2Sa_21:2
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÷ðÌà qannâ' - kan-naw'
- From H7065; jealous: - jealous.
Compare H7072.
÷ðÌåà qannô' - kan-no'
- For H7067; jealous or angry: -
jealous.
2
Cor. 11 [2]
For I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as
a chaste virgin to Christ.
2
Cor. 7 [11]
For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what
carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what
indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea,
what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this
matter.
2
Cor. 10 [3] For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
flesh:
[4] (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to
the pulling down of strong holds;)
[5] Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth
itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience of Christ;
[6] And having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
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Elijah - 1Kgs.
19 [10] And he said, I have
been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of
Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and
they seek my life, to take it away.
[14]
And he said, I have been
very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of
Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine
altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and
they seek my life, to take it away.
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Torah
Portion - Parshah: (mouth of brass) - Numbers
25:10-30:1 - 1Ki. 18:46-19:21, Jn. 2:13-25
Pinchas is not Elijah and Elijah does not
show up at every circumcision as Judaism says - this is all made up
Phinehas is the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the priest
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Exod.
6 [25] And Eleazar Aaron's son
took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife;
and she bare him Phinehas:
these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.
Num. 25 zealous
- jealousy
And Israel
abode in Shittim, and the
people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the
people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the
anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the
people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger
of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
And Moses
said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his
men that were joined unto Baal-peor.
And,
behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his
brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses,
and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he
rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
And he
went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through,
the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So
the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
[9] And those that died in the plague were
twenty and four thousand. (24000)
***And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of
Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them,
that I consumed not the children of Israel in my
jealousy. Wherefore
say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of
peace:
And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an
everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.
Now the
name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the
son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
And the
name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he
was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.
And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, Vex the Midianites, and smite them: For they
vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi,
the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister,
which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor's
sake.
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Messiah
The zeal of thine
house hath eaten me up
The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform
this
The zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this
Pss. 69
[9] For the zeal of thine house hath
eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen
upon me.
John 2
And the Jews'
passover was at hand, and Yeshua
/ Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
And found in the temple those that sold oxen
and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
And when he had made a scourge of small cords,
he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured
out the changers' money, and overthrew the
tables;
And said unto them that sold doves, Take these
things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
Isa. 9
[1]
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the
first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and
the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way
of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
[2] The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they
that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
[3] Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy
before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they
divide the spoil.
[4] For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his
shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
[5] For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments
rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
[6] 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, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
[7] Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end,
upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish
it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for
ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
Isa. 37
[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 the LORD.
[2] And he sent Eliakim, who was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of
the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
[3] And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of
rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is
not strength to bring forth.
[4] It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
[5] So the servants of king Hezekiah came to
Isaiah.
[6] And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye
say unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not
afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me.
[7] Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land.
[8] So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard
that he was departed from Lachish.
[9] And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king
of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he
sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
[10] Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy
God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
[11] Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all
lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou 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 Telassar?
[13] Where is the king of Hamath,
and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?
[14] And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers,
and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it
before the LORD.
[15] And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
[16] O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest
between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou
alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.
[17] Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open
thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words
of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.
[18] Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the
nations, and their countries,
[19] 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.
[20] Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
[21] Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto
Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:
[22] This is the word which the LORD 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.
[23] Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and
against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine
eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
[24] By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By
the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to
the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the
choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and
the forest of his Carmel.
[25] I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried
up all the rivers of the besieged places.
[26] Hast thou 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 thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
[27] 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.
[28] But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy
rage against me.
[29] Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine
ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and
I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
[30] And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye
shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and
the second year that which springeth of the same: and
in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof.
[31] And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again
take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
[32] For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape
out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts
shall do this.
[33] Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the
king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there nor
come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
[34] By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
[35] For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my
servant David's sake.
[36] Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early
in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
[37] So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt
at Nineveh.
[38] 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.
Isa. 59
[1]
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy
that it cannot hear:
[2] But your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
[3] For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your
lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
[4] None calleth for justice, nor any
pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and
speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
[5]
They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and
that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
[6] Their webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of
iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
[7] Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their
paths.
[8] The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their
goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth
therein shall not know peace.
[9] Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us:
we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in
darkness.
[10] We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no
eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead
men.
[11] We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for
judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
[12] For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins
testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our
iniquities, we know them;
[13] In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away
from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the
heart words of falsehood.
[14] And judgment is turned away backward, and
justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the
street, and equity cannot enter.
[15] Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh
himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no
judgment.
[16] And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no
intercessor:
Messiah - therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his
righteousness, it sustained him.
[17] For
he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an
helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for
clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
[18]
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
[19] So
shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the
rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard
against him.
Messiah - [20] And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them
that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the
LORD.
[21] As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith
the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy
mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor
out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD,
from henceforth and for ever.
Messiah
Isa. 63
[1]
Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?
this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in
the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness,
mighty to save.
[2] Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel,
and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
[3] I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none
with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and
their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my
raiment.
[4] For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my
redeemed is come.
[5] And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there
was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my
fury, it upheld me.
[6] And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk
in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
[7] I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the
LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed
on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath
bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of
his lovingkindnesses.
[8] For he said, Surely they are my people,
children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
[9] In all their affliction he was afflicted,
and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he
redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
[10] But they rebelled, and vexed his holy
Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
[11] Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the
shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy
Spirit within him?
[12] That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm,
dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
[13] That led them through the deep, as an
horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
[14] As a beast goeth down into the valley, the
Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make
thyself a glorious name.
[15] Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy
holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of
thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they
restrained?
[16] Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be
ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O LORD, art our father,
our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
[17] O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened
our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
[18] The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while:
our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
[19] We are thine: thou never barest rule over
them; they were not called by thy name.
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Pss. 106
[1]
Praise ye the LORD. O give
thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
[2] Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who
can shew forth all his praise?
[3] Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness
at all times.
[4] Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that
thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy
salvation;
[5] That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the
gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine
inheritance.
[6] We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
[7] Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not
the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
[8] Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make
his mighty power to be known.
[9] He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them
through the depths, as through the wilderness.
[10] And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and
redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
[11] And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them
left.
[12] Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
[13] They soon forgat his works; they waited
not for his counsel:
[14] But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the
desert.
[15] And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
[16] They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the
LORD.
[17] The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan,
and covered the company of Abiram.
[18] And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the
wicked.
[19] They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped
the molten image.
[20] Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
[21] They forgat God their saviour,
which had done great things in Egypt;
[22] Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red
sea.
[23] Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his
chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should
destroy them.
[24] Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
[25] But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of
the LORD.
[26] Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in
the wilderness:
[27] To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them
in the lands.
[28] They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor,
and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
[29] Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague
brake in upon them.
[30] Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was
stayed.
[31] And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for
evermore.
[32]
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses
for their sakes:
[33] Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake
unadvisedly with his lips.
[34] They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
commanded them:
[35] But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
[36] And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
[37] Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
[38] And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their
daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was
polluted with blood.
[39] Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring
with their own inventions.
[40] Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people,
insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
[41] And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated
them ruled over them.
[42] Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into
subjection under their hand.
[43] Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their
counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
[44] Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
[45] And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to
the multitude of his mercies.
[46] He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them
captives.
[47] Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to
give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
[48] Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting:
and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
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[11]
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath
appeared to all men,
[12] Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
[13] Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the
great God and our Saviour Yeshua
the Messiah - Jesus Christ;
[14] Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity,
and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous
of good works.
[15] These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let
no man despise thee.
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Salt of the earth - Light of the World
Matt.
5 [13] Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have
lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and
to be trodden under foot of men. [14] Ye are the
light of the world. A city that is set on an
hill cannot be hid.
[15] Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a
candlestick; and it giveth
light unto all that are in the house.
[16] Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father which is in heaven.
[19] As
many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous
therefore, and repent.
[20]
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the
door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
[21] To him that overcometh will I grant to
sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my
Father in his throne.
[22] He that hath an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Shalom