One in Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
A part of the Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
27 S. Maple Street, Hohenwald, Tn. 38462
Phone – 615 712-3931
Email: ministermalachi@comcast.net
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת
שָׁלוֹם
Today, we sadly use the Gregorian calendar
from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s.
Today’s date is March 25, 2023
March -- Mars' month
Middle English March(e)
Anglo-French March(e)
Old English Martius
Latin Martius "of Mars"
Latin Marti(s) "Mars" + -us (adj.
suffix)
Latin Martius mensis "month of Mars"
Martius has always had 31 days.
March was the original beginning of
the year, and the time for the
resumption of war
Mars is the Roman god of war. He is identified with the
Greek god Ares.
The God of Israel has
His own Calendar:
God’s New Year was a few
days ago, we are now in the 1th month of God, Day 3, called ha Aviv, Nisan, soon Passover
and the Feast of unleavened bread again
[1] And Yehovah
spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
[2] This month shall
be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to
you.
ha Aviv, Nisan
הָאָבִיב
נִיסָן
We read from law and the prophets every Sabbath like they did in
the Book of Acts.
Acts: 13 [15] … after the reading of the law and the prophets…
Yeshua said unto them:
Luke 24
[44] … These are the
words which I spoke unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be
fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
The Word of God - Torah, Prophets and
Writings (psalms)
Ta Na Kk is an acronym for:
T = Torah (law, teachings) - first 5 books of Moses
N = Navi' eem or
prophets (pl. sounds like - Na vi eem)
K = Ke'tuvim or writings (psalms etc.)
At this point, there were neither gospels nor letters.
I use too explain the Sabbath, the 7th day each week, here it is in a
nutshell:
The Sabbath is the 4th Commandment (of the Ten Commandments), the
covenant given to us at Mount Sinai in the 3rd month, Sivan
Ex. 20 [8] Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (In all your dwellings)
Today’s Topic
Continue on
Finish
your course in God
We shall continue onward, forward in God…
This week I was thinking about Saul / Paul who died almost 2000
years ago, and people today in 2020/2023 have the same
evil spirit to bring
false accusations against him and lie about him.
Saul / Paul said:
[1] I charge thee therefore before
God, and the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who shall judge
the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
[2] Preach the word; be instant in
season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and
doctrine.
[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears;
[4] And they shall turn away
their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
[5] But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an
evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
[6] For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure
is at hand.
[7] I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith:
[8] Henceforth there is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord Yeshua,
the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto
all them also that love his appearing.
Some of Paul’s Godly credentials:
[1] And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the
Lord, went unto the high priest,
[2] And desired of him letters to
Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were
men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
[3] And as he journeyed, he came
near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven:
[4] And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you me?
[5] And he said, Who
are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Yeshua whom thou persecute: it is hard for thee to kick
against the pricks.
[6] And he trembling and astonished
said, Lord Yeshua,
what will you have me to do? And the Lord Yeshua said unto him, Arise, and
go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.
[7] And the men which
journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
[8] And Saul arose from the earth;
and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and
brought him into Damascus.
[9] And he was three days without
sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
[10] And there was a certain
disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord Yeshua in a
vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
[11] And the Lord Yeshua said
unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and inquire
in the house of Judas for one called Saul,
of Tarsus: for, behold, he prays,
[12] And had seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting
his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
[13] Then Ananias answered, Lord, I
have heard by many of this man, how much evil he had done to thy saints at
Jerusalem:
[14] And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that
call on thy name.
[15] But the Lord Yeshua
said unto him, Go thy way: for he (Paul) is a chosen vessel unto Me
(Yeshua), to bear My Name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the
children of Israel:
[16] For I
will show him(Paul) how great things he must suffer for my name's sake. (Yeshua),
Continue
on in God!
Acts.13
Continue in the grace
of God.
Acts.14
exhort them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
Acts.26
[22] Having therefore
obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying
none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: [23] That Messiah
should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead,
and should show light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Rom.11
[13] For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I
magnify mine office:
[14] If by any means I
may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
[15] For if the casting away of them be the
reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from
the dead?
[16] For if the first fruit
be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
[17] And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild
olive tree, were gaffed in among them, and with them partaker of the root and
fatness of the olive tree;
[18] Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, thou bear not the
root, but the root thee.
[19] You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
[20] Well; because of
unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not high minded, but fear:
[21] For if God spared not the natural
branches (the Jews), take heed lest he also spare not you. (Gentiles)
[22] Behold therefore the goodness and severity
of God:
on them which fell,
severity;
but
toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also
shall be cut off.
[23] And they also, if
they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed
in: for God is able to graft them in again.
Col.1
[21] And you, that were
sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now had he
reconciled
[22] In the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight,
[23] If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away
from the hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every
creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
[24] Who now rejoice in my
sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of
Messiah in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church…
Col.4
[2] Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving…
1Tim.4
[16] Take
heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this you shall both save
yourself, and them that hear you.
2Tim.3
[14] …continue in the things which you have learned and have been
assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them;
[15] And
that from a child (also a child in the Lord) you
have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto
salvation through faith which is in Messiah Yeshua.
[16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
[17] That the man / woman of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Jas.1 [25] …Whoso looks into the perfect law
of liberty, and continues therein, he / she being not a forgetful hearer, but a
doer of the work, this man / woman shall be blessed in their deed.
Endure to the end
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 (to harass or trouble somebody or something
continually), 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.
[3] For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners
against himself,
lest you be wearied and faint in your minds.
[4] You have not yet
resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
[12] Wherefore lift up the
hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
[13] And make straight
paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
[14] Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
[15] Looking diligently:
lest any man fail of the grace of God;
Lest
any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby
many be defiled;[16]
Lest
there be any fornicator, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one morsel of meat
sold his birthright.[17]
For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he
was rejected:
for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it
carefully with tears. – No eternal Security
[18] For you are not come
unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto
blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
[19] And the sound of
a trumpet, and the voice of words; which
voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to
them any more:
[20] (For they could not endure that which was commanded,
And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or
thrust through with a dart:
[21] And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) [29] For our God is a consuming fire.
In closing for today,
Heb.1 [1] Let brotherly (and sisterly) love continue.
It makes me sad to hear that people today still
bring false accusations against Saul / Paul after he has been dead
almost 2000 years ago, that was a chosen vessel of Yeshua…
They do not understand the letters…
Our stand is the same as the 3 Hebrew children stated
in the book of Daniel:
Dan 3
[17] If it be so, our God whom we serve
is able to deliver us from the
burning fiery furnace, and He
will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
[18] But if not,
Be it
known unto you, O king that we will not serve your gods, nor worship the golden
image which you have set up.
AMEN and AMEN!
We
shall endure and continue on in the God of Israel
Yah bless you all
Shabbat Shalom
שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם