One in Messiah Congregation
Shabbat Shalom
The Gregorian calendar (Pope Gregory) - March 7, 2009
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God's calendar - We are now in the 12th month - Adar, 9th day.
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Esth.3 [ 7] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the
twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman
from day to day, and from month to month, to the
twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
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**** Remember:
Saturday night clocks move forward 1 hour
- daylight saving time.
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Before I start, here are the dates again for 2009
Spring Feasts and Holydays
12th Month of God - Adar - February 27 - The 1st of Adar was the evening of February 26th
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Purim - Adar 14 and 15th
- March 12 and 13th
March 12th, Thursday, at 7 p. m., we
will be reading the Book of Esther at our Congregation.
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New Year! - 1st day of
Aviv/Nissan will be March 28, Saturday - The 1st day of Aviv/Nissan will
start the evening, Friday, March 27th
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Passover: Aviv/Nissan 14 will
be April 10 (Friday)
Friday night we will, (in memorial) have the
Passover.
We will have our Passover Haggadah (the telling)
and the Seder (order), as in order of the service.
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First day of Unleavened Bread will be April 11 (Sabbath) (Saturday) It will start the
evening of April 10th
First Fruits: April
12th
Last day of Unleavened Bread: April 17th (Sabbath) (Friday) it will start the evening of April
16th (2 Sabbaths in a row)
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2nd Month of God - Ziv - April 27th - The 1st day of Ziv will start on the evening of April
26th
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3rd Month of God - Sivan - May 26th the 1st day of Sivan will start the evening May 25th
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Feast of Weeks - May 31 (Sabbath) (Sunday) it will start the evening of
May 30th (2 Sabbaths in a row)
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Some news - 2009:
'U.S. plans to pledge $900 million for Gaza'
Can we give to Gaza without giving to
Hamas? NO!
'No money to Gaza until rockets stop'
Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu
voiced serious reservations during recent meetings with foreign leaders about
money going into the Gaza Strip for reconstruction before the rocket fire on
Israel has stopped,
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Unemployment report: over 8.1%
651,000 jobs gone - The U.S. unemployment rate climbed to its highest in 25 years and
January and December job losses were revised sharply higher, as companies
buckled under the strain of a deep recession
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F D I C:
March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the fund it uses to protect customer deposits
at U.S. banks could dry up amid a surge in bank failures, as she responded to
an industry outcry against new fees approved by the agency.
“Without these assessments, the deposit insurance
fund could become insolvent this year,” Bair wrote in a March 2 letter to the
industry. U.S. community banks plan to flood the FDIC with about 5,000 letters
in protest of the fees, according to a trade group.
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A short look at the word "Adar" and the Book of
Esther
Adar àÂãÈø
à first letter in the Hebrew alef- bet is alef and it is "hidden or silent".
ãÈø means to dwell, live
I see by this word Adar, when broken down, can
convey a message that the "invisible God" wants to dwell among us and
in us.
In the Book of Esther, the Hebrew the word "Esther" means "star" but
the root of the word "Esther" is "satar" and means "hidden".
The words, God and
Lord do not appear in the book of Esther,
they are "hidden or silent".
Adar can convey the
meaning of glorious, fire which is light
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Topic: an evil root
I detect an evil root, a seed and a trail from Haman
back through time to Agag, the king of the Amalekites, then Amalek and Esau.
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Today we are concerned about Armadinajad, Castro, (On
February 24, 2008, the National Assembly of People's Power unanimously
chose his brother, Raúl Castro, as Fidel's successor as President of
Cuba).
Also Kim Jon ILL and
Chavez and others...
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Let's read:
Exod. 17 [14] And the LORD said unto Moses, Write
this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I
will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from
under heaven.
Num. 24 [20] And when he (Balaam) looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek
was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall
be that he perish for ever.
Deut. 25 [17] Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come
forth out of Egypt;
[18] How he met thee by the way, and smote the
hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint
and weary; and he feared not God.
[19] Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God
hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
1 Sam. 15 Samuel hewed
Agag in pieces before the LORD
Rom. 9 [13] As it is written, Jacob have I loved,
but Esau have I hated.
Mal. 1 [3] And I hated
Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of
the wilderness.
Esth. 7 [10] So they
hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
Esth. 9 [14] they hanged
Haman's ten sons.
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Let's review the some events in the Book of Esther with the
some events in the Book of Leviticus
(chapter 23)
In the first month, Nisan /Aviv:
14th day of Nisan /Aviv at evening is the
Passover = Yeshua is our Passover
1 Cor. 5 [7] Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new
lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Messiah /Christ our passover is
sacrificed for us:
[8] Therefore
let us keep the feast , not with old leaven, neither with the leaven
of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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15th day of Nisan /Aviv is the Feast of Unleavened Bread
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17th day of Nisan /Aviv is the Feast of
first-fruits symbolizing the Resurrection,
Deliverance and Salvation
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Now in the Book of Esther:
Book of Esther, a hidden
message, shadows of the Messiah?
Resurrection, Deliverance and Salvation
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Esth. 3: [12] Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month (Aviv / Nisan),
and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's
lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the
rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and
to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it
written, and sealed with the king's ring.
Esth. 4: [16] Go, gather together all the Jews that are
present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither
eat nor drink three days, night or day:
This should be the 16th of Aviv / Nisan
below:
Esth. 5: [1] Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal
apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the
king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over
against the gate of the house.
[4] And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the
king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have
prepared for him.
This should be the 17th of Aviv /
Nisan, read below:
Esth. 5: [8] If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it
please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king
and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king hath said.
Esth. 7: [1] So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
[2] And the king said again unto Esther on the
second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it
shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even
to the half of the kingdom.
[ 3] Then Esther the queen answered and said, If
I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my
life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:[
4] For we are sold, I and my people, to be
destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and
bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the
king's damage.
[5] Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said
unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his
heart to do so?
[6 ] And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is
this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
[7] And the king arising from the banquet of wine
in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request
for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined
against him by the king.
[8 ] Then the king returned out of the palace
garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed
whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me
in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's
face.
[ 9] And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said
before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had
made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of
Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
[ 10] So they hanged
Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the
king's wrath pacified.
The people of God were delivered.
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We read in the Book of Exodus another
event ( deliverance, shadows of the Messiah ) on the 17th of Aviv / Nisan:
Exod. 14 [24] And it came to pass, that in the morning watch
the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and
of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
[25] And took off their chariot wheels, that they
drave them heavily: so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of
Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
[26] And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out
thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come again upon the Egyptians,
upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
[27] And Moses stretched forth his hand over the
sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of
the sea.
[28] And the waters returned, and covered the
chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea
after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
[29] But the children of Israel walked upon dry
land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their
right hand, and on their left.
[30] Thus the LORD saved Israel
that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians
dead upon the sea shore.
[31] And Israel saw that great work which the
LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the
LORD, and his servant Moses.
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Yeshua / Jesus was raised on the third day, in the morning -
the 17th of Aviv / Nisan and delivered us!
Mark 16 [2] And very early in the morning the
first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.
[9] Now when Yeshua / Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to
Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.
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Now just a word pertaining to:
(False) prophets, (False) pastors
Jer. 5 [12] They have belied the LORD, and
said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword
nor famine:
[13] And the prophets shall become wind, and the
word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
Belied: belying, belies - To
give a false representation to; misrepresent
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Jer. 14
[1] The word of the LORD that came to
Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
[2] Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto
the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
[3] And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they
came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty;
they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
[4] Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the
plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
[5] Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because
there was no grass.
[6] And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the
wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
[7] O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy
name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
[8] O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why
shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that
turneth aside to tarry for a night?
[9] Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot
save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name;
leave us not.
[10] Thus saith the LORD unto this people, Thus have they loved to
wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the LORD doth not accept
them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
[11] Then said the LORD unto me, Pray not
for this people for their good.
[12] When they fast, I will not hear their
cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept
them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence.
[13] Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold,
the prophets say unto them, Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have
famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
[14] Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake
unto them: they prophesy unto you a false
vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
[15] Therefore thus
saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in
my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not
be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
[16] And the people to whom they prophesy
shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the
sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their
sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
[17] Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run
down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter
of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
[18] If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!
and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea,
both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.
[19] Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why
hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and
there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
[20] We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our
fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
[21] Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of
thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
[22] Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause
rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God?
therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
Jer. 23
[1] Woe be unto
the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith
the LORD.
[2] Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that
feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not
visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the
LORD.
[3] And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries
whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they
shall be fruitful and increase.
[4] And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and
they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith
the LORD.
Messiah
[5] Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
[6] In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is
his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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[7] Therefore, behold, the days come, saith
the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
[8] But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house
of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven
them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
[9] Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and
like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the
words of his holiness.
[10] For the land is full of adulterers;
for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the
wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not
right.
[11] For both
prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their
wickedness, saith the LORD.
[12] Wherefore their way shall be unto
them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall
therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation,
saith the LORD.
[13] And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and
caused my people Israel to err.
[14] I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they
commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers,
that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as
Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
[15] Therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make
them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness
gone forth into all the land.
[16] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you
vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the
LORD.
[17] They say still unto them that despise
me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that
walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
[18] For who hath stood in the counsel of
the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and
heard it?
[19] Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a
grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
[20] The anger of the LORD shall not return,
until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
[21] I have not
sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
[22] But if they had stood in my counsel,
and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them
from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
[23] Am I a God at hand, saith the
LORD, and not a God afar off?
[24] Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the
LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
[25] I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed,
I have dreamed.
[26] How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies?
yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own
heart;
[27] Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams
which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my
name for Baal.
[28] The prophet that hath a dream, let
him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
[29] Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and
like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
[30] Therefore, behold, I
am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one
from his neighbour.
[31] Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that
use their tongues, and say, He saith.
[32] Behold, I am
against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the
LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their
lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded
them: therefore they shall not profit this
people at all, saith the LORD.
[33] And when this
people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden
of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
[34] And as for
the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The
burden of the LORD, I will even punish that man and
his house.
[35] Thus shall ye say every one to his
neighbour, and every one to his brother, What hath the LORD answered? and, What
hath the LORD spoken?
[36] And the burden of the LORD shall ye
mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of
hosts our God.
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[37] Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the LORD answered thee?
and, What hath the LORD spoken?
[38] But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD;
Because ye say this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you,
saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;
[39] Therefore, behold,
I, even I, will utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city that I
gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of my presence:
[40] And I will bring an everlasting
reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
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[9] And mine hand
shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that
divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly
of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of
Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know
that I am the Lord GOD.
[28] And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying,
Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not spoken.
[8] The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the
prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
[21] For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought
the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their
flocks shall be scattered.
[10] Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have
trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate
wilderness.
[22] The wind shall
eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go
into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy
wickedness.
Please know who you are listening to
for studies or to lead you.
Shalom