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Today is May 10, 2025
Latin Maius mensis "month of Maia"
Maia (meaning "the great one")
is the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of
Faunus, and wife of Vulcan.
Always the same - God’s calendar – Ziv 12
This is the third of the
7 Sabbaths we were told to count
Not omers
Lev.23 [15] And you shall count unto
you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you
brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall
be complete: [16] Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall you number
fifty days…
Today’s topic
False or true witness
Which are you?
Tabernacle of witness
0168 אֹהֶל 'ohel {o'-hel}
Meaning: 1) tent 1a) nomad's tent, and thus symbolic of
wilderness life, transience 1b) dwelling, home, habitation 1c) the sacred tent
of Jehovah (the tabernacle)
Usage: AV - tabernacle(s) 198, tent(s) 141, dwelling 2,
place(s) 2, covering 1, home 1; 345 times
05715 עֵדוּת `eduwth {ay-dooth'}
Meaning: 1) testimony
Usage: AV - testimony 55, witness 4; 59 times
False,
unrighteous witness or
true witness
Exod.
20 in the 10 commandments
[16] You shall not bear false witness against
your neighbor.
Exod.23
[1] You shall not raise a false
report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an
unrighteous witness.
Num.35
[30] Whoso killeth
any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses:
but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause
him to die.
Deut.5 in the 10 commandments:
[20] Neither shall you bear false witness against
your neighbor.
Deut.17
[6] At the mouth of two witnesses,
or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to
death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to
death.
[7] The hands of the witnesses
shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the
people. So you shall put the evil away from among you.
Deut.19
[15] One witness shall
not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at
the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
[16] If a false witness rise
up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
[17] Then both the men,
between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yehovah,
before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
[18] And the judges shall make
diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness,
and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Deut.31
[19] Now therefore write you this song
for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this
song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
[21] And it shall come to pass, when
many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against
them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths
of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before
I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Matt.15
[15] Then answered Peter
and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
[16] And Yeshua said, Are you also yet
without understanding?
[17] Do not you yet understand, that whatsoever
entereth in at the mouth goeth
into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
[18] But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the
heart; and they defile the man.
[19] For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
[20] These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a
man.
Matt.18
[15] Moreover if your
brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and
him alone: if he shall hear you, you hast gained your brother.
[16] But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more,
that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.
[17] And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church:
but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto you
as an heathen man and a publican.
2Cor.13
[1] This is the third time I am coming
to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
1Thes.2
[5] For neither at any time used we
flattering words, as you know, nor a cloke of
covetousness; God is witness: [6] Nor of men sought
we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome,
as the apostles of Messiah.
[10] You are witnesses, and
God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we
behaved ourselves among you that believe:
[11] As you know how we
exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his
children,
[12] That you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his
kingdom and glory.
1Tim.5
[19] Against an elder receive not an
accusation, but before two or three witnesses. [20] Them that sin
rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
1Tim.6
[12] Fight the good fight of faith,
lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you art also
called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
[13] I give you charge in the sight of
God, who quickeneth all things, and before Messiah Yeshua, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a
good confession; [14] That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah: [15] Which in his times he shall
shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King
of kings, and Lord of lords;
[16] Who only had immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can
approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power
everlasting. Amen.
2 Tim.2
[2] And the things that you have heard
of me among many witnesses, the same commit you to faithful men,
who shall be able to teach others also.
Tit.1
[10]
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the
circumcision:
[11] Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching
things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
[13] This witness is true.
Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
[14] Not giving heed to
Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Heb.2
[1] Therefore we ought
to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any
time we should let them slip.
[2] For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every
transgression and disobedience received a just recompence
of reward;
[3] How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the
first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that
heard him;
[4] God also bearing
them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers
miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will? [5]
For unto the angels had he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
Heb.10
[15] Whereof the Holy Spirit also is a witness to
us: for after that he had said before,
[16] This is the
covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith
the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write
them; [17] And their sins and iniquities will I
remember no more.
[28] He that despised Moses' law died without
mercy under two or three witnesse,
[29] Of how much sorer
punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and had counted the blood of the
covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and had done despite
unto the Spirit of grace?
Heb.11
[4] By faith Abel offered unto God a
more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that
he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet
speaks.
Heb.12
[1] Wherefore seeing we also are
compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay
aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run
with patience the race that is set before us, [2] Looking unto
Yeshua the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jas.5
[3] Your gold and silver is cankered;
and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall
eat your flesh as it were fire. You have heaped treasure together for the last
days.
1Pet.5
[1] The elders which are among you I
exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings
of Messiah, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
[2] Feed the flock of
God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but
willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
[3] Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to
the flock.
1 John 1
[2] For the life was manifested, and
we have seen it, and bear witness, and show unto you that eternal
life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us…
1 John 5
[6] This is he that came by water and
blood, even Yeshua the Messiah; not by water only,
but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that bears witness,
because the Spirit is truth.
[8] And there are three that bear witness in
earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.[9]
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of
God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he had testified of his Son.[10] He that
believeth on the Son of God had the witness in himself: he
that believeth not God had made him a
liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
3 John 1
[4] I have no greater
joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
[5] Beloved, you do faithfully whatsoever you do to the brethren, and to
strangers;
[6] Which have borne witness of
your charity before the church: whom if you bring forward on their journey
after a godly sort, you shall do well…
Rev.1
[4] John to the seven
churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is,
and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are
before his throne;
[5] And from Jesus the Messiah, who is the faithful witness, and the first
begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that
loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
[6] And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him
be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
[7] Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they
also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth
shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
[8] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty.
Rev.3
[14] And unto the angel of the church
of the Laodiceans write; These
things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness,
the beginning of the creation of God;
Rev.11
[3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses,
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in
sackcloth.
Rev.20
[4] And I saw thrones, and they sat
upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that
were beheaded for the witness of Yeshua,
and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his
image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands;
and they lived and reigned with Messiah a thousand years.
False witness
עֵ֥ד שָֽׁקֶר
False
08267 שֶׁקֶר sheqer {sheh'-ker}
Meaning:
1) lie, deception,
disappointment, falsehood
1a) deception (what deceives or disappoints or betrays
one)
1b) deceit, fraud, wrong
1b1) fraudulently, wrongfully (as adverb)
1c) falsehood (injurious in testimony)
1c1) testify falsehood, false oath, swear falsely
1d) falsity (of false or self-deceived prophets)
1e) lie, falsehood (in general)
1e1) false tongue 1f) in vain
Usage: AV - lie 28, lying 21, false 20, falsehood 13,
falsely 13, vain 5, wrongfully 4, deceitful 2, deceit 1, liar 1, misc 5; 113
times
Witness
05707 עֵד `ed
Meaning:
1) witness
1a) witness, testimony, evidence (of things)
1b) witness (of people)
Usage: AV - witness 69; 69 times
My wife and I are the elders of One in
Messiah Congregation
Again - 1Pet.5
[1] The elders which are among you I exhort,
who am also an elder, and a witness of the
sufferings of Messiah, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
[2] Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not
by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
[3] Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the
flock.
[4] And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of
glory that fadeth not
away.
[5] Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves unto the elder...
Yea, all of you be subject one to another,
and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the
humble.
1Tim.5 [1] Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
[17] Let the elders that rule well be
counted worthy of double honour, especially
they who labour in the
word and doctrine.
[18] For the scripture saith,
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.
[19] Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three
witnesses: [20] Them that sin rebuke before all,
that others also may fear.
Matt.18 – a 4 step program
[15] Moreover if your brother shall
trespass against you, go and tell
him his fault between you and him alone: if
he shall hear you, you hast gained your brother.
[16] But if he will not hear you,
then take with you one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be
established.
[17] And if he shall neglect to
hear them, tell it unto the church: (the elder, minister)
but if he neglect to hear the
church, let him be unto you as an heathen man and a publican.
Forgiveness
Matt.18
[21] Then
came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how
often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
till seven times?
[22] Yeshua said
unto him, I say not unto you, until seven times: but, until seventy times seven.
Another words, all the time…
In closing for today:
False or true witness - Which are you?
Let’s be a true witness in everything!
1 John 3
[4] Whosoever commits sin
transgresses also the law:
for sin is
the transgression of the law.
[8] He that commits sin is of the devil;
for the devil sins from the beginning.
For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
Next week is the fouth
of the 7 Sabbaths we were told to count
Exod.34 [22] And you shall observe
the feast of weeks, of the first fruits of wheat harvest…
Feast of Weeks – Pentecost (50 days)
- the Feast of Harvest coming
June 8, 2025, a Sabbath
Shabbat
Shalom
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